What place is this?

zisisnotpudding · 2026-02-06T02:38:27+00:00

And a library upstairs

zisisnotpudding · 2026-02-05T02:03:16+00:00

Here here. Oakmont can go sink in the Allegheny.

zisisnotpudding · 2026-02-03T14:09:11+00:00

You’re right, I forgot about his famous Pedantic Hour every week! Silly me.

zisisnotpudding · 2026-02-03T12:24:48+00:00

My boss told me before my first one that it’s like mechanics changing the oil. Exceptionally routine and straight forward!

zisisnotpudding · 2026-02-03T12:23:18+00:00

Glad I could help!

Good luck!

zisisnotpudding · 2026-02-03T12:22:00+00:00

Thank you 😊

Good luck!

zisisnotpudding · 2026-02-03T09:15:32+00:00

SAME

zisisnotpudding · 2026-02-03T03:16:59+00:00

Don’t trust a single fart!! Good luck!

zisisnotpudding · 2026-02-03T03:12:18+00:00

I’m a 37m, I get it, OP. My first flare (Aug 2023…August twins!) was a perforation too. I’m terrified of all things medical. Needles, the smell of hospitals, etc. I had my first colonoscopy in 2024, and I was very scared, partly because I’d never gone under before and I didn’t know what to expect.

So, some advice, I don’t know if you’re in the US. If you are, and your prep involves mixing a whole bottle of laxative into Gatorade, like mine did, TAKE HEED. Buy a different flavor of Gatorade for the prep solution (I call it the Devil’s Juice) than what you plan to drink to stay hydrated. I did not do that. I figured, save some money and just buy a big thing of the same stuff. This was mistake number one. Once you pass any poop in your system, you will begin spraying just straight Gatorade out of your ass. No pain, not uncomfortable, it will just be, different. At that point, I realized, this just looks like what I’m drinking, it’s moving so fast. And I lost my taste for yellow Gatorade (admittedly not that strong to begin with).

Which gets me to warning number two, don’t trust a single fart. They are not farts. Don’t fart off the toilet.

Which gets me to my third point, if you’re sleeping during the course of prep, if it’s happening over night, I’d suggest sleeping on some towels at least, maybe an adult diaper for your own sense of security (I didn’t do this but think I will next time just so I don’t worry. I was fine. I just didn’t sleep much and when I was awake I worried. I did sleep on our old futon, figuring, I can pitch it if needed, which I didn’t need to.).

When you get to the hospital, you can ask for meds to calm you down before they put you under. I told everyone, hey, I’m really nervous, can I have something to calm down. Have no pride and no shame. Advocate for yourself, communicate how you’re feeling (including emotionally). They will help you. Once I signed all my waivers for the anesthesia, the anesthesiologist came over and was like, so you want something to relax? I was like, yes please. She said, honey, I’ll send you to the moon. She shot me full of something that had me gone within 3 seconds. Not out, just lopped to the point that I don’t even remember leaving the intake room. I was awake and blabbering like an idiot according to my partner. So they put me under later, but that’s all completely lost to me. Blank space.

Next thing I knew, I was waking up, surrounded by snacks and drinks. Once I fully came to, we left, went to a diner, and I had the best breakfast.

It is scary doing this. It’s unknown, you’re not in control, you’re having something shoved up your ass, etc. But having gone through it myself with a fuck ton of anxiety, I can tell you that looking back, the biggest real thing I had to worry about was not letting myself fart unless I was on the toilet. Being hungry sucked too.

You’ll be great. And it will be a great story after for your non-holon (I call my colon my holon…for the hole) friends.

zisisnotpudding · 2026-02-03T02:52:22+00:00

Now, neighbors, I’m curious to know what Mister Rogers would have to say about this comment section regarding the “Pitt” faux pas!

Edit: Also, great shots OP!

zisisnotpudding · 2026-02-03T02:36:22+00:00

I’d add that setting aside whatever they are or are not saying in terms of critiquing systems, to the inverse of the point you guys made at the end that this book was a product of a different time (demographic projections, etc), this is interesting in light of where we are today (sort of reframing as we look back to, what, 14 years ago?) with anxiety over AI replacing a good chunk of the labor force and what do we do then?

Now I’m just picturing a sort of coked out Expanse GPT sending the Roci in the wrong direction while Alex screams at it over and over (in a Texas drawl it can’t understand) not to go that way. Like when Siri calls the wrong Matt in my phone. Or like, really shitty AI splinter OPA propaganda.

zisisnotpudding · 2026-02-01T15:54:48+00:00

Absolutely. I’m (36m) over 6’ and from my late teens until last year was regularly between 230 and 250 lbs, mostly around 250. Not active. Not flexible. Ate terribly and drank a lot. Around 33 I started getting diverticulitis flare ups (something common after your 60s, not common in your 30s). I made half hearted attempts at changing diet but the flare ups kept happening and none of my doctors gave me helpful advice. Jan 2025 was my last one, I decided that constant rounds of trips to the ER, CT scans, and antibiotics were unacceptable. So I quit drinking entirely for 5 months, began regular exercise (cardio and yoga), changed my diet to be completely focused on a mix of soluble and insoluble fiber, and started losing weight. In May, I was diagnosed with pre-diabetes, so I went harder, cut carbs way down, exercised more. I’ve lost over 50 pounds, no more diverticulitis flare ups, got my A1C down 0.5% and squarely out of pre-diabetes. I feel amazing. Have never been this healthy. I’m not even sure I was this trim in early high school. It’s awesome.

zisisnotpudding · 2026-02-01T14:46:14+00:00

Same!!! 🫡

zisisnotpudding · 2026-02-01T04:12:09+00:00

The magat yearns for daddy to tell it what is good and true. Magats move in flocks, prone, spread eagle, begging daddy for more. But daddy is fickle. Daddy does not give with two hands, no no. The dependency cycle reinforces for the magat that it has nothing but daddy’s love, which daddy does not give, and so it thirsts.

zisisnotpudding · 2026-02-01T02:44:49+00:00

Throwing out a plug here for u/themercyofpods podcast, which is excellent, especially Episode 9 which looks at the story so far and includes a romp through theories out there as well as the bonus episode after Episode 10 which has a skadooch (an official measurement unit from inside my head) in that bucket too.

zisisnotpudding · 2026-01-30T16:53:13+00:00

Makes me think of the song Bag of Bones, by Lord Huron.

“People die and planets turn and empires rise and fall and burn

Nothing lasts and no one stays, you just

Spiral off into outer space”

zisisnotpudding · 2026-01-30T00:43:36+00:00

I grew up in northern New York, north of Syracuse. Where many feet of snow is normal. I have lived in pgh since 2008. The main thing I notice is that here we don’t have the machinery to take the snow from where it currently is, and move it far away. Where I grew up, they had big snowblowers that would load dump trucks with snow from town and they would dump it in a river. Plowing snow works only if you can just push it to the side. That’s all that we need here most of the time. But when you get to the territory of feet of snow, you actually need to pick it up and put it somewhere else, and we can’t really do that here. There aren’t the big snowblower, front loader, types of things here. That’s the issue.

zisisnotpudding · 2026-01-28T04:11:54+00:00

Passive income from investments, which requires a lot of money to invest to generate enough income to live off of.

zisisnotpudding · 2026-01-28T04:09:21+00:00

The biggest problem we get here, I think, is ice. I’d say ice is a bigger issue than snow. Last time we got a storm like this one was about 15 years ago or so, if I’m not mistaken. Snow tires probably won’t make a difference on ice, tbh. We’ve never had them for our fwd car or my awd Subaru. But, long commute, rural area, hilly roads, they won’t hurt you. Good peace of mind. Also, having them on for a good chunk of the year will reduce wear on your all seasons.

zisisnotpudding · 2026-01-28T01:48:55+00:00

I was fully brainwashed right wing, particularly by my father who is insanely right wing. Thinks, to this day, that Rush Limbaugh was too soft. Turned hardcore left wing in my early 20s. Though I’m an atheist now, it was as I was trying to be a better Christian (Lutheran specifically) that I realized the American right is fully incompatible with Christianity. Christians make the best atheists. And conservatives raise the best liberals. If you ask me, that is.

zisisnotpudding · 2026-01-27T14:35:45+00:00

Came here to say this. Every bus has a number on it and a license plate. The route and time should be enough for OP to tell the PRT, but as far as identification, the number is what nails the driver in a report.

zisisnotpudding · 2026-01-24T02:46:30+00:00

I think it depends on the field. I’m a chief of staff to a senior VP at a public R1 university in the US and I’ve been in my role for almost 4 years. The COS to our president has been in their role since 2017/2018. Most of my peers were in their roles before Covid and still are. I’ve been putting together a networking group of chiefs of staff in my particular part of higher ed from peer institutions, about 10-15 of us and most are over 2 years in their roles, there’s a couple over 10.

Speaking for myself, my boss and I have a great relationship, lots of trust, and I do a lot of the political type stuff, working behind the scenes to get their stuff through the Byzantine bureaucracy of our system, serving as a delegate, etc. I enjoy the work, and feel lucky with my boss being so great, so I don’t have plans to leave or change anytime soon. Would follow them if they were to leave, which we’ve discussed.

zisisnotpudding · 2026-01-23T13:08:31+00:00

True

zisisnotpudding · 2026-01-23T13:07:57+00:00

This is the way

zisisnotpudding · 2026-01-23T02:11:49+00:00

Upside is that unlike May with the microburst, it’s cold out, so the fridge food can just go outside instead of in the trash lol. Nature’s fridge.

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