The way it works in our area is you fill out the entrance paperwork saying "Doctor B.Honeydew is our pediatrician", even if you've never spoken to the doc. Pediatricians will not schedule the visit in advance, the hospital notifies them that a new parent has requested them and the doc stops by to say hi.
So three years ago we're sitting in the maternity ward with a brand new baby, trying to do everything right. The doc's assistant (not the doctor) comes in and wakes us up to say hello, asks if we have any questions. Groggy and sleep deprived, I asked something like "there's a lot of questions about a link between vaccines and autism, what are your thoughts?" I believe we got the standard there-is-no-link, herd-immunity answer.
Fast forward 7 days, we call to schedule his first real checkup with the doctor. The office says "oh, Doctor Nimrod decided that you were not a good fit for our practice, you will need to find a different pediatrician". They would not put the doctor on the phone, his responses were relayed to us through his receptionist.
WTF!@$!@ Oh crap we have a brand new baby and no doctor!! Cue the terror and panic attacks from new mommy.
After some frantic phone calls we found a fantastic doctor that my son loves, and who was appalled by how the first doctor treated new parents without even speaking to them. My son is healthy and happy, and yes he's fully vaccinated. But if I could have reached through the phone and strangled that first doctor for putting my wife through that, I would have.
If it's basically like wearing a big plastic slab, isn't that going to get super hot?
That's why you lacquer the chestplates in white to dissipate heat, and give them a black spandex bodysuit underneath...add a scary looking helmet and most of your vitals are covered. In theory it should deflect blaster bolts. Where I'm stationed we wear them all the time (I work in law enforcement).
In practice, they don't stop crap. Like last week this scruffy-looking nutjob with a walking carpet for a sidekick breaks in to rescue his girlfriend. Next thing we know there's a weapons malfunction down in the cell block, and four of my buddies find out the chestplates don't quite work as advertised.
I hate this posting...maybe I can get transferred before something else goes wrong.
Please refrain from tugging at the bottom cards, or the entire advertising house might collapse. It's safer to just assume everything is fine. Pay no attention to that marketing exec behind the curtain.
You can go about your business, move along...move along.
Because you could have this conversation with your food processor...
Son: Do you know what you're doing? The Cuisinator: I have detailed files on the tomato anatomy. Mom: I bet. It makes you a more efficient tomato chopper, right? The Cuisinator: Correct.
But hey, what could go wrong with millions of household robots & appliances all hooked into the same network?
Using Microsoft blueprints... And built by rednecks who want to hunt remotely... And...um...ok I gotta go.
Scientists go to the North Pole to build a Doomsday Vault, only to find such a vault is already there. ...and it's full of stars? Or even better, contains hibernating aliens with acid for blood waiting for the Earth to warm up and populate with tasty humans?
How about a dinosaur doomsday vault which they built and stocked full of velociraptors? Somebody call Michael Crichton! We need a cheesy movie script written ASAP!
From then on out, C&C was nothing more than a "property" in which vaguely related games were released one after another, with no real connection to the gameplay that made the original famous.
Would that be about the time they were working towards an EA buyout?:)
...by the Star League, to defend the Frontier against Xur and the Kodan Armada.
It's because every one of us has this secret hope that our Achievements will be noticed by someone, and we'll be whisked away to fly a giant CGI starship full of laser beams and death blossoms.
Didn't they impose restrictions on the purchase of ignitors/engines? I seem to remember something post-911 about new anti-terrorism laws which would affect the model rocketry industry, but never heard anything further. I have no links to back this up, just something that bubbled up to the top of my magic 8-ball memory.
I did however notice that Michaels (where I bought them as a kid) no longer has any model rocketry supplies on their website. Am I going to ship my kids off to Canada for their childhood science education?
IIRC from the DVD of Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story, there was an alternate ending where the good guys lost the final game and the bad guys rubbed their faces in it. The director/writer/whoever wanted that ending in the movie, but the studios nixed it in favor of the underdog-triumphs ending that went to the theaters.
How many Halo fanboys (emphasis on *boys*) would pay $5.99/min to have phone sex with Cortana? Sure they'd need their parent's credit card, but what about if she opened a brothel or something similar in Second Life? I'm sure her contract says something about not tele-whoring as Cortana, but if she didn't advertize the connection but let it spread through word-of-mouth...
There's a golden opportunity for voice actors that's not being exploited here. What about the women who do the voices for Wonder Woman or Hawkgirl from Justice League? Batgirl? Catwoman?
Sorry, stuck in meetings all day...I'm in a bizarre sort of mood.:)
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The way it works in our area is you fill out the entrance paperwork saying "Doctor B.Honeydew is our pediatrician", even if you've never spoken to the doc. Pediatricians will not schedule the visit in advance, the hospital notifies them that a new parent has requested them and the doc stops by to say hi.
So three years ago we're sitting in the maternity ward with a brand new baby, trying to do everything right. The doc's assistant (not the doctor) comes in and wakes us up to say hello, asks if we have any questions. Groggy and sleep deprived, I asked something like "there's a lot of questions about a link between vaccines and autism, what are your thoughts?" I believe we got the standard there-is-no-link, herd-immunity answer.
Fast forward 7 days, we call to schedule his first real checkup with the doctor. The office says "oh, Doctor Nimrod decided that you were not a good fit for our practice, you will need to find a different pediatrician". They would not put the doctor on the phone, his responses were relayed to us through his receptionist.
WTF!@$!@ Oh crap we have a brand new baby and no doctor!! Cue the terror and panic attacks from new mommy.
After some frantic phone calls we found a fantastic doctor that my son loves, and who was appalled by how the first doctor treated new parents without even speaking to them. My son is healthy and happy, and yes he's fully vaccinated. But if I could have reached through the phone and strangled that first doctor for putting my wife through that, I would have.
Yeah, that was Carl. He's new.
- TK421
If it's basically like wearing a big plastic slab, isn't that going to get super hot?
That's why you lacquer the chestplates in white to dissipate heat, and give them a black spandex bodysuit underneath...add a scary looking helmet and most of your vitals are covered. In theory it should deflect blaster bolts. Where I'm stationed we wear them all the time (I work in law enforcement).
In practice, they don't stop crap. Like last week this scruffy-looking nutjob with a walking carpet for a sidekick breaks in to rescue his girlfriend. Next thing we know there's a weapons malfunction down in the cell block, and four of my buddies find out the chestplates don't quite work as advertised.
I hate this posting...maybe I can get transferred before something else goes wrong.
- TK421
Please refrain from tugging at the bottom cards, or the entire advertising house might collapse. It's safer to just assume everything is fine. Pay no attention to that marketing exec behind the curtain.
You can go about your business, move along...move along.
When all the CDs are outlawed, only the outlaws will have CDs?
Because you could have this conversation with your food processor...
Son: Do you know what you're doing?
The Cuisinator: I have detailed files on the tomato anatomy.
Mom: I bet. It makes you a more efficient tomato chopper, right?
The Cuisinator: Correct.
But hey, what could go wrong with millions of household robots & appliances all hooked into the same network?
Using Microsoft blueprints...
And built by rednecks who want to hunt remotely...
And...um...ok I gotta go.
Vizzini: Am I going MAD, or did the word "responsible" escape your lips? You were NOT hired for your brains, you hypocritical scam artist.
:)
Ok, so I couldn't think of a better play on "hippopotamic land mass".
So is this a commentary on how popular the shiny new gotta-have-it Blu-Ray format is? Or on how much more popular Amazon is today 2007 than in 1998?
we went so far as to do it with my folks asleep upstairs just to 'stick it to the man'
:)
I think you may have been doing it wrong. Maybe pay more attention in health class next time
Forget MIT or Stanford now...they wouldn't touch us with a ten meter cattleprod. :)
Scientists go to the North Pole to build a Doomsday Vault, only to find such a vault is already there.
...and it's full of stars? Or even better, contains hibernating aliens with acid for blood waiting for the Earth to warm up and populate with tasty humans?
How about a dinosaur doomsday vault which they built and stocked full of velociraptors? Somebody call Michael Crichton! We need a cheesy movie script written ASAP!
Would you consider a candidate's stand on privacy important enough to sway your vote?
I might, if I believed she actually meant it.
From then on out, C&C was nothing more than a "property" in which vaguely related games were released one after another, with no real connection to the gameplay that made the original famous.
:)
Would that be about the time they were working towards an EA buyout?
Didn't he change the Pulp Fiction - Special Edition so that Marvin shot at Vincent Vega first?
Wait, maybe I'm thinking of something else...
=P
...by the Star League, to defend the Frontier against Xur and the Kodan Armada.
It's because every one of us has this secret hope that our Achievements will be noticed by someone, and we'll be whisked away to fly a giant CGI starship full of laser beams and death blossoms.
Or is that just me?
Stupidity in nature is a crime which carries the death penalty...unfortunately civilization allows probation instead.
Didn't they impose restrictions on the purchase of ignitors/engines? I seem to remember something post-911 about new anti-terrorism laws which would affect the model rocketry industry, but never heard anything further. I have no links to back this up, just something that bubbled up to the top of my magic 8-ball memory.
I did however notice that Michaels (where I bought them as a kid) no longer has any model rocketry supplies on their website. Am I going to ship my kids off to Canada for their childhood science education?
IIRC from the DVD of Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story, there was an alternate ending where the good guys lost the final game and the bad guys rubbed their faces in it. The director/writer/whoever wanted that ending in the movie, but the studios nixed it in favor of the underdog-triumphs ending that went to the theaters.
I think most people are less concerned with {civilization | species | all life} -ending disasters than they are with convenience-ending disasters.
What happens when you try to locate Tienanmen Square?
How many Halo fanboys (emphasis on *boys*) would pay $5.99/min to have phone sex with Cortana? Sure they'd need their parent's credit card, but what about if she opened a brothel or something similar in Second Life? I'm sure her contract says something about not tele-whoring as Cortana, but if she didn't advertize the connection but let it spread through word-of-mouth...
:)
There's a golden opportunity for voice actors that's not being exploited here. What about the women who do the voices for Wonder Woman or Hawkgirl from Justice League? Batgirl? Catwoman?
Sorry, stuck in meetings all day...I'm in a bizarre sort of mood.
Maybe they were afraid he would whistle some launch codes and start World War III. He is one of them evil hax0rs right?
I dunno wtf you just said, but it sure sounded insightful...
Quick! Push a bill through Congress outlawing online gambling sites! Can we force all the adult sites to use a .xxx domain while we're at it?
Won't somebody please think of the children?!?!
That's no moon. ...it's a space station.
It's too big to be a space station.
I'm sensing the presence of a Starbucks. Turn the ship around.
Yeah...I think you may be right...