Whereas I saw an article about a child having medical complications from swallowing buckyballs and wondered how he came in contact with buckminsterfullerines...
Exactly. I used to wake up in the middle of the night to the 911 operator going "Hello?" "Hello?" because my cat kept standing on the 9 key on my phone. Now all my phones have to have something to cover the keypad.
And what makes them think that an "EMP gun" can properly localize its effect to disable only the cell phone while leaving the vital elecronic components of the car intact? Not to mention that an EMP pulse doesn't temporarily disable the phone, it destroys its circuitry. No more phone. Have they done any studies to see if a badly timed EMP makes the battery catch fire in the users hand?
Hmmm. That brings up the question "what happens to medical equipment in the car?" Pacemakers and such. Based on what you say, I see EMP causing more wrecks than it stops.
I actually find meetings where everyone calls in from in front of their own computer to be more productive. Part of that is because my team is in 2 different cities so someone will always be on the phone and it's just easier to hear and participate with everyone on the phone. I also find it more productive, though, because you have all your stuff right there and can email each other documents as they come up in conversation or quickly look up any stats (or whatever) that you need. No hunting for a meeting room that's not booked, too. And there are plenty of programs to let you share documents with each other. (Although, I really wish people would learn to "share application" rather than "share desktop".)
Well, I had someone hit my car in the parking lot of a store one time because he started driving without removing his anti-theft device. (The club, I think.) I don't know if that had a similar warning on it, but apparently it needed it.
I managed to catch the tip of my pinky in the door of my old truck. Well, first thing you do is yank your hand out. (If you can...) Turns out the skin next to the nail had split (as well as the tip breaking) and in that single action I managed to fling fairly large drops of blood on my truck and all over the light colored car parked next to me, probably others as well. (Oops, lol!) Looked just like the "cast off" from the forensics shows. So I know for fact that my blood is on at least 2 vehicles and inside my truck. Probably enough to worry someone if I were to disappear. (lol, or worry someone if the actually looked at the passenger side of that light colored car...)
Yeah. I print so rarely I get to print about 3 different times before the ink dries up. Might just be an Arizona desert thing, though. And then a printer WITH ink costs less than new ink at places like walmart. The laser printer with Toner is starting to sound like a good idea. I'll need to price those out.
Thank You! Did she also give you the "You'll change your mind when you meet the right man." Speech? I got that from mine. ALSO a female gyno. I was so mad I didn't respond. Seems to me the right man doesn't want kids, either. (Or he's okay with adopting an older child, I just do not like any infants.) And in my case I'll never have kids without a lot of expensive time with an endocrinologist according to her diagnosis, so it's not like it will ever accidentally happen. So just take it out already! (Love your "kids" names, by the way. Mine are Demon Shadow the Gatekeeper, Kaji and Styx.)
Yeah, I've never heard of a limit like that, either. However, you can deduct how much money you spent on gambling up to the amount of your winnings if you itemize, so it's moot anyway. I work with taxes, and the IRS employs a lot of people who don't know any more than anyone else. so I fully believe the brother works at the IRS.
Yeah, I agree. I work with people in 5 different states on a daily basis. We use IM clients, net meeting, phones, and email. Sometimes that "over the cube chatter" is distracting and my boss and I find we're both more productive at home. I only come in to the office 2 days a week and she only comes in one. So having the infrastructure is a huge component. So is trust. If you need to see your boss strolling the halls to be goaded into doing your work, then telecommuting is not for you.
lol, yeah, in Colorado some farmers do that or put orange vests on the cows. We had a game warden get his horse shot out from underneath him.
When I worked for the forest service, we had a couple of guys outfitted in brand new hunting gear come into our office looking for a picture of an Elk because they had licenses and didn't know what an Elk actually looked like.
The record age for a cat is 33. I googled that a while back because I've had an orange Tabby since I was 7. He lives with my parents now. He's having a hard time jumping on things, etc. But I'm 32 now, so that makes him 25 and the vet's records confirm that. Oldest I'd heard of was 22. So yeah, you can definitely be in for a long term commitment. There's also potential medical bills. I recently lost a cat to kidney failure, she was only 6. I know I spent a *lot* of money on her the past year. You have to be ready for that, though. (Man, and the emotional toll...)
My Dad had an interesting thing to say when I had to put the cat to sleep. "You shouldn't become as attached to your pet as you would your kid, but there's something wrong with you if you don't."
Seriously, in a case like this you can notify the police about your neighbor's death threats (if they don't know already) and just your general concern that someone is going to come looking for him and get you instead and a) ask them for their advice b) request additional patrols in your area until it blows over.
Notifying the landlord is probably also a good idea depending on the landlord. It *is* their property that is now at risk and if it's a company rather than an individual they may have a security firm they employ that can patrol your area. (Or they may even evict the guy...)
It's the desk contractors *have* to go to because sales tax in some areas is already included on the building permit and therefore is not charged on the materials. The permit will be on record somewhere (where depending on the particular lumberyard) and will need to be looked up and associated with the purchase being made.
So, the first thing I noticed was this seems fishy because that username is just what the article is about. "fight aging" This feels like a total attempt at free advertising to me. I was kind of surprised it actually got posted.
Then when you click the link it goes to a page that is just like the ads in the back of magazines trying to get you to buy crap.
Did it strike anyone else that way or is it just me?
I found it absolutely hilarious that they started recommending Egyptian Cotton Sheets and towels after I added "Darth Tater" to my wish list. Or Pyrex bowls because I own "Serenity" Widescreen.
I just want to address some of the comments I've seen on this article.
First one, "ditch the gas guzzler". Much easier said than done! First of all, some people actually need a big vehicle like that. (Just one example is that rural america doesn't have a company that picks up your trash. Either you or the neighbor dumps it. No one I know takes their trash the 30 miles to the dump in their car.) The fact that they also drive it to get groceries or to work is that buying a second vehicle just for more economical gas would cost them more than the second vehicle's gas mileage would save. For those who could get by with a smaller vehicle, they may not be able to afford it. I know both my best friend and I can't. Our vehicles are paid for and we just can't afford payments on a new vehicle right now. Don't forget you don't just have car payments but the insurance can be higher on a car you're paying off because you have to have more than just liability.
Second is people frowning on *anyone* who has made the decision to purchase an SUV. Now granted, I was at the store one day and I saw a high maintenance-looking woman having to hitch up her skirt to crawl up into her brand new Suburban and thought that had to be a case of buying the thing because it was cool. Pretty much at the prices of these things anyone who buys one brand new as an individual probably doesn't really need it. Having said that, there are places where it is a daily requirement to have something like that. For these people, it is a Utility Vehicle and sport has nothing to do with it. Some people face the possibility that they're going to have to use the 4 wheel drive on the way home or to some aspect of their job. (Probably not most city dwellers, though. Although given the choice between and SUV and a minivan to transport the family, I know which I would pick.) *I* happened to get everywhere I needed to even in the middle of nowhere in the mountains in a 1973 Chevy Nova, but I also was willing to make it do things it wasn't meant to do.
Next... Picking on people who drive big vehicles for the safety value. I'm with you that some of these people should just be shot because the way they drive the SUV, they are the only one who is safe. However, part of the reason I drive an old steel truck is for the safety factor. The above mentioned Chevy Nova was run over by 2 oil tankers in a case of black ice on a mountain pass, but I was still able to drive it home. (Tow trucks were all tied up in other accidents, it was a messy day.) I spent an hour sitting on the side of the pass waiting for the cops to show up and mentally evaluating the vehicles that passed to determine if they'd have done as well in the accident as my Nova. I had a tire print in my trunk and the front bumper was crumpled. The odds weren't good folks. So before you riducule someone about their choice, be aware there might be something you don't know about influencing that choice. (I also don't like airbags because had the nova had airbags I wouldn't have been able to recover from the slide and I'd have gone off the pass. I don't know if an airbag can protect you when you fall off a mountain.)
As long as we're talking about the Nova... it got 20+ miles to the gallon in town and almost 30 on the highway. So I'd like to know why new cars coming out with that same kind of mileage are acting like it's such an advance when it's obviously something that is at least 32 years old.
Yeah. Sounds like my school had a slightly bigger building. And probably only because the older one was burned down when my Dad was in school. (Knowing my Dad and his brothers that might not be a coincidence!)
I just turned 31 and I remember diagramming sentences in school. I especially remember having to extend my lines all the time because I made them too short. I also happened to go to a small school, so that might have something to do with it. (12 kids in my kindergarten class, and it swelled to 22 by 8th grade and we were still in the same building.)
I would almost bet money that most of my coworkers don't even know what sentence diagramming is, though. The school districts in the city I'm in are notoriously bad.
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Whereas I saw an article about a child having medical complications from swallowing buckyballs and wondered how he came in contact with buckminsterfullerines...
Exactly. I used to wake up in the middle of the night to the 911 operator going "Hello?" "Hello?" because my cat kept standing on the 9 key on my phone.
Now all my phones have to have something to cover the keypad.
And what makes them think that an "EMP gun" can properly localize its effect to disable only the cell phone while leaving the vital elecronic components of the car intact? Not to mention that an EMP pulse doesn't temporarily disable the phone, it destroys its circuitry. No more phone. Have they done any studies to see if a badly timed EMP makes the battery catch fire in the users hand?
Hmmm. That brings up the question "what happens to medical equipment in the car?" Pacemakers and such. Based on what you say, I see EMP causing more wrecks than it stops.
I actually find meetings where everyone calls in from in front of their own computer to be more productive. Part of that is because my team is in 2 different cities so someone will always be on the phone and it's just easier to hear and participate with everyone on the phone. I also find it more productive, though, because you have all your stuff right there and can email each other documents as they come up in conversation or quickly look up any stats (or whatever) that you need. No hunting for a meeting room that's not booked, too. And there are plenty of programs to let you share documents with each other. (Although, I really wish people would learn to "share application" rather than "share desktop".)
Well, I had someone hit my car in the parking lot of a store one time because he started driving without removing his anti-theft device. (The club, I think.) I don't know if that had a similar warning on it, but apparently it needed it.
I managed to catch the tip of my pinky in the door of my old truck. Well, first thing you do is yank your hand out. (If you can...) Turns out the skin next to the nail had split (as well as the tip breaking) and in that single action I managed to fling fairly large drops of blood on my truck and all over the light colored car parked next to me, probably others as well. (Oops, lol!) Looked just like the "cast off" from the forensics shows. So I know for fact that my blood is on at least 2 vehicles and inside my truck. Probably enough to worry someone if I were to disappear. (lol, or worry someone if the actually looked at the passenger side of that light colored car...)
Yeah. I print so rarely I get to print about 3 different times before the ink dries up. Might just be an Arizona desert thing, though. And then a printer WITH ink costs less than new ink at places like walmart. The laser printer with Toner is starting to sound like a good idea. I'll need to price those out.
Thank You! Did she also give you the "You'll change your mind when you meet the right man." Speech? I got that from mine. ALSO a female gyno. I was so mad I didn't respond. Seems to me the right man doesn't want kids, either. (Or he's okay with adopting an older child, I just do not like any infants.) And in my case I'll never have kids without a lot of expensive time with an endocrinologist according to her diagnosis, so it's not like it will ever accidentally happen. So just take it out already! (Love your "kids" names, by the way. Mine are Demon Shadow the Gatekeeper, Kaji and Styx.)
You are my hero.
Yeah, I've never heard of a limit like that, either. However, you can deduct how much money you spent on gambling up to the amount of your winnings if you itemize, so it's moot anyway. I work with taxes, and the IRS employs a lot of people who don't know any more than anyone else. so I fully believe the brother works at the IRS.
Here's the IRS word on it: http://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc419.html
Yeah, I agree. I work with people in 5 different states on a daily basis. We use IM clients, net meeting, phones, and email.
Sometimes that "over the cube chatter" is distracting and my boss and I find we're both more productive at home. I only come in to the office 2 days a week and she only comes in one.
So having the infrastructure is a huge component. So is trust. If you need to see your boss strolling the halls to be goaded into doing your work, then telecommuting is not for you.
You live in Tucson? Because that sounds exactly like the Star's website.
I think He was too busy dismounting the collapsing animal, unfortunately.
lol, yeah, in Colorado some farmers do that or put orange vests on the cows. We had a game warden get his horse shot out from underneath him.
When I worked for the forest service, we had a couple of guys outfitted in brand new hunting gear come into our office looking for a picture of an Elk because they had licenses and didn't know what an Elk actually looked like.
I *wish* I was pulling your leg, but I'm not.
The record age for a cat is 33. I googled that a while back because I've had an orange Tabby since I was 7. He lives with my parents now. He's having a hard time jumping on things, etc. But I'm 32 now, so that makes him 25 and the vet's records confirm that. Oldest I'd heard of was 22. So yeah, you can definitely be in for a long term commitment. There's also potential medical bills. I recently lost a cat to kidney failure, she was only 6. I know I spent a *lot* of money on her the past year. You have to be ready for that, though. (Man, and the emotional toll...)
My Dad had an interesting thing to say when I had to put the cat to sleep. "You shouldn't become as attached to your pet as you would your kid, but there's something wrong with you if you don't."
Seriously, in a case like this you can notify the police about your neighbor's death threats (if they don't know already) and just your general concern that someone is going to come looking for him and get you instead and a) ask them for their advice b) request additional patrols in your area until it blows over.
Notifying the landlord is probably also a good idea depending on the landlord. It *is* their property that is now at risk and if it's a company rather than an individual they may have a security firm they employ that can patrol your area. (Or they may even evict the guy...)
Yeah, I think everywhere probably has their own little quirks on how this works.
It's the desk contractors *have* to go to because sales tax in some areas is already included on the building permit and therefore is not charged on the materials. The permit will be on record somewhere (where depending on the particular lumberyard) and will need to be looked up and associated with the purchase being made.
So, the first thing I noticed was this seems fishy because that username is just what the article is about. "fight aging" This feels like a total attempt at free advertising to me. I was kind of surprised it actually got posted.
Then when you click the link it goes to a page that is just like the ads in the back of magazines trying to get you to buy crap.
Did it strike anyone else that way or is it just me?
I found it absolutely hilarious that they started recommending Egyptian Cotton Sheets and towels after I added "Darth Tater" to my wish list. Or Pyrex bowls because I own "Serenity" Widescreen.
I just want to address some of the comments I've seen on this article.
First one, "ditch the gas guzzler". Much easier said than done! First of all, some people actually need a big vehicle like that. (Just one example is that rural america doesn't have a company that picks up your trash. Either you or the neighbor dumps it. No one I know takes their trash the 30 miles to the dump in their car.) The fact that they also drive it to get groceries or to work is that buying a second vehicle just for more economical gas would cost them more than the second vehicle's gas mileage would save. For those who could get by with a smaller vehicle, they may not be able to afford it. I know both my best friend and I can't. Our vehicles are paid for and we just can't afford payments on a new vehicle right now. Don't forget you don't just have car payments but the insurance can be higher on a car you're paying off because you have to have more than just liability.
Second is people frowning on *anyone* who has made the decision to purchase an SUV. Now granted, I was at the store one day and I saw a high maintenance-looking woman having to hitch up her skirt to crawl up into her brand new Suburban and thought that had to be a case of buying the thing because it was cool. Pretty much at the prices of these things anyone who buys one brand new as an individual probably doesn't really need it. Having said that, there are places where it is a daily requirement to have something like that. For these people, it is a Utility Vehicle and sport has nothing to do with it. Some people face the possibility that they're going to have to use the 4 wheel drive on the way home or to some aspect of their job. (Probably not most city dwellers, though. Although given the choice between and SUV and a minivan to transport the family, I know which I would pick.) *I* happened to get everywhere I needed to even in the middle of nowhere in the mountains in a 1973 Chevy Nova, but I also was willing to make it do things it wasn't meant to do.
Next... Picking on people who drive big vehicles for the safety value. I'm with you that some of these people should just be shot because the way they drive the SUV, they are the only one who is safe. However, part of the reason I drive an old steel truck is for the safety factor. The above mentioned Chevy Nova was run over by 2 oil tankers in a case of black ice on a mountain pass, but I was still able to drive it home. (Tow trucks were all tied up in other accidents, it was a messy day.) I spent an hour sitting on the side of the pass waiting for the cops to show up and mentally evaluating the vehicles that passed to determine if they'd have done as well in the accident as my Nova. I had a tire print in my trunk and the front bumper was crumpled. The odds weren't good folks. So before you riducule someone about their choice, be aware there might be something you don't know about influencing that choice. (I also don't like airbags because had the nova had airbags I wouldn't have been able to recover from the slide and I'd have gone off the pass. I don't know if an airbag can protect you when you fall off a mountain.)
As long as we're talking about the Nova... it got 20+ miles to the gallon in town and almost 30 on the highway. So I'd like to know why new cars coming out with that same kind of mileage are acting like it's such an advance when it's obviously something that is at least 32 years old.
Coincidentally, I got this link in my email this morning. If that car sat higher up off the ground, maybe one person in the car would have survived: http://www.sandstorming.com/index.php/2005/08/250- kmh-crash-pictures
I had more to say, but the cold medicine kicked in so I'll just leave this where it stands.
Yeah. Sounds like my school had a slightly bigger building. And probably only because the older one was burned down when my Dad was in school. (Knowing my Dad and his brothers that might not be a coincidence!)
I just turned 31 and I remember diagramming sentences in school. I especially remember having to extend my lines all the time because I made them too short. I also happened to go to a small school, so that might have something to do with it. (12 kids in my kindergarten class, and it swelled to 22 by 8th grade and we were still in the same building.)
I would almost bet money that most of my coworkers don't even know what sentence diagramming is, though. The school districts in the city I'm in are notoriously bad.
Isn't this similar?
http://antispam.yahoo.com/domainkeys
The spiders were clogged... And yeah, it was 110 yesterday and the blocks were *very* warm to the touch on the inside.