Fogbow

Have (some of) the Fogbow become birthers? Some publisher's PR person erroneously wrote that Obama was born in Kenya, and we don't say it was Obama's fault. Some HR person attributed Native American ancestry to Warren and it's her fault. Obama includes his Kenyan heritage in what makes him who he is...

Hoping for good outcome for your dad, Tek!

My brother has been taking the train up from San Diego to be around some of the time. I also have some friends (who are also neighbors; I've been friends with one family for a decade before I moved here) who will lend support. I have a diagnosis - extramedullary plasmacytoma. Of all the possibilitie...

Foggy wrote: ↑

Wed Oct 10, 2018 6:42 pm

Dang it, vic, you get better soon, you hear me? GET WELL, MY FRIEND.

I'll try my best. But you better not have any west coast meet-ups while I have to avoid crowds!

I have a diagnosis - extramedullary plasmacytoma. Of all the possibilities, this sounds like one of the most treatable. I start chemotherapy Friday. Since the chemo will suppress the immune system, I also will be taking an antiviral, and have to avoid crowds. So there is at least one benefit to alre...

asm("hcf" ::: "memory"); (geek humor) See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halt_and_Catch_Fire I used to write assembler code for the IBM System/360, but I never heard of that one... I wrote assembler on about a dozen different computers, including the 360, and yeah, no such animal. But I did encounte...

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Mon Oct 08, 2018 12:38 am

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If you're on FaceBook and want to share it, the original is at (remove spaces)

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SpaceX Launch Facing west from my house. The rocket is in the upper-left, moving to the left. On the right side, near the middle, is what looks like a horizontal line made of two orangish dots; that is the booster moving to the right, returning to Vandenburg. IMG_0060.jpg I'm checking my other photo...

Last week I had a needle biopsy of bone marrow from my hip. I was told to leave the dressing on for 24 hours. After I removed it, my brother asked how well it had healed. Since I couldn't see it, I used a selfie stick to take pictures (which I did not share with anyone). Be grateful that there isn't...

AndyinPA wrote: ↑

Thu Oct 04, 2018 9:56 pm

Whoa! I needed that today!

Me, too!

For me, more accurately out from the ER last night. Late August, I was having pain in my right arm and shoulder. I had helped a neighbor move a large cabinet, which I lunged for when it slipped and started to fall, and I thought I'd pulled a muscle. I also noticed a bump on my side, which I thought ...

I have a neighbor who is Catholic, and another who is Mormon. In the past, I've heard each say that that the other "isn't really Christian". I should add that these neighbors are themselves good friends, so "not being Christian" wasn't something they held against the other. Once, when my Mormon neig...

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Mon Oct 01, 2018 10:10 pm

Slim Cognito wrote: ↑

Mon Oct 01, 2018 7:25 am

USMC - United States Marine Corps?

Yankee Mexico Canada Agreement

YMCA!

Isn't that spelled like this?

When I was a teenager, my first cousin Mary :snippity: My father had "issues" which meant that we didn't develop relationships with many of our relatives. And then "something happened" and we moved from New York to Los Angeles, and were forbidden to communicate with those relatives we knew. Early t...

I obviously have led a very sheltered life and would appreciate it if someone would provide clear (and honest) English translations of the mysterious expressions in Kavanaugh's yearbook and similar references, such as boof, Devil's Triangle, Wendy, Maureen Total Whack, etc. Google is your friend. T...

A year (or more?) ago Ms and I went down to Sid Wainer (https://sidwainer.com/) back when they had a store (I don't know if they still do) We picked up a pile of interesting stuff, some of which got put in the back of a cabinet.. last week I dug up a package of "Fondo di Toscana Wild Organic Red Ri...

I can't. A flu shot could trigger another episode of Guillain-Barré. :eek2: No thank you very much. :nope: My brother is in the same situation. Which is why I want everyone who can get a flu shot, to get a flu shot. I saw my doctor on August 29 for what I thought was a bad muscle strain (it wasn't,...

I'm pro-weed and all but... Elon Musk Wanted to Impress Girlfriend With $420 Price, SEC Says It turns out that the price Elon Musk came up with to take Tesla Inc. private really was about weed, and that the embattled chief executive officer tweeted the figure to impress his girlfriend, the rapper G...

Apropos of nothing, I don't see that working, Musk has too much ego and too much taste to get involved with John. Neither of those individuals works or plays well with others. I agree that they don’t play well with others but musk has too much taste? Are we talking about the person who chose the mo...

Kavanaugh threads seem to be breeding like Bundys. How many will we see before Thursday? :yeah: I've avoided complaining about this, but it seems to me that this past year our threads have changed from being a collection of related posts (like chapters in a book), to something resembling an index, ...

I don't get the Nintendo joke I didn't either. Evidently, the character is 'Toad', who is a citizen of the Mushroom Kingdom. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toad_(Nintendo) Toad (Japanese: キノピオ Hepburn: Kinopio) is a fictional character who primarily appears in Nintendo's Mario franchise. Created...

I'm not a dog person, but I watched a lot of this when I was working in London around 1976 https://www.kqed.org/news/11693876/forget-football-its-sheepdog-trial-season-in-northern-california Forget Football — It's Sheepdog Trial Season in Northern California Football season might be in full swing an...

(The Amazon Tax Scandal) :snippity: I'm not a financial expert, but I know this much: While Amazon and Apple broke the $ trillion mark, it's important to note that when talking about what they pay - as salary or as taxes - that that valuation is the market value of their stock, not what the compani...

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https://twitter.com/NatashaBertrand/status/1042418124514095104 Screencap since there's really no text to c/p. Also, unclear where this statement came from. The Hill interview? WaPo has a story; and yes, they say it was in an interview on Hill.TV https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/...