Everything posted by Damor
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June 14th - 'No Kings' Mass Protest
I'm a bit torn, it's my first protest. I'm thinking that since I'll be sneaking away from work to attend for a short time, it's valid to go in my scrubs (with the name of the hospital covered to appease the C-suite snowflakes). A middle aged fat cis white guy with a good job is the last thing they'll be expecting. On the other hand, this is one of my favorite t-shirts:
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Why is it so hard...
A passage from Blood Meridian has always stuck with me when I wonder this: “A man's at odds to know his mind cause his mind is aught he has to know it with. He can know his heart, but he dont want to. Rightly so. Best not to look in there. It aint the heart of a creature that is bound in the way that God has set for it. You can find meanness in the least of creatures, but when God made man the devil was at his elbow. A creature that can do anything. Make a machine. And a machine to make the machine. And evil that can run itself a thousand years, no need to tend it.” Part of the epigraph from the beginning of the novel: Clark, who led last year’s expedition to the Afar region of northern Ethiopia, and UC Berkeley colleague Tim D. White, also said that a re-examination of a 300,000-year-old fossil skull found in the same region earlier shows evidence of having been scalped. –The Yuma Daily Sun
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Everything is Shit: Tracking the Great Enshittening
The best part is you then have ChatGPT just change all the zeroes to ones, and "wallah," I present to the C-suite the "UnitedHealth Never-Authorize-O-Min (-)5000."
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Preparing for Empty Shelves and Increased Expenses
At first I was puzzled by why you would crack peoples' skulls open looking for rice inside. Then all of a sudden the world made a lot more sense that way.
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Fishing Megathread: Looking For Big Girls Who swallow
Oh, hello there. We've been waiting for you.
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Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
So that, plus this from some other aggy thread: I realize it's a pointless exercise to think about this, but to me it's one of the sadder manifestations of the culture of insecurity and inadequacy at that place, and for some reason has always irked me. I've heard A&M grads brag about how opportunities were given to them which they really weren't qualified for, or how they were selected for things over competitors with a secret "Aggie Ring Wink." I really just shouldn't at all be surprised by the cognitive dissonance that displays with regard to the general political zeitgeist of that place, but whatever. When I interview a Texas grad, you'd better bring your A game. My expectations of you are now higher than your peers, not lower. When I'm working with a trainee who's a Texas grad, I'm more disappointed with you if you're not up to expectations, not more forgiving. I don't know why I find this so discouraging, although maybe it's because (unpopular opinion) I do have some very good Aggie friends who are very competent and accomplished, or because on the whole the state would be better off if that system wasn't so culturally bound to fuck up anything good it could ever accomplish outside of athletics. Just part of the cruel and tragic aggy shenanigans, I guess. And the problem is mine for thinking I could rationally understand that place. Thanks for listening to my TURD Talk.
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Fishing Megathread: Looking For Big Girls Who swallow
IMO a lot depends on what you want to do with it. I fish (poorly) mostly creeks here at home and a lot of smaller streams when in Colorado, and inasmuch as I've found a style, it's what I'd call "contemplative" and my boys would call "slow and boring." Even my carbon fiber rod is a Scott G. I'm not usually hucking a bunch of big streamers, and if I'm fishing from a boat I'm with a guide and probably using their gear. I love the feel of how fiberglass rods load slowly and how they cast, but it fits my personality disorder. It seems largely a special use case for dry flies on small water these days, and I love having it as a different "flavor." That said, if that's not what you want it to do and try to fish it in the ways that carbon fiber excels, you're probably going to get frustrated and hate it. And as far as the demo thing, if the shop has guides they might be able to check and see if any of them own what you're looking for and could let you demo it? And yes, y'all got me all hot and bothered so I had to go out and scratch the itch with this monster: (ironically on the 5wt carbon fiber rod and a Brushy Creek streamer).
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Fishing Megathread: Looking For Big Girls Who swallow
Agreed as above. Although I love my Ross Colorado 3wt as well, it does nothing but hold line. I overspent on it because it has sentimental and aesthetic value to me. And it sounds really, really nifty. If you're staying on a budget*, get a cheap reel and spend that money on good fly line, a lesson this board taught me. * you're buying fly fishing gear, we all know we're just pretending to be on a budget and are going to buy cool shit because cool shit is cool and we love it.
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Fishing Megathread: Looking For Big Girls Who swallow
Yeah, I think the Echo would leave you enough in the budget for that. How could you not? Think I posted upthread that I have the Animas version of that put aside for my older one's 21st, probably going to pair it with a 4wt Scott fiberglass rod. As a beer snob, I don't even like Coors, but those are just amazing looking reels, and I do respect that they have their own malting floor in Golden.
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I caught the cancer
Love, pediatric radiologist
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Fishing Megathread: Looking For Big Girls Who swallow
@Chewbacca I'll defer to the experts, but at that size I think fiberglass is a lot of fun, and also I worry a little less about getting it caught and breaking it tromping through branches. I have a nice burnt orangeish 3wt Echo Riverglass paired with a Ross Colorado that I love, and my boys try to steal it all the time. Getting summer trips to Colorado organized, can't wait.
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No, Mike Leach, YOU'RE awesome! [Pirates Last Voyage]
Why, they'd look like a bunch of Johnny-come-latelies, tossin' out their own midget... don't matter how stumpy.
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I caught the cancer
If you get a hook, beware of walking under seagulls for the first few days.
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I caught the cancer
It's been forever since I lived around there, and pretty much everything I loved is probably gone (RIP Ginger Man), but I'd go with some scotch eggs, beef stew, and a few pints of the black stuff at the Mucky Duck.
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Concerts you are attending
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Fishing Megathread: Looking For Big Girls Who swallow
Thanks. I will tell him to accept no less than this on the official tour.
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The movie you just watched
"Will you marry me, wutang75?"
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I caught the cancer
I don't doubt it. That said, feel free to put anger to good use. “Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.” -HL Mencken (fifMIA)
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Fishing Megathread: Looking For Big Girls Who swallow
Anybody have any recommendations for fly guides or spots in Boulder or Ft Collins CO? These aren't areas I've fished around, but we're doing college visits in early June, and I'd love to take the fam out. Bonus points for fishing near the universities which would give our kid inspiration for fun things he could get out and do in college aside from gummies. Oh, and studying.
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Protest Songs
Surely this song is posted in this thread somewhere. If so, well here it is again: Absolutely jaw-dropping fucking masterpiece, imo
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Jason Isbell, Sturgill Simpson, Chris Stapleton, and Other Good Stuff
Probably what @Al_4_ISU is talking about: The whole interview is really good. I'm sure there are mixed feelings about Bert (I think he's funny but I don't take him too seriously), but the interview may have well been between his wife and SWJ. She's pretty fucking cool.
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Jason Isbell, Sturgill Simpson, Chris Stapleton, and Other Good Stuff
Houston show for Stephen Wilson Jr. rescheduled for possibly the most "yep, that checks out" reason ever.
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Whatcha reading?
Really enjoyed this one, thanks. Great vacation read, his prose is really great -- different without being annoying or pretentious. Going to read Peace Like A River next, I suppose.
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Colonoscopy
Got my fluid change this morning and I'm good for another 10. Regarding the prep, my instructions were for the Miralax chug, and I'm guessing they default to that because it's cheap and readily available, and so they don't have to deal with stupid insurance companies and denials. Since I have a stupid insurance company and I really don't like or drink gatorade or sweetened/artificially sweetened stuff, I asked my GI to give me a script for the Sutab pill prep. Naturally, my stupid insurance wouldn't cover it, but I found basically an online promo code that cut it down from $187 to like $50. I can't make a direct comparison, but just drinking a bunch of water seems a lot more pleasant than the liquid preps. It was well worth the $50 and I'd probably even cough up the full price if needed. And as for propofol, yes it's perfect for a procedure like this (disclaimer: no nurse paystub). Ask what you're getting, and if you're having any anxiety about anesthesia that's what you want. The lights go out and the lights come back on, no groggy liminal states or hangovers. It's stupid IMO that they tell you not to drive afterward. Due to short staffing they said they were running one room with versed/fentanyl, and I noped out of that right quick. The most difficult thing for me was getting it scheduled, which is why I was overdue. So throw out your own excuses and get this done, it's easy and it's important.