That sounds fun! Have you ever been there before?

Why does everyone tell me it sounds fun . Been to England, but not Scotland. Problem is no direct flight, so have to deal with the risk of connections and my luck

Been trying to digitalize my grandfather's films and pictures, and "restore" them as best I can. Here's a few tests I've made on some of his slides (first without colour correction, second with)...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Have to go to Scotland for a trip, so have to suffer through my UK coworkers. This is why I need to have kids, I can use them as a reason I can't leave the country for a week.

I'd tell you to bring me back a liter or two of a decent highland single malt but you live so far away it's almost closer if I went and got it myself.

I might have made a minor mistake. Got hold of an English translation of some Chinese Wuxia story..that is apparently over 400 chapters long, and I started reading it before bed last night.

 

Sleep... did not happen.

Of course, there's all sorts of oddities to it, so I'm not sure if thats due to the authors writing, the translators translation, or all the cultural cues I'm not picking up.

April Weather, view from my living room.

 

I wish I still had a decent camera. 

 

Those spires across the courtyard are cool. What is that building?

It's just a facade from the remains of an old building, there's scaffolding holding it onto a modern building on the other side. 

Time to find exactly where Gorgon lives.

You can just ask, I don't give a ****.

 

 

I was always amused how people consider doxing like it was a modern day hex.

You should though, have to be careful these days

It's pretty dangerous, actually. There's plenty lunatics on the internet, as probably everyone knows (or should know). Even if it doesn't have a direct effect on you, suddenly all your friends and family will be spammed with messages about crap.

I still maintain that 99% of it is how many ****s you give about it. I don't play COD, I'm not gonna get swatted.

I still maintain that 99% of it is how many ****s you give about it. I don't play COD, I'm not gonna get swatted.

Paranoia is a drug, I guess

Yesterday, I had a patient who had several post-surgery issues. He had his call light on and I went in to see what he needed. He'd been constipated fifteen days, and he finally had a bowel movement after surgery. Because of the amount of feces and straining, I think he stimulated his vagus nerve which lowered his blood pressure precipitously. He wanted to go back to bed and I helped him up, which caused something called orthostatic hypotension. It immediately made him start to pass out. I held him up and calmly called out for some help and one of the mobility techs and a classmate came in and we got him in a chair. I took his blood pressure and it was 62/40 with a MAP of 52. You know what that means? Here's a hint, it's not good!

 

I didn't leave the patient, but I did send people out to get my mentor nurse. I don't think she took the situation seriously until she got into the room and realized how low his blood pressure was. She immediately called the physician, and called again when he didn't answer. This guy was in serious danger. I guess I don't want to build it up too much, but it's gratifying that I didn't panic and kept my head. It's probably one of my few talents. I tell you what, I always say "don't panic," and I didn't, but I was... shall we say, a tad anxious.

 

With all of five clinical days at the hospital doing things like injections, IVs, and vital signs, I can already think of things I could have done better. Things I should have done and maybe a couple of things I shouldn't have done. Still, after having one patient die on me right before I went in to do his vitals and having this patient almost tank on me, I'm actually at peace with my decision. I love clinical and I love my patients, even the ornery old bastards.

You can just ask, I don't give a ****.

 

 

I was always amused how people consider doxing like it was a modern day hex.

 

The issue is what the doxxing leads to. I have a friend who used to be the target of some pretty spiteful trolls at another forum, whose doxxing led to one of these trolls ordering hookers repeatedly to his workplace, causing him to effectively lose his job. So the potential consequences can be pretty serious.

Bring on the hookers. I've got another two hours and I'm bored stiff. Pun intended. 

I'm a little behind on my hooker etiquette but wouldn't a person have to "prepay" to order a hooker to go to some location? Or are these transactions handled on a "payment when services are rendered" basis? 

Logic tells me, payment upfront. Everything else would be kinda stupid, I'd say. I mean, you know how people are. Suddenly they start to bargain or don't want to pay up, etc.

I'm a little behind on my hooker etiquette but wouldn't a person have to "prepay" to order a hooker to go to some location? Or are these transactions handled on a "payment when services are rendered" basis?

You just need to find a pimp with a lack of business sense.

 

Noticing my laptop is running at 90 C when under 30% load...think it's time for a new one. This was a refurb T420, got it just for WFH at an old job but it is not needed for that now.

 

Is more of a "want" than a need, but would be handy on the trip.

But that's what I'm trying to say! Doxing someone by paying lots of money to send hookers to their job seems like a terribly expensive plan. Prolly be cheaper to deliver dog feces every day.

But that's what I'm trying to say! Doxing someone by paying lots of money to send hookers to their job seems like a terribly expensive plan. Prolly be cheaper to deliver dog feces every day.

Only of you use expensive whores.

Backed some stuff up to free space on my hard disk. Wound up finding some old stuff from a little after Interplay shut down and we were scattered in the wind like so many brown leaves.

 

Figured some of these might get a chuckle or two from the oldies (except maybe tarna's card, that one is sad now. ). Lord Tingeling made them back in 2004...

 

Will have to double post because the file attachment limit is still 1 MB. That's also pretty 2004.

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Been taking my bloopressure regularly for a few months now, varying medicines and diet and it seems that no matter what I do my bloodpressure remains between 170-160/110-100 on the mornings. Going to talk to my doctor next week and ask her if I can try to stop taking the meds for a few days and see what happens with the pressure. Starting to think I'm doing something wrong when measuring.

 

This easter weekend some of the friends from the original pnp group I started out with decided that, **** it, we haven't really seen each other for months and we haven't played together for years, so we got together for three days of rpgs and beer. It's awesome. We're playing off eachother like we haven't missed a day since then!

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