Prior to the influx I estimated the median age of FKers at around 44 or so. The mean might have been more like 42; there were definitely more FKers 15 or more years less than 44 than 15 or more years higher. But we were quite a bit older than AN. No idea how the last few weeks have changed things.
You could be right. WC said he’s the same age as me and somebody else said they closed on a house in Santa Cruz around 1980 so that person has been AARP for a while.
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
March 26, exactly 100 years after Robert Frost and 11 years before Keira Knightley.
On the day I was born:
Gaura Devi leads a group of 27 women of Laata village, Henwalghati, Garhwal Himalayas, to form circles around trees to stop them being felled and giving rise to the Chipko Movement in India.
1870 1st U.S. National Wildlife Preserve, Lake Meritt in Oakland California
1892 Lord Stanley presents silver challenge cup for hockey (Stanley Cup)
1902 Enrico Caruso becomes 1st well-known performer to make a record
1940 Mussolini joins Hitler in Germany’s war against France and Britain
1944 Nazi Germany occupies Hungary
1945 1,250 U.S. bombers attacks Berlin
1965 Rolling Stones fined 5 pounds each for public urination (LOL)
I’ve got Martha Stewart and James “Why Am I Alive Instead Of Cliff Burton?” Hetfield.
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
Abraham Lincoln, Charles Darwin but Cotton Mather, Brent Jones but Lincoln Kennedy, John L Lewis, Omar Bradley, Bill Russell but Dell Demps, Joes Garagiola and Alioto, but Moe Bandy, Chynna Phillips AND Ray Manzarek, but Lorne Greene and Judy Blume.
It’s a wash (2/12/51).
The meaning of life is not so much found, as it is Made. -- Opus
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
I don’t see any of you FKers with my sign, or anywhere near my birthdate even.
Most of the famous people who share my birthday are shitty shitty people that I would put in my “Urinate on their shoes like ****” club.
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
Spencer Tracy
Melvyn Douglas
Bette Davis
Cubby Broccoli
Gregory Peck
Roger Corman
Frank Gorshin
Peter Greenaway
Mitch Pileggi
Stan Ridgway and Peter Case (same day in 1954)
you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
Also, people under 40 with poor iron retention, constant tiredness, and abnormal diarrhoea (cha cha cha).
A colonoscopy is the way to fully diagnose celiac disease, which is something that upwards of 10% of the American population has. (Goddamn GMO wheat!)
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
I’ve had two – both times, I was clean as a whistle. I was pretty loaded the last time. My wife told me that while they were trying to wake me up, I was telling the nurse that the prep should be made to taste like beer.
The prep, which is this awful tasting shit that causes your body to explosive eject everything you’ve eaten for the last week. If they can’t change the effect of the prep, at the least the could make it taste good.
When I was in the hospital last year I had to take something like that. I had been puking after surgery and unable to keep anything down, and then the nurses come in and say “drink a liter of this shitpiss within thirty minutes and try to keep it down. It will also make what little food is left in your body fly out the back end in no time!”
A half hour later, I had only downed two-thirds of it, puked up most of that, and then violently exploded shit into a just-made-it-in-time toilet while dragging the IV around. I FKing hate doctors.
When I had my eardrum perforated they gave me antibiotic drops that would go down my ear canal through the equestrian tube and end up in my mouth. They tasted far worse than contrast.
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Fixed. It’s my post (apparently) and I can fix the spelling errors in DFA’s malaprops if I want to!
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
I actually went directly from the colonoscopy (well, I got dressed first) to the hospital for a CT scan, and was almost in tears at the thought of having to drink any more puke-inducing garbage after all the prep stuff I had to gag down the day before… but the contrast stuff was almost pleasant by comparison. I thought the taste was like a very familiar smell, like the smell of some sort of cleaning solution. In other words, it tasted like something that shouldn’t be ingested (maybe because it IS, in fact, toxic), but didn’t actually make me want to puke.
The gallon of heavily Miralax-laced Gatorade that I was told to drink in one hour the day before surgery, though… aaaah, that was fun. Have you ever tried to drink a gallon of anything in an hour?
There's a wild thing in the woolshed and it's keeping me awake at night.
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
That, and in a perfect world, Marv Albert would be one of my tranny sisters.
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
I did it. While having my botched gallbladder surgery leak bile into my peritoneal cavity. That day and the next were by far the worst pain I’ve ever felt in my life. There was no reason I ever need fear death.
They had no idea what was wrong with me. They kept making me take all these tests. I thought that liquid was going to kill me.
I don’t know how it was at nm’s fancy school, but I really had a bad feeling about them at UCLA.
It started with a general distrust, that solidified early when I overheard some guy say to a woman in a jock science requirement class (Earthquakes)
“you’re [some sorority], I’m [fraterity], you should have told me, we have the answers for [whatever ab assignment].”
The difference is that (1) people are way nerdier; (2) on-campus housing is really good; and (3) there are at least as many anti-establishment types as establishment types.
Wrap those together and you get a very optional (and less influential) system.
"There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
Far be it from me to question your experience, but Yale does not strike me as a bastion of anti-establishment types, certainly not in equal numbers to the establishmentarians.
"Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
I didn’t think so either (and it was my biggest hesitation in going there). It might not be Berkeley, but it isn’t so different (apart from a light drizzle of celebrities and super-rich kids)
"There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
“Secret societies” (ie, frats/sororities) were and remain banned by the Oberlin charter. The co-ops took on the social role that frats serve other campuses. OSCA is, IIRC, the third-largest co-op system in the country, after Berkeley and Michigan — and that at a college with <3K people. There were/are several open-secret frats/sororities (albeit w/o housing) for some of the athletes -- mostly African-American (thus rendering them utterly untouchable at a place like Oberlin).
you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
we’ve had this discussion before. BECAUSE it was such a prestigious school and BECAUSE the consequences of English Lit (or any humanities, really, though I think some of them were a little more lax about the attitude) were absolutely nil, they took themselves WAY WAY WAY too seriously.
@bloomie I was trying to think if I knew any humanities grad students during my time there, but I think it was just fellow scientists and lots of Harris school types (social sciences).
Oh wait, I played ultimate with an awesome dude who was there for Russian Lit, but he dropped out.
prolly because they were suck officious, odoriferous pricks about EVERYTHING. The two best teachers I had there,neither were tenured. And one had MUCH more to do with GSB than Humanities.
Oh, they still have ’em. That incident only got that particular frat booted off (I think two of the campus frats got booted that year, lol). But less than 5% of the student body was involved in the Greek system while I was there, and they were kind of like a creepy leper colony that mostly existed at College Eight. So I stick with the company line of mockery! :D
I was at UCSC during the Koi Incident, though. Thanks, MTV. >:( The ‘avenge me’ koi graffiti that followed was pretty awesome, though.
I had a friend who was a women’s studies major there; she told me she did some sort of “project” for a class that involved giving a speech while naked. There was a point to it which made sense to me at that time, but I don’t remember what it was.
Daughter #1 is a UCSC grad in something called “Community Studies”, which is basically a training program for left-wing community activists. I had to bite my tongue ’til it bled many times – about the only time I argued with her was when she brought up stuff she had read by Angela Davis. I told her I was not interested in the writings of an unrepentant murderer.
Yikes! I’d love to see it (I’m weird that way… was also disappointed I didn’t get to see the bits that got taken out of me), but I would *NOT* want to be fully awake for the scope. I did wake up a few times during, and was in excrutiating pain. I’m going to ask for a better drugging next time.
There's a wild thing in the woolshed and it's keeping me awake at night.
We normally laugh at people with mouth/teeth/tooth pain. Then take their money and tell them to go to a dentist. Be thankful they did anything for you. It must have been REAL bad. I kinda wish I could have been there.
A few weeks ago Dr. [Hottie] tried to dig a BB out of a boys head. It was pretty cool. It ended
up being more of an “exploratory” thing, because we didn’t find the BB.
I don’t even know who drinks that dreck. I mean PBR is cheap and tastes like water to the point that even the DFA lightweight types can finish a sixer. Heineken tastes like water and is like three times as expensive and is douchebag beer.
In play, run(s)! Talk dirty to me gamecast, talk dirty. - Nevermoor
In my travels, both in this country and abroad, I have seen Heineken on tap literally in every town I’ve ever been in. I dunno how they do it, but they’ve probably got the highest worldwide recognition among all beers. And yet I rarely ever see people order it!
If she was that easy to see through, she couldn’t have endeared herself to you with a Pabst, Pliny, or Porsche.
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
In Dublin, the pubs all have (1) Guinness; (2) Guinness extra cold; (3) Cider; and (4) Bud. And the Bud is the most expensive. And Guinness is better there than anywhere else on earth. And people buy the Bud.
"There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
confirmed… actually I don’t know anything about Guinness from a super cooler, but I can definitely confirm that the regular Guinness in Ireland is awesome.
You like fucking, right? Well, yoga done right is like fucking God.
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
You can pretty much distill the assembled hundreds of thousands of words of Aleister Crowley down to:
Yoga
Sex
Reincarnation
Yoga
Guilt is overrated
Drugs
Yoga
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Oh, that’s nice. I may be close to SF, I may not. Right now I’m sort of weighing my options. I’m going down to LA later this week and crashing on a couch to see if I can find some work. As much as I’d love to stay in the Bay, I just can’t afford it right now.
That’s impressive with the cheeses, though. I would imagine that takes a helluva lot more patience and commitment than brewing beer.
DFA would have the full thing, but as I can recall, you soak the ladyfingers in a mixture of orange juice and Grand Marnier, instead of espresso. There was something else different about the mascarpone layer as well, too.
Also, you can confit anything (OK, technically only those things that have enough of their own fat to cook themselves in … but you can roast submerged in oil [pref olive … or butter] anything).
you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
I’ve made a number of different types of fermented beverages and mead might just be the easiest of them all. Comtroling the flavor/sweetness is where the challenge lies.
If you want some pointers let me know. If you are close to the east bay I’d even be happy to show you the ropes.
What we need is a predictive recommendation engine. Side sections include:
– Comments most recommended for you
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\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
This is a bigger community now, and methinks we need a mechanism to keep FK valuable to those who only have time to read a fraction of the comments.
Maybe the AM Grill / PM Pub thing is a good idea, with any amazing sub-threads from the previous one linked to in the next one. The other posts are stand-alone and fine as they are.
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
I grabbed this as posted it as, ahem, an overflow thread because those 1600-comments affairs were starting to choke the sidebar’s ability to load. Your concept and I found your title so I left you as the Krauthor. I do think things will calm down in the next day or two and then some direction might become evident.
I’m not upset about it. I was a little surprised to see it, because I had decided against posting it at that time… and then I had other things going on and didn’t check FK ’til this morning.
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
I wish I was more active then. I remember wanting free swag but not feeling like I could rightfully ask Bloom for some. My favorite was the (paraphrased) “No one likes you Boston and NY.”
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
Do you work on this sort of stuff? Also, are you greenstaroakland from the OC? I seem to remember having some cosmology discussions back there a while ago.
I’m not on QUIET anymore (finished my PhD back in June 2010), so I’m working on Keck Array/SPUD as a post-doc now.
But from what I hear, QUIET-II has sort of split into two factions. One of them is planning to repropose something like the original QUIET-II proposal (big project, lots of detectors at 90 GHz, aiming in the r~0.02 direction). The other group has a smaller proposal that would focus at lower frequencies (40 GHz, maybe 30 as well) to try to nail the polarized synchrotron foreground.
It doesn’t necessarily mean someone’s smart or even clever.
Diligent students with overbearing parents and vast cash resources can get them too.
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Even when I went back a couple of years ago and would smoke three or four bowls before class, it was still WAAAY too slow.
I’ve got two classes this semester, but one of them’s online and the other one is just a bunch of personality and career assessment tests, which I hope will help me figure out what I want to do once I’m vaguely hirable again.
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
I love school. Love love love it. So I’m thinking about adding a useless Masters to my useless Bachelors. Or maybe just another useless Bachelors… like, say, the B.F.A. I originally wanted before I pragmatically decided it would be too useless.
There's a wild thing in the woolshed and it's keeping me awake at night.
If I had received Ipad with 12 years worth of school textbooks on it at the age of 5, like students might by the end of the decade, I quite literally would have graduated High School before I turned 10. Easy.
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
Shit, DFA’s really let himself go.
what is a hipster doing in a place with at least 4 flat screen tvs?
Sweeping up afterwards.
Prior to the influx I estimated the median age of FKers at around 44 or so. The mean might have been more like 42; there were definitely more FKers 15 or more years less than 44 than 15 or more years higher. But we were quite a bit older than AN. No idea how the last few weeks have changed things.
I’m 35 in March.
I feel younger and hotter already.
You could be right. WC said he’s the same age as me and somebody else said they closed on a house in Santa Cruz around 1980 so that person has been AARP for a while.
yeah, we’ve definitely gotten collectively younger.
That’s just because we’ve exceeded the fire marshal’s recommendation
FIRE MARSHAL NOW!
Im 38…
I’m a youngun…
24 this April…
I will be 39 in April!
I’m the 14th*, you?!
*Fun fact: On this date (April 14th) in history, Abraham Lincoln was shot by Booth and the Titanic hit an iceberg and began sinking.
I will win this game April 20th DFA and Hittler born.
wow. explains a lot.
Also Columbine… and Carmen Electra.
Carmen Electra [shivers]
Oklahoma City and Ruby Ridge, too, huh?
I am April 29…
Leanardo Da Vinci, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Kourtney Kardashian bitches!
April 30 here.
Same as my brother.
Oaklahoma City is the 19th and Ruby Ridge is August.
oh. I thought it was all related…
/conspiracy theorist
/Buddhist monk
You know who else was bo–
Shit. nm already made that joke, didn’t he?
About Nixon and e/c
Damn. You win.
Cinco de Mayo & Karl Marx
March 20. Mr rodgers
March 26, exactly 100 years after Robert Frost and 11 years before Keira Knightley.
On the day I was born:
March 23. Akira Kurosawa and Joan Crawford.
June 30. Mike Tyson.
March 4. Russell Atkins.
my grandpa who died before I was born (and the day my dad came to the US)
hmmm.
Confucius.
Founding of the anti-corn law league
No, that’s mikeA’s birthday
i’ll see your insane dictator and raise you a child insane dictator. august 31: caligula.
I now have deep water horizon explosion too.
Oo. Maybe Poppy could refer you to her gastroenterologist.
Totally. Maybe he’ll start giving us a family rate.
March 18, Geronimo Berroa. Take that.
There’s also John Paul II, Neville Chamberlain, Rudolf Diesel, Grover Cleveland, among many others.
Oh, events:
1870 1st U.S. National Wildlife Preserve, Lake Meritt in Oakland California
1892 Lord Stanley presents silver challenge cup for hockey (Stanley Cup)
1902 Enrico Caruso becomes 1st well-known performer to make a record
1940 Mussolini joins Hitler in Germany’s war against France and Britain
1944 Nazi Germany occupies Hungary
1945 1,250 U.S. bombers attacks Berlin
1965 Rolling Stones fined 5 pounds each for public urination (LOL)
Among many others.
Hey, and me!
I’m June 2nd.
Me, Dana Carvey, Wayne Brady, Dennis Haysbert and Hot Lips from MASH are as cool as they come.
Lucky you.
I’ve got Martha Stewart and James “Why Am I Alive Instead Of Cliff Burton?” Hetfield.
June 6th.
D-day, bitches.
Oh, and Mark Ellis. So there’s that.
Thanks, and go As.
11/24.
Yeah, the entire country was thankful for me.
just in some years.
But including the day I was born.
But not your mother.
Or my dad. He still complains about the hospital boiled ham.
Mrs. N too on the 4/14 part
Um, helloooo – Oct 12, Columbus day before they moved it to a floating Monday.
Not cool dude.
Remember when Columbus Day was a Holiday?
two months ago? i do.
Yes. Always felt wrong to me the more you learn about it all in school.
stay away from the I-ties you may know.
Huh.
45, same day as Pablo Picasso.
Abraham Lincoln, Charles Darwin but Cotton Mather, Brent Jones but Lincoln Kennedy, John L Lewis, Omar Bradley, Bill Russell but Dell Demps, Joes Garagiola and Alioto, but Moe Bandy, Chynna Phillips AND Ray Manzarek, but Lorne Greene and Judy Blume.
It’s a wash (2/12/51).
I’m 26.
25 mother fuckers
mother fkers, please.
Sounds like a sausage fest. I’m out.
Well, yeah, you and lenscrafters were who I had in mind as far as being >2 SDs below the mean. I’m not sure anyone was 2 SDs above the mean.
Bitch please. 21.
Samesies
Yee
Yeah, but you’re pretty wise for 21.
I always forget that.
37. In my prime.
you mean 28 to 35?
Of those, I mean only 29 and 31.
I don’t see any of you FKers with my sign, or anywhere near my birthdate even.
Most of the famous people who share my birthday are shitty shitty people that I would put in my “Urinate on their shoes like ****” club.
38 here.
Oh, and…
Me too, born on the same day as Nas.
I also share bdays w/ Cornelius Agrippa and Delmon Young.
23 here.
Sigh… so young.
Treasure your youth, danbot. You won’t get 23 back.
Shut up, 24.
Bzzzt. Wrong answer.
Er. 25?
Dude, 23 is old enough to realize you probably shouldn’t press women about their age.
Hah. This is true.
Heh. I’m not sensitive about my age yet, but ask me in 5 years… actually, you know what, don’t ask me in 5 years.
There you go.
we’re the same age? hmmm I always thought you were much older.
HAY SHOES, YOU SENSITIVE ABOUT YOUR AGE, YET?
Getting there. Thanks for asking!
[Oooh, that’s the first time I’ve gotten the “posting comments too quickly” admonition! Fun.]
25 year olds, dude.
If you were at ** before me I think youre older. If you were there after me I think you are younger, unless youre obviously old.
Yeah, I think we’ve had this conversation before. On FK, even.
I think you have, too.
Maybe its just because I like older women.
(x/2) + 7 = Hello, whiteshoes40.
Hey there.
(x/2) + 7 = Hello, whiteshoes40 in 2016
Liar
Fine. 41?
And you don’t look a day over 15.
I usually get 12.
14, maybe.
Thanks, and go As.
Clocking in at 24 myself.
Man, we really did get younger. I used to be one of the youngest here.
no mas, old fk.
Huh. I figured you were older than me. Must just be more mature.
he’s short, too.
But, really quite cute.
Interesting.
[files information away]
everyone is short to you and shoes. Just like everyone is tall to me.
you’re cute, too. Kind of in the exact same way UM/Dial C/J is. In fact, you two could actually be related. You kind of look similar.
Aw shucks
Thank you?
41
Spencer Tracy
Melvyn Douglas
Bette Davis
Cubby Broccoli
Gregory Peck
Roger Corman
Frank Gorshin
Peter Greenaway
Mitch Pileggi
Stan Ridgway and Peter Case (same day in 1954)
same.
Same years, or same b-day? That would be FREEKy.
same year. What’s your day? Don’t make me google it, monkey.
April 5
Aries? Huh.
Damn… Stan Ridgway is old.
I am a… fifty seven… year old…
Age, she said.
I am on med-i-care
part d
d, d, d, d
48. July 4, just like Al Davis and ‘Murica.
Have I mentioned that everyone over 40 should get a colonoscopy?
even me?
Yep.
Also, people under 40 with poor iron retention, constant tiredness, and abnormal diarrhoea (cha cha cha).
A colonoscopy is the way to fully diagnose celiac disease, which is something that upwards of 10% of the American population has. (Goddamn GMO wheat!)
strange. just had this conversation with a pretty woman at the bank yesterday.
Man, they really are intrusive with credit checks!
with her, I would not have minded.
I. AM. NOT. LISTENING.
I’ve had two – both times, I was clean as a whistle. I was pretty loaded the last time. My wife told me that while they were trying to wake me up, I was telling the nurse that the prep should be made to taste like beer.
You wanted your colonoscopy to taste like beer?
Thanks, and go As.
The prep, which is this awful tasting shit that causes your body to explosive eject everything you’ve eaten for the last week. If they can’t change the effect of the prep, at the least the could make it taste good.
There could be a market for that.
Thanks, and go As.
When I was in the hospital last year I had to take something like that. I had been puking after surgery and unable to keep anything down, and then the nurses come in and say “drink a liter of this shitpiss within thirty minutes and try to keep it down. It will also make what little food is left in your body fly out the back end in no time!”
A half hour later, I had only downed two-thirds of it, puked up most of that, and then violently exploded shit into a just-made-it-in-time toilet while dragging the IV around. I FKing hate doctors.
your Poop’o’Meta just got much more topical
Thanks, and go As.
nice
I’m still not aware of any fluid worse than the CT scan contrast goop.
It tastes awful, has an awful consistency, and after you choke down a good 16 oz of it… they give you another 16oz.
When I had my eardrum perforated they gave me antibiotic drops that would go down my ear canal through the equestrian tube and end up in my mouth. They tasted far worse than contrast.
Eustachian? Your not horse faced. ;)
You’re* ugh…
Fixed. It’s my post (apparently) and I can fix the spelling errors in DFA’s malaprops if I want to!
This is one of the best typos ever.
why?
“Equestrian tube” just makes me laugh.
I’m imagining a horse wriggling through a plastic tube. On his knees. It’s really amusing.
TWCTGS
I got my CT scans fluids IV
Yeah, when I had mine it was the digestive system they were interested in/worried about.
I actually went directly from the colonoscopy (well, I got dressed first) to the hospital for a CT scan, and was almost in tears at the thought of having to drink any more puke-inducing garbage after all the prep stuff I had to gag down the day before… but the contrast stuff was almost pleasant by comparison. I thought the taste was like a very familiar smell, like the smell of some sort of cleaning solution. In other words, it tasted like something that shouldn’t be ingested (maybe because it IS, in fact, toxic), but didn’t actually make me want to puke.
The gallon of heavily Miralax-laced Gatorade that I was told to drink in one hour the day before surgery, though… aaaah, that was fun. Have you ever tried to drink a gallon of anything in an hour?
Btw, had my oncology visit today and I don’t have to have chemo. So yay!
Whoo-hoo!
woo hoo!
Woohoo!
Yes!
Winner, due to not being a woohoo.
That, and in a perfect world, Marv Albert would be one of my tranny sisters.
es muy beuno.
No thanks, I actually don’t have a flatulence problem.
[sigh] [again]
She doesn’t want your flatulence. I told you it’s not going to be easy to sell your shit. There’s just no black market on gas.
Awesome!
Wooooooooo!!!!!!!!
win!!!
Suck it, cancer!
Yes Poppy, I am a member of a fraternity. Thanks for asking!
Oh wow, that didn’t even occur to me. So you’ve actually drunk a gallon in an hour by CHOICE. I stand mystified.
No one can actually do it. But everyone has to try.
Century Club FTW
Thanks, and go As.
I did it. While having my botched gallbladder surgery leak bile into my peritoneal cavity. That day and the next were by far the worst pain I’ve ever felt in my life. There was no reason I ever need fear death.
They had no idea what was wrong with me. They kept making me take all these tests. I thought that liquid was going to kill me.
You drank a gallon of whole milk in an hour?
dammit. teach me to read all the responses first
Just get used to it: I’m always a step ahead.
They didn’t allow frats at my school
I don’t know how it was at nm’s fancy school, but I really had a bad feeling about them at UCLA.
It started with a general distrust, that solidified early when I overheard some guy say to a woman in a jock science requirement class (Earthquakes)
“you’re [some sorority], I’m [fraterity], you should have told me, we have the answers for [whatever ab assignment].”
The difference is that (1) people are way nerdier; (2) on-campus housing is really good; and (3) there are at least as many anti-establishment types as establishment types.
Wrap those together and you get a very optional (and less influential) system.
Wait, were you in a frat at UofC?
my brother went to DePauw in Indiana. They had 92% pledge a frat/sorority.
Yeah. There are a lot of places like that, so naturally those frats can do all kinds of crazy hazing.
No, that was law school.
ok, because I find UofC frats to be an inherently funny topic.
agrd.
I figured something like that
Far be it from me to question your experience, but Yale does not strike me as a bastion of anti-establishment types, certainly not in equal numbers to the establishmentarians.
I didn’t think so either (and it was my biggest hesitation in going there). It might not be Berkeley, but it isn’t so different (apart from a light drizzle of celebrities and super-rich kids)
I expected UCLA to be more anti-establishment.
turns out it was a lot of rich (upper and upper upper middle class) kids with a light drizzle of celebrities.
sounds like my school, but the “light drizzle” was of the children of celebrities. ;)
You didn’t have class with Urkel?
i did not.
young, overeducated academics…sounds like they’re establishment anti-establishment by definition.
“Secret societies” (ie, frats/sororities) were and remain banned by the Oberlin charter. The co-ops took on the social role that frats serve other campuses. OSCA is, IIRC, the third-largest co-op system in the country, after Berkeley and Michigan — and that at a college with <3K people. There were/are several open-secret frats/sororities (albeit w/o housing) for some of the athletes -- mostly African-American (thus rendering them utterly untouchable at a place like Oberlin).
I was lucky they did not throw stones at me and chase me from the campus with sticks at the U of C.
Man, your department must have been really different from my department. I mean, we had our dumbasses, but it was basically a friendly place.
we’ve had this discussion before. BECAUSE it was such a prestigious school and BECAUSE the consequences of English Lit (or any humanities, really, though I think some of them were a little more lax about the attitude) were absolutely nil, they took themselves WAY WAY WAY too seriously.
@bloomie I was trying to think if I knew any humanities grad students during my time there, but I think it was just fellow scientists and lots of Harris school types (social sciences).
Oh wait, I played ultimate with an awesome dude who was there for Russian Lit, but he dropped out.
prolly because they were suck officious, odoriferous pricks about EVERYTHING. The two best teachers I had there,neither were tenured. And one had MUCH more to do with GSB than Humanities.
AHAHAHAHAHAHA frats.
/UCSC
UCSC used to have on campus frats/sororities until one of them fried a fish out of an on campus koi pond.
Oh, they still have ’em. That incident only got that particular frat booted off (I think two of the campus frats got booted that year, lol). But less than 5% of the student body was involved in the Greek system while I was there, and they were kind of like a creepy leper colony that mostly existed at College Eight. So I stick with the company line of mockery! :D
I was at UCSC during the Koi Incident, though. Thanks, MTV. >:( The ‘avenge me’ koi graffiti that followed was pretty awesome, though.
Nurse Upgrade’s a UCSC alum. Women’s Studies, even.
I had a friend who was a women’s studies major there; she told me she did some sort of “project” for a class that involved giving a speech while naked. There was a point to it which made sense to me at that time, but I don’t remember what it was.
Sounds like the reasoning for majoring in Women’s Studies.
Daughter #1 is a UCSC grad in something called “Community Studies”, which is basically a training program for left-wing community activists. I had to bite my tongue ’til it bled many times – about the only time I argued with her was when she brought up stuff she had read by Angela Davis. I told her I was not interested in the writings of an unrepentant murderer.
Ray Lewis wrote a book?
That’s AWESOME.
I wish I’d double-majored with women’s studies — I had a roommate in WS and it seemed fun. :(
THIS is the kind of story we need more of around here.
beer enema
Actually Doc, as I recall, the whistling comes later. It’s the best part. I almost got all the way through “Dixie.”
They let me stay awake for mine, because I wanted to see it — not worth it, don’t bother. Looks like a dryer vent hose seen from the inside.
Yikes! I’d love to see it (I’m weird that way… was also disappointed I didn’t get to see the bits that got taken out of me), but I would *NOT* want to be fully awake for the scope. I did wake up a few times during, and was in excrutiating pain. I’m going to ask for a better drugging next time.
the “flat sc**** tv” hyperlinked to some ad on my browser
THATS MY SHIRT BITCH
all I have to say is
Heineken? FUCK that SHIT!!!!!
PABST BLUE RIBBON!!!!!!!
I’m currently writing about oral care in patients. This photo is going to be evidence of the need.
[sigh]
damn i love flossing.
[sigh] x2
Not that kind of oral care.
My face is currently swollen like a chipmonk, Gertie. And yesterday I went to the ER to get it drained. So…we’re talking about the same thing.
I’m sorry I missed it. We don’t drain mouth abscesses in our neck of the woods.
oh. they do at the Santa Rosa Kaiser, which apparently EVERYONE IN SANTA ROSA NEEDS TO GO TO EVERY DAY.
We normally laugh at people with mouth/teeth/tooth pain. Then take their money and tell them to go to a dentist. Be thankful they did anything for you. It must have been REAL bad. I kinda wish I could have been there.
the dentist was the one who told me to go to the ER. Punk motherfker.
Why didn’t the dentist do his job? Fker.
A few weeks ago Dr. [Hottie] tried to dig a BB out of a boys head. It was pretty cool. It ended
up being more of an “exploratory” thing, because we didn’t find the BB.
was he using a magnet?
No, a scapel.
lol. just looking around?
We played MARCO! POLO! for a while. Got tired. Stapled his head shut.
TWSS
I’m currently working on promoting two HSV-1 creams. You may see some of my work in the coming months.
I’m sure I’ll notice when it pops up.
You’ll feel a slight tingling before it does
Please. We’ve all heard THAT before.
asvd
I always thought they frowned upon giving patients oral care…
You have to have a doctor’s order.
I’ve seen this movie.
Like counting cards or masturbating on an airplane.
I don’t even know who drinks that dreck. I mean PBR is cheap and tastes like water to the point that even the DFA lightweight types can finish a sixer. Heineken tastes like water and is like three times as expensive and is douchebag beer.
In my travels, both in this country and abroad, I have seen Heineken on tap literally in every town I’ve ever been in. I dunno how they do it, but they’ve probably got the highest worldwide recognition among all beers. And yet I rarely ever see people order it!
A girl bought me one like two weeks ago… It didn’t endear her to me like she assumed it would.
cockblocked by own beer snobbery? That’s no way to go through life, son.
She was really boring tho.
If she was that easy to see through, she couldn’t have endeared herself to you with a Pabst, Pliny, or Porsche.
yeah… can i buy you a beer would have worked much much better than hey heres a heiny.
I used to get them at binions when I was in college. It was the acceptable alternative to the standard ‘murican beers they had then.
But yeah it crap.
Have you read this: Beer BLast
In Dublin, the pubs all have (1) Guinness; (2) Guinness extra cold; (3) Cider; and (4) Bud. And the Bud is the most expensive. And Guinness is better there than anywhere else on earth. And people buy the Bud.
what is guinness extra cold?
Same beer, served colder.
does it ever get cold in the first place?
I need a physicist to confirm.
confirmed… actually I don’t know anything about Guinness from a super cooler, but I can definitely confirm that the regular Guinness in Ireland is awesome.
Had one for the first time in an airport lounge a few weeks back. Couldn’t finish it.
Drinking Fighting Cock after a glass of mulled wine that complemented the chips and 4-types-of-hummus tray from TJ’s.
Instapoll!
Choice 1: Stop being such an asshole.
Choice 2: Stop regretting being such an asshole.
3.Save your asshole credits for when it’s necessary, if not vital, to be an asshole.
That sounds a lot like 1.
I’m trying, I really am.
Choice 1 will make me much happier than choice 2 could. And also allow for the saving up and occasional necessary usage of Asshole Offset Credits.
If it makes you happy, I will try harder.
You’re not a home alarm system salesman, are you?
well, dfa would strongly advise number two, so I’m gonna go with number one just on principle…
Asshole.
Christ.
I have one of those!
hahaha i didn’t even see this. Seriously tho the answer is go to yoga which will allow you to do both at the same time
hmmm. yoga, huh? I’ve had friends advise me that there were answers in yoga, but when you’re a fat man, yoga’s kind of…out the loop, you know?
Yeah, but you’re not a fat man anymore.
You like fucking, right? Well, yoga done right is like fucking God.
I disagree. Just go. Seriously, I would be so much more of a prick right now without it.
nonono, I’m saying I CAN go now…my prickish friend.
I wish you were pie mobbing tonight.
Ohh yeah well its good for keeping you svelt too. Ive droped like 8 lbs and added muscle at the same time.
I am svelte (for a polar bear) and I am attending.
cool
You can pretty much distill the assembled hundreds of thousands of words of Aleister Crowley down to:
Yoga
Sex
Reincarnation
Yoga
Guilt is overrated
Drugs
Yoga
That sounds like actual good advice.
2 for sure
I drank local mead for the first time on NYE.
I am now determined to brew my own mead by the end of the year…
I think that’s a fine plan.
I vote yes. Are you close enough to SF that I can try it?
Im currently making duck confit right now. My goals with DIY food this year: 3 more cheeses from scratch including one aged, beer, pate, and terrines.
Oh, that’s nice. I may be close to SF, I may not. Right now I’m sort of weighing my options. I’m going down to LA later this week and crashing on a couch to see if I can find some work. As much as I’d love to stay in the Bay, I just can’t afford it right now.
That’s impressive with the cheeses, though. I would imagine that takes a helluva lot more patience and commitment than brewing beer.
right now im just doing Marscapone… its really easy and saves you a bundle when you make Mangomisu.
DUDE. Did I tell you that I made it once? You posted a recipe a while ago, and I tried it. Amazing.
I know right. I use to make that for the ex.
How the fuck do you not love someone who makes you that anymore?
Hard or soft ladyfingers?
(yeah, yeah, yeah)
Hard. otherwise its too soggy.
You should repost it here
DFA would have the full thing, but as I can recall, you soak the ladyfingers in a mixture of orange juice and Grand Marnier, instead of espresso. There was something else different about the mascarpone layer as well, too.
ill post it this weekend.
Also, is duck confit worth the wait?
whoops, sent that a bit early…
I meant in terms of prep time, isn’t it like a 2 day ordeal?
Nah. Unless you’re pulling all the pinfeathers yourself. It only takes a couple hours.
Or rendering all the duck fat yourself.
2 hours but keeps for 6mo.
Yes.
Also, you can confit anything (OK, technically only those things that have enough of their own fat to cook themselves in … but you can roast submerged in oil [pref olive … or butter] anything).
Huh….what does it do to the taste?
In. Ten. Si. Fries.
That sounds awesome.
Yeah its really really amazing. Its one of my all time favorite foods in the world
ABSOFUCKING LUTELY. IT BLEW MY MIND.
IT MUST NOT HAVE OFFERED YOU A HEINEKEN
nope… Green Lakes.
I’ve made a number of different types of fermented beverages and mead might just be the easiest of them all. Comtroling the flavor/sweetness is where the challenge lies.
If you want some pointers let me know. If you are close to the east bay I’d even be happy to show you the ropes.
Cool, I’ll let ya know. I’m probably gonna try and see if I can do it on my own once and if I fail I would appreciate any help I can get…
You won’t. Be sure to keep me update on the progress.
Okay. Finally got caught up on unread comments and I am spent.
no kidding. it took two hours for me to finish the comments before bed.
good job, poppy! here’s a cookie.
Low fiber? I don’t graduate to fiber until next week.
poor poppy.
Yeah, I think I’m going to have to set my impulse-control meter to 10 new comments in any thread before I refresh
I’m about to go offline for 3 days and I’m a little nervous.
You’ll spend the next week catching up. You sure you’re ready for that kind of commitment?
“mark all comments read”
Zzzzzzzzz.
this.
If you ever implement comment rec’s, then “mark all unrec-ed comments as read” would be cool.
What we need is a predictive recommendation engine. Side sections include:
– Comments most recommended for you
– People who recommended these comments also recommended…
– Comments frequently read together
Now we’re talking!
I’ll do it, but only if I my target is “no more accurate than netflix”.
for each comment
{
x=random number b/t 1 and 5
display “For you: x stars!”
}
“This comment had FUNNY, MONKEYS, and KRAUT. We recommend for you: GIGLI”
wow thats hilarious
No, we’re going full google and using sponsored recommendations: “This comment had ATHLETICS, BASEBALL, and INTERNET. We recommend for you: SBN”
(vomits)
“This comment had VOMIT. We recommend for you: SBNâ€
I had to nuke a bunch of comments. Didn’t even read the perfunktory grill.
that’s where my best jokes were
…must…not…snark…
So, I guess i didn’t miss anything, huh?
…FAILED…
so maybe there is just a wee bit of a problem.
This is a bigger community now, and methinks we need a mechanism to keep FK valuable to those who only have time to read a fraction of the comments.
Maybe the AM Grill / PM Pub thing is a good idea, with any amazing sub-threads from the previous one linked to in the next one. The other posts are stand-alone and fine as they are.
I grabbed this as posted it as, ahem, an overflow thread because those 1600-comments affairs were starting to choke the sidebar’s ability to load. Your concept and I found your title so I left you as the Krauthor. I do think things will calm down in the next day or two and then some direction might become evident.
I’m not upset about it. I was a little surprised to see it, because I had decided against posting it at that time… and then I had other things going on and didn’t check FK ’til this morning.
If i tried to keep up with everything I’d be bAnNeD from FK … by ms. s.
It used to be easy enough …
BEFORE ALL THESE DAMNED KIDS STARTED SQUATTING ON MY LAWN
I…kinda blame myself.
Take the skinheads bowling… take them bowling!
Will that Husker Du? Yes, it will.
Setting up the laptop for my conference presentation in Paris today:
That sets the right professional tone for any presentation.
I like to think so – mostly I posted it to put a smile on Bloom’s face.
That was one of the greatest early-FK moments.
I wish I was more active then. I remember wanting free swag but not feeling like I could rightfully ask Bloom for some. My favorite was the (paraphrased) “No one likes you Boston and NY.”
same
The Lurker’s Lament.
That one would come in handy here in Connecticut.
OK I want one of those.
Thanks, and go As.
I had one on the Bloommobile til someone in Richmond stole it. I had mine on magnets.
Fker.
I have seen that car on 85
on 85 or doing 85?
on.
My truck couldn’t do 85 going downhill on ice.
This makes me happy.
Thanks, and go As.
What a nice sticker. Wherever did you get it?
Some place in Florida. Now they won’t accept my orders.
/napo
asvd
I’m bummed I missed out on these…
actually, you know, me too. I made sheets and sheets and sheets of them. And saved none for myself.
Mensch.
[sigh]
So, speaking of, there’s a nice-looking woman of Jewish persuasion who is a client of mine.
So how professional are you?
I once was not. It is a mistake I will not repeat.
Ubermensch!
Was joking, the not pooping where you chow is a sound policy.
Bloom my advice would be don’t ask her to move to North Carolina.
[sigh]
She would not go. There is not San Francisco, Miami, New York and Tel Aviv there.
Plus her politics would be…troubling.
/Owsley
And a nice video description of another area of computational cosmology:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=77ZoF7Y1pNk%3Frel%3D0” frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen>
Do you work on this sort of stuff? Also, are you greenstaroakland from the OC? I seem to remember having some cosmology discussions back there a while ago.
Anyway, I work on a CMB polarization experiment…
um, yeah, check his avatar symbol.
Mostly CMB data analysis at present (that’s the Planck HFI meeting above), and yes.
So is QUIET II going ahead?
I’m not on QUIET anymore (finished my PhD back in June 2010), so I’m working on Keck Array/SPUD as a post-doc now.
But from what I hear, QUIET-II has sort of split into two factions. One of them is planning to repropose something like the original QUIET-II proposal (big project, lots of detectors at 90 GHz, aiming in the r~0.02 direction). The other group has a smaller proposal that would focus at lower frequencies (40 GHz, maybe 30 as well) to try to nail the polarized synchrotron foreground.
FYI, “going to Harvard” has euphemistic meaning around these parts …
PHD?
I’m sorry but I have to ban you. You’re way too smart.
Thanks, and go As.
Meh.
It doesn’t necessarily mean someone’s smart or even clever.
Diligent students with overbearing parents and vast cash resources can get them too.
Dude I would be happy with a Bachelors.
I just FKing *hate* school. hate hate hate hate hate.
Thanks, and go As.
It always went WAAAY too slow for me.
Even when I went back a couple of years ago and would smoke three or four bowls before class, it was still WAAAY too slow.
I’ve got two classes this semester, but one of them’s online and the other one is just a bunch of personality and career assessment tests, which I hope will help me figure out what I want to do once I’m vaguely hirable again.
I love school. Love love love it. So I’m thinking about adding a useless Masters to my useless Bachelors. Or maybe just another useless Bachelors… like, say, the B.F.A. I originally wanted before I pragmatically decided it would be too useless.
I lovelovelove it too!
I’m suspicious of people who love school. That said, I did marry one.
you married a school? classy!
If I had received Ipad with 12 years worth of school textbooks on it at the age of 5, like students might by the end of the decade, I quite literally would have graduated High School before I turned 10. Easy.
I… like school. Slightly less than I did a year or two ago. But we still have a pretty good relationship.
yeah, grad school does seem to have that effect.
DFA?
ouch
Also I can get you unfired Fker… thats hardly useless.
Dammit – I was just starting to like this place.
Well, liking this place should be proof positive of your idiocy.
They’ll have to slaughter the llama, too.