What I didn’t realize in the last round of cervical epidurals was that the clinic was in “cost-cutting” mode.
Regular stainless steel hypodermic tubing was swapped out in favor of needles made in Pakistan and India out of steel nails. This wouldn’t have been a problem but the supplier got extra-really-awfully cheap and decided to use used nails.
As you can imagine, these needles hurt more than the mainstream needles commonly used by most doctor’s offices and most needle-exchange heroin users.
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Wavelet transforms of audio files. Steve Hanov’s website is too cool. Way way too cool. Lots of stuff to geek out on.
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You like being conned? Well, some of you out there must because y’all voted for Obama.
The southern pole’s Wilkens Ice Shelf was/is a con-job. I was sent this by a semi-alert but caring individual who while wishing to be un-named bears a suspicious resemblance to The Dude. It’s last year’s analysis but good points never die. Here’s a PDF for you…
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Don’t know if I’ve ever pointed out musical Shepard Scales, but it’s still cool. Check ‘em out. It’s like optical illusions for your ears. More like Audible illusions.
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It ain’t USB but it is kind of cool in a culinary nerd sort of way. Thing is, it’s no good unless you’re on a 5 hour road trip… minimum.
If I had the money to drop on this, I would. It’s not USB either.
Keyboard pillow… THIS is USB.
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Stupidity isn’t a virus… but it sure is spreadin’ like one! – Sandy Cheeks in SpongeBob Squarepants
What more can be thrown at us? Global cooling. Poisoned Tylenol. AIDS. Ozone layer gone. Bad scallions from Mexico. Global warming. Hong Kong flu. SARS. Meteorite impacts. Bad tomatoes. Massive gamma-ray bursts from distant celestial bodies. Peanut butter. Global cooling.
Dammit, we’re all gonna die.
Sorry folks but the track record is not a good one. Problem is, 50, 100, 1000, or even 10,000 people out of a country of 300,000,000 is 0.003%. That is 1 person in 30,000. A normal flu season racks up 30,000 deaths. More people are killed in cars.
Mexico is either having a hard time pegging whether this is the real deal in a vast majority of these cases or it has something to do with their air or water. Given that this is a crazy world, could it be that there’s a susceptibility if you are of hispanic lineage?
Don’t know, but the cases in the US and many others are showing this to be a mild flu.
The track record of the media is piss-poor. We can say that much with absolute certainty.
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More proof that stupidity is indeed a virus!
Can the media stop performing fellatio long enough to take an unbiased step back and really look at what they are doing? I doubt it, otherwise Reuters and People Mag wouldn’t be running this crap all the time – People magazine’s 100 Most Beautiful People.
Michelle Obama, who has achieved celebrity status and has wowed the world as a fashion icon, made the list for the first time.
“I had a father and a brother who thought I was beautiful, and they made me feel that way every single day,” Obama told the magazine.
“I grew up with very strong male role models who thought I was smart and fast and funny, so I heard that a lot. I know that there are many young girls who don’t hear it. But I was fortunate,” she added.
Also included in a “Barack’s Beauties” section were White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and others.
When you start linking Geithner and Emanuel into the list as well as the First Lady, it’s pretty obvious that you’re oblivious to how ridiculous your behavior is.
