Classical Gas. Srsly.
I am sitting in a building built to the highest standards about four years ago, from the ground up, at great expense. Only the most crucial people get a cubicle in this building, much less an office.
Yet the meeting room I'm spending the day in has no outlets in the walls for the 20 people sitting around the walls in the room. The 12 people sitting at the table get powered, but everyone else – no electrons for you.
On the one hand, laptops are better than they used to be. Mine will almost make it a day. Unless I want to do, you know, actual work. Matlab. So I guess it enforces paying attention. But everyone here has their laptop open. So really it's just bad design.
It's also well known that this state-of-the-art building has some of the crappiest projectors on campus. Some in fact are not even HD, but SD with only component inputs. In other words, useless. Worse than useless, cause we have spent hours trying to get them to work before we all huddled like cavemen around the dying embers of a laptop screen…
Yes, I are a rocket scientist. And yes, I took this screenshot today. Nothing but modern tools for us.
And I wasn't using IE.
and has been for at least the last century. Part N in a series.
This edition: lead.
Aside from the direct deaths, add in all the hundreds of thousands of lives ruined by violence, both the victims and the criminals (whose crimes were likely in no small part due their exposure). And they knew. NY and NJ had already banned lead additives for public health reasons.
Previous editions: injecting random people with plutonium, Tuskegee, forced sterilization, coerced confessions, forced lobotomies.
What puppies are good for.
Classic grade I or mild grade II inversion sprain, with bruising halfway up the calf and in the toes. Day 3.
18 hours later:
Swelling has distributed [1], bruising is pretty good. Dogs are very disappointed. Their new year is so far not off to a good start – we are not going for any long hikes today.
[1] If you are an athlete, or just clumsy, you have to get one of these medical quality icing devices. Right up there with impact drills in goodness.
Here’s me getting into shape for the new year:
6:33 pace, 116 bpm HR.
And that bump on the right? It matches this bump on the left:
All my ankle braces are for the other ankle.
Sigh. Training. It’s always something, some setback. Thanks be to eBay for the Donjoy Iceman, which I’m still hoping to get reimbursed for on the HCSA.
This is fun. I picked all the liberal/socialist/commie options (gas tax, cap and trade, single payer, stimulus, let tax cuts expire, etc), and I get 4% growth, and a $62 B surplus by 2021.
So what is it that we’re arguing about?
In other news, I want to play NLHE with the prez. I’m not very good but I think I could walk away with Fort Knox.
h/t Atrios
A parody of itself
Generic google news:
I suppose I could google the “twin states” but I can’t say that I’ve ever heard that term before in all my days. They could have used Springfield for full genericness.