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  1. yeah thought that looked wrong. Still getting used to all these SEC turd names.
  2. It's not quite as much fun when Corn loses without John Cook. But still pretty great.
  3. And there it is. We got our hands full with KU, if we get past Wiscy. Nice not to have an unknown and undefeated Corn. Also, Harper Murray can eat a bag.
  4. Yeah Corn is Satan in volleyball.
  5. Im as tense as if we were playing. Keep having to remind myself that either outcome is acceptable.
  6. Aggy aggying.
  7. Oh yeah. Just, in any circumstance, those are unusual guns.
  8. Yes. The pain was virtually identical to the gallstones. The sphincter (say what?) is one of the mechanisms that controls release of bile into the digestive tract and it "spasms," closes, and you get the same bile backup that you get from gallstones and the same pain. This was 10, nearly 15 years ago and it seems like a less obscure problem and solution now. And yeah, for a year or more prior to the situation becoming acute, wifey had sort of non-specific abdominal pain, particularly after certain meals, but not "reliably," so sometimes happened sometimes not. When it started becoming acute, it basically put her on the floor. By that time, she had several largish and medium gallstones and a bunch of gallstone sludge in her bile duct.
  9. Wife had something similar in that gallbladder "colic" persisted after removal. The answer for her was sphincter of Oddi dysfunction. The test and "cure" is an ERCP, which is a pretty specialized scoping of the bile duct. A lot of GI docs were reluctant to perform the procedure because it is delicate, requires skill, and can cause pancreatitis all by itself. We/I found a doc at Baylor (Scott White Dallas) that specializes in them, had no fear, scheduled her for the procedure and she was "fixed" in 12 hours.
  10. So, those are apparently shotguns? Looks like a straight-pull bolt action with an extended tube magazine and a very long barrel? Wild.
  11. I didn't have a specific interest in any one thing, but had always been taking things apart, was pretty interested in cars and engines and trains and ships and all kinds of machines. By the end of undergrad, my curiosity had mostly been satisfied and advanced topics like acoustics were starting to elude my intuition and become purely creatures of math, so I couldn't generate much interest in a graduate degree. And I was also beginning to question how I would use this accumulated knowledge to synthesize designs rather than understand how and why things worked. That anxiety was probably overwrought, but it did mesh nicely with doing patents.
  12. Says a person whose fame is entirely due to the internet, and refusing to acknowledge that regardless of parenting or upbringing, racist, divisive and violent messaging from the ostensible leader of the free world is a bit more serious than "just one person."
  13. Yeah, calm and palatable isn't what MAGA wants. And I think the rationals recognize it for what it is.
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