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Murfdogg21

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  1. Wife, two toddlers, and I have been on >150% Vit C, D, and Zinc since Covid began. We had an unidentified virus in the household in February 2020 but were skeptical it was alpha covid. For the past year we are about 5/10 on masking behavior and are triple Moderna’d. After two years, Omicron finally got us last week per PCR and antigen tests. Two year old vomited for half a day and was over it. Wife and I had hangover type headache on Day 0, then cough/congestion/mucous for 5 days. (Unvaccinated) 4 year old has almost identical symptoms and timing except never had the headache. Nobody ever had a fever. Hopefully my kids are loaded up with great natural antibodies and Tcell memory now. As stated much earlier in the thread, I am a medical scientist and not anti-vax, but I have had legitimate safety concerns about how the mRNA vaccines were steam rolled through, as well as being statistically certain that this kind of vaccination has any efficacy impact on non-at-risk populations. Unvaccinated friends in area had nearly the same symptoms and duration as my wife and me. Who the hell knows. Olds and fats should still get vaccinated though.
  2. First game of my oldest’s t-ball career is next Saturday. I am the head coach. We will look damn good, at least until the game starts.
  3. Your Costco offered kraut before Covid? The best I ever saw was some onions and relish.
  4. Rockets First Round Picks 2022 (2): HOU and better of MIA/BKN 2023 (2): Better of HOU/BKN and Milwaukee 2024 (1-2): BKN (and keep HOU only if in top 4) (OKC likely takes our pick) 2025 (1): better of BKN or (the worse of HOU/OKC) (OKC takes better pick) 2026 (1-2): BKN (and HOU only if in top 4) (OKC likely takes our pick) 2027 (1): better of HOU or BKN
  5. He does and we will let him walk. His peak trade value was yesterday (if not this time last year). Yes. Sengun needs more minutes without Wood and in general. Yes, we need to tank next year too, which is Wood’s last on contract. Then as Wulaw said, we will have Wall and Gordon off the books; we can try to sign one or more good FAs; Green, Sengun, and Christopher will be third years, and we’ll have our 2022 first rounder and 2023 rookies. Getting another mid first for Wood could have made the 2023-2024 roster that much better.
  6. Lebron is a worse GM than Harden.
  7. Maybe it will be a photo finish. We really can’t get a mid first for Wood and late first for Gordon? The idiot writer proposals out there of a Wall trade to Clippers for a bunch of junk contracts is dumb as shit.
  8. Not this Rockets fan. Lots of articles this week about the possibility of Harden returning to Houston down the road. Why? Just from performance perspective, he is older, fatter, slower and his signature move doesn’t get foul calls anymore. Oh yeah he wants $40M+ and screwed the franchise at least twice (Westbrook and losing picks to OKC, demanding trade). Thanks for the memories, James. We good now though.
  9. But the Rockets will enjoy their future first rounders nonetheless!
  10. Grogu is the magical one that may rule, Mando is the orphan bastard that is the warrior hero. As long as he doesn’t have to duel the pre-zombie Mountain. Bo-Katan may be some combination of Cersei and Khaleesi, from former ruling family, vindictive, ruthless, crazy women. We met the heir from House Vizla already. Darth Maul, if he weren’t dead (circa 5 BBY), would be a good wildcard.
  11. Grogu and Din are the House Stark we root for in the Mandalorian Game of Thrones.
  12. Like UCLA, Boston universities also have “Asian girls everywhere” but they are not same same.
  13. I’m surprised if nobody will up a decent first rounder or good wing prospect for Wood. I figured they’d get some low first or a second for Gordon and hopefully take back little to no salary. All these sites are saying to build around KPJ but it seems his stock could be nearing peak.
  14. If you go look at med device job postings for J&J, Medtronic, Cardinal, Stryker, Boston Scientific, GE, etc. they may not even list BME as a desired degree for candidates, and ME and/or ChE or EE usually are. Usually it’s all of the above. Completely depends on the role. Same goes with Pharma jobs with Pfizer, BMS, J&J, Bayer etc. (often chemical is the preferred over all others unless it is a process engineering job where they may want ME or BME). BMES are viewed as “jacks of all trades but masters of none” because they skim knee deep in elements of the other engineering disciplines without having a deep course regiment of its own (because electrical BME is way different that biomechanics or biochemistry or anatomy etc.). This is also why they usually encourage students to pursue an MS or PhD in BME where they can dive deep in the subset of BME that they are passionate about and become true masters of that area. After your first job in whichever area of “biotech”, the college major matters less. Doing a BS in ME, ChE, or EE with sub specialty in BME will NOT limit your son’s options and aspirations in the biotech field, but also keeps other options open. Getting a BS in BME locks you out of many other good fields. In fact, my PhD in BME worked against many times when I was looking at jobs based only on my BS ChE, and I guess I was tainted by the scarlet BME. BS’s in those core engineering disciplines often make more money than MS or PhD in BME due to how shitty most of the field pays and how BME gets disrespected. It took me until I was 40 to catch up to approximately (annual salary) what my undergrad peers in ChE were earning, ignoring the 15+ years of earning less. Nothing tells me that change is coming soon. Mrs. Murfdogg (BS BME, MS BME, PhD BME) wanted me to tell you that Northeastern has an amazing co-op program that sets kids up great for industry jobs, and the program is not limited to BME majors. She also regrets getting the BME degrees rather doing BME courses/research/jobs with another type of engineering major. I was once an idealistic noncynical murfpup who at 18 thought I’d go to med school or do research to cure disease, then at 22 as BS CHE rejected the corporate dollars of the Exxons to do the BME PhD and create great medical innovation. There have been rewarding times for sure, but there have been more times of frustration, a couple times unemployment with low prospects, and I am pretty far behind my undergrad peers in lifetime earnings. If I could do it over again, I’d probably go to 1. med school, or 2. go consulting after undergrad followed by MBA, or 3. PhD in CHE or ME with biotech related thesis work to keep more industry doors open.
  15. Yes I have a BS ChE and PhD in BME. Hide yo kids, and tell them to stay away from BME. You can get BME jobs with ME (sometimes EE or ChE depending on the role) with some “bio” courses and relevant experience on top of your non-BME engineering degree. But the BME job field blows. Much fewer opportunities, more and more ambitious kids coming out of school with BS, MS, and PhD in BME after hearing that BME was the future for the past 20 years. I’ve received marketing from UT BME hyping the field that I consider irresponsible and unethical because the jobs aren’t there. Do ME with some BME specialty track and thank me later. Northeastern is an awesome school, the somewhat under the radar elite Boston university. A friend of my mine is a prof there and my wife’s cousin is a grad. Both praise it highly. There is a supreme geographic employment bias, at least in the Texas to Northeast direction, where it is incredibly difficult to get through HR black holes for biotech jobs in the “Northeast” (Philly to Boston) if you went to school west of Duke (with exceptions like Stanford, UCLA, Michigan, and Northwestern). People up there think of UT like we are 1940s aggy and many have never heard of Rice. But fuck if you went to Maryland or Rutgers you are a golden boy! In conclusion, if your kid think they want a job in biotech, or considering grad school or med school, getting a BS ME from Northeastern with BME minor track is a damn good path. BS BME can get you pigeon holed, and BS BME from a Big12 or SEC school will get you professionally butt fucked.
  16. I have the same opinion. I like Lance’s football insight, and am generally entertained by John and Lance’s show. Charlie has upped his crankiness and is ultra opinionated about anything he discusses. I appreciate him compared to the other crap on sports radio, but I often get board and change the station when listening to him. Seems like many others were the same, because Gow didn’t want to pay him any more relative to whatever his show’s ad revenue was. The afternoon drive show got better when BK came over from The Horn in Austin. I still never listen to 610.
  17. I think this off-season is the first time he’s eligible for an extension. I’m sure AZ will pick up his 5th year option. Kyler probably said “hey coach Brah you gotta get me some of that Mahomes money!” and the Cardinals were like “Nah let’s see if you don’t suck ass in Year 4 before we give you $30M/yr in Years 6-10.” Then Kyler got butt hurt, changed his Twitter pics and tried to enter the portal.
  18. Are we getting some good draft capital back in this? If not, why trade for a significant downgrade at PF who also only has one year left on his contract?
  19. The stewardess gave a side eye when I asked for a second round of Buffalo Trace, but she still brought it.
  20. Yea though I walk through the valley of the AFC South, I shall fear no evil…
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