PF Random Thoughts

OmCheeto

Thank you for that note. I will be sure and never read the book.

Watching the video about him for the first time in 24 years, I'm reminded how incredibly modest and down to earth he was.



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And he collected stamps. Proof that he was a genius.

dkotschessaa

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dkotschessaa

Oh sorry, thought this was the random numbers thread.

Jimmy Snyder

I've been going around naked ever since.

dlgoff

Can you imagine setting at a pub with him while drinking beer? That would have been a dream come true for me.

AnTiFreeze3

From what I understand, Benjamin Franklin was actually an advocate for walking around in the nude. Kudos to you for carrying on his legacy.

collinsmark

I've always liked Benjamin Franklin.

Gad

I just missed a call from a 'private number'.. *wonders what that is*

turbo

I get them several times a week, at a minimum. They are generally robo-calls advocating for or against political candidates or causes. If I pick up the phone and say "hello" and there is no live person on the line, I hang up.

I've been thinking of going all-cell for that reason. Unfortunately, I have Dish satellite TV that requires a land-line connection, and (albeit crappy) ADSL and can't ditch the land-line without a lot of trouble and expense.

Gad

I see, so better just ignore it. Thanks anyway, turbo.

turbo

Yep. When they are blocking their telephone number from your caller-ID, they generally mean you no good.

trueo

The bank calls me every month for my loan payment, that is noisy and I never like it.

dkotschessaa

Of course one possible interpretation of that is that there's a certain percentage of our population that isn't suffering much from a poor economy.

And now a Random thought:
Debating whether to see Jeff Corwin tonight (a discovery channel animal guy, apparently) at my University tonight.

I got invited to a reception beforehand, for some reason too...

Jimmy Snyder

Today I was lithotropized. That's where the doctor shouts really really loud at your kidney at such a high pitch that even dogs can't hear it. This breaks up the stones in there. The weird part is that I didn't really wake up from the anesthesia until I got home. My wife says that I was offered a choice of apple juice or ginger ale and that I said I prefered apple juice. She helped me get dressed, they wheeled me to the car in a wheelchair and she drove me home. I don't remember any of that. I remember waking up in the car at home and going upstairs to sleep. I only found out about the rest of it when my wife told me about it just now.

dkotschessaa

Glad the procedure went more or less well. Your anesthesia story mirrors what happened to my wife the other week when she had her wisdom teeth removed. We had to wheel her to the car. She tried to teach the assistant that was helping her how to do the salsa, while having a mouth full of bloody gauze. She doesn't remember that at all.

Anyway, I hope your kidney stones got the message.

lisab

That reminds me of that old joke -

Patient to doctor, "After this procedure, will I be able to salsa dance?"
Doctor, "Certainly."
Patien, "That's amazing, because I don't know how to salsa dance now!!"

lisab

I really hope you get some relief, Jimmy.

And I wonder what else you did that your wife isn't telling you.