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- Mon Mar 01, 2021 6:28 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Will you get vaccinated for COVID?
- Replies: 188
- Views: 6644
Re: Will you get vaccinated for COVID?
How old is your daughter Mountaineer? I've heard also that older people (age > 65) have less of a problem with adverse reactions than younger ones. The doctor in Florida who died of ITP (an autoimmune condition) was 55. I can't afford even a single day of being that sick, not with all the responsib...
- Sun Feb 28, 2021 11:38 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Will you get vaccinated for COVID?
- Replies: 188
- Views: 6644
Re: Will you get vaccinated for COVID?
Scheduled for 2nd injection Saturday. Hope the side effects are reasonable. Will let you know how it goes. 👍🏼 My wife and I had our second Pfizer vaccination this morning about 2 1/2 hours ago; neither of us had any immediate effects. We are hoping for the best. Our daughter got her second Moderna ...
- Sun Feb 28, 2021 8:07 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Trump as tragicomedy
- Replies: 1058
- Views: 196759
Re: Trump as tragicomedy
Ha. Check out my signature link. (for posterity - https://www.city-journal.org/journalism-advocacy-over-reporting ) I canceled my NYTimes subscription a few days ago. For history books written 5, 10, 15, 25, 50 years from now regarding what had gone on for the last 20 years and what will be going o...
- Sat Feb 27, 2021 11:34 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Will you get vaccinated for COVID?
- Replies: 188
- Views: 6644
Re: Will you get vaccinated for COVID?
Scheduled for 2nd injection Saturday. Hope the side effects are reasonable. Will let you know how it goes. 👍🏼 My wife and I had our second Pfizer vaccination this morning about 2 1/2 hours ago; neither of us had any immediate effects. We are hoping for the best. Our daughter got her second Moderna ...
- Fri Feb 26, 2021 4:44 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Bombing Syria
- Replies: 15
- Views: 308
Re: Bombing Syria
I’m sorry, is MSM an acronym for Major Stupid Morons? Seems redundant.

- Fri Feb 26, 2021 4:39 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Daily "Check In" Thread For Us
- Replies: 1443
- Views: 86109
- Tue Feb 23, 2021 4:03 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Will you get vaccinated for COVID?
- Replies: 188
- Views: 6644
Re: Will you get vaccinated for COVID?
Scheduled for 2nd injection Saturday. Hope the side effects are reasonable. Will let you know how it goes. 
- Mon Feb 22, 2021 5:15 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Stay safe, Austin people
- Replies: 29
- Views: 4883
- Sun Feb 21, 2021 4:44 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Big City to Rural Living: Considerations?
- Replies: 33
- Views: 930
Re: Big City to Rural Living: Considerations?
For some reason, artsy people move to rural Texas (Marfa) to paint and shit as well. Well, now I know the reason: In 1971 Donald Judd began buying old buildings and extensive ranch land in the remote desert of Marfa, Texas. The region has what might be described as a subtle beauty. Marfa isn’t clos...
- Thu Feb 18, 2021 6:08 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: The flooded midwest
- Replies: 22
- Views: 8256
Re: The flooded midwest
Don't know how related it is, but thought I'd throw this in here. How long of a lag is it between a bad harvest and when it's felt in the market? I can't imagine crop futures are bought years in advance. Read about the mini ice age around 1780-90, the storms with softball sized hail in Northern Eur...
- Wed Feb 17, 2021 10:31 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Math is cis-heteronormative racism!
- Replies: 55
- Views: 5427
Re: Math is cis-heteronormative racism!
I agree that PDF is bull. I don't understand how getting the right answer equates to white supremacy. But I need to say, as I recently helped my younger one with a calculus problem -- I am a degreed engineer and I look back at how I was taught in high school and college, and for the most part it re...
- Mon Feb 15, 2021 3:29 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Signatures
- Replies: 140
- Views: 14209
Re: Signatures
Also, no. Although I read recently that people back in the day preferred mules to horses. Due to something something hybrid vigor. Mules are more sure-footed. That’s why mules are used to pack supplies down the Grand Canyon trail to Phantom Ranch. Ditto on the Yosemite trail to the top of Nevada Fa...
- Sun Feb 14, 2021 5:19 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: The Meme Thread
- Replies: 129
- Views: 4925
Re: The Meme Thread
Best meme yet! I nominate it for meme of the moment, month, millennium.
- Sun Feb 14, 2021 5:12 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: $15 minimum wage
- Replies: 21
- Views: 434
Re: $15 minimum wage
I made 85 cents/hr + tips on my busboy job in high school (circa 1965-67). And like Mountaineer and Vinnie I made enough to pay for my own tuition and books at O.S.U. I think tuition was around $250/quarter. That was actually expected by my parents. If we wanted to go to college we had to pay for i...
- Sun Feb 14, 2021 5:55 am
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: $15 minimum wage
- Replies: 21
- Views: 434
Re: $15 minimum wage
A few more thoughts after my $1.25/hour job in the summer of 1963: It helped pay for my fall semester at the university - tuition was $90; my 2 room plus bath appartment cost $45/month and I split the cost with one other person. I can't remember food costs, but I recall eating a lot of Banquet pot p...
- Sat Feb 13, 2021 5:12 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: $15 minimum wage
- Replies: 21
- Views: 434
Re: $15 minimum wage
I started working in 1967 at the then minimum wage of $1.40 an hour. Subsequently I've many times read that that was one of the peak minimum wages in terms of buying power. It would be worth $10.96 today. $15.00 today would be worth equal to $1.91 then. Next year I got a job with the post office (a...
- Fri Feb 12, 2021 6:24 am
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Trump should be convicted, forthwith.
- Replies: 8
- Views: 291
Re: Trump should be convicted, forthwith.
Coach Tuberville blew the whistle on Donald Trump by Quin Hillyer, Commentary Writer | | February 11, 2021 03:15 PM https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/coach-tuberville-blew-the-whistle-on-donald-trump Whether watching on TV as the entire Senate was evacuated, as numerous third-ha...
- Fri Feb 12, 2021 6:20 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Forum Members with COVID-19
- Replies: 187
- Views: 10551
Re: Forum Members with COVID-19
I’ve got 10 years to figure all of this Medicare crap out and right now it doesn’t feel like enough! How should pre-Medicare people budget for this stuff? I have Medicare and a Medi-gap plan F (not high deductible) through AARP (United Health Care) but I don't think that plan is available any longe...
- Thu Feb 11, 2021 6:57 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Coronavirus General Discussion
- Replies: 4054
- Views: 237117
Re: Coronavirus General Discussion
I now have a third ear, and only 2 weeks after the first shot. I wonder what is to come? But my hearing has drastically improved. I can now hear conspiracy theories in Mandarin as well as English.Kriegsspiel wrote: ↑Thu Feb 11, 2021 3:48 pmJust wait until they activate the nanomolecules and turn everyone into fast zombies!

- Thu Feb 11, 2021 6:53 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Trump should be convicted, forthwith.
- Replies: 8
- Views: 291
Re: Trump should be convicted, forthwith.
Coach Tuberville blew the whistle on Donald Trump by Quin Hillyer, Commentary Writer | | February 11, 2021 03:15 PM https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/coach-tuberville-blew-the-whistle-on-donald-trump Whether watching on TV as the entire Senate was evacuated, as numerous third-ha...
- Thu Feb 11, 2021 6:46 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Forum Members with COVID-19
- Replies: 187
- Views: 10551
Re: Forum Members with COVID-19
I’ve got 10 years to figure all of this Medicare crap out and right now it doesn’t feel like enough! How should pre-Medicare people budget for this stuff? I have Medicare and a Medi-gap plan F (not high deductible) through AARP (United Health Care) but I don't think that plan is available any longe...
- Mon Feb 08, 2021 9:32 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Coronavirus General Discussion
- Replies: 4054
- Views: 237117
Re: Coronavirus General Discussion
The Stand | The Truth About the COVID-19 Vaccine https://www.americasfrontlinedoctors.com/custom_videos/the-stand-the-truth-about-the-covid-19-vaccine/ I watched either this video a while back (or a similar one); not impressed - weak on facts and long on speculation. Doctor Simone Gold has similar ...
- Sun Feb 07, 2021 9:37 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Amazon Plus
- Replies: 5
- Views: 149
Amazon Plus
- Sat Feb 06, 2021 10:26 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: accountant's blotter
- Replies: 30
- Views: 292
- Sat Feb 06, 2021 3:46 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: accountant's blotter
- Replies: 30
- Views: 292
accountant's blotter
Do me a favor and don’t do a taste test on it, Vinny. I like to tease you but I don’t want you ending up in the hospital. Back 50 years ago I used several off that blotter sheet. And, if the 50 year old memory is correct...it was on the milder side. I fully believe it has zero of anything left in i...