People yell at me when I say sometimes in exceptional circumstances it makes sense to sit out a presidential election. For me to darken in the circle for a certain candidate I have to like him or her say at least 65%. I don't feel that here. It'll be what it's gonna be:)
There is of course, the write-in option. I'd suspect to see more of that this year. Maybe a few thousand PeeWee Hermans, John Teshes and Beyonces, etc. We have had punchcards for years. When or if we go touchscreen I will have to discontinue voting, unless they give you an hour or so to figure that darn thing out. My wife is a poll watcher for the Dems this year. No, she doesn't threaten Trumpheads,
ReplyDeleteshe records dem votes and the party checks it against a list
to see if they need to call someone who forgot. (in Idaho, you must announce your party before getting the ballot)Hmm, on second thought, they may well have write-in poll watchers as well, so give up on putting in a pornstar or
favorite colonoscopist.
On vacation this week. When you get back people always ask you how was it? Besides the non-interrupted tinnitus (that ugly even creepy noise) and the gastro consult setting the whole thing up NOT BAD.
ReplyDeleteWhat does a Yonkers vacation involve? I forgot, regarding your tinnitus, do you recall when that started, was there any cause at the time? A Trump friend wants to know while you are not on the job, if
Deleteit was taken by an illegal immigrant. A European friend wants to know why you only got a week, instead of a month. My advice: enjoy your vacation and let the outside world stew. maybe go up and chat with the monks and drop a fishing line on the way back.
Don't know if it was 2003 or '04 but the bakery mgr. and a customer heard a humming noise. I developed the noise sometime later and it slowly increased in volume over time. That's my earliest recollection and I can't really explain the cause. Theories: maybe it's an actual noise and why did these others have the humming?
DeleteVacations: mine now typically involve I don't know what to do with myself. The whole idea of a Yonkers vacation is to get out of Yonkers.
DeleteThe 'bible' on tinnitus is presented by the American Hearing Association . The reason to note the beginning
Deleteof your tinnitus is to figure out where in the fairly simple system )outer/inner ear/auditory nerve
the problem lies. Many, if not most, cases involve
the loss of the micro hair that captures sound waves. Those are not replaceable. Typically these are the ones that catch higher frequency sounds and
can be verified by an auditory test. Since the auditory nerves search for the high frequency and can not find it, a substitute baseline high pitch
'replacement' could cause ringing. More rarely, the
auditory nerve itself can be damaged, or pressed on
by tumor or other other tissue/artery etc. It could
also be somewhat genetic and occur as we age. of course you know all that, but thinking back to the
start of the problem is an important factor in the search for a solution.
Again your theory is probably close to the truth and again no real solution.
DeleteI will say this looked at totally objectively Hillary has more experience in gov't (Trump zilch) and could probably stand up to Putin her moral character notwithstanding.
ReplyDeleteThere is some evidence that Putin (Vlad The Hacker) strongly dislikes her.
DeleteDictators for Trump - not exactly a coveted endorsement.
DeleteThe devil is all the rage. I recently installed a prayer app so today there is a recommended Exorcism and Deliverance app, a Catholic app with good reviews. Problem is let's say a person's been in a weird depression for months, can't climb out of it or explain it then reads the app section about demonic attacks and so gets more freaked out by something explainable by psychiatric theories. Best to leave the devils in hell where they belong.
ReplyDeleteThere is an app for everything
Delete-I am still struggling through life without a single app. I get the feeling I'm missing something.
"Best to leave the devils in hell where they belong."
ReplyDeleteIndeed it is but just think how many of them walk among us and further how many run for office.
Catholic theology I've always had problems with. Humans go to hell and stay there but devils can roam the world at their leisure.
DeleteA poll found 75% of Catholics defined the Devil as
Deletea general concept of the existence of evil. For the remaining 25%, we note:
"Vatican exorcist Gabriele Amorth told the Italian newspaper Il Messagero: "I've seen things like this before. Demons occupy a house and appear in electrical goods. ... Let's not forget that Satan and his followers have immense powers." He told the Scotsman: "With cases of demon behavior, it is normal for domestic appliances to be involved and for demons [to] make their presence known via electricity." -apparently when toasters, DVD players and refrigerators act up, call an exorcist
and skip the repair guy?
At what point in time did the Devil get permission to be out of hell more than he's in? If the modern belief in his nonexistence is his greatest weapon why would he manifest himself through possessions? Again most Catholics seem to stray from official church teaching. You might ask why are they Catholic? choose something else. If I don't believe in a good chunk of Buddhist teaching but still call myself a Buddhist ya know?
DeleteMy very slow-charging Samsung tablet, go with an iPad or get a priest?
DeleteAccording the exorcist Fr. Amorth, above, there are
Deleteten reasons which can cause slow charging.
re: your slow charging Samsung Tablet, did you ever take my advice and are you using Samsung's Adaptive Fast charger or just the normal charger?
Deletehttps://www.amazon.com/Samsung-EP-TA20JWEUSTA-Adaptive-Charger-White/dp/B00OM40K1Y
Still using the slow charger. I should go out and get the other charger I presume. I don't think Apple users have this problem.
DeleteThe other charger should make a noticeable improvement.
DeleteIt's obvious they don't understand the problem.
ReplyDeleteA recent Australian study on health and work hours concluded that those over 40 shouldn't work more than
ReplyDeletethree days a week *sound of applause*
Europe and some other countries have a much more enlightened approach to work/life balance. Problem is conservatives here still push the work state and pooh-pooh polls saying Americans are unhappy. For me I'm one of the rare conservatives who say work can sometimes be satisfying but it's still work and shouldn't be overrated.
DeleteIt is sort of a push/pull between efficiency of production vs efficiency of personal satisfaction.
DeleteOur goal leans towards the first: maximum production per worker. The European concept is
geared to shorter hours, which provides more jobs
and from what I hear, happier workers. We tend to
believe that successful business creates more jobs.
If so, that is incidental and accidental, for it
defies the business model of fewer workers, more
profit. As broadly noted, economics is the 'dismal
science'.
The Europeans also have a better concept of the importance of leisure time. I've worked for places that go for fewer workers and worked for places that seem to have too many workers. Which is the better business model? If you're budget conscious it's the former even if it means more work for you.
DeleteWhat's up with Trump not studying for his debate? Even an
ReplyDeleteevangelical fundamentalist knows "Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall." Prov13:18
IMO, his politics are based on his showbiz experience; he
feeds on and to his audience, rather than expanding to the larger and more skeptical population.
Put another way even if I liked Trump how does that translate into he should be president? His sole momentum seems to be saying things that are anti-pc.
DeleteA family up the street has a big Trump sign in their
Deleteyard. They bought the house cheap because a teen murdered his parents there...probably haunted. The
Munsters?
What would Amorth do?
DeleteMaybe he did something. I was by there this morning
Deleteand they still had a flock of GOP signs, but the big
Trump one was gone. Law enforcement out this way suggests Halloween tykes avoid clown costumes this year. My youngest grandson is going as a pumpkin.
Good idea, you cant fall down when you a round.
Been pondering over the wikileaks and Russian hacked emails
ReplyDeleteand came to the conclusion that Marco Rubio enunciated:
"Rubio, however, has a different view on how to approach Wikileaks: don't.
"I want to warn my fellow Republicans who may want to capitalize politically on these leaks," he said. "Today it is the Democrats. Tomorrow it could be us."
-or any other US citizen, IMO.
All wore out from your vacation yet?
ReplyDeleteIt's not like a vacation vacation. Had a gastro consult and the thing is scheduled for next Monday. Does Blossoms send you a floral arrangement afterwards?
DeleteSometimes I'll tool around my WebMD app. Runs the gamut. Issue: foreign object in rectum. Advice: change lifestyle.
ReplyDelete..sounds worse than tinnitus, IMO. I imagine that physicians get frustrated with patients coming in armed with googlefacts...I KNOW they hate it when a patient announces "I need Nexium because that's what it said on TV". So I usually preface my 'expertise'
Deleteby saying, "I found this disease on google...for what it's worth." Had a bladder infection a couple years back, classic simple symptoms, but the Doc wanted to
do a lab test anyway. Physicians cover the bases and their own butt.
Local paper has a joke column on one side. A couple days back they had one about visiting the doctor. Guy says "Doctor I have a problem..I have a bowel movement every day at 7AM" Doctor says "That is a sign of a healthy gastrointestinal tract. What's the problem? Guy says, "I sleep until 8:30 every morning."
DeleteMemorial Sloan-Kettering has their motto More Science Less Fear which is positive and heartening which kind of smudges over many people still die from cancer. I don't even think we've reached the point where we can say with confidence we can manage it.
DeleteThe reading material at doctor/dentist offices seems to reflect the proprietor- 'Yachting Quarterly', 'Golf Digest', 'Hunting Safari' etc.
DeleteIt seems sometimes the receptionist brings in a
'People' or 'Knitting Fun', and my dentist who
raises show mules has 'Pack Train Monthly'. So, I
resort to conversation with the receptionist, "So
you still charge for parking out there?" "Keep it
up BB, and I charge you for our bathroom." "Yeah,
well, then I'll leak in the dental chair." "BB does your wife know where you are?" Borderline beats the
reading, ya know?
I'm never in the mood to read at the doctor's office. If anything I study the paintings on the wall. I'm thinking if I make it to 90 does it still make sense to go?
DeleteMissed the debate again. I have been sort of hooked on the
ReplyDeletestatistical prediction website Fivethirtyeight . The red/blue map has consistently shown that the NYC $$Kid continues strong in
the bible belt and great plains. Interesting in that those
rural areas are anathema to the urban and metro places where
Grandma C runs well. Also a bit surprising, she leads in the
upper rust belt where Trump has tramped. We continue to ponder.
I very lightly sampled it but once Hillary started talking about Planned Parenthood I switched to the nearest movie channel. Their positions are so well known was it worth bringing up?
DeleteI suppose unplanned parenthood has its benefits.
DeleteI was always brought up on it ain't a perfect world.
DeleteBlame it on the Devil.
DeleteThat it ain't a perfect world, the general election or both?
DeleteOne of the new digital channels - Grit TV - shows endless episodes of "Walker Texas Ranger" starring Chuck Norris. Instead of calling themselves Grit TV why not call themselves the Walker Texas Ranger Channel?
ReplyDeleteIs Chuck Norris Steven Segal's cousin? I like those
Deleteold series channels. Find myself watching 'Gilligan's Island', 'Mayberry RFD', original 'Star Trek and 'Mash' rather than 'Survivor', Duck Dynasty' and 'So You Think You Can Dance' etc. Chuck writes for WND, right?
I haven't really checked out WND lately as it's one of those far-right sites just short of fringe. He probably does. There's something relaxing about those old shows like maybe they should show them at the doctor's.
DeleteAmorth anxiety. Friend got me one of those mobile power packs. Really cool and used it for awhile but now can't seem to recharge it in the house. Geez you don't think it could be the power pack do you? Maybe they should get a priest to bless the colonoscopy machinery first.
ReplyDeleteLet's hope the colonoscope doesn't depend on one of those mobile power packs! I'm having trouble imagining an electrical appliance exorcism. Does the
Deleterefrigerator quiver shake, levitate and shout profanity before it gets undemonized? Not sure if you ever heard Woody Allen do standup when he was young in the early sixties, but he had a monologue called
Mechanical Objects which reminds
me of your recalcitrant electrical problems.
On any given weekday, there are 53,846 colonoscopies in the US. You guys should have a big party, ya know?
ReplyDeleteI was surprised to have an app't in early afternoon but then I saw the list of the people waiting. Last I checked 50% have 'em and 50% don't. I guess it's become more popular but who would've thunk it?
DeleteI see there was a study that found that 35% of the people that call in sick...aren't. I recall doing that a couple of
ReplyDeletetimes early in my career, but later on I usually worked sick, just because I felt needed.
Insomnia is always a judgement call. During my last job I suffered through a phase of sleeplessness but would go in. I was needed and there were times nobody could run the dept. In retrospect I should have called out a couple of times. Of course you always say you're not feeling well and leave it at that. If you get specific they might think you have issues or are a drinker.
DeleteI would class exhaustion from insomnia as a legitimate excuse. Best to say "I think it's the flu', though. Had an alcoholic guy call in two Mondays in a row with the same excuse, "Er, lighting
Deletestruck a tree and it is blocking the driveway." I hoped he didn't have a lot of trees, ya know?
Can you call out for the heebie-jeebies for those nervous types?
DeleteFlicking around channels around noon and stopped on one of those FoxNews group discussions. They were unanimous that
ReplyDeleteScalia's great work on Citizens United might get overturned if that commie Hillary got in. The most recent US polls say
18% of people like it, the other 82% would like to get rid of the $$millions in special interest donations (or purchases, perhaps). Wonder why Fox is flying in the face of unanimous disagreement on this one?
This election...is Mars habitable yet?
DeleteI see the European mars lander crashed after the thrusters shut off early, about 2.5 miles above the surface. Sufficient fuel-premature flow cessation?
DeleteI get the impression a large chunk of Fox viewership are liberals. Before Shaw or you complain about Fox news you have to watch it first. It's like conservatives seem to obsessively read every liberal NY Times editorial.
DeleteWatching one of those educational cartoon networks. Mars has a grand canyon bigger than ours.
DeleteRumors have it that Trump, Ailes and that Breitbart
Deletedude will start a new network targeting the Trumpheads. Fox will probably become just another
news network..maybe even Fair & Balanced. Guess which one Hannity will gravitate to.
Were you affected by the recent Distributed Denial of Service
ReplyDeletehacker attacks? My system is so primitive that I didn't notice a thing. Wonder if they ran out of Clinton e-mails
and are amusing themselves at the expense of the rest of us?
Most of those sites I don't even visit so it wasn't an issue for me.
DeleteHow many ounces of stuff will you be drinking?
ReplyDeleteThe bigger bottle of Miralax (a good-tasting powder) mixed w/a 64 oz. bottle of lime Gatorade. Already finished with the Dulcolax. Just finished the Gatorade. Stuff works.
DeleteFunny how the instructions don't mention alcohol. Common sense you wouldn't do it but alcoholics must have a problem with prepping.
Delete
DeleteAlcohol is not recommended. I suspect its effect might by unpredictable given a somewhat dehydrated
state. (I believe I cheated a couple of times, though). My guy uses a friendly concoction called
GoLitely. Tastes like slimy chalk. Seems they could
come up with something that tasted like a soft drink, don't you think?
The jello always get shat out at the end the only purpose seems to be to keep you from starving. Unless you get on the treadmill or go for a long hike I assume there's no problem with ketones.
DeleteI had mine in the morning, and never ate anything once I started to prep process. You got someone to take you home,
ReplyDeleteor you going to hang around the place and watch a few procedures?
Apparently there's alot of people before which is kinda hard to believe but maybe Yonkers is different. I got my escort but I like your idea.
DeleteMy guess- you won't remember a thing and you will sleep good tonight.
DeleteThat was the selling point. He said I would pretty much be out of it. Don't need the European model of experiencing it in all its glory. I've heard stories of people who had it done for different reasons, doc says after a few years you have to go back and they give a firm no once is enough. Patient autonomy.
DeleteIt was as you said. It was a weird experience as you fall into a nice sleep and wake up not knowing what's going on. Removed two small polyps. Lots of bloating and gas afterwards.
DeleteThough I followed the prep instructions to the letter he said it wasn't 100% perfect, say 85% fair. There was alot of folks there today and afterwards they all came out with these weird dazed expressions.
DeleteLots of folks? You didn't happen to be at
DeleteScopes-R-Us? 2 small polyps seems about normal.
Were they hyperplastic or adenomas? If the first,
you won't have to see them for a long time.
House talk. He didn't say just to call back in four days. He said not bad news but that I'd probably have to come back in about three years.
Delete85% fair? You have eggs and hashbrowns for breakfast? Given the extensive research into the procedure prior, any conclusions?
DeleteMaybe I sleptwalked and had some crackers. Since they did find those polyps I'll crank up the value of the procedure. What good if you're 60 playing golf and you don't know it's too late. It's also a good procedure for finding out other things wrong with your gut. I don't think I'm ready to have one in Europe yet.
DeleteIf Saty knew, she'd be jumping up and down and cheering....in Hindu.
DeleteI'm waiting for her to kudo me to the moon. New poster boy, convert, missionary of the Procedure.
DeleteHave to laugh about the propofol. You go into the greatest sleep but when you first come out of the fog for like the first 30 seconds you're like was I abducted by aliens.
DeleteI heard if you had too much propofol, you wake up
Deletedoing the moonwalk. I always felt fine, but my wife
driving me home said I kept repeating myself..myself..myself. Had nitrous oxide at the dentist once: bad experience-everytime I glanced at my watch it had gone backwards 15 minutes. Some people love nitrous (after all it IS laughing gas)
almost to the point of addiction. I smelled a lot of
weird gases in my career, but the ones that are real
dangerous have no odor.
I believe Saty is partial to the Fentanyl.
DeleteWith the colonoscopy successfully completed, your Dr. owes you some serious tinnitus attention.
ReplyDeleteHELLO
DeleteI was watching an entertainment show last night. Taylor Swift was accusing some man of groping her and I'm like oh no not another one. On another development you must be doing something wrong when you turn off a porn star.
ReplyDeleteReading there's a historic surge of std's sweeping the country right now. A good time to stay home in the evening in your smoking robe and read Proust with your Christian Bros.
ReplyDeleteRumors that Bob Dylan is avoiding the Nobel. Only other
ReplyDeleteperson to turn it down flat was Satre.
Like someone throwing you a surprise party and walking back out the door. What's the psychology here? Seems ornery. It's not like your colonoscopist is demanding a thank you note.
DeletePlans for next vacation? About anything would top a colonoscopy, no?
ReplyDeleteHow 'bout pulling a Hefner? Keep your lounge pants on, watch old movies all day and retire around 7 in the evening. Maybe crack open a bottle of Kraken spiced rum.
DeleteA friend just told me about the Mandela Effect which I never heard of. I googled it and it's fascinating. Basically it's about many many people sharing the same false memories and some chalk it up to the possible existence of parallel universes and their interaction with each other. Then there's Snopes which you often bring up. Don't get me wrong, we need the rationalist pov to bring us back down to earth and they do this with the Mandela Effect but with the existence of quantum physics......I've run out of Trump/Hillary stuff.
ReplyDeleteNever heard of it either. So, I Mandela Effect test . Which seemed to be multiple choices which were
ReplyDeletesimilar to each other, followed by your confidence perceptions and why you remembered the answer. Sort of like
'Jeopardy' with a followup. I got 4032/9002, but no indication of whether that was good or bad. Dunno, Z-Man, sounds like more New Age stuff.
It smacks of New Age deserving of a Snopes spanking 'cept I know people who've watched movies growing up and distinctly remember certain scenes yet now when they watch those scenes are different. They're not drug takers or schizos and yet they're somewhat perturbed by this. How can so many insist Mandela died in prison in the 80's and watched his funeral on tv? (happily I'm not part of this subset) Those smaller examples like Berenstein or Berenstain Bears don't mean much imo and simply show we haven't been paying that much attention all these years.
ReplyDeleteI mentioned the phenom to the Mrs, and she said it sounds like yet another case of psychobabble. She
Deletemajored in psych, but she is like me, a hardnosed
realist. On the other hand, the Dunning-Kruger Effect is something you can sink your teeth into.
Tying this in w/the colon. I know of people myself included who always understood the colon to be the lower part of the large intestine hence "colo-rectal." To be medically accurate though they talk about the whole large intestine re colonoscopy. Part of my own vague erroneous knowledge of biology growing up. Nobody to blame, now I know better.
DeleteIn the Say What? Department, some unheard of dude is beating
ReplyDeleteboth Trump & Clinton in Utah . Mormons, go figure.
With the choices Clinton/Trump I'd vote for my local dogcatcher.
DeleteNone of the above for me in Nevada... Brewster's Millions notwithstanding...
DeleteIn the Great Things About Old Age Department
ReplyDeleteGot a jury summons for the month of December. In Idaho,
you can opt out if you are over 70. Boy, did I opt!
Would you rather have a colonoscopy or serve on a jury? As much as I dislike both I think I'd go with the former.
DeleteIf Trump gets two terms I'm officially subscribing to the alternative reality theory of the universe.
ReplyDeleteGOP senators are vowing they will never vote for a Hillary
ReplyDeleteSCOTUS appointment. Team players, I guess..like when Scalia was approved by the Senate 98-0. Then, he proclaimed the causal phrase 'a well regulated militia being necessary'
as meaningless, voted to overturn the Gore majority and declared in Citizens united that corporation right far outway that of us commoners. History will be unkind.
I have a problem with overly strict constructionists and also have a problem with jurists who are overly flexible in their interpretation of the document. I don't think the founding fathers envisioned a SCOTUS mandating that the act of abortion be perfectly legal just shy of 7 months. If an issue were ever made for legislative tinkering it'd be that.
DeleteFrom what I can ascertain, most abortions in the early founding era involved servant girls impregnated by the sons of the rich. There were no
Deleteorphanges yet, and the usually abused mother had little choice. As you know, my view sides with the mother and her choice, based on both empathy and
some acquaintance with local cases. It is very tough either way and always a desperate act. Not my
place to judge.
So the topic's been around but kinda doubt abortions around 24 weeks were much in the news back then. Maybe some archivist can prove me wrong.
DeleteI think you are right. The doctors still used leeches and mercury and the frontier was on guard against Indian raids. There were a few news reports and least a couple of hangings of mothers, but probably most went unreported for one reason or another. Interesting thing about those times, people who were kidnapped and raised by Indians
Deletepreferred to stay that way, predating the Stockholm
Syndrome by a couple centuries. The tribal societies themselves accepted abortion up to the 2nd trimester; their belief being that the soul became incarnate with the first drawing of breath.
(not unlike the biblical Hebrews) Of course that is all hindsight, but part of a baseline.
Anyway exclusively a matter for the SCOTUS? Seems to me the Legislature should have a role to play.
DeleteWhat are these mad scientists doing with CERN BB? Do they wanna blow a hole in the universe?
ReplyDeleteJust a large hadron collider, a bit of sub-atomic legerdemain, black matter and anti-matter. Me, I worry more about Twitter/Facebook/Assange and those
Deletemysterious clouds were all our personalities are disappearing into.
They sure put alot of time money and effort into this. Does it cure cancer? Some of the tech sites claim they want to open portals into other dimensions. Why worry about Assange when the October Surprise has so far been a dud?
DeleteBasic research-the more you learn, the more applied R&D/engineering. Atomic fusion; limitless energy in a world full of declining energy sources, for example. So far though, it takes more energy to contain the fusion plasma, than can be extracted.
DeleteHow about dimensional transport of the 'Beam me up,
Scottie' type. You could surprise the heck out of
your colonoscopist (as well as drop in on the Kardashians). Assange/Snowdon/hackers in general:
mail theft is a serious felony, stealing e-mails is
a sport for the disappointed nerd. IMO, it is just like the govt tapping your smartphone. You aren't big on that are you?
If I had to guess they're probably already doing that making sure I don't do too many Kardashian butt image searches. When it comes to quantum mechanics nothing is basic, it's a somewhat uncharted and weird territory. Some say there's a connection between CERN and the Mandela Effect but the ripple theory sounds like something out of Big Bang Theory. Let's remember E equals mc(squared) led to our nuclear situation today. Thanx Al:)
Deletea top A top theoretical physicist and math whiz at Harvard is big into statistically probable multiple universes. She is still single, Z-Man.
DeleteGrowing up I watched the campy and bad horror movie "Frogs" (1972). In one gruesome scene the old lady with a net chasing a butterfly in the woods dies in quicksand. I got the dvd a few years back and exact same scene she gets bit by a rattlesnake instead. No explanation for the discrepancy. The trailer in the dvd shows part of the quicksand scene though and my monster mags as a kid show the same photos. I'm not blaming Mandela but to many cult classic fans it might be annoying:)
DeleteGood time of the year for old horror films. I get a special kick out of anachronisms; like an airplane
Deletegoing over some paleolithic landscape where the cavemen are battling dinosaurs, or a railroad track
in the distance on the Martian surface. It seems a lot of the modern horror flicks involve vampires,
zombies or both. Which given we seldom see any, should be a boring concept. Just saying.
I think the reason so many want to believe in alt realities is the idea there is only one reality set in stone really really sucks. This election for instance.
DeleteYou have something there. The rest of the animal
Deletekingdom adapts; we humans try tochange our reality-and call it progress. The Bronze Age Hebrews rather nailed it-
"All things are wearisome; Man is not able to tell it. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, Nor is the ear filled with hearing. That which has been is that which will be, And that which has been done is that which will be done. So there is nothing new under the sun." Ecclesiastes 1-8
And so we continue to ponder and wonder-
"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference." -Reinhold Niebuhr
Maybe Z-Man, it is our curse and our gift.
Dunno, I was just wondering where my movie scene went. Pondering if maybe God allows alt-realities because our reality is untenable. Imagine a dimension where there's no Manson, no ISIS and yes no Trump.
Delete1952?
DeleteReddit has a whole forum devoted to large groups of people with the same misrecollection of major news events (i.e. the Mandela Effect) and various explanations and theories. Outside of sites like Reddit probably most folks would be skeptical, ridiculing even but then there's the angry person who gets upset at the mere mention of alternative reality topics, downright hostile. Why? My feeling is they feel threatened by the idea, that in this life they lived a fairly good life but maybe in some alt-reality they did something really bad, horrible. IMO cosmologists and quantum physicists started the ball rolling. Hey it's just a topic!
ReplyDeleteUnderstanding and dealing with the current reality is
Deleteenough for me. I kind of think the alt.reality thinkers look on it somewhat wistfully; the old 'what
if' conjecturing, or 'I could have, but', as well as realistic dreams which leave us wondering, etc. As for the physicist dimensions, they follow the equations. (which the rest of us can't). Which leaves us with the notion that the phenom is possible; the argument lies in to what extent.
Astrology, anyone?
is
Not necessarily wistful. My friend said if we've lived many versions of out current life God would have to make an amalgamated judgement at the end and who knows what that would be?
DeleteOnly L. Ron Hubbard knows for sure. I posted a train photo on the Model Railroad Magazine site.
DeleteIt is the sole sideways one. Mrs. suggest I change my moniker from BB-Idaho to Fruitloops. Dunno, Z-Man
The best advice I was given is to look at something objectively. Ok so you have a rather large number of people who clearly remember news footage of Mandela dying in prison. Ok so after you investigate and conclude they don't use drugs, don't have a brain disorder or major mental impairment to me it makes good objective sense to look into it further. That's pretty much all I'm saying. Throw your bias out the window and accept Fruitloops if need be. I honestly never heard of this before but it seems rightly unsettling.
DeleteNot for nothing but didn't physicists like Brian Greene, Hawking, all those super-stringers and quantum guys really start all this? I mean if we want to place blame? Those are the eggheads who laid the foundation after all. It's easy to go after all those other types who merely latched onto this to try to 'splain stuff. Just sayin'
DeleteI for one, don't recall Mandela dying in prison.
DeleteMemory is fallible. I have been in Mgt seminars where some dude swears he is absolutely right, but
is proven wrong. (typically a marketing type as per Dilbert). Parapsychology is big, even intruding into History Channel and Discovery and there are people who see UFOs and sasquatches, the face of
St. Peter in a cronut, think they lived formerly as
Ghengis Khan, can predict the future (hopefully better than the Prophet Pat Robinson), have ghosts in the house, think dancing with rattlesnakes will
get them into heaven, take a ton more vitamins than
they need, worship the devil, suck up power from a plastic pyramid and swear Mandela died in prison.
Tis what people do and there are probably people studying it. I'm OK with it as long as no one gets harmed, ya know?
Memory is fallible but if a fair number of people actually remember news footage that's way beyond who played Bobby in the Brady Bunch. Kind of on a different level imo. Funny but Prof. Peabody at CalTech can discuss time travel and be well-respected but Joe Shmoe might talk about it and they got the net ready.
DeleteIt's also possible some folks confused Mandela with Stephen Biko esp. with the Peter Gabriel video. My only issue with skeptics/rationalists is they can walk into a haunted house where they're cooking and dancing and balancing flowerpots in midair and in their final report blame it on a solar prominence combined with a geomagnetic vibration from the South Pole. It's what they do.
DeleteBack to that other topic: when I was researching snowmed codes there was one code with the name "screening for malignant neoplasm of colon" and another different snomed code for "screening for malignant neoplasm of large intestine." Now if the colon IS the large intestine why have two different snomeds with two different titles? See the confusion?
ReplyDeleteGreat question. A couple of possibilities: that portion of the tract contains different areas:
Delete"The cecum is the beginning of the colon where the small intestine empties into the large intestine. The ascending colon, transverse colon, descending colon, sigmoid colon, and rectum are other parts of the colon after the cecum. The colon ends at the rectum and waste exits through the anus" -it may be that
polyps near the cecum are considered large intestine
vs the rest. Since these a path lab microscopic studies, it may be a way of upcharging what you pay.
If you investigate and find out, let me know!
To begin the investigation, we note the linGuistic
Deletenit-picking of the lower portion of the GI tract:
"•The large intestine is made up of the cecum, ascending colon, transverse colon, descending colon, sigmoid colon, appendix, rectum, and anal canal.
•The large intestine contains all of the colon, but THE COLON DOES NOT contain the cecum, appendix, rectum, or anal canal." -Here we have the colonistic Mandela Effect in play. :)
..and as the irrefutable Dr. House would note, "It's
Deleteall just a piece of ass."
Lol. Where I come from me and many others distinctly understood the colon to mean the lower part of the large intestine and most polyps were found there. Somewhere along the line gi docs figured it'd be better to scope the entire large intestine and call the whole thing a colonoscopy and charge extra for anaesthesia. Ok a Mandela moment, I blame the nuns.
DeletePart of the public confusion is the large intestine also goes by the name colon. Imo it should either be large intestine or colon but not both. Only organ in the human body that I know of that goes by two names. The heart is the heart, the liver the liver, pancreas pancreas...
DeleteMedical semantics? Knew a German engineer who was brushing up on English as a second language. He
Deletedefined semi colon as half-assed. What can you say?
Semantics but does it clarify or muddy? Personally I'd call it a large intestine-oscopy but that doesn't roll off the tongue does it?
DeleteNo, not like Roto-Rooter anyway.
DeleteGrowing up I heard about the large intestine, heard alot about the colon too. Since most organs have one name you assume two different concepts. I'm chewing on a bone here.
DeleteWe chew away. Physiologists define the large intestine as comprising the cecum, appendix, colon,
Deleterectum and anus the cecum function is to receive
material from the small intestines where it collects and absorbs some water and nutrients. The
appendix is a vestigial organ, probably originally
to break down plant cellulose, no just a bother.
The colon consists of ascending (which through peristalsis moves material upwards to the...
...transverse colon where most of the water absorbtion, plus a few electrolytes absorb. The descending colon concentrates fecal material for
elimination consistency, where it passes to the...
Sigmoid, which interestingly manages the farting
process (conveniently permitting the passing of gas
without the simultaneous passing of fecal solids)
and the accumulated dewatered/degassed waste is
stored in the rectum and managed by the sphincter
muscles of the anus. All this parts are inhabited by
over 100 trillion more or less friendly bacteria which utilize stuff the colon doesn't and also perform a type of fermentation. So from a tech
standpoint, the colon is a part of the large intestine: from the practical standpoint, the colon and large intestine have become the same thing.
You may have to double check with Saty on this one.
Saty is wherever. It's not just me, others have told me oh the colon is near the prostate (or just past the rectal canal). The rationalist would say we really don't know why we gave the large intestine two names. Other organs just go by one name but the large intestine is important so I guess we want to highlight that. We also can't explain the two different snomed codes the one dealing with the colon and another one involving the large intestine. We just like medical codes. Memory is a faulty thing, you just don't recall the technicalities growing up. The Mandela theorist would no doubt go with you and thousands of others come from another reality and these medical terms made perfect sense there but now you're here a little confused. The two different snomed codes for screening of the colon and another one for screening the large intestine are simply residuals from the merging of the two realities but check with Stephen Hawking on this. Me? I'm just glad it's over;)
DeleteOn a practical level I think people confuse sigmoidoscopy with colonoscopy. If someone gets a sigmoidoscopy then the next day at work they're probably gonna say they got a colonoscopy. Most people wouldn't even know what the other one is. My understanding is sigmoid procedures used to be more common and doctors went with that instead. Ah how I hearken to a bygone era!
DeleteI suspect the English grammarian would observe that words evolve and change, sometimes in spelling, sometimes in meaning; as a peculiar result colon
Deleteand large intestine are not quite synonyms, but are
synonymous in the current vernacular. How's that for
some syntactic parsing? We ponder the name Weiner
uses for his photogenic object.
The FBI announced they have Weiner's laptop and are sorting
ReplyDeletethrough to find any Hillary stuff. Like he sent her photos?
Bet you are worried that you e-mailed him for a signed glossy....
whatever did people do before e-mail?
He lost a good woman over this. Most men would jump off the GW or get help but Weiner is Weiner. Does he have a gene granting immunity to depression?
DeleteCould have been a potty training issue? Culturally, most of us tend to be modest. Me, I kick the cat out of the bathroom when I unzip, ya know?
DeleteSo when is it gonna hit Weiner like a ton of bricks (i.e. losing a good and understanding wife to an incredibly stupid fetish?). Ten years from now, twenty? never? He himself told the NY Times he's wired differently. God bless him!
DeleteClassic self destruction?
Delete& yet sadly it doesn't even have the grandeur or dignity of a Greek tragedy.
DeleteMy High School class suffered its 142nd death this week:
ReplyDeletestarting left tackle. Alzheimers. Sand through the hourglass.
This is my philosophical problem with mid-age. I feel like I'm walking on a pier and it's gradually getting shorter. Then what?
DeleteI can't seem to thread onto the previous discussion. Pondering your technical post above. Most folk see the large intestine as that large tube in your gut. The rectum might be technically part of it but why? It might be the place for a toy and why is cecum and appendix part of the def.? In another classification scheme cecum appendix and rectum would simply be just that. I daresay a fair number of people go in for the procedure with varying ideas.
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