OT - NO POLITICS Off Topic 2020 part XXI - Punxsutawney Phil says EARLY SPRING!!!!! ( We are doomed )

[Alicat]

Yep. I'd just fill it up with hot water then drip maybe 3-4 drops of the oil. Or, you can put the drops of oil right on a sponge and wipe it. I use it all over the house.

Thanks! I’ll order some from Amazon.

Do you dilute it in a spray bottle to use all over the house?

Which one do you use?

 

[Gee Wally]

Hunters on Amazon

Hunters’ Over-the-Top Holocaust Revenge Fantasy Misses the Mark

Just finished it. Wow!
If Tarantino. Who I get a kick out of, was ever to make a series this may be it.
Holocaust scenes are deeply disturbing Which they should be.

 

[McGarnagle]

So I had a 90s electronic playlist playing in the background on spotify as I was reading, and Zombie Nation came on.

Even though it's been our goal song for 20 years and is still used to this day, for some reason hearing that song play always conjures up vivid images of Nathan Horton scoring against Montreal in 2011.

 

[Chief Nine]

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That's dedication, I guess?

Homemade + rocket = bad things

 

[Bruinaura]

Homemade + rocket = bad things

Not exactly what I want on my tombstone

 

[Alicat]

Not exactly what I want on my tombstone

More of a plain cheese kinda gal?

Sorry I saw tombstone and immediately thought pizza

 

[Fenway]

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That's dedication, I guess?

 

[Fenway]

Who needs cookies

 

[jgatie]

Hunters on Amazon

Hunters’ Over-the-Top Holocaust Revenge Fantasy Misses the Mark

Just finished it. Wow!
If Tarantino. Who I get a kick out of, was ever to make a series this may be it.
Holocaust scenes are deeply disturbing Which they should be.

I'm halfway through and that's exactly what I thought - It's Kill Bill meets Nazi hunters. The behind the scenes videos are very good. The creator's family were Holocaust victims and survivors.

And finally a character for Pacino where he's not playing Pacino!

 

[Kate08]

Hunters on Amazon

Hunters’ Over-the-Top Holocaust Revenge Fantasy Misses the Mark

Just finished it. Wow!
If Tarantino. Who I get a kick out of, was ever to make a series this may be it.
Holocaust scenes are deeply disturbing Which they should be.

my husband has been bingeing it all day. Has t been able to turn away.

 

[Fenway]

North Shore: There was an eared grebe at Dane Street Beach in Beverly, a Pacific loon in Rockport Harbor, a Townsend’s solitaire at Halibut Point State Park, and a yellow-breasted chat along the Marblehead Rail Trail. There has been a major influx of alcids to Cape Ann in recent weeks: observers found an Atlantic puffin, six dovekies, 19 common murres, a thick-billed murre, 90 razorbills, three black guillemots and 23 black-legged kittiwakes at Andrews Point. There was a dovekie and two thick-billed murres at the Jodrey State Fish Pier. Other dovekie sightings included two from Rockport Harbor, two at Cathedral Ledge, and two at Bass Rocks. Thick-billed murres were seen all over the southern end of Cape Ann as well as Rockport Harbor and Halibut Point.

Plum Island: Sightings included three razorbills, a rough-legged hawk, a snowy owl, and two short-eared owls.

Greater Boston: There was a mew gull at King’s Beach in Lynn. Observers also found a snow goose and a dickcissel at Rumney Marsh in Saugus. At nearby Bear Creek on private land, there was a long-eared owl, white-crowned sparrow and three Eastern meadowlarks. Silver Lake in Wilmington held an excellent variety of uncommon winter gulls, including four Iceland gulls, three lesser black-backed gulls, and a glaucous gull. There was a greater white-fronted goose at Franklin Field in Dorchester, and a Northern pintail at Horn Pond in Medford.

West of Boston: There was a Virginia rail and a sora at Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge in Concord. A cackling goose, a rough-legged hawk, a Northern shrike, and a swamp sparrow were all seen at Bolton Flats Wildlife Management Area in Bolton.

South Shore: Some excellent goose sightings continue in the Vaughan Hill Road fields in Rochester, including a snow goose, a greater white-fronted goose, and two barnacle geese. A rough-legged hawk was reported in Dighton and a yellow-breasted chat was seen in Acoaxet.

Nantucket: Sightings included a tufted duck in Madaket, a Northern shoveler at Miacomet Pond, and a Baltimore oriole in Siasconset.

 

[Troublesome 85]

Al Pacino with a weird yiddish accent on Hunters. At least he isnt yelling.

 

[Troublesome 85]

Funny to think at 34 I feel I am actually, finally "maturing". Just been more positive, upbeat lately, letting things go that would normally bother me. Was dating someone past 2 months, one minute she was all excited to see me on Valentines day and spend the weekend together, she ghosted me the whole weekend and barely said anything until I asked what was up. Randomly told me she wasnt attracted to me which goes against everything she said and everything she "showed" me. Normally I would have dwelled on it. Have been fine. A lil annoyed 2 months of my time was wasted. Going for a full time position at work. Would be nice 40 guaranteed hours. Some other good things on the horizon. So far 2020 has been good and look forward to making each day better than the last.

 

[EvilDead]

Who needs cookies

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Broccoli on Pizza?

 

[Glove Malfunction]

Laying in the hospital with a broken hip. Backcountry skiing + tree = destroyed hip. I’m waiting for a CT scan them should get some good pics. I imagine rehab will be brutal, I won’t be moving much for awhile. This morphine is nice. I hope I don’t need surgery.

Oh dude! I'm so sorry to hear this. Please let us know when you know more.

 

[Glove Malfunction]

Yeah. I’m 28 and have never broken a bone before so I went big! I’m still in the Rumford Hospital and it’ll be a few hours until they send me to Lewiston. It’ll be a long, hungry night for me. At least I can watch the Bruins though.

Oh wow! I was in the Rumford hospital for work a couple of years ago. Glad they're sending you to Lewiston. Rumford is very small and Lewiston is much better equipped.

 

[Glove Malfunction]

You're welcome.

Sedona is something else indeed, my fav place is Flagstaff though. Just a perfect outdoor town, less tourists too, we did some really nice hiking there back in late October. Another good thing about Flagstaff is... that it's close to Sedona.

Next time you're in Flagstaff, take the half hour trip to Williams. A great little city that really embraces it past as a stop on old Route 66.

 

[Glove Malfunction]

This popped up in my Facebook memories. Just shy of 20 years ago, the Big E (Enterprise, not Eric Lindros lol) stopped in Pensacola for a brief visit during carrier qualifications. I remember the lines were outrageous, but it was fascinating to get to go on an active carrier. We got to ride on the jet elevator, go up in the tower, the whole works.

The next year, she was in the Gulf after 9/11.

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I see the T-2 for the carrier quals and the F-14 from the Vf-14 Tophatters. Last October, visited my son in NYC and we went to the USS Intrepid museum. Different from today's carriers for sure, but still really really impressive.

 

[Fenway]

@Glove Malfunction

 

[Glove Malfunction]

Got out of surgery a while ago and I’m feeling pretty good. Still sore but there’s no more excruciating pain when I move that leg. They I can try walking whenever so that’ll give me something to do later. It really sucks being so helpless but I’m on the road to recovery and that feels good. It turns out I broke the femoral head I think. I’m pretty sure that’s part of the femur inside the hip. The nurses were saying it’s a common break for elderly. I guess if you hit a tree hard enough, age doesn’t matter!

The femoral head is the "ball" in the ball and socket joint, and is actually a lot less common in elderly patients than a femoral neck fracture (the neck is the part of the bone connecting the shaft of the femur to the ball or head). Fractures to the neck are much more common in the elderly, and femoral head fractures are typically associated with trauma (from the force of the head (ball) hitting the acetabulum (socket)),and are often accompanied by a hip dislocation. Sounds like things are heading in the right direction though, so that's good. best thing you can do is do your PT exercises! they've gotten really good, and in a youngin' like you, they'll work wonders, even though they'll suck while you're doing them.

 

[Bruinaura]

I see the T-2 for the carrier quals and the F-14 from the Vf-14 Tophatters. Last October, visited my son in NYC and we went to the USS Intrepid museum. Different from today's carriers for sure, but still really really impressive.

They are amazing machines. I read up on a little of Enterprise's history when I posted this. She was leaving the Persian Gulf when 9/11 happened. Turned right around and outran her escorts back to the Gulf.

One of my friends used to be a "grape" on the carriers. He had some hair-raising stories lol

 

[Glove Malfunction]

Who needs cookies

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Artichoke hearts have quickly become one of my favorite things.

 

[Glove Malfunction]

@Glove Malfunction

Thanks for sharing! Yes, those buildings are all real. And yes, Judy is as big an oddball as it seems. That was a really interesting look at what I do. I totally get the feeling those employees were talking about too. I don't practice medicine, but I get to have a significant hand in helping the doctors who do practice it, do it safer and better, as well as getting to help make the patient's experience better as well. You also might find it interesting that the Partners conversion to Epic was somewhere between 1.2 and 1.4 Billion dollars, larger than Mayo's. But it was really the decision by Kaiser Permanente to implement Epic that drove Epic's success. They were the first multi-region system to implement Epic and injected hundreds of millions of dollars into Epic, allowing them to vastly expand their technology.

It's definitely been an interesting ride, and it's been amazing to watch the technology blossom over the last 17 years.

 

[Glove Malfunction]

They are amazing machines. I read up on a little of Enterprise's history when I posted this. She was leaving the Persian Gulf when 9/11 happened. Turned right around and outran her escorts back to the Gulf.

One of my friends used to be a "grape" on the carriers. He had some hair-raising stories lol

I have mad respect for every colored shirt running around on the carrier deck. I had a high school friend who was an AO. Knowing him and partying with him, this surprised absolutely no one. The biggest surprise is that the Navy trusted him with ordnance.

 

[Fenway]

Thanks for sharing! Yes, those buildings are all real. And yes, Judy is as big an oddball as it seems. That was a really interesting look at what I do. I totally get the feeling those employees were talking about too. I don't practice medicine, but I get to have a significant hand in helping the doctors who do practice it, do it safer and better, as well as getting to help make the patient's experience better as well. You also might find it interesting that the Partners conversion to Epic was somewhere between 1.2 and 1.4 Billion dollars, larger than Mayo's. But it was really the decision by Kaiser Permanente to implement Epic that drove Epic's success. They were the first multi-region system to implement Epic and injected hundreds of millions of dollars into Epic, allowing them to vastly expand their technology.

It's definitely been an interesting ride, and it's been amazing to watch the technology blossom over the last 17 years.

@Glove Malfunction As you know I have seen Epic work flawlessly (Partners and Cambridge Health Alliance) and as a disaster (Mount Auburn). Mount Auburn is finally getting the kinks out after 3 years but it is still unsettling that My Chart has info I can see but my PCP can not but I blame the culture of the hospital itself not Epic.