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Cuneiformist
The Imperfectionist
USA
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 Posted - 06/10/2008 : 20:12:16 [Permalink]
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Good news, Mab. I'm sure the thought that you might have been a casualty to down-sizing was tough.
Oh, and congrats on your Euro 2008 success! |
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bngbuck
SFN Addict
USA
2437 Posts |
Posted - 06/10/2008 : 20:30:46 [Permalink]
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Dr. Mabuse.....
Congratulations on retaining your job through foresight, and special congratulations on recovering sufficiently from your hip surgery to ride your bike!
My daughter has broken both of her hips twice in the last nine months! She has had seven surgeries in that period.
One hip was replaced twice and now has healed completely, the other was replaced twice, became infected after the second surgery, the prothesis had to be removed and replaced with a temporary "spacer"; then the spacer had to be removed because the infection persisted.
The wound was reopened again, the spacer removed, an internal antibiotic dispensing tube installed, the antibiotic dispensing continued for six weeks, then had to be removed, and now she is waiting for her eighth surgery - with no hip bone or prosthetic in her left leg - only tendon and muscle.
We really have no idea how well she will walk when all is finished. She is 38. I would actually pray if I thought there was one chance in a million that it would help. I don't! I mean, she may walk, she may not, but praying is not going to affect that.
Anyway, I can kind of second-hand empathize with your hip tribulations. I hope your bones are strong enough that you are in no danger of additional fractures! |
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
13476 Posts |
Posted - 06/10/2008 : 20:34:36 [Permalink]
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| Oh geez Bill. I hope your daughter comes through this alright. What an ordeal. 38! A spring chicken by my reckoning... |
Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.
Why not question something for a change?
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 06/10/2008 : 22:14:40 [Permalink]
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Congrats, Mab! Good job of surfing the Future Shock wavefront.
Gee, bngbuck, I sure hope your daughter recovers well. What a horrible series of events to go through.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend
Sweden
9687 Posts |
Posted - 06/11/2008 : 08:14:29 [Permalink]
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Thanks!
And bngbuck, I hope for your daughter's speedy recovery. |
Dr. Mabuse - "When the going gets tough, the tough get Duct-tape..."
Dr. Mabuse whisper.mp3
"Equivocation is not just a job, for a creationist it's a way of life..." Dr. Mabuse
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 06/23/2008 : 13:12:02 [Permalink]
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I'm not going to let George get away with this without serious consequence.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
26020 Posts |
Posted - 07/04/2008 : 19:37:41 [Permalink]
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| We just got finished doing Virginia-legal fireworks in the rain. Was fun, and only one of the fireworks misfired (just went out in the middle, probably due to the rain). |
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Evidently, I rock!
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 07/05/2008 : 01:14:01 [Permalink]
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The fireworks here at the north end of San Leandro, just south of the Oakland city line, were and continue to be impressive. The various reports combined all evening to make a sound like a war zone, especially with the addition of the gunshots. (I wish people would not shoot into the air. The damned bullets don't just evaporate, after all.) Some of the fireworks bursts were powerful enough to set off car alarms, something I'd never heard of before. Been fun to listen and watch, but the noise terrifies and/or enrages the neighborhood dogs, who very much dislike things that are not routine.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
26020 Posts |
Posted - 07/13/2008 : 22:18:41 [Permalink]
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Is anyone else a little disconcerted by Discovery networks' choice to create a new forensics cable channel and call it "Investigation Discovery?" It's just a little odd to see, amongst all the sciency channels, a big "ID" on the cable guide. And they have "Dateline on ID" as a show title, which is totally wrong if you're thinking "Intelligent Design."
Not that these networks are known for being "pure" about their science, but still, you'd have thought someone in marketing would have noticed. |
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Hawks
SFN Regular
Canada
1383 Posts |
Posted - 07/17/2008 : 17:14:43 [Permalink]
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Dembski is at it again. Surprise, surprise. At uncommondescent, July 17th he is touting his latest book.
Book description:
“Although atheism might have been logically tenable before Darwin,” writes Richard Dawkins, “Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.” This little book shows that atheism must seek intellectual fulfillment elsewhere by decisively demonstrating the need for intelligence in explaining life's origin. This is the best overview of why traditional origin-of-life research has crashed and burned and why intelligent design is necessary to explain the high-tech engineering inside the cell. It is no longer possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist because life's origin requires an intelligent cause—this book shows why. |
Yet again, Dembski seems to have forgotten (cough, cough) that ID is totally agnostic regarding the identity of the designer. Either that or he is a liar. I think I understand his reasoning for why atheists can't be intellectually fulfilled anymore: Darwin was wrong. What Dembski doesn't realize though, is that a totally designer-agnostic ID could make us atheists intellectually fulfilled. Assuming, of course, that (1) "Darwinism" was as useless as Dembski claims and (2) there was anything remotely intellectually fulfilling about ID in the first place... Some assumptions, eh??? |
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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend
Sweden
9687 Posts |
Posted - 07/18/2008 : 13:29:33 [Permalink]
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Since the last two years, my old mobile phone has suffered from old age. The keyboard, and especially the joystick navigator-button has been suffering from wear. More and more force had to be applied to make it recognize command, and increasingly more did it register 'left' or 'right' instead of 'down'.
1˝ weeks ago I got a mail from somewhere saying that iPhone is finally coming out with 3G technology.
I had to stand three hours in line, partly in rain, to get one on the opening day in Sweden...
Now that I have it in hand, I have to wait another week before my old mobile phone number is transferred over to the iPhone. I had to change operator, and that takes some red tape.
But after some initial snags, I managed to make it cooperate with my wifi-at-home.
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Dr. Mabuse - "When the going gets tough, the tough get Duct-tape..."
Dr. Mabuse whisper.mp3
"Equivocation is not just a job, for a creationist it's a way of life..." Dr. Mabuse
Support American Troops in Iraq:
Send them unarmed civilians for target practice..
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
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Ricky
SFN Die Hard
USA
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The water cooler, part 3
