truce

Verizon guy came to sell us stuff during the party last night and cousin Tommy spent 3 hours on the porch trying to talk him into quitting his job

If I follow along with the intervals that a personal trainer is putting their client through at the next elliptical machine does that count as piracy

Party mode roly poly

OcuLearning is an awesome free app for learning neuro-ophthalmology topics. It actually simulates what you’ll see on exam with interactive animation. I have received no compensation to promote this I just think it’s neat

If a study gets retracted for a statistical error but the original analysis confirms my biases did it really get retracted

Cats seem like they’re operating seamlessly until they start pawing at a hard surface in an attempt to throw sand on their poo and you’re like oh yeah. This creature’s sophisticated behavior is the product of many discrete scripts duct taped together by evolution, and it falls apart in edge cases

I don’t even see people walking in the grocery store anymore. I just see heel strike, midstance, toe off, etc.

One of the reasons I don’t like outpatient as much is the latency between when you make a decision and get feedback. I don’t want to wait a month to get an MRI and see if I was right.

Can’t find my telescoping queen square so treated myself to a new hammer

Good medmal post for those who follow. I think for new onset unilateral headache in a late 30s male with vertigo and left sided falls CTA should have been ordered from the getgo. The description of the visual field exam does not inspire confidence either. expertwitness.substack.com/p/missed-pos...

“The Elder Scrolls” is what they say about you when you’re on your phone!

Was wondering at the typecasting of mid-career Dustin Hoffman as an institutionalized guy (eg Rain Man) then realized it was actually DeNiro who played Leonard in Awakenings (1990) and not Hoffman. Maybe I’m the one in a padded cell.

Mensa Reddit is amazing

what was that crunch tweet that said something like “white boy on an airplane listening to dean blunt”. Does anyone remember what I’m talking about

genuine creature

Paulie and Chris pump their own gas in "Pine Barrens" (Season 3, Episode 11) to demonstrate their macho attitude and disdain for the rule of law. It is not an error

Saw a leucistic red-tailed hawk at a wildlife refuge named Shiva. I wonder if the staff were making a reference to the Robinson Jeffers poem

current events

when I was a kid my dad would rip out vines and weeds in the garden and joke "if you're not paying rent, get out". now I find myself doing it. this is uhh social reproduction under capitalism or something

Fox in Medford, NJ

you’re telling me the UK is a real place and not just an elaborate homebrew setting

Hit the elliptical at the gym eating a big bowl of spicy tuna salad with curry powder, coriander, dill, carrots, celery… yeah I’m thinking we’re back

I want one of those forbidden Chinese electric trucks from Mexico

Roly poly moment

There’s apparently some kind of weird mushroom in the French Alps that might give you ALS www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

you can only say stuff like this if you’ve never been on a stroke ward

Evolutionary biologist eating Doritos: “Doritos are so good…they aid in mate selection for sure…”

getting into liverwurst. I’m the world’s first geriatric zillenial

It’s kind of a funny cosmic asymmetry that botulinum toxin is one of the most useful medicines in the modern world whereas tetanus toxin is completely useless for anything other than killing vertebrates with extreme prejudice

Rainy day

cvs got me muttering sic semper tyrannis

bro I’m afraid you have

12 days from poison ivy exposure. Waited this long due to sunk cost fallacy but now that it’s spread to my legs chest abdomen I think I’m having a systemic reaction and need the roids

Wow

when I was an undergrad philip glass came to campus and i was pumped about it for like two weeks and ate a weed brownie right before it sat down in the seat and fell asleep in 2 minutes and slept through the whole thing completely

Did you know: the Catholic Church is exempt from state and local unemployment tax and therefore employees cannot collect unemployment if laid off

Of course we can treat all suffering in the world as a numerical quantity to be optimized. After all, everyone means the same thing when they rate a pain 4/10 on an ordinal scale, right?

Way less impressive than it sounds - THE TRIAL OF VOID

Asking utilitarians if they’d rather remove 1 percent of skin from 100 people or 100 percent of skin from 1 person

Beef Season 2 on Netflix gains points for correctly demonstrating that you can’t rule out ovarian torsion with ultrasound, but loses points for incorrectly depicting the effect of having one ovary on subsequent fertility

Route 130 moment

What it feels like to have poison ivy

My fifth grade teacher made all her classes memorize and recite the Gettysburg Address. We should be doing that instead of the pledge of allegiance

I love to walk around oozing and yelling “aughh my lesions!”

I wish I was a cenobite so I could experience this poison ivy as pleasure-pain rather than pain-pain

Pen exploded in the wash so I’m trying the washing your clothes in milk trick. Surprisingly effective. Better living through chemistry

my dog has copd. Didn’t even smoke they just get chronic bronchitis when they’re old apparently

Found a cool stick