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No here's a dumb story from Portland, Oregon: When an apparently drunk man peed in a Mount Tabor reservoir around 1:30am last night, he set off an unprecedented chain reaction. A security officer who had been watching the man and his four friends drinking from the reservoir guard tower alerted police, then called on the water bureau to take the reservoir offline. Using a … [Read more...] about A Dumb Story About Pee

My wife is out of surgery and resting in her room at the hospital. All went very well. The surgeon was able to do the whole procedure using the robot, which means they made only a few small holes, so she's expected to bounce back pretty quickly. I'm at home for a few minutes to check on Dozer the cat. He seems to be getting a bit better. He's still weak, but I don't think he's … [Read more...] about Wife and Cat Update

As all computer geeks know, it's very difficult to wipe out a virus, and I mean eradicating it completely from the world. The fight against real-world viruses, the kind that attack humans and animals, is much, much more difficult. Viruses have evolved into the most abundant type of biological entity on the planet.The idea of eradicating one sounds like an impossible … [Read more...] about Eradicating a Virus

All of this political correctness is making me ill. Now we have to refer to the flu pandemic as H1N1 so we don't offend the pig farmers, the National Pork Board, or God forbid the pigs.The hell with that.  From now on, I'm calling it FFKAS or the "Flu Formerly Known as Swine". … [Read more...] about No Offense

It all started when my 88-year-old father's home care nurse came to visit and noticed that his left foot looked infected. He has diabetes---meaning an infection in an extremeity could be serious---so she got some kind of medi-car service to take him to the emergency room at the local V.A. hospital. The ER there operates as a walk-in clinic during the day. The doctor took a … [Read more...] about Nosocomial Blues