Nopes, no stylus either. I use my finger. :-)

From the published recollections of a Peninsula war veteran:

You'd think my first reaction, on reading that, would be some sense of human compassion or outrage. But my actual first reaction was to punch the air and say 'yes! that's brilliant'.

Historical research can warp the mind.

What part was brilliant? his writing, the final analysis and conclusion, or the stabbing?
Or something else entirely?

Oh, and what about that paper on hot soldier on soldier violence?

It ties into a couple of points I'm making in the violence chapter.

Mainly, it makes for a very nice and accessible little demonstration of the dangers of justice records to indicate actual levels of violence (that this incident apparently did not lead to a prosecution). Now, that's not a revolutionary point, it's been made before, but it's nice to find something within my specific evidence base that points up that idea in relation to my particular subject group. In that sense it's a bit of a rare find: always harder to identify crimes that may be absent from a record set.

But it's also useful in showing one of the ways in which service might shape the experience of violence within the military communities: he used the weapon he was issued and trained to use as a soldier.

It's a fairly minor piece of evidence. But I was very pleased to find it.

Some random thoughts I have been having about book ideas that I want to write sometime in the near future.

Books for Children:

• Fun Facts About Crack
  
• Why You Should Kick Daddy Repeatedly Between The Legs
  
• Outlets: And What To Put In Them
  
• The Sharper The Better
  
• The Monster Under Your Bed Is Only The Manifestation Of Mommy And Daddy's Wrong Doings Coming Back To Punish You For Their Mistakes
  
  
• The Monster In The Closet Is A Idea Placed In Your Head By Daddy So He'll Have The Opportunity To Be The Hero By Making The Monster Go Away With The Magic Words "Boogie Boogie Motherfucker!"
  
• Daddy Steals Your Food When He Is Alone With Mommy While You're Sleeping
  
• If You Don't Succeed In Life There Is Always Suicide
  
• Why You Still Get Cookies From The Babysitter Even Though They Hate You
  
• Candy From Strangers: Go For It

General Book Ideas

• Thumbs Down To The Brown: A Practical Guide To Anus Bleaching
  
• The Extensive History Of The Poptart: A American Delicacy
  
• Why Masturbation Makes You Go Blind (Available Only In Braille)
  
• "No, Not Like That Stupid!": A Beginners Manual To Serial Killing For The Mentally Defective
  
• Dragon Ball-Z Shirts: Why You Deserve To Be Murdered In A Grocery Store If You Wear One Past The Age Of Twelve
  
• A Book With One Page: But It Has A Really Great Synopsis!
  
• Vagina and The Gas Mask: A Romance Novel
  
• Purple, Hard and Stiff: A Biography Of Rigamortis (pervert)
  
• Open Up And Say "AH": Why You Should Never Let A Dentist Named "Richard" Administer Nitrous Oxide
  
• The Birds Went North and All The Bees Are Killers: The Reason Teenage Boys Watch Porn and Grow Up To Be The Men Who Love It

That's all I have for right now.

.P404.

Random question. These days, why do books (not just yours) always seem to have subtitles?

You'll fit right in here at the cellar, Prince O' 404

I was wondering what the abbreviation would end up being. There was no way I'd be typing that name out in full more than once. :)

I seriously doubt the fresh Prince will be hanging around long enough for anyone to have to type out his name that many times.

Go on, Prince. Prove me wrong. We're not your test audience; we're real people who are each pretty damn interesting, probably much like yourself, if you choose to be real.

Because some of us are hard of understanding?

Re: Prince of the 404, aka p404
p404 sounds like a handgun - "...James Bond reached into his immaculate dinner jacket and from the grain leather shoulder holster drew his Walther P404..."

alternatively it could pass as some pretty useful large bore ammo eg. "...belt-fed p404 centrefire full metal jacket shells..."

P 404.

Pee for Ophir?

is that someone being paged, or an instruction, or are you placing an order?:p:

I knew a guy in college named Ophir. That wasn't what he went by though.

I thought maybe that's what p404 said, phonetically like or something. ;)

what? you mean if he didn't go by Ophir he went by car or by bus or something? ;)

He liked escargot.

Look at that "S" car go!

Do you think I'd get sick from eating fuzzed-ridden corn? I was sooo hungry and half a sandwich just didn't do it for me. I raided the fridge and found some corn. It tasted a little funky, so I looked at it closer. Hmmm....some white fuzz. My mom would kill me if I throw away food, especially good food since she won't be able to see the fuzz without her glasses and she refuses to wear her glasses unless she's reading. I washed it real good and ate it. But hey, it killed my appetite and I stopped eating. :-D

Eating healthy sucks....a total BLAH!!!! I'd rather have some pancakes, eggs, and bacon. Instead, here I am with a bowl of oatmeal. :greenface

Heh... Everyone's definition of "healthy" is so different... In my house, eating eggs and sugar-free bacon would be considered far healthier than a bowl of oatmeal. You're right to get rid of the pancakes, but you're just subbing in a slightly more complex carb with the oatmeal. Not nearly as important as getting protein, first thing in the morning.

That is true, hehe. And I do know about protein in the morning. However, I needed a quick breakfast, so I can get to work. And I need to lower my cholesterol. Does eating oatmeal everyday help? I hope so. I'm trying to eat it once a day in hope to bring down the number. :neutral: Anyways, Clod, how do you make oatmeal at your house? I made mine with milk, a dash of cinnamon, a drizzle of honey, and some dried prune bits. Not exactly low in calorie, but I don't think it's unhealthy either.

We don't do oatmeal at all. For one, it's a grain, but even before we were grain-free, it's almost impossible to get oats that are not contaminated with gluten, so we didn't do them when we were just gluten-free either. And before THAT... well, I don't actually like oatmeal, so I never ate it. :)

Studies have shown that eating oatmeal every day can help lower cholesterol, but I personally think that's only because the people eating it were replacing the even worse carbs that they normally ate for breakfast. I think a person who normally ate eggs and fruit for breakfast would not see any improvement in their cholesterol by switching to oatmeal.

I did a bowl of oatmeal once. But, I didn't wait for it to cool down enough, and so I blistered my junk.

It felt real good for a minute, though.

:p:

I wonder how much of America's "golden age" (the 1950s) was do to the reduction in world population from WWII. There would be less competition for scarce resources, and more competition for labor.

I had to read this a few times to understand how eating a bowl of really hot oatmeal blistered your junk. :p:

That's right, I forgot your household is gluten-free. I had temporary memory loss there because every time I go to HEB, I would pass this long section on the back wall of gluten-free products and think of you. :D

Check out pcrm.org for some good information on whole grains. Oatmeal is a good thing, at least the truly whole-grain type - not the 'instant' packets, the type that takes some cooking.

The best, most reliable way to bring your cholesterol, and every other parameter, down into the healthy range, is to eat a whole-foods plant-based diet. The studies are consistent. And protein is present in every single food (whole food, that is) we eat. Meat isn't 'pure protein'; it's perhaps 17% at most. Mammals don't do well on high protein diets; see T. Colin Campbell's work, and see the more recent research on animal vs plant protein in Levine ME et al, Cell Metabolism 2014; 19(3):407-417. Even the higher protein recommended for those over 65 was not animal protein; just a slightly higher protein intake.

We've been brainwashed so long by Big Food/Ag that we NEED tons of animal protein that we've stopped challenging the ads. Got milk? You don't need it. Got meat? You don't need it, either.

Feeling insecure sucks. It truly sucks. That's what on my mind at the moment. Okay, bye.

How come I only see karma happening to me and not on other bad people?? :the pain: Okay, maybe some get it too but I don't see it. Anyways....:thepain:

klandestine karma

I suppose so.

I have a giant, painful lump at the base of my hand between the outside edge of my palm, and the heel of my thumb.

Is that random enough?

Ganglion cyst

I thought ganglions were usually painless? Have you seen the doc grav?

Got a big bible handy?

Unless you bang it on something. I have one on my right thumb. Right at the crease of the first knuckle. It's finally receding after about 2 months. Almost gone now.

Hmmm...a friend of mine in hs had one on her shin and she used to squish it all around and say how it didn't hurt. That's my only experience with them though, so there you go.

I had what one Dr. called a ganglion cyst, but the VA operated on my wrist and put me out of commission for about 6 weeks. One Dr. tried to push it back in and it hurt like hell. OUCH!!!

This thread is too medical ... my random groove has been thrown off.

Happy Canada Day. :thumb: :f32: :thumb:

Better?

Why hell no! Doctors cost money, woman!

Two reasons I haven't went to the doc yet:

1) My regular doc is currently being investigated in some kind of Medicare fraud case. He was served some search warrants for his offices, and the gym next door, which is in the building he owns. I'm not sure why they searched the gym, maybe he owns that, too.

2) I'm a cheap bastard.

If the hand falls off, I'll get it checked out.

Really, I was just bitching at random. It doesn't bother me unless I mess with it. Or bump it. Or touch it.

It's not affecting (?) my, uh -ahem- schedule, or anything.

Also, I thought those ganglion thingies were mostly on the back of the hand.

I've heard those "Here, lay your hand flat on this desk.", WHAM!-type stories before. If I think that's what it is, I'll just pound it myself.

I can hear ya already..."Do you have experience pounding it yourself?"

Uh, yes, yes I do.

Had one of those on my left hand for years, sometimes painful but mostly just there. Even had surgery set up, but when I read there's 50% chance it'll come back, I cancelled. When I retired I quit wearing a watch and it went away within a month.

The watch had a Speidel twist-o-flex band which was tight enough the watch wouldn't move around and get caught on something while working, but it wasn't constrictive. It most certainly could be a coincidence, just retiring may have done it. ;)

I think the one on my thumb came from gripping my throttle.

On my motorcycle.

Uh huh.

I've been saying "fuck" a lot again recently...I think it started when I came back over here. See what you fuckers inspire?!

The Muppets should cover this. OK so the link is obvious, especially with Miss Piggy and the backing singers, but Animal would be amazing in the video :D

Oh, God! Kill it! Kill it with fire!!!!

And when you get out of work run to your car, fire it up, slam it into reverse, and floor it. :facepalm:

I don't get it? :confused:

Yeah. The picture doesn't match the words. But you can get the idea from the words. Just let the sun bake the bottom of the steering wheel by turning the steering wheel upside down when you park.

That's cute for people who live in places where it is only the sunlit portion of the steering wheel that gets hot, and not the entire interior of the car that turns into a 500 degree oven. Cloth seats hot enough to burn your legs, no joke.

Oh, the top of the steering wheel. That makes more sense.

But, but, but the top of the steering wheel will only be 425°.

:right:

Yeah, and if you dressed modestly the car wouldn't burn your butt. :haha:

I once had a random thought.
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No, no I didn't. I just said that because I wanted to be part of the "in" crowd.
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I'm so ashamed.