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yellojktAh, geeks. This guy set it up for his kids to watch the Star Wars movies for the first time, and then filmed his son’s reaction when Darth Vader reveals just whose father he happens to be:
Ah. Takes me back, takes me back.
Robot Chicken does the same scene a little differently:
Speaking of Robot Chicken and Star Wars, this would be the most awesome thing to happen in the history of ever (the Quarterback is toast!):
Star Wars not your thing? Then marvel over this miracle of the Internet. Lip Quencher! Barbecue on the patio, all year round! Just 6.95 for a transmission check-up! From Delk? Who? Chrysler made air conditioners? It’s just a run of commercials on a New York TV station (channel 5) but . . . it still takes me back.
Speaking of going back in time. Back when MTV still played music, I vaguely remember this:
That’s my cold-addled contribution to the day. — KW
This one’s for Kevin, since he’s not feeling too hot and he brought up She Hulk earlier in the day:
— Michigoose
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All Things in Moderation 
I just had my first home-cooked real meal since Labor Day (when I packed up all of my pots/pans/bakeware)! Yahoo!!!
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Sound like you're getting all settled in Michi, what a relief huh?It was a great day here at ATiM by reading the comments. I had trouble participating as I had too many things going on and then got called away. And for some reason, the emails were flying but my email isn't working. I can read what I receive but get an error message when I reply. You and mike should have some interesting discussions and I'll try to follow along. I majored in biology but that was so long ago that it's a whole new world now in science. My Master's was in psych and so other than some physiological psych classes which I loved, my science creds are pretty rusty.My daughter is always talking science with me and while we're talking I completely understand what she's saying and can even visualize her work, but don't ask me to repeat it or pass the information along to someone else. That's not going to happen.
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Thanks, lms! Practically completely settled, it's just the small stuff now that doesn't impact daily life much. It was also nice to get back to work and see folks.How's the pool clean-out going for your hubby? Back in working order yet?
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It looks better today but I'm not planning on swimming in it yet. He's vacuumed about 5 times since yesterday and had to backwash several times because the filters were so gunky. What lousy timing. I also had to bleach a load of whites as they came out tea stained, yikes. I've been on call two days a week with Hospice since July instead of one, plus my usual duties so I keep getting further behind around here. Budget cuts in CA are really cutting staff to the bone. One of these days I'll put up a post on why I volunteer for Hospice. Of course you can't talk about Hospice without talking about death and illness so it's not exactly a popular subject.
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But a subject that everyone has to deal with, in one form or another. I'm in awe of everyone who does hospice work; it's one of the greatest gifts that can be given, I think, to help somebody die on their own terms. I remember okie saying that that was one of the blessings of her sister's death, and a year ago I lost my favorite uncle under similar conditions; he wasn't undergoing hospice care (yet), but it was only a matter of time. And then one night he simply passed away so quietly that he didn't even wake my aunt sleeping next to him–when she woke up the next morning he was lying there with his hands tucked under his chin, just the way he'd fallen asleep, and she said that he actually looked like he'd been smiling in his sleep when he died. Pretty much the ultimate way to slip away, to my mind.Because of the nature of our research my boss and I deal with lots of dying kids, and while it makes it easier for us when they die in the hospital (arranging the autopsy is easier when the patient is in the hospital, as you've got much more control over the time of death), we'd rather have them go at home while under hospice care. That seems to give the parents more peace and closure.Hospice is a good thing, and I'd love to hear how you got started volunteering for it.
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Medicare, Medicaid and the insurance industry all support Hospice care and when I hear people wanting to make cuts to the budgets of both M and M I don't think they understand what that means in terms of health care dollars. You think end of life care is expensive now, just wait.And the post that Mike put up was encouraging re cancer even if it's still in the future a bit. I love medical researchers, lol.It's a shame Steinman died before receiving his prize. In my opinion pancreatic cancer is one of the worst.
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It is a shame; pancreatic cancer is just devastating. The first time I knew somebody who died from it, it was an NCO whom I worked with; he hadn't been feeling on top of his game but he was coming up on retirement, so he decided to just wait until after he retired and had more time to schedule a doctor's appointment. When he went in, his doc could feel a mass (if I remember right), and probably suspected what it was, but told my friend that he needed to have exploratory surgery to figure out what was going on (this was many years ago now). He went in, they opened him up, closed him up, and when he woke up they told him that he probably only had a couple of days to live. . . and they were right. Just mindblowing how fast it took him.Have you ever seen this video? Another guy taken too early from pancreatic cancer, but an amazing and inspirational speaker. I'd been following the Last Lecture series for years, but this just blew it out of the water.
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BTW, I sent you a response to your earlier e-mail but it's still hung up in my outbox for some reason. Presumably sooner or later it'll get to you, but I'll give willows and georgia a shot tomorrow.
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michi, I meant to tell you though to set up a throwaway email first, unless you want to use mine which if fine, but watch out for some heat if you do………. I think they'd both be assets to ATiM and the teeter is tottering to the right, no offense guys.Pancreatic cancer got my dad so I'm intimately familiar with it. I'll watch that video in the morning, I'm too tired to think tonight. I owe qb a response from this morning also but I'm too tired for that even especially since he's expecting me to clean his clock……….haha.
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Thanks, lms, I wasn't going to use the address that I've used here; I've got two or three throwaway addresses that I use (I long ago sorted my e-mail addresses into [1] my real one that gets attention every day, [2] one that I use as my primary backup when I don't want people to know my real one for whatever reason, [3] one that I use whenever I think that something I'm doing is going to generate spam e-mail, and [4] one that I set up for Facebook, that I only check once a month and that's just to delete everything in it). I'm a bit of a privacy freak, but, as I explained to qb when we swapped a couple of e-mails, I didn't feel a need to with the group that we've built here.Thanks for the thought, though, and get yourself some rest (want to be tanned and rested when you clean qb's clock!) 😉
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I'm posting an interesting link describing the reason behind B of A's new debit-card fee.What can I say? I'm a giver.Senator Durbin's Crony Capitalism.
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That is what I've always said about you, Troll! That and you sense of humor are your best attributes. 😀
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Lms, i've got a draft post you can post anytime tomorrow I'd things get slow. I'm trying to at least contribute something once a day, now that I'm starting to get the hang of it. Just to let you know, I check this blog all day long and look at the posts and comments. It's replaced PL for me and I don't feel like I'm missing a thing. Work is consuming a lot of my time right now (if it weren't for all these customers, I could get a lot of work done!) so my commenting contribution is lower. That will hopefully improve. Bottom line though is that I like this place and thinks it's been pretty goog so far.Hi Michi, nothing like a home cooked meal!And the Yankees are losing!
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Goog is actually a rightwing dog whistle for "good."
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Hi Troll, and you're right! The whole "Bachelorette Living on Microwaved Frozen Food With Nary a Green Thing in Sight" was getting quite old. All I can say is that I must've had an iron-clad stomach when I was in my 20s (the last time I ate like that for any extended period of time).
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I hear ya, Michi. Used to be able to eat anything. Now, not so much.
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Even more amazing to me now, Troll: do you remember all those early morning PT runs after being up all night drinking the night before? How did we ever do it??No wonder people our age are retired from the military!On that note, I'm off to bed. Go Colts!!
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I remember doing a pt run along side a platoon of Marine Recon. Their platoon Sgt. Smoked the entire run. He was barely breathing hard at the end.
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Today's Rick Perry Big $$ for cronies story:http://www.statesman.com/news/texas-politics/state-outsourced-allocation-of-federal-disaster-recovery-funds-1893739.html
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I tried to add some items to this evening post yesterday afternoon, but my browser crashed when I tried to insert a line after that scary-hot MJ cover of Michi's (I probably am responsible for those extra returns — trying to get past the mag cover). Anyway, then distractions intervened.One of the links I had was to a Cato paper exploring Hoover as true progenitor of the New Deal. I haven't read the whole paper yet, but I fondly remember this as a topic that drove some PLers bonkers; the myth of Hoover as a laissez-faire, "austerity" and tax cut President was just too hard for some to give up. I'll try to grab it later.There were lots of other interesting links at NRO and a couple of other places yesterday. Things are looking bad, bad for Obama on Solyndra and Fast and Furious. There was even a Solyndra investor and FOO* who tried to warn off the WH. Yet now O is claiming it went through normal review and was widely supported. Tsk tsk.*Friend of Obama
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From Troll's article: "Walmart won, banks lost"Oh, those poor little banks. Innocent victims of an evil retail chain that funnels billions to banks that make gigantic profits off Walmart (and continue to do so), given the cost of maintaining their networks versus the huge volume of money-generating transactions Walmart provides. Not a banking expert, at all, although I've been a vendor taking credit cards (personally, and with several companies that took credit cards). Also worked for a company that sold a product to Walmart once. "In return, they demand a cut of the sale. Walmart and Joe's Corner Store aren't required to accept debit cards or credit cards, but they do, which means that they decided the price was worth it" . . . and, if I'm not mistaken, Walmart tried to set up it's own system to handle credit card transactions, and Visa and Mastercard (and Amex? –its been a while) lobbied to prevent it. "Retailers, of course, wish the card issuers and processors would provide this service for free. ". . . or that they could be allowed to develop their own solution and broker their own deals with network providers and others, in order to use their huge size to both save money and recapture some of the money spent with outside banks by offering their own card. " But some other special interests were firmly in Durbin's corner: the big retailers."Far be it for me to side with Dick Durbin on anything, but big retailers aren't doing anything the big banks haven't already done in regards to lobbying the government for special dispensation for their market (and, ironically, lobbying to be legally allowed to get into other businesses that were previously off limits, on the other hand, while lobbying to legally limit certain big retailers from getting into theirs).
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"Retailers, of course, wish the card issuers and processors would provide this service for free."Back to that. That's a pointless statement. Everybody wishes everything was free, except whatever good or service they provide, which should cost a million dollars. There is no informational value in that statement at all. In the real world, retailers probably believe that the banks maintaining the networks were transactions cost them (the banks) fractions of a fraction of a fraction of a cent, they should not be getting charged .30 or .40 cents for a .75¢ purchase made with a debit card. "How is that rate — the "interchange fee" — set? Until this year, it was set by market forces."Is this the case? Really? How many competitors are in the market? What are the barriers to entry–and from what regulations do they spring, and who, exactly, lobbied for those regulations? "It's the standard tale of government intervention in the economy: The guy with the best lobbyists wins, and the little guy — this time, the consumer — loses."And which industry is trying to advance the poor wittle bank narrative? Certainly not the one that sells me inexpensive generic label diet cola, and also allows me to get a prescription filled (inexpensively) at the same spot, while getting inexpensive crayons for my child's class (the generic brand costs the same amount that a box of Crayon's cost 30 years ago!) and, oh, I need some bread, oh, hang on, I'm out of night light bulbs. And I need some tooth paste. A giant bin of $5 DVDs! And I need some more copy paper. Etc. Etc. While the idea solution would probably be to introduce more actual competition to the marketplace in regards to credit and debit transactions, casting this as a David and Goliath story with banks in the roll of noble David is a stretch. To me.
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"I remember doing a pt run along side a platoon of Marine Recon. Their platoon Sgt. Smoked the entire run. He was barely breathing hard at the end."That's so awesome. That Sgt. is my hero, and I don't even know who he is. America. F*ck yeah!
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