tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63656522024-02-20T02:42:42.045-08:00Ruminations, immunology and other sciences, software, and moreThoughts on my life, what I've learned about immunology, and so forthUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger952125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6365652.post-73327241686573785152013-10-08T09:57:00.000-07:002013-11-06T09:58:19.955-08:00Dear Mr. 2168323823Dear Mr. 216-832-3823...
You are a jackass. There is much more that I want to say on this matter, but for now, suffice to say that you are exceedingly immature. It is fortunate that I am not a violent person.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6365652.post-29392310134759795812012-08-09T21:24:00.001-07:002012-08-09T21:24:32.591-07:00FDD9347To the driver of the vehicle with Ohio license plate FDD9347...
Lady, you nearly clipped my car with your reckless driving. Please learn how to change lanes responsibly. You should know better by now.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6365652.post-24795532927026383352012-05-19T08:47:00.002-07:002012-05-19T08:47:50.767-07:00Relying on dumb luckBack where I used to live, so many of the people in my social circle relied on luck when it came to their day-to-day dealings. Not strategy, not planning, not skill... luck. It was insane.
When playing billiards, for example, they would often just let the cue ball go wild, hoping that it would sink a ball or two. So much for counting on skill. They took the challenge out of the game.
The Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6365652.post-91454915831786710592012-02-18T17:20:00.000-08:002012-02-18T17:23:09.519-08:00Dear EXX 6016 driverTo the driver of the vehicle with license plate EXX 6016...You nearly tagged my car as you were weaving in and out of traffic while driving southbound on I-71. I watched you speed away, and I saw that you continued to weave through the traffic. You must have really been in a hurry to endanger other motorists that way.Please don't do that. Safety first, please. I won't claim to be a perfect Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6365652.post-82382287218417088992012-01-16T22:41:00.000-08:002012-01-16T22:43:46.546-08:00It don't mean a thingIT DON'T MEAN A THING. Get it? This is a pretty funny shirt design. I'm sure that a great many folks would not get the joke, though. I'm talking about those poor misguided souls who have never heard of the classic Duke Ellington tune.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6365652.post-77535615160764722422011-12-31T17:27:00.000-08:002011-12-31T17:29:02.145-08:00Coffeshop noise and languageI'm sitting in a coffeeshop which tends to be kinda loud. The last few times I was here, there was a group of men speaking very loudly and energetically in Hungarian. Now, their speaking in a foreign tongue doesn't bother me, but they do seem to be pretty loud, especially for a coffeshop. (Is this a cultural thing? I have no idea.)It is pretty annoying.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6365652.post-14727681206143891372011-11-21T07:21:00.000-08:002011-11-21T07:29:51.742-08:00Another parking storySpeaking of parking, I was at Costco last week. As I was loading stuff into my car, I noted that another vehicle was hovering nearby. Its driver was obviously hoping to snag my parking spot as soon as I pulled away.This annoyed me a bit. Why? Because there were numerous other parking opportunities just a few slots away. He really, REALLY wanted to nab my spot though, just so that he could Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6365652.post-69644839964109282382011-11-20T07:08:00.000-08:002011-11-21T07:21:56.117-08:00A bizarre person searching for a parking spotI was going to the lab one afternoon, back in my grad school days. As I was walking along the campus streets, a motorist stops alongside me and says, "Hey, where are you parked?"I thought that was a strange thing to ask a total stranger. It was even rather inappropriate; after all, why should I tell her where my vehicle was, or even if I had one? And no, I did not own a vehicle at the Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6365652.post-60948201721425612442011-10-12T08:03:00.000-07:002011-10-12T08:07:16.314-07:00Woman gives birth right after Chicago marathonThe interwebs are abuzz with discussion of this woman who completed the Chicago marathon despite being 39 weeks pregnant. Some laypeople say that she was stupid to do this and put her child at risk. Others, including various physicians, say "You go girl!"The thing is, she had her physician's permission. She was in excellent health and was very much used to running. In addition, she didn't runUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6365652.post-66865643629388631092011-10-01T22:07:00.000-07:002011-10-11T22:08:56.193-07:00Infection?Dang. I think I have a sinus infection. This really stinks.My immune system could use a major supercharge. Blech.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6365652.post-36557936732950795982011-09-12T18:25:00.000-07:002011-09-12T18:28:00.150-07:00Martin KessmanHe's the obese fellow who's suing White Castle because their booths aren't large enough to accommodate his rather large girth. Good grief.I'm not trying to ridicule the obese; after all, I used to be fat myself. However, this is just a totally frivolous lawsuit being levelled by a guy who can't be bothered to accept responsibility for his own size and weight. Based on comments on the Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6365652.post-50255927631472364082011-07-07T06:53:00.001-07:002011-07-07T06:53:46.197-07:00Anna-Sigga NicolazziNow that's an impressive gal. I like her a lot, and she's really gifted.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6365652.post-58471101724379546792011-06-18T13:26:00.000-07:002011-06-18T13:27:35.443-07:00An interesting exchangeI encountered the following exchange on the 'net today:"I'd be afraid to put a Darwin fish on my car. Some religious nut will go berserk. So much for religion and morality."Wait, what? Your saying that religious people are hypocrites because why they preach religion and morality, in your head they respond to your hypothetical Darwin Fish by vandalism? I've heard of people being accused of thoughtUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6365652.post-20120523837353742242011-06-17T21:34:00.001-07:002011-06-17T21:34:43.688-07:00InceptionWatching "Inception," albeit not too attentively.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6365652.post-35857196130964841832011-04-28T09:43:00.000-07:002011-06-17T09:47:37.931-07:00'Trying Hard12' on PlentyOfFishOh, my gosh. The more I re-read this fellas postings on the PlentyOfFish forum, the more unlikable he becomes. This fella is a real piece of work. I expect people to act like that when they're in their early teens, but not as grown adults.Maybe he's a nice enough guy in person. Maybe. Personally though, I think that when people behave this way online, it's a pretty big red flag. People may Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6365652.post-9303002502987601172011-04-27T07:43:00.000-07:002011-05-06T07:47:02.400-07:00Patellar tendinitisI need to remember the following tips when it comes to treating patellar tendinitis. I've discovered that physicians aren't always up-to-date on practical methods for treating this condition, or even pharmacological considerations.This text has been excerpted from the message board of a vendor's website. I was actually kinda impressed, since a lot of vendors fail to write in a logically Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6365652.post-12957676584637601332011-04-26T20:36:00.000-07:002011-04-28T10:14:20.438-07:00Novelty BobbleBeen reading some postings by another guy named Novelty Bobble. He is a real... well, let's just say that he lacks civility and maturity. I'll leave it at that.Some of the people that he and Lobohan have been conversing with, on the other hand, have exercised remarkable restraint.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6365652.post-83680458751877128402011-04-25T14:36:00.000-07:002011-04-28T10:14:07.230-07:00LobohanRead some postings by a guy named Lobohan. He's being a bit of an -- unreasonable person -- today.Actually, I wanted to use a four-letter word that begins with "d," but I decided against it.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6365652.post-2776285922076959342011-04-24T13:03:00.000-07:002011-07-09T15:21:25.066-07:00Pro dancing? Hardly!I'd like to continue a thought from my previous blog posting.I read some comments on that POF forum from people who scoffed at the need for a clean floor. They said "We just want to have fun. If you want to do the kind of dancing that needs a clean floor, you should go somewhere else." I see several obvious problems with this.First is the notion that they just want to have fun. Well, so do Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6365652.post-49132486002358705172011-04-23T09:50:00.000-07:002011-05-01T21:44:54.945-07:00Trying Hard12: He's trying too hard to be unreasonableLet me elaborate on this Trying Hard12 fella.I came across a discussion on PlentyOfFish about some singles dance. One guy complained that people were venturing onto the dance floor with damp shoes, stating that this was making the floor sticky. I don't doubt it. This was apparently referring to some dance in February, so I'm guessing that the shoes were probably salty as well, thanks to the Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6365652.post-19629601932067707222011-04-22T23:32:00.000-07:002011-04-27T23:36:11.634-07:00POF abrasivenessI understand that some people like to vent on the Internet. Heck, that's part of why I have this blog. Some folks tend to step way over the line, though.Came across a few postings on POF by some guy named "Trying Hard12". Boy, this fella is a real piece of work. He's obviously a very unpleasant fellow, based on his postings.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6365652.post-42672079330987169122011-04-07T22:55:00.000-07:002011-05-06T22:58:48.118-07:00OOP misconceptionsI read an old Internet posting wherein somebody basically scoffed at object-oriented programming. He dismissed it as nothing more than the natural outcome of being able to call functions.This shows that this person had absolutely no understanding of what object-oriented programming (OOP) truly means. Sadly, there are a lot of folks like that out there. A lot of people, including some computer Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6365652.post-15330294812788281362011-04-06T22:33:00.000-07:002011-04-28T10:13:47.868-07:00BittersweetI remember some pleasant times during my high school years. Some pleasant people, too. So why do I often think back on those years and remember the unpleasantness?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6365652.post-26271710867401323802011-04-02T21:30:00.000-07:002011-05-07T21:31:02.657-07:00Danny Boy!O Danny boy, the pipes, the pipes are callingFrom glen to glen and down the mountainsideThe summer's gone and all the roses falling'Tis you, 'tis you must go and I must bide.But come ye back when summer's in the meadowOr when the valley's hushed and white with snow'Tis I'll be here in sunshine or in shadowO Danny boy, O Danny boy, I love you so.But if ye come and all the flowers are dyingIf I am Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6365652.post-59552655363023349222011-02-06T23:04:00.000-08:002011-07-08T23:09:46.677-07:00danceronice, reduxA few weeks ago, I commented on this person, danceronice, from elsewhere on the web. I observed that she seems to have a volatile personality, and that one should tread carefully when speaking to her. Personally, I'd prefer to steer away from folks like that.Boy, was that an understatement! Let's just say that I've revised my opinion, and not in a positive way. This gal seems like a truly Unknownnoreply@blogger.com