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Post by Liiisa on Dec 14, 2023 21:01:03 GMT -5
Oh no riki - that's so sad and worrisome. I hope it hasn't done any further damage and that now she'll be truly on the mend.
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Dec 14, 2023 21:35:33 GMT -5
Wow Rikita! Hope they can fix it for her, and quickly.
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Post by Liiisa on Dec 15, 2023 17:48:36 GMT -5
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Post by vinnyd on Dec 21, 2023 9:37:43 GMT -5
TIL that there is a sea snail whose scientific name is Extra extra. I want someone to identify a subspecies and name it readallaboutit. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extra_extra
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Post by Liiisa on Dec 21, 2023 10:14:12 GMT -5
Thank you vinny
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Post by Liiisa on Dec 21, 2023 18:28:33 GMT -5
Today I learned how to combine scanned PDF pages in Preview on the Mac; I thought I was going to have to email them to my office laptop and do it in Acrobat Pro, but nope.
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Post by rikita on Dec 22, 2023 17:12:59 GMT -5
that the idea of doing these carbon footprint tests for individuals was invented by bp ...
and about generation joshua ...
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Post by tinaja on Dec 22, 2023 17:36:59 GMT -5
Learned that some things don't change. Woman in town had a "boutique" of cheap clothes and some pre owned. It was always a mess in the store. She closed that location and moved to a higher rent/traffic area. I went in today. The floor was dirty. There were pieces of clothing racks in the floor for someone to trip over. A few ok pieces. And she is in the back talking to another person. I like seeing people succeed but I am afraid she is not going to be one.
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Post by vinnyd on Dec 23, 2023 7:30:47 GMT -5
that the idea of doing these carbon footprint tests for individuals was invented by bp ... and about generation joshua ... I learned that about BP the other day too. Trying to shift responsibility for climate change from the fossil fuel companies to individuals. Off to google Project Joshua.
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Post by vinnyd on Dec 23, 2023 11:20:06 GMT -5
I don't know how I got Project Joshua (which also exists, it turns out) from Generation Joshua.
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Dec 25, 2023 6:40:37 GMT -5
I just googled Generation Joshua. Another reason to mistrust home schooling.
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Post by scicaro on Jan 3, 2024 14:13:31 GMT -5
That there is something called "transient global amnesia" where you temporarily lose the ability to make short term memories and also forget things that have happened in the last 2-3 years.
It is terrifying to witness (my mum) and we, of course, called an ambulance as we suspected a stroke. However it's, unlikely to happen again and not too worrying. I does mean I'm staying a bit longer rather than going back to Denmark today as planned though.
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Post by Liiisa on Jan 3, 2024 18:27:01 GMT -5
Oh wow - that is so scary, sci. So glad it's likely not a stroke.
I don't blame her for closing off the past couple of years - she's had such a stressful time with your poor dad's health stuff.
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Jan 3, 2024 18:37:02 GMT -5
That is scary, sci. Liiisa’s explanation sounds feasible.
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Post by HalcyonDaze on Jan 4, 2024 4:43:27 GMT -5
Glad your mum will be ok.
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Post by scicaro on Jan 4, 2024 4:48:35 GMT -5
Oh wow - that is so scary, sci. So glad it's likely not a stroke. I don't blame her for closing off the past couple of years - she's had such a stressful time with your poor dad's health stuff. You're not wrong liiisa. It was so weird because she was totally logical and lucid but couldn't hold any information for more than a few seconds. She knew I was testing her for symptoms of stroke (ex nurse) and every time I explained that I'd called an ambulance and why, she agreed it was sensible. She also knew she couldn't remember and was extremely frustrated. She has totally lost the 2 hours yesterday afternoon while it was happening but seems to have regained the rest. She's at hospital today getting checked out.
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Post by scicaro on Jan 5, 2024 13:07:22 GMT -5
Hospital confirmed the diagnosis and said it was likely brought on by tiredness and stress but unlikely to reoccur.
Madly she met a former colleague at the clinic who'd experienced something similar so they chatted all day while waiting for the various tests.
She is still very tired though so I'm attempting to get her to let me do everything.
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Post by vinnyd on Jan 5, 2024 17:10:15 GMT -5
The human brain is mind-boggling. So amazing in some ways — how was mine storing the name of the actor who played Napoleon Solo on The Man from UNCLE for the last 50+ years so that I could pull it up the other day? And something like that transient global amnesia happens.
Good luck to you both, scicaro.
(Robert Vaughn, by the way.)
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Post by Phar Lap on Jan 5, 2024 21:05:48 GMT -5
The human brain is mind-boggling. So amazing in some ways — how was mine storing the name of the actor who played Napoleon Solo on The Man from UNCLE for the last 50+ years so that I could pull it up the other day? And something like that transient global amnesia happens. Good luck to you both, scicaro. (Robert Vaughn, by the way.) And that blonde fellow played Illya Kuryakin.
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Post by Liiisa on Jan 5, 2024 21:30:01 GMT -5
There was a tool they used in the medieval period called a "swingle" that you used to process hemp for rope.
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Jan 5, 2024 22:27:57 GMT -5
The human brain is mind-boggling. So amazing in some ways — how was mine storing the name of the actor who played Napoleon Solo on The Man from UNCLE for the last 50+ years so that I could pull it up the other day? And something like that transient global amnesia happens. Good luck to you both, scicaro. (Robert Vaughn, by the way.) And that blonde fellow played Illya Kuryakin. David McCallum, who much later played Duckie in NDIS. Sadly, he died last year.
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Post by Phar Lap on Jan 5, 2024 22:48:42 GMT -5
And that blonde fellow played Illya Kuryakin. David McCallum, who much later played Duckie in NDIS. Sadly, he died last year. Remember him in The Great Escape? He played Ashley-Pitt, in charge off ”dispersal”! He invented these two pockets on long thread which you wore under your trousers to get rid of the dirt dug for tunnelling! Attachment Deleted
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Post by tzarine on Feb 4, 2024 22:34:50 GMT -5
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Post by rikita on Feb 13, 2024 11:34:24 GMT -5
can't think of anything i learned, but a. has her recorder lesson just now (online, so i can hear the lesson) and is learning to play trills ...
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Post by Phar Lap on Feb 15, 2024 3:57:09 GMT -5
Tzarine, when I tap on your link I get 404 Bad Gateway.
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Post by groo on Feb 15, 2024 4:26:24 GMT -5
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Post by Phar Lap on Feb 15, 2024 19:20:30 GMT -5
can't think of anything i learned, but a. has her recorder lesson just now (online, so i can hear the lesson) and is learning to play trills ... My granddaughter is learning to play the saxophone and I made a “deal” with her - on Christmas Day, I will give her $10 for playing three songs. She plays in front of all of us - usually there’s about fifteen or so.
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Post by Phar Lap on Feb 18, 2024 18:58:12 GMT -5
Rwanda is plastic free. In 2008, Rwanda became the world's first “plastic-free” nation, 10 years after it introduced a ban on all plastic bags and plastic packaging. Unlike many other countries, the African nation is strict at enforcing its ban. Anyone caught with a plastic item in the country faces a gaol sentence of up to six months.
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Post by tzarine on Feb 18, 2024 20:06:45 GMT -5
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Post by Phar Lap on Mar 2, 2024 16:03:31 GMT -5
When using stick coffee, be careful what you put your tongue on. I thought they were teeny bits of chocolate. They were not teeny bits of chocolate. They were bits of coffee. Not pleasant.
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