When I moved out west with my mom and sister, the road trip took around 5 days. Most stops were good. The Red Roof Inn in Oklahoma was a total shithole. Lock on room didn’t work. Flickering broken lights in hall out of horror film. Super suss guests… Slept with a knife under my pillow.

I used to play the shit out of The Specialist, a HL1 mp mod.

Also while most were hooked on Twisted Metal my brother and I loved Vigilante 8.

For a relaxing Sunday Morning? Probably Timon & Pumbaa and Dexter’s Lab. At night things got spicy with Courage the Cowardly Dog and Gundam Wing.

When my family got Boomerang and Toon Disney channels, life was good.

I echo this.

I went with a lower tier Bosch simply because it had a built-in water softener and that was my main priority. On hindsight I may have jumped for the 800 series.

The 3rd utensil tray becomes way more usable with the 800, and your stuff actually dries unlike in my model.

I will say I thought my old whirlpool that came with this house was well designed (more capacity and utensil tray being out of the way on the door was nice).

Can you elaborate?

Are you discussing API calls? Remote Procedure Calls?

My initial assumption was you wanted info on Data Marshaling — utilizing the likes of JSON or XML to communicate data between different programs.

But then maybe you mean data allocation in memory, how the heap and stack work, etc.? References and pointers, and deep and shallow copies, etc.?

This. They’ll hook you up immediately to an ECG to see the state of your heart in the moment and draw blood for labs to check for signs of a recent heart attack or clot issue (trops, d-dimer, etc.). If ischemic heart attack, you’ll be rushed to cath lab. Urgent Care doesn’t have the resources to do this and will likely re-route to a hospital anyway, charging you separately in addition.

Hope you’re doing better now. As someone who works in the medical field, it can be a real bitch to navigate everything.

For the future: Nobody here knows your baseline. If you tell any clinical medical worker you have had chest pain followed by difficulty breathing and vomiting they’re very likely to tell you to go to the ED/ER (Emergency Department / Room). Speaking for myself only, that would depend how stable I feel following the vomiting incident and if the chest pain persisted, and baseline conditions and history (e.g., do you have a history of hypertension, high cholesterol, overweight, etc.? When was your last physical exam?).

We also don’t know the full context on what you mean by couldn’t breathe and feeling like you could die. For example, did you have a major GERD / Acid-Reflux incident (could explain mild chest pain)? Did you eat something and have an allergic anaphylactic reaction followed by a surge of adrenaline from your fear of death and a panic attack followed by vomiting? Have you had sinus congestion say from a cold and a glob of postnasal drip obstructing your airways? Do you take drugs? And yes, it’s possible you also had a heart attack.

Worth noting: Urgent Care has limited resources beyond an X-ray machine, usually. The moment you mention chest pain, they’ll hook you up to an ECG to take a reading. If your vital signs are okay (blood pressure, SPO2, heart-rate, temperature) and your ECG reads no active heart attack, then they might just refer you to a cardiologist follow-up. If on the other hand there are signals of a recent or active heart attack, they will pretty much demand you get loaded up into an ambulance and send you to the nearest hospital with a cath lab (due to liability on themselves). You’ll thus be triple-dipping costs from urgent care, ambulance, and hospital when you might’ve been better off going straight to the ER.

ER will be a higher co-pay with insurance and absurdly costly without (but there are options, some ethical some not surrounding this). The good news is unlike Urgent Care, they cannot refuse treatment based on lack of insurance, if that’s your predicament. Urgent Care will.

Also when you call 911 for a medical emergency, police aren’t going to be involved. ACAB rhetoric aside, DO NOT REFUSE TO CALL 911 BECAUSE OF THIS. The moment the dispatcher sees this is a medical emergency, nearby fire departments or ambulances will be notified.

I love a lot of different instruments, but I fell in love with the Erhu after ATLA. Second to that, the orchestral strings like the violin, viola, cello, etc. Scores from Halo and Elder Scrolls franchises.

Finally, the collective vocal cords of choirs.

I appreciate your honesty as a 5’7" dude.

Luckily I’m happily married while my wife is 5’6".

Lots of perks to my short dudes out there. Faster metabolism/more energy, longer life expectancy, better power-to-weight ratio, etc. I won’t beat em in a sprint necessarily, but always have the advantage in the long-run.

Square-cubed law can be a bitch!

1. When I’m coming home, I’m usually in less of a rush than when I’m departing. I can reverse into my spot as quickly as backing out when leaving, so it’s a tiny trade for time.

2. My truck bed faces away from the street.

3. Makes loading/unloading easier and more private from prying eyes.

Thanks! I could use some improvement in 3 of those, so definitely worth trying.

Can you elaborate on the specific benefits you saw? Did you notice anything in terms of health metrics? Resting heart rate, HRV, blood pressure, watch sleep quality, etc.? I need some motivation to overhaul my desk setup lol.

12 hour desk job. Had Hermann Miller chairs in office but now at WFH I’ve only just started to upgrade my chairs. I’m active, I’m a runner…but I feel it. I always feel off following my several shifts. It takes a lot just to get back to baseline.

If I slack on my stretches I definitely notice the lower back especially.

I probably should get a desk treadmill…

Haven’t watched Bob’s Burgers. Watch all the others (plus LoK) every year, so I’ll try it!

The wife and I watch this followed by LoK every year. Always a treat!

3 miles up; 3 miles down.

An annual audiobook listen for me is Winters’ memoirs, Beyond Band of Brothers. Helps keep me grounded.

If you like Green Wing do you like Black Books and IT Crowd?

Great choice, and cheap compared to others!

The standard valentines is close to cholula sauce for a fraction of the price.

Frank’s (extra hot buffalo, too) and Sriracha are always on hand in my house, too.

This isn’t helping to motivate me in applying my BSE degree I earned years ago lol. I’ve been pretty content with my current WFH job, even if it’s unrelated to software development. It sure does seem like there are many inflated egos in the industry and I’m not sure if I have the patience to navigate them. That’s not to say I’m better than they are, but goddamn the pissing contests in any arena get tiresome.

Thanks for this! Very helpful in improving my understanding. Transmedicalism seems kind of absurd to me out of the gate given the entire premise behind what I at least always thought trans meant as in “transitioning”; a state of flux if you will. What point along that state largely shouldn’t matter. Yet people attempting to justify their bigotry will of course latch onto extreme edge cases the likes they will never actually feel or experience themselves or are so trivial it’s irrelevant or scientifically baseless in the first place — the obvious one being sports.