Random non-pathology and only peripherally related to pathology thread

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AndyMilonakis said:
I realize this. But then I have to get a landline and spend more money apart from the TiVo subscription and even buying a decent TiVo machine.
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I believe you can do your Tivo stuff over the internet without a landline. Not totally sure about this though.
 
beary said:
I believe you can do your Tivo stuff over the internet without a landline. Not totally sure about this though.
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true, it can hook into your wireless network at home but you need to buy a wireless card for it or something.

andy, the subscription is only like $12/month and you can get a basic box for $99. makes your life much easier.
 
Arsenic810 said:
right, come on though.... after what you've done in mcat you're a professional random poster.
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Am I really?? I doubt that!!! yeah!! I am famous for the spreading confusion though...
 
bananaface said:
You need to pick subjects or else it wastes page space and no one reads the thread.
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Subjects such as...???
 
Good night from me though!!!
 
Arsenic810 said:
i think you just cut up dead things, look through microscopes and avoid any kind of patient contact.

is that right guys? :laugh: 😉
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Yes...pieces of breast tissue don't ask, "Can I have another prescription of oxycodone?"

Your thyroidectomy specimen doesn't say, "Doctor, mah bogina be itchin."

Likewise, you don't have to tell your colon resection specimen everything you have to do, "OK Mr. Asstube, you're gonna feel some pain here but I'm going to cut a section at your resection margins and then take some representative sections of your tumor to assess depth of invasion. How does that make you feel?"
 
Likewise, you don't have to tell your colon resection specimen everything you have to do, "OK Mr. Asstube, you're gonna feel some pain here but I'm going to cut a section at your resection margins and then take some representative sections of your tumor to assess depth of invasion. How does that make you feel?"
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The colon does fight back though, with poo. The ovary can be pretty feisty as well.
 
AndyMilonakis said:
Yes...pieces of breast tissue don't ask, "Can I have another prescription of oxycodone?"

Your thyroidectomy specimen doesn't say, "Doctor, mah bogina be itchin."

Likewise, you don't have to tell your colon resection specimen everything you have to do, "OK Mr. Asstube, you're gonna feel some pain here but I'm going to cut a section at your resection margins and then take some representative sections of your tumor to assess depth of invasion. How does that make you feel?"
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pingu said:
The colon does fight back though, with poo. The ovary can be pretty feisty as well.
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I agree. I have been the unfortunate recipient of "When ovaries attack" on occasion. Caution: Contents under pressure.

What's this? Pathologists posting in this thread? 😱


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yaah said:
I don't think I would ever want to be a department chairman. It seems like his whole day is spent going to meetings. Bleaaargh. Probably not worth the extra $100k or whatever he makes.
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I highly doubt people who become department chairs or heads do it for the money.

What's the difference between heads and chairs anyway? It seems like a department can have multiple chairs.

No wisecracks please.
 
yaah said:
What's this? Pathologists posting in this thread? 😱

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I'm afraid I don't understand your histogram 😳 And this is with 7 hours of sleep!

Are you saying that overall, the percentage of posts by pathologists is dropping?

What is your definition of "pathologist" anyway? (looks like you're not counting residents...)
 
deschutes said:
Gee thanks Arsenic810. 😛
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You don't like me here!!! Fine then I won't come!!! Last posting.........
 
deschutes said:
I'm afraid I don't understand your histogram 😳 And this is with 7 hours of sleep!

Are you saying that overall, the percentage of posts by pathologists is dropping?

What is your definition of "pathologist" anyway? (looks like you're not counting residents...)
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It's a graphical representation. It's not an accurate scientific graph, I just made up the numbers.
 
deschutes said:
I'm afraid I don't understand your histogram 😳 And this is with 7 hours of sleep!

Are you saying that overall, the percentage of posts by pathologists is dropping?

What is your definition of "pathologist" anyway? (looks like you're not counting residents...)
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you're taking this thread WAY too seriously
 
yaah said:
It's a graphical representation. It's not an accurate scientific graph, I just made up the numbers.
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So what you're saying is that it was totally random with no message at all. yaah just decides to post a histogram on the random thread. Gotcha.

That was easy.
 
OK after reading these posts, I have officially become stupider. I shall go back to previewing before I become like Schiavo'd.

I'm just kidding. Have fun kids. Break time over.
 
AndyMilonakis said:
OK after reading these posts, I have officially become stupider. I shall go back to previewing before I become like Schiavo'd.

I'm just kidding. Have fun kids. Break time over.
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Well next month I get to do vag path. I'll be stupid the whole month. Borderline malignant potential my ass.
 
yaah said:
Well next month I get to do vag path. I'll be stupid the whole month. Borderline malignant potential my ass.
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You gonna be working with Dr. Cho when you're on?

I've only heard that phrase a few times. You'll be turning stoopid while trying to distinguish LSIL from squamous epithelium wiith reactive changes. And and the countless endocervical curettings. I like to stack all those kinds of cases together so I can fly through several boxes of them in like 30 minutes and feel like I've gotten a lot accomplished. Then come all these random vulvar derm lesions where I'm like WTF IS GOING ON!
 
I dunno. I don't think I will be.

Vulvar lesions are always annoying. What's more annoying are the vulvectomies that take like 50 blocks to submit. Did you submit the right lateral inferior posterior fourchette margin? No? Then go back.
 
yaah said:
What's more annoying are the vulvectomies that take like 50 blocks to submit. Did you submit the right lateral inferior posterior fourchette margin? No? Then go back.
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I never saw one of these. That sounds very painful. Both for you and the patient.
 
yaah said:
I dunno. I don't think I will be.

Vulvar lesions are always annoying. What's more annoying are the vulvectomies that take like 50 blocks to submit. Did you submit the right lateral inferior posterior fourchette margin? No? Then go back.
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You know. My first week dealing with big gyn specimens, I didn't get any vulvectomy specimens. Something tells me that I should thank my lucky stars on that one since the educational value of such specimen and the painful labor going into grossing in and processing the specimen are disproportionate. Apparently, the week after I was on that service, the next person got an ass-load of vulvectomy specimens. But see, at least she knows how do gross those...she's gotten pretty good at it. On the other hand, when Andy gets a vulvectomy specimen, he's gonna be up sh*ts creek.
 
beary said:
Today I saw a guy at the hospital who looks exactly what I picture AndyM as looking like.
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You can go on the Brigham's website and then you won't have to imagine anymore.
 
To continue the "Help deschutes set up house" theme...

I come from a place where licence plates follow the vehicle and not the owner. My local DMV website hasn't been particularly helpful in explaining the concept of "tabs".

If the sticker things on my plates say July/06, do I renew them before then? (Are they usually renewed on an annual basis?)

I know it seems odd that I would be asking questions like this here, but like I said, most of the Americans I know are pathologists 😉
 
The date on the tabs is an expiration date. Whether the tabs expire at the beginning, middle, or end of the month/year on the plate varies by state. You are good through at least June 1, 06. They usually renew annually. The Dept of Motor Vehicles or whatever it is in your state will usually send renewal info 1-2 months ahead. If not, you have to go in on your own and renew.
 
Thanks!
My driver's licence expires in 4 years on my birthday. I suppose it is too much to expect that the DMV would coordinate the drivers' licence renewal date and the vehicle registration renewal date!

The first thing I do as a new owner of a HotSpot is to nearly lock myself out of a 128-bit encrypted LAN... 👎

I'm in that zone where I have to finish this tonight and test it, or run the risk of doing something silly halfway and finding that I really did lock myself out tomorrow.
 
bananaface said:
Well, I guess you should have gotten a new car on your birthday, hm? 😛
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I love my Matrix 🙂 Just walking across the parking lot towards it gives me this huge grin!

Couple of nights ago I dreamt that my baby developed a major dent in the bonnet overnight. My brand-new baby, which at that point didn't even have real registration plates yet.

I woke up howling in outrage. 😡 😡

bananaface said:
I wonder if any of my neighbors or the homeless people that sleep in the woods nearby are mooching off my wi-fi.
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If your neighbours are anything like me, I am sure they are! 😛 😛

But "free" doesn't always equal "easy"... the five-bar networks are practically always secured; the unsecured ones are perpetually two-bar or less. Unless one lives right above a coffee place or something.
 
I still don't know what your car looks like!

I have to pack for a retreat before I go to bed. Tomorrow I drive a bunch of first year students to Pack Forest, this place owned by UW. For some reason I feel like throwing underwear, socks, and a toothbrush into a backpack and calling it good. Must.pack.bag. uhhhhhhhhhhhh. so lazy :laugh:
 
bananaface said:
I still don't know what your car looks like!
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I finally got my camera to talk to the computer to talk to the Internet. So I could theoretically stick my arm out the kitchen window and photograph it now - here you go:

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I was going to take a picture. Really! But then I Imaged Googled and found that there are people who apparently spend an inordinate amount of their time taking pictures of their Matrixes, so I borrowed one:

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Is Pack Forest really a forest? Ever since Rhode Island, I've learnt not to take things for granted.
 
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