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Skriven 2014-09-16 18:29:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: Re: reduction 951
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-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 09-11-14  17:27 <=-

 ML>> that people are very reluctant to be critical, lest they
 ML>> become critical, if you please.
 NB>> Whereas, they probably need to be critical to keep from becoming
 NB>> critical, actually...  ;)
 ML> A critical situation all round. 
 
Quite so.  :)

 ML>> And of course there's the situation of my father, who
 ML>> as I recall had both kinds, hemorrhagic and thrombotic,
 ML>> at once.
 NB>> That's a tricky one, either way...
 ML> Luckily (perhaps) my problems are likely to go only
 ML> the one way, so diagnosis and treatment are easier.
 
Mine also... given my reaction to the low-dose daily aspirin, causing
bleeding within about a week...  ;0   Actually, I hope that it bodes for
less likelihood of stroke, but I'm not counting on that, either... 

 ML>> They eventually called for a blood workup, thousands of
 ML>> dollars worth, with the satisfactory result that they
 ML>> admitted I was right about the bleeding and the
 ML>> unsatisfactory result that they admitted they had no
 ML>> idea why that was and couldn't do anything about it.
 NB>> About par for the course...
 ML> I suppose. We have to remember that human civilization is
 ML> fairly young, and science even younger, and sophisticated
 ML> data collection only a century or two old.

And as my daddy used to say, there's a good reason they call it a
practice...  ;)

 ML>> the patients with abnormal bleeding, it goes down into
 ML>> the record as idiopathic, i.e., nobody can figure it out.
 NB>> Maybe someday, there will be a breakthrough on some part of that
 NB>> unknown causation.... new things are being found every day... some
 NB>> are even helpful...  ;)
 ML> When they figure out that not everybody's system does the
 ML> same thing as the norm, they might start doing more mindful
 ML> research.

Exactly.  And the sooner, the better...  ;) 

 ML>> Something excessively weird and poisonous is
 ML>> happening in this computer, to the degree that there are
 ML>> random misspellings and other interpolations popping up,
 ML>> and the cursor jumps around randomly. I've mostly been
 ML>> noticing this after the replacement of the keyboard (with
 ML>> the Japanese one) and the motherboard (provenance unknown). 
 NB>> Hmmm....  rather scary, actually...  one wonders what may have come
 NB>> along for the ride....
 ML> I've done quite a number of virus checks of various brands,
 ML> and nothing has come up. I suppose that there should be a
 ML> virus checker that doesn't depend on the operating system
 ML> (booting from its own device), but I don't have such.

The computer gurus among us might have the answer to that... One would
think that there should be...
 
 ML>> VEGETARIAN BROTH
 NB>> It does seem a bit poisonous...   :)
 ML>> M's note: omit the apple and half the fennel
 NB>> That makes it a little less poisonous... ;)
 ML> A warning, though, regarding my cooking. I've been known
 ML> to actually put apple in a stock, a non-vegetarian one.

Just don't do it at a picnic where I'm in attendance... or at least warn
me if you do...   (G)  You won't find any at hand in my house, so I'd be
safe there...  ;)

 ML>> source: Ming Tsai
 NB>> Which reminds me... I keep seeing his name, and thinking of a
 NB>> different Ming or two... Mostly there's a nice (very tiny) restaurant
 NB>> here called Ming's Noodles... Deb's taken me there a couple of times...
 NB>> She's pretty good friends with Ming...  :)  And then there was Grampa's
 NB>> Siamese cat that lived out his last 4 years with us, also named Ming...
 ML> He had a restaurant in the Boston area called Blue Ginger,
 ML> which name might incline me to go there, but he's a Yalie,
 ML> which might cancel that out, and besides Nicholas tried it
 ML> and found it wanting.

That last would put a definite damper on things..  :)  And I know well
of the Yale/Harvard rivalry... Daddy being an Eli (for graduate
school)... ;)  He taught us the "three rousing cheers for Hahvahd"
ditty...  I'm reasonably neutral towards them both...  :)

I might bring you to Ming's Noodles some visit here... it's a nice
place...  ;)

ttyl         neb

... Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.Lily Tomlin

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