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Jun. 2nd, 2019 02:07 pmFrom Facebook:
In response to me saying that, in fact I had read the article and was aware of the context, but I felt that the thing I said needed to be said anyway:
"Chris Allen If you read his comment in the context of the article, you would never have gone there. Seriously."
It boggles my mind how people don't seem to realize that it doesn't make any sense to tell other people what they are thinking when said person has explicitly noted that they were not thinking that thing...
But it does not appear that continuing the conversation there would be productive.
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I just got back from a tooth extraction at a free clinic in Elgin. My teeth, the doctor said, have strong, broad roots. It took a bit over an hour, and involved sectioning the roots a couple times and removing some bone around them. He was a periodontist and doesn't regularly do extractions, if I understood correctly, but I thought he did a fine job. There was a second doctor watching and helping too, as well as a high school senior in a pre-med/dental program. I hope I helped her learn something!
Actually, I may have helped her learn a few things. I was talking about my work in libraries and my time in grad school and we ended up talking about journal article databases. I noted that I wasn't too familiar yet with medical databases, but I talked about Web of Science and the way it shows you links to both the article's citations, and the articles that cite it. She thought that sounded really great!
And then I offered tips to the dentist on doing better searches in databses in general (Use 'search within results' and make it an iterative process!)
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I got a mint milkshake on the way home, but my socket is still bleeding and I don't want to take the gauze out long enough to consume it. Soon I hope.
I was at a stop light in Evanston, almost home and ended up sitting still through the end of the yellow light. I wanted to make sure that the car approaching opposite me was actually going to stop. Before deciding for sure that the other driver wasn't going to run the yellow/red, I realized the driver of the car, a little-old-man, behind me was waving his fists around and possibly yelling at me inside the car. Amusingly enough, I was listening to the second track of an Offspring CD I picked up at a Goodwill stop near Elgin; that track seems to be a sort of ode to road rage, with the singer going on about how he keeps a gun in his glove box and threatens people with it regularly. It includes the line "Stupid dumbshit goddam motherfucker," and as I snickered as I imagined the little-old-man behind me swearing like a sailor (actually sailors are probably more creative, but you get the point) along with the song.
After I got through the intersection, he blatantly ignored the light to turn the other way and got honked at. See, this is why I don't assume people are going to stop on red...
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It's good to be home. I got tons of cleaning done yesterday and am going to be unproductive the rest of the day. I think that's fair.
In response to me saying that, in fact I had read the article and was aware of the context, but I felt that the thing I said needed to be said anyway:
"Chris Allen If you read his comment in the context of the article, you would never have gone there. Seriously."
It boggles my mind how people don't seem to realize that it doesn't make any sense to tell other people what they are thinking when said person has explicitly noted that they were not thinking that thing...
But it does not appear that continuing the conversation there would be productive.
---
I just got back from a tooth extraction at a free clinic in Elgin. My teeth, the doctor said, have strong, broad roots. It took a bit over an hour, and involved sectioning the roots a couple times and removing some bone around them. He was a periodontist and doesn't regularly do extractions, if I understood correctly, but I thought he did a fine job. There was a second doctor watching and helping too, as well as a high school senior in a pre-med/dental program. I hope I helped her learn something!
Actually, I may have helped her learn a few things. I was talking about my work in libraries and my time in grad school and we ended up talking about journal article databases. I noted that I wasn't too familiar yet with medical databases, but I talked about Web of Science and the way it shows you links to both the article's citations, and the articles that cite it. She thought that sounded really great!
And then I offered tips to the dentist on doing better searches in databses in general (Use 'search within results' and make it an iterative process!)
---
I got a mint milkshake on the way home, but my socket is still bleeding and I don't want to take the gauze out long enough to consume it. Soon I hope.
I was at a stop light in Evanston, almost home and ended up sitting still through the end of the yellow light. I wanted to make sure that the car approaching opposite me was actually going to stop. Before deciding for sure that the other driver wasn't going to run the yellow/red, I realized the driver of the car, a little-old-man, behind me was waving his fists around and possibly yelling at me inside the car. Amusingly enough, I was listening to the second track of an Offspring CD I picked up at a Goodwill stop near Elgin; that track seems to be a sort of ode to road rage, with the singer going on about how he keeps a gun in his glove box and threatens people with it regularly. It includes the line "Stupid dumbshit goddam motherfucker," and as I snickered as I imagined the little-old-man behind me swearing like a sailor (actually sailors are probably more creative, but you get the point) along with the song.
After I got through the intersection, he blatantly ignored the light to turn the other way and got honked at. See, this is why I don't assume people are going to stop on red...
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It's good to be home. I got tons of cleaning done yesterday and am going to be unproductive the rest of the day. I think that's fair.
