I had acute lymphoblastic leukemia in my 20s, so I'm already in debt to the brilliant folks who developed cyclophosphamide, vincristine, l-asparaginase, prednisone, methotrexate, dexamethasone, cytarabine, thioguanine, and mercaptopurine.

It's sad that people actually think this way. I have family members who have spent 30+ years in big pharma R&D and management, and their motivation has always been the patient, not dollars. There is no conspiracy, and you insult the thousands of scientists and physicians who are actively looking for these cures who…

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Actually, it's the 104th Fighter Wing, but yes, out of Westfield. Used to be home to the A-10 Thunderbolt; now we have the F-15 Eagle.

The two F-15's that escorted the plane took off from my hometown. I was on my way home from class when I saw what was presumably the two jets taking off.

A lot of the time I see what is obviously a Mac with the Apple logo covered up with a circular patch of gaffer tape. All because they aren't getting any $$ from Apple for product placement.

Perfects timing, Giz! I was searching the site last night for this very comparison. Need a fan ASAP as my bedroom somehow defies the laws of physics with a supreme lack of cross-ventilation.

Have you ever been to the beach? Black chairs are going to be hot as hell baking in the sun.

True, but if there are no consequences for going over during this trial period any words from them are hollow.

From the horse's mouth:

Gaaahh!!!! Of course I forget about the exception that proves the rule!

I will never purchase a car with the letter 'x' in its model, even if it runs on unobtanium, gets 319mpg, pulls 2g's on the skidpad and can do 0-200-0 in 12 seconds. Auto companies, stop trying to be cool to the Xtreme.

We had troughs at Fenway Park years ago, but at least the room itself was quite large. It's one thing being shoulder-to-shoulder with a couple guys, but being ass-to-ass at the same time is all kinds of weird.

That's a tagged white blood cell scan. Draw up 50-60cc of a patients blood, spin down the blood to separate the whitle blood cells, tag those cells to either In-111 or Tc-99m and reinject into the patient. The tracer localized to areas of infection, and is regularly used to help confirm osteomyelitis.

Bingo. Interestingly enough, many of our patients get a huge kick out of the knowledge that they're slightly radioactive. And I've printed out hard copies of whole body bone scans for them to hang on their refrigerators on more than one occasion.

It's standard practice for a nuclear medicine department to provide patients with a card documenting which radioisotope they were administered, the dose in mCi, and an expiration date. We do so for all our patients, and it's not uncommon for them to set off a Geiger counter in public.

Sounds like you had a bone scan, not a CT scan. What they likely injected you with was Technetium 99m MDP or HDP, which adsorbs to the surface of bone. Gamma cameras detect this radiation and the scan will show areas of increased bone activity. The radiation dose is quite small, and the vast majority of it is…

Oh the Feds, two steps behind as usual. The only people who even have a chance of seeing these (if they don't already know how to force through the "unskippable" warnings) are the people who acquired the discs legitimately.

Indeed — thought he was talking about seeing a 959 in the LFA photo. Although it doesn't look like the Porsche in the RS200 photo is a 959, either. More like a 70s-80s 911 with a front mounted oil cooler.

Invest a few bucks in a pair of work gloves and you'll be able to torque to your heart's content, regardless of the grip on the driver.