THE KNOWLEDGE . . . IT FILLS ME!

I remember in my EMT class in one of the first sessions, we were being trained to take vitals—pulse, respirations, BP (via old-fashioned stethoscope; none of that auto-cuff crap for us). Out of 22 people, 20 had either no watch and had to whip out their phones and open the Stopwatch app or else they had Fitbits or…

I joked back in the Disqus days that I’d bet a certain number of buggy whip makers are actually doing quite well this day, having retooled slightly to sell bespoke S&M whips and riding crops on Etsy.

[lazy joke about artisinal, free-range home-surveillance hubs]

6 Canadians is like 10 Americans once you convert from metric, right?

“Where do you put an entire city worth of wasted goods?”

Flood denialism: Knew we’d eventually get to this point.

Oh good: Flood denialists. Knew we’d eventually get to this point with you people.

Is he actually?

Can anyone with historical/geographic knowledge explain to me why Houston was established where it was? Yeah, yeah: Fairly spacious harbor protected (*snurk*) by barrier islands. Still, seems like a monumentally bad decision to build a major city directly on a storm-ridden sea on the lowest ground for miles around.

“Gawker”, huh? Never heard of that site. Is it new?

What’s the old saw? “’Tis better to say nothing and be thought a fool than to open one’s mouth and remove all doubt”?

“The whole dad chasing after his son no matter what the expense is something I quickly tired of....”

Red Five, standing by