I think it’s from the boot camp scenes in the movie Full Metal Jacket.
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I always read “f/u w/PCP” as “fucked up on PCP” instead of “follow up with primary care provider”.
A nurse at work had “CA$H MONEY” tattooed inside her lip. Sounded like the result of a drunken dare/bet.
Our neighborhood has the Magical Chicken Wing bush. The dog thoroughly inspected it for months afterwards, and still checks on it now and then just in case.
Looks like NOAA has historical data here: https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/historical_data.shtml. The buoy from the screenshot in the article only has a few years worth, here’s 2019: https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/download_data.php?filename=jkyf1h2019.txt.gz&dir=data/historical/stdmet/
Personally, I can’t write and listen at the same time. The few times I tried to take notes in class, I ended up missing everything the teacher said while I was writing. I did best if I focused as intently as I could on what the instructor said and asked clarifying questions. (Fortunately, slideshows were usually available on the class website, so I didn’t have to worry about not having the information later.)
I do keep a notebook in my desk at home, and will sometimes jot down ideas related to personal projects in there. I feel that hand writing in this case helps cement the idea better than typing it. It’s also nice to be able to write down a quick idea without waking up the computer, logging in, loading up a program/website, whatever.
My link issues seem to be fixed, I haven’t gotten any more crashes or white screens so far. Thank you!
“Die With Your Boots On” and “The Trooper” for me.
I just finished “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien. It’s a series of haunting (and sometimes poetic) stories from the author’s experiences as an American soldier during the Vietnam War.
I just started “Because Our Fathers Lied” by Craig McNamara. It’s about his growing up in the shadow of his father, Robert MacNamara, a Secretary of Defense and one of the architects of the Vietnam War (which the son and his friends were opposed to).
My backlog is digital, since the only way I’ll end up actually getting reading done these days is if it’s on my phone. If I hear about something interesting (usually either an NPR interview or mentioned online), I’ll either buy ebooks for Kindle (if they’re on sale) or obtain epub/mobi’s from other sources. I try not to do this too often, since it takes me a while to get through things. I think I have a dozen or so items in the backlog at the moment.
No change with allowing 5353 UDP through the firewall, unfortunately. But thank you for the suggestion!