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DukePA
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by DukePA » July 22nd, 2017, 12:25 pm
windsor wrote:Three years ago today we picked up Tyler - the practically perfect puppy
I need a P3 fix. Is there a Duke Football weekend on the calendar this fall, Windsor? I know you'll be busy with Windsor Daughter's wedding. BTW, how are the plans coming?
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DukePA
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by DukePA » July 22nd, 2017, 12:27 pm
ArkieDukie wrote:bjornolf wrote:My wife is the queen of Clue!
A couple weeks ago, we were playing Clue at Nags Head for a family game night. We decided to use the beach side of the board since we were... at the beach. We'd never used it before, so we were trying to figure out the extra cards. My wife, my dad, our kids Katie and Michael, and I were playing. So, my wife roles highest and gets to go first. She roles an 11 and goes to the beach location. She says, "Hmmm, I'll go with myself, Miss Scarlet, with the wrench, at the beach." Nobody has it, so she accuses and is correct, thus sending herself away for murder and winning in one turn. HOW INSANE IS THAT?!!!
Has anyone else ever witnessed a one turn game of Clue? Or any board game?
Now when something crazy happens, I just say, "Miss Scarlet, rope, beach" and everyone cracks up.
Anybody know the probability of something like that?
That's pretty impressive!
Wow!!! Go, Mrs. Bjornolf!!!
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DukePA
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by DukePA » July 22nd, 2017, 12:32 pm
OZZIE4DUKE wrote:We were sitting with friends, and they started talking about driving to South Carolina to see the total eclipse of the Sun on August 21. We'll, to get to Clemson (where the center line passes over, or even Greenville, is close to a 4 hour drive. So I asked Siri how total the eclipse would be in Greensboro? The answer is below. We'll stay home and watch it
Here instead!
https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/in/usa/greensboro
94% is good enough for me to save 8 hours of driving!
Cool link! 94% here, too
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ArkieDukie
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by ArkieDukie » July 22nd, 2017, 12:50 pm
DukePA wrote:ArkieDukie wrote:I haven't talked about the new place much. So far things are okay. I work with 2 research groups; both PIs are members of the National Academy of Sciences. Funny thing is, the one I get along with best at the moment is the one everyone told me is difficult. I'm still trying to figure out what the nice one thinks of me. One research group (the alleged asshole) has a great group of people. The nice guy's group is very dysfunctional. There's a group of Mean Girls (2 girls, one guy) that talk about everyone behind their backs. They're basically insecure. I figured them out pretty quickly, especially when they were texting back and forth during my presentation at group meeting. The lab manager made a comment at lunch one day that the group would be great if she could just get rid of 3 people. I asked her (whispered) if she meant the mean girls, and her mouth dropped open. She couldn't believe I had figured them out so quickly, and then relayed what I had said to the rest of the table. None of the other folks are members of the group in question. Conversation ensued. They have a reputation in the entire department, and I picked up on it quicker than most. The PI is somewhat oblivious of the situation; he travels a lot. When everyone else left, the lab manager asked for my advice on how to deal with them. My advice was to ignore them and their clique. They basically try to recruit/poison every new person who enters the lab. The nice people need to rise above them and form an alternative group to the mean girls IMO.
Does the lab manager realize you are the Zen Master when it comes to dealing with lab personnel dysfunction? They are fortunate to have you on the team, AD!
Thanks! If I'm a zen master, I owe it to Windsor the Great.
Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.
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lawgrad91
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by lawgrad91 » July 24th, 2017, 9:04 am
DukePA wrote:OZZIE4DUKE wrote:We were sitting with friends, and they started talking about driving to South Carolina to see the total eclipse of the Sun on August 21. We'll, to get to Clemson (where the center line passes over, or even Greenville, is close to a 4 hour drive. So I asked Siri how total the eclipse would be in Greensboro? The answer is below. We'll stay home and watch it
Here instead!
https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/in/usa/greensboro
94% is good enough for me to save 8 hours of driving!
Cool link! 94% here, too
I'm going to ask off for half a day. 85% in the Varnish Zone, 95% in Winston-Salem.
Thanks for posting the link!
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by lawgrad91 » July 25th, 2017, 2:05 pm
Would it be appropriate for me to beat up a woman in the waiting room and take her Chipotle? Rev LG couldn't eat past midnight. I got up earlier than he did and ate so it wouldn't bother him, and I'm hungry.
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by lawgrad91 » July 25th, 2017, 2:06 pm
I'm bored.
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by lawgrad91 » July 25th, 2017, 2:07 pm
We are going to lunch after the Rev LG gets done. He wil have an eye patch.
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by lawgrad91 » July 25th, 2017, 2:11 pm
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by lawgrad91 » July 25th, 2017, 2:12 pm
The waiting room needs a walking track or treadmills so the lady next to me and I can activate our FitBits.
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DukieInKansas
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by DukieInKansas » July 25th, 2017, 4:27 pm
lawgrad91 wrote:We are going to lunch after the Rev LG gets done. He wil have an eye patch.
Will he be talking like a pirate?
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by windsor » July 25th, 2017, 5:22 pm
This is the practically perfect puppy...being perfect
These are our Jumpers runs from this weekend
https://youtu.be/c0AFM2JaCzY
https://youtu.be/xhBgPC7LCco
All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost.
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by lawgrad91 » July 25th, 2017, 6:06 pm
Thanks! Wish I had seen them a little earlier.
I had time to have read a lot of them in the waiting room.
No, I didn't commit robbery for the Chipotle.
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by lawgrad91 » July 25th, 2017, 6:09 pm
Thanks for posting! Go Tyler! That was fun to watch.
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by Very Duke Blue » July 25th, 2017, 7:00 pm
I hope this is my last "Day from Hell" for a long time. Nothing went like it was supposed too. On top of my awful day, Bud has been working on a plumbing problem most of the day.
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by DukieInKansas » July 25th, 2017, 7:01 pm
Very Duke Blue wrote:I hope this is my last "Day from Hell" for a long time. Nothing went like it was supposed too. On top of my awful day, Bud has been working on a plumbing problem most of the day.
I hope the plumbing problem gets fixed soon. May tomorrow be a better day.
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by lawgrad91 » July 25th, 2017, 8:09 pm
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by YmoBeThere » July 25th, 2017, 9:14 pm
1993 was the year Igraduated from Ekud.