https://twitter.com/animalIife/status/1147880958852554753
My husband @ecologistMC out there weighing wood duck ducklings in solo cups and it’s so fluffy I wanna die pic.twitter.com/CEmjL3QAPN
— Imogene Cancellare (@biologistimo) July 6, 2019
Dear Disney,
I need whatever is happening here to be a movie. K? Thanks!pic.twitter.com/BxEs2EyzlW
— Travis Akers (@travisakers) July 7, 2019
Respite open thread
CaseyL
A crested duck! (The one in the last video, with what looks like a pom pom on its head). A grange store near where I used to work had a crested duck. Before I found out they were called crested ducks I called them Pom Pom Headed Ducks, and I am ridiculously crazy about them.
MomSense
Thank you for being my friend
Red Solo cup I fill you up
raven
The Solo Cup factory is in Urbana right across the street from our women’s softball field!
eclare
OMG, the cuteness! I may die of cuteness overload, not a bad way to go.
NotMax
@raven
Trivia: Solo now owned by the Dart brothers, both of whom renounced their American citizenship in the mid-90s.
RAVEN
@NotMax: Sounds like it was bidness
plato
catfishing. literally.
laura
That weinie dog looks like my boon companion Chet, only dinky and less jealous, much less jealous.
That Beagle and Crested, that’s love- I’d recognize it anywhere.
NotMax
@RAVEN
Only reason I remember that is it struck me as somewhat odd they did so, as the original company founded by their grandfather, which eventually grew into Dart Industries, made dog tags for the U.S. military.
Baud
I always wondered what possesses dudes to send women duck pics.
Raven
@NotMax: I keep mine on my key ring with my P-38.
rikyrah
All of them are soooooo cute???
Raven
Megan on Rachel
Steve in the ATL
@NotMax: so what the hell are we supposed to use for beer pong?
Nicole
Oh my heart!
We just got back from seeing the live-action Aladdin (the 9-year-old saw it already and was very firm that we HAD to see it, thank goodness for AMC’s $6 Tuesdays) and after 2.5 hours of CGI animals, it’s nice to see video of real ones.
(Movie was fine. Did not hate my life while watching, which, these days, is often all I ask when attending theatrical entertainment.)
opiejeanne
The one in the Solo cup is just too adorable. I think I’m daid now, D-A-I-D!
NotMax
@Steve in the ATL
Trivia: At Utah State University, students play root beer pong. Really.
Jay
zhena gogolia
Klaatu barada nikto
NotMax
@zhena gogolia
Someone was watching TCM.
;)
zhena gogolia
@NotMax:
Yep, pretty great. Would you believe, I’ve never watched it from beginning to end before.
zhena gogolia
Looks as if I killed the lovely ducky thread.
Good night, all!
NotMax
@zhena gogolia
Got a similar (and lesser) SF message movie also starring Patricia Neal sitting in the Prime queue.
zhena gogolia
@NotMax:
Ooh, Helmut Dantine!
mrmoshpotato
@NotMax: Was TCM playing Evil Dead or Evil Dead 2? :)
Martin
Wow, what a coincidence!
Cyrus Vance, who famously dropped a case against the Trump spawn after Marc Kasowitz visited him. Cyrus Vance also asked a judge to put Epstein on the weakest tier of the sex offender registry. And what was that question that Kamala asked Kavanaugh?
Boy, there’s 300 million people in this country and yet the same names keep showing up over and over and over in the strangest places. There’s some shit in Epstein’s safe, and I’m not sure we’re going to know the whole measure of it.
mrmoshpotato
Starting the last episode of Set 1 of Foyle’s War. It’s sooooo good.
The Lodger
I’m just glad you know people who still have some ducks to give.
mrmoshpotato
@The Lodger: LMAO Well played.
Rob
That first picture!! So cute.
Omnes Omnibus
@The Lodger: Delete your account.
lamh36
Evening BJ…another long day at work today, then some studying for a class exam tomorrow evening…and just now finishing some phone interview prep stuff.
It’s a phone interview screening w/the recruiter for the area hospital. I’m trying to come up w/at least 5 questions I would like to have answered if the recruiter allows me. I’m pretty sure I have them but I am willing to substitute one or more of them if anyone can come up with a better question or wording.
it’s always a bit weird for me, cause it’s the HR recruiter screening applicants and not the actual folks you’d be working with/for…so I always think the recruiter questions should be different
So here are the questions I’ve come up with. The working may not be exact, but the gist is the same regardless.
1. question will be about the “culture” of the organization…I.E. how many I’d supervise and/or how many would supervise me. Eessentialy the way I tell if it a supervisory or “subordinate” role…rather than say “who’s my boss”
2. question I’ve asked before about matriculation/retention..what I mean is I’d like to know if the lab has mostly close to retirement or newly educated workforce…but I’m not sure if the recruiter would know that
3. question would the job require cross-education w/MDs as well as lab personnel, or will it be focused on the lab only…so many MDs are just…ugh when it comes to listening to “lowly” lab folks.
4. Question coupled with above is whether or not my duties would include education coordination across the hospital system (they have a main campus, but also manage and own a bunch of hospitals and clinics)
5. ’d like to ask a question about “workload” w/o getting into salary or exact hours, but I might just have to ask if she doesn’t provide the info. (I’ll wait to discuss wages if there is an actual job offer. Although I’d like to know what the job pays if anything). So this question was gonna be something like..what was the average work week or even work day like for the previous occupant of the job, that is if they actually HAD a previous occupant or if the job was “recently” created
6. Finally, if this thing progresses…how soon can I expect to hear back about the next step/how soon do they want the position filled…another question I might ask about
That’s all I’ve got right now.
Hope everyone had a great day and if not, a better night.
ThresherK
@laura: LouLou has a YouTube channel and it is well worth checking out.
She reminds me of my grandma’s Dachshund Fritzi (the name was the law at the time) from my childhood.
piratedan
@lamh36: i think a legit question to ask is what kind of online instrumentation do they use and are there any plans to add additional instruments or change their existing one….and if there are any plans to automate the process because of volume….
hervevillechaizelounge
@NotMax:
If you like Patricia Neal I would strongly recommend her autobiography, even though it forever killed my affection for Roald Dahl.
Also, someone on an earlier thread mentioned the film Die Wannseekonferenz; an English dub is available on the youtubes if anyone is interested: LINK
And finally—and I really struggled with whether to mention this—Ken Lay isn’t dead. I know it sounds crazy but not only did I see him in Boston in 2004 but that fucker knew I recognized him. He smirked at me and walked away.
I wanted to point and shriek like Donald Sutherland in the 70s remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers but back then I had a lot more decorum.
Steve in the ATL
@lamh36:
Pretty much everything.
Major Major Major Major
This post is about the amount of politics I can deal with right now.
frosty
@mrmoshpotato:
Yes it is. I watched the whole thing a year ago.
Another Scott
@Martin: C-Span Video of Harris’s question to Kavanaugh (7:56)
Man, was he squirming.
Cheers,
Scott.
mrmoshpotato
@Major Major Major Major: Hello M^4. Hope you’ve been well.
mrmoshpotato
@frosty: My local library is missing 2 or 3 sets, so I bought the whole series off eBay.
Gonna have to wait to start Set 2.
hilts
RIP Rip Torn
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/rip-torn-dead-larry-sanders-887059
Ohio Mom
@hervevillechaizelounge: I didn’t read Patricia Neal’s autobiography bit I did read Dahl’s memoir and he had a nightmare of a childhood. The headmaster at
his boarding school thrashed him so hard that he hurt the rest of his life. It’s not an excuse for his poor behavior as a spouse but maybe it is a bit of an explanation?
Re: Ken Lay, there was (as I remember) a fairly substantial rumor that he faked his death. For one thing, the timing was too perfect. In this age of cell phone cameras, if I were him, I’d lay a little lower.
Ohio Mom
@lamh36: Ohio Dad is looking for a job and has had several screening phone interviews recently.
He’s in a different field than you (programming) so this may be irrelevant, but the HR people he’s talked to have tended to be pretty vague about the details of the job. Some of it could be that they don’t know anything technical and are in no position to talk about the ins and outs of software development, though it seems that their main goal is to make sure Ohio Dad isn’t a blithering psychopath.
Ohio Mom
There must be s new thread or everyone has gone to sleep, I seem to be the only one left here.
opiejeanne
@hervevillechaizelounge: I knew it! I knew that fucker wasn’t dead!
Steeplejack
@Another Scott:
What did Kavanaugh answer to that specific question?
trollhattan
@Steeplejack:
“I like beer.”