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Skriven 2014-12-01 21:59:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
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-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 11-30-14  15:32 <=-

 NB>>> That could work if never called upon, I'd guess...  Any developments
 NB>>> there...? 
 ML>> I asked, and he said that he enjoyed the interview but
 ML>> hadn't heard back (he never hears back).
 NB>> Oh, well.  Guess one shouldn't hold breath in case...  ;)
 ML> One's not holding one's breath. I just hope that I am
 ML> far away or dead by the time he runs through all his
 ML> inheritance. There's still the house, though, the
 ML> proceeds from whose sale should keep him going a few years.

One hopes.  Do part of the house proceeds go to you, or is it all
his...? 

 ML>> Nowadays, with all the electronics in one's pants, it
 ML>> may be quite possible to have one's brain if not body
 ML>> in more than one place at once.
 NB>> True.  Sometimes the body is called for, though...
 ML> I have more and more friends whose physical presence
 ML> at the office is seldom if ever required any more.

Offices seem to be more and more virtual, true....  but if an object has
to be physically picked up or dealt with, virtual doesn't work so well.
I know that even medicine is becoming more virtual, though, with techs
being given instruction for doing procedures though a video link, and
such... and robotics being set up to do things with the remotes at some
remote location... definitely a new world...  ;)
 
 ML>> I'm against universal literacy not because of the concept
 ML>> but because of the impossibility of the promise.
 NB>> Indeed.  It's a nice premise, but follow-through in the reality rarely
 NB>> works out as planned.
 ML> The world would probably be a better place with widespread
 ML> true literacy, but the way it's done, take some arbitrarily
 ML> low level of competence and define it as literacy, that way
 ML> disaster lies.

True.

 ML>> Chilacayota refreshing drink
 ML>> 4 L water
 ML>> 1 1/2 kg brown sugar
 NB>> Maybe instead of drink, it's meant to be dessert...?  But it is about
 NB>> a gallon of water, and the pineapple might add more juice to it...
 ML> As that's 3.3 lb of sugar to 5 lb of water and 7-8 lb of
 ML> fruit substance, so the final result as the recipe goes
 ML> is 20% sugar, a substantial proportion, generously sweet
 ML> even for a dessert. But the title is "refreshing drink."

Maybe it has some resemblance (however slight) to a thick milkshake...? 

 ML>> The Aussies flat-out admit that it was the cost of medevac
 ML>> that precipitated their rule. Of course, with the new protocol
 ML>> under which I was initially treated, all they have to do now
 ML>> is stock a couple of 14-day courses of antibiotics.
 NB>> And be prepared to send home on next commercial/regular flight... 
 ML> Scheduled, anyway. There aren't commercial flights to
 ML> Antarctica, else I'd have been there by now.

Ok, I guess I was being a little optimistic there...  ;)
 
 ML>> I wonder what other medical emergencies an outstation should
 ML>> be expected to be prepared for. Gallbladder, anyone?
 NB>> Anything could happen...  They have to take care of broken bones and
 NB>> frostbite etc already, too...  I trust they have a good generalist on
 NB>> site to handle any such emergencies...  :)
 ML> No doubt. Otherwise there would have to be, for practical
 ML> reasons, detailed physical examination of any potential
 ML> travelers (such as ordinary ones used to endure before long
 ML> risky trips). I think that the hardiest voyagers would not
 ML> want to spend substantial time away from available emergency
 ML> health care.

Maybe depends on how much they are into the experimental aspects of the
whole situation... and how driven to be a part of it...  Kinda like the
early explorers, who took chances, some of which of course turned out to
be totally disastrous...  :)

 NB>>> ... Tomatoes and oregano make it Italian.
 ML>> One can of course substitute catnip for the oregano.
 NB>> Would the Italians notice...?   ;)
 ML> Perhaps, perhaps not. They're reasonably closely
 ML> related in taste and genetics.

A related question would be whether a cat would roll as excitedly in
oregano as in catnip...?   ;)
 
 ML> Celtnet, which apparently has not so great a reputation for
 ML> accuracy, posts this as "risotto alle erbe e nuputedda" -
 ML> Gnocchi alle Erbe e Niputedda (Catnip Gnocci)

Clearly gnocchi, not risotto... interesting swop...  :)

ttyl        neb

... If the British can survive their meals, they can survive anything.

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