Aw, Steve . Get those hips done! I waited to long to do mine. NIck
On Thu, Jul 4, 2024 at 12:02 AM steve smith <sasm...@swcp.com> wrote: > Nick - > > > God, Steve, am I 20 years older than you???? But you're so OLD1 > > I know man. > > I have an 83 year old buddy who I share a huge number of strange > coincidences with, but once we get into the "good old days" I find that > I often wasn't born when he was already carousing hard. His first car > was a (rusted out, ratrod) 53 Corvette convertible, mine a 64 T-bird > (T-boned) we each paid $25 for our respectives... his maybe double > mine's value given inflation... but he was traveling between Las Vegas > NM and MIT when I was 3. I was born months before Sputnik made it up > and he was helping his father build a tuner circuit to tune in the > Beep-Beep-Beep as it went overhead. We both bought and learned to fly > the virtually identical antique airplane (47 Luscombe) as young men (he > just out of a BS in Socorro, and me after my Sophomore year in Casa > Grande AZ... we neither obtained a license, flying in and out of fields > without towers and avoiding busy airspace... or having a licensed > pilot with us (he flew to MA and back... me not so far ranging). But I > was 6-7 years old, living not that far from where he was flapping his > wings). > > When I was a young man I used to brag that I was 43 when I was 17 as a > virtue signal of my maturity... now those extra 16 years feel upon me, > especially when reading your description of the room-crossing. But > damned if I don't feel old... you and Frank are great examples, him with > his tennis playing and sports-car racing. > > I didn't have any hip infection but I recently gave up on my denial and > let an X-Ray tech take some pictures of my hips which had been vexing me > more and more for each of nearly 10 years. The radiologist joked, after > seeing the condition of both of my ball-joints that "if you sit still > for more than a few hours, this bone will fuse to that bone and you will > never bend at the hip again". The Ortho Surgeon I saw to invite to do > highly invasive surgery to implant some cyber-parts said, "I didn't know > they made ball-joints square like that"... sure enough, totally > flattened on top, both of them. Worst he'd ever seen? He probably > says that to all the old men. He reminded me of Doogie Howser. > Testimony to my ability to live in denial and/or make a virtue out of > suffering. > > I WAS holding out for when they could give me telescoping drywall stilts > in place of legs, but the ortho said "nup, not anytime soon, if for no > other reason than the time it takes to get such a thing through HIH > regulations". I *really* wanted a set of snap-on sockets so I could > switch out the fancy runner-springs, or manatee class swim-tail, or the > drywall stilts. who *doesn't* want to be able to clean their gutters > without a ladder and pick a penny off the floor without bending over? > My Hypershell lower body exoskeleton has been delayed (Yay kickstarter) > so I won't be finding out if *it* would have obviated the need to do > this for a few more years (decades?) with a weight "offset" of 60 lbs > specced (transfer from belt above hips to lower thigh above knee?), with > (supposedly) adaptive gait control and hopefully "regenerative > braking"... which is part of the delay (according to the company)... it > wasn't part of the original spec... but their recently launched > competitor has it in their spec so... arms-race? > > > > > i am grateful for your kind words, particularly coming from one of > > the best noodlers in the business. > > Glad to see/hear your noodler (i.e. the Dear Biden letter) is still > working well... My noodle is aleady atrophying under the > (mis)augmentation of LLMs. I can still wayfind with a map but any > month now I may forget how to construct a sentence without help. GPT > keeps his/her/their sentences down to only one or two clauses or > conditional phrases... maybe this is a good thing. Also eschews > parentheticals and this/that/the-other superpositions. Go GPT! > > - Stave > > > > -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom > https://bit.ly/virtualfriam > to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: 5/2017 thru present > https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ >
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