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autofac

  1. Postop day 1: pain killers are a REALLY neat invention ;-) Actually not too much pain; starting to walk around already...
  2. Ok, properly back in land of the conscious; ROBOT performed great, and sugeon wasn't so bad either! :-)
  3. I go under the ROBOT early tomorrow, so officially disconnecting now ... next update only whenever I'm silly enough to connect again!
  4. Let's just hope they don't have to call the ROBOT help desk: youtube.com/watch?v=nn2FB1… ;-)
  5. which is all very cool: tinyurl.com/5ukwnc7
  6. And it's going to be done by ROBOT (OK, by a highly skilled surgeon ... using a ROBOT) ...
  7. So, brief context for those still listening: autofac needs some routine/preventative surgery ...
  8. ... so now might be a good time to "unfollow" ;-)
  9. This channel switching for a while to updates on autofac's little bit of medical treatment ...
  10. Saturday smile - do read "The Inequality Speech That TED Won't Show You" ;-) tinyurl.com/893fhzg
  11. Weird weather? Yup ... just connect the dots! climatedots.org/watch
  12. Heartland: "Global Warming is a delusion" guardian.co.uk/environment/bl… Me: "Those are all mistakes, Otto. I looked them up." imdb.com/title/tt009515…
  13. Exponential Economist Meets Finite Physicist - guess who wins? physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/20…
  14. @tpverde "bailed to Costa Rica ... best of luck to all in these 'interesting times'" Hmmm - lifeboat time yet? theautomaticearth.org/Finance/just-w…
  15. Peak plastic? (buy up those landfills quick!) - boingboing.net/2012/04/26/pea… via @BoingBoing
  16. Phew!! Tks to Stephen Daniels, DCU/NUIM/DIT/TCD Smart Energy Innovation Centre #SEIC preproposal submitted to #SFI: fingers crossed!
  17. @fuzionireland 2 - 1 hour table 31
  18. "How to protect your home from Leprechauns" - hope for the future on the day that's in it! tinyurl.com/7w6kwa7
  19. "What use scientific predictions if we just stand around and wait for them to come true?" Sherwood Rowland, RIP tinyurl.com/7cqqpg2
  20. Urgent message from Captain Gupta: pitch perfect parable for our time! tinyurl.com/76qn5d2