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Miracle Whip Recipe Change Inquiry to Kraft-Heinz!
What do you know? Sena got a jar of Miracle Whip and I sent an inquiry to Kraft-Heinz the same day inquiring about how, why, and when did the manufacturer change the recipe for the salad dressing that a lot of older people are so unhappy about. I wrote the post “What Happened to Miracle…
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The Bleeping Robot Waiters, Man!
Sena told me about a news story she read about robot waiters in restaurants. I guess that’s a thing nowadays. It’s not hard to imagine things going wrong with that. In fact, I saw one article about a dancing robot in a restaurant that didn’t just bust a move—it busted a few dishes. How do…
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Reblog of “Ten Month Countdown to Retirement”
This is a special reblog that always pangs me when I think of it. It was when I started the 10-month countdown to my retirement from my career as a consultation-liaison psychiatrist at University of Iowa Health Care. It’s not easy leaving what I’d come to consider a calling. That was hard. It’s being a…
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Svengoolie Show Movie: “Man Made Monster”
Svengoolie Intro: “Calling all stations! Clear the air lanes! Clear all air lanes for the big broadcast! The 1941 movie “Man Made Monster” starred Lon Chaney Jr. (as Big Dan, Dan McCormick) who later starred in “The Wolf Man”) as the monster; Lionel Atwill as Dr. Paul Rigas, the mad scientist who created the monster.…
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Reblogging “Holes in Our Heads”
You know, I’m reblogging this post “Holes in Our Heads” because it was fun to write several years ago. I hope people think it’s fun to read.
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Anyone for Tennis 423, Juggle Style?
Well, for the last couple of days I’ve been working on my usual ordinary style of 423 juggling. I sort of learned how to play the tennis trick in 423. It’s different enough to learn from the usual tennis in the 3-ball cascade that I had to work pretty hard at it. I learned these…
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Thoughts on Super Movers
This post isn’t about burly guys who move your furniture. I found this article about super movers who are persons 80 years old or older with walking speeds comparable to those who are 30 years younger. Verghese J, Cotton K, Sathyan S, Ayers E, Mahoney JR, De Sanctis P, Wang C, Jin Y, Blumen HM,…
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Reblog: “Bent Out of Shape”: About a Cell Phone Right Out of the Fred Flintstone Era
This is a reblog of “Bent out of Shape,” the story of how my old cell phone’s battery swelled up and posed a risk of exploding in my ear. OK, it never did and that’s a good thing. I had that stone-age phone for so long, you’d think I’d have just bought a new one.…
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Jim Juggles the 423 Pattern Ordinary Style!
So, I found this 423-juggling pattern on Logan’s Juggling Gym website. It’s classified as an easy pattern. I can buy that because I can do it—sort of. I can’t explain why the patterns in this category are called by the number “423” and maybe somebody could find out about it and get back to me.…
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Way to Go Dr. David Mair!
I just want to make a shout out to a former psychiatry resident I helped teach about 18 years ago. He and a group of other residents did an outstanding and hilarious job of making a couple of teaching videos about how to cope with violent patients. I realize that news stories about health care…
