Delurking for a change

[laep]

Hello HalForumItes.

Name's Laep. Actually, the name's Nick, but you know the drill. I'm normally too shy to delurk, but since I'm under the influence of vicodin as I recover from having my gallbladder removed, I figured I'd pop my head in and introduce myself. I've been hanging around as a lurker since the late days of the Image boards, so I'm familiar with most of the old-timers.

I'd say Ask Me Anything but you probably don't REALLY want to know the details.







Ah, hell, go ahead. Ask Me Anything, I guess.

[Cajungal]

Glad you unlurked! Hope you're mending well from your operation.

I have questions!

Favorite movie to watch when you're all hopped up on Vicodin?

What do you do for a living?

[laep]

Glad you unlurked! Hope you're mending well from your operation.

I have questions!

Favorite movie to watch when you're all hopped up on Vicodin?

What do you do for a living?

Favorite movie has to be Memento. It makes more sense when you're high.

As for work, I'm a diagnostic medical physicist, which sounds more glamorous than it is. Basically, I'm the guy whose job it is to make sure the x-ray machines, CT scanners, and mammography machines are working like they should and not putting out too much radiation. I also do calculations for how much lead to put in walls of radiology departments and how much radiation dose certain procedures give over others.

Eyes glazed over yet?

[Dave]

Wait! Diagnostic Medical Physicist and you are on Vicodin?!?

Holy fuck! YOU'RE HOUSE!!

Welcome, House!

[Cajungal]

Not at all. That's a very important job.

What superpower would you want if you could have one for a day?

[Hylian]

If you could permanently ban one person from the boards who would you ban?

[North_Ranger]

Welcome, welcome

Now tell us your funniest work-related anecdote. Extra internets if it involves steak.

[drawn_inward]

I've got a bunch of medical physicists in my cube farm. Welcome, sir.

Why would you be shy on the internet? What's there to be shy about?

[laep]

Wait! Diagnostic Medical Physicist and you are on Vicodin?!?

Holy fuck! YOU'RE HOUSE!!

Welcome, House!

Hah. Thanks. At the moment, I actually walk with a cane, too. WILL THE SIMILARITIES NEVER END?

What superpower would you want if you could have one for a day?

Right now I wouldn't mind Claire Bennet's ability, assuming it hasn't changed since halfway through Heroes Season 2 when I stopped watching due to boredom. Any other day though I think I'd take the ability to fly.

If you could permanently ban one person from the boards who would you ban?

Invader.
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Seriously, though, such weighty matters are not to be considered by one on opioids such as myself.

Now tell us your funniest work-related anecdote. Extra internets if it involves steak.

Actually, it does. Three years ago I was at an MRI training conference in Houston with a bunch of other physicists. We get to our final lab of the day, everyone's very eager to be done because there's a free (well, included in the tuition) steak dinner this evening. As a precaution, everyone empties their pockets of wallets, keys, phones etc to keep the magnet from junking them before they enter the scanner room. It's routine for anyone who does work on these units - but this particular time the one thing that wasn't part of the routine was the hotel room key. Imagine my surprise when I see 25-30 MS to PhD level physicists in the hotel lobby, mostly the older generation who I greatly look up to, standing in line to get their keycards reactivated so they can actually get to the steak dinner.

Okay, that's not really that funny.

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I've got a bunch of medical physicists in my cube farm. Welcome, sir.

Why would you be shy on the internet? What's there to be shy about?

Where, praytell, is your cube farm?

And the shyness, I think, is overcompensation for my gratuitous overconfidence in real life. Kind of reverse from normal, I suppose. Plus, with all the SRS BZNS around here I more often than not just don't feel inclined to get involved.

[PatrThom]

Laparoscopic? Or did you do it the old-fashioned way?

--Patrick

[laep]

Laparoscopic? Or did you do it the old-fashioned way?

--Patrick

Laparascopic, though with a larger-than-normal working incision. Apparently at age 29 I've managed to acquire the gallbladder of an 85 year old man who's eaten nothing but buffalo wings and sausage gravy his whole life. The op was yesterday and I can sort of move around today - but I won't be back to pushing fluoroscopes and lifting CT phantoms for about a month.

[Dave]

So how do you pronounce your handle and from where does it originate?

[drawn_inward]

Where, praytell, is your cube farm?.

Oklahoma State University. I'm in a multi-disciplined research facility. I'm a Microbiologist, btw. I hear a lot of talk about what you folks do. Sounds like fun.

[laep]

So how do you pronounce your handle and from where does it originate?

It's pronounced "Laype". It's abbreviated from my old Everquest handle, a ranger named Laeplacaen Opperatur. Seeing as I was a grad student in physics at the time and my roommates' names were Hameeltonean and Shrodingeer, it kind of made sense.

Oklahoma State University. I'm in a multi-disciplined research facility. I'm a Microbiologist, btw. I hear a lot of talk about what you folks do. Sounds like fun.

My company currently has a pending bid to supply the diagnostic and nuclear medicine physics services for a major hospital system in Tulsa. Other than that and that the football coach at your institution is a MAN (he's 42!) I know nothing about Oklahoma. I'm a West Virginia native, myself.

[North_Ranger]

Nonsense, the steak story was amusing

Now, which forumite would you most like to meet and where?

Single, dating, steady, married, polyamorous?

You are in a locked room with a warthog, two feet of string, some bubblegum and a Betamax tape of German porn. How do you use these to stop a nuclear bomb, also located in the room, from detonating? You have three minutes.

[Cajungal]

It's gettin Macguyver up in this bitch.

[Dave]

You are in a locked room with a warthog, two feet of string, some bubblegum and a Betamax tape of German porn. How do you use these to stop a nuclear bomb, also located in the room, from detonating? You have three minutes.

He blows up.

[laep]

Nonsense, the steak story was amusing

Now, which forumite would you most like to meet and where?

Single, dating, steady, married, polyamorous?

You are in a locked room with a warthog, two feet of string, some bubblegum and a Betamax tape of German porn. How do you use these to stop a nuclear bomb, also located in the room, from detonating? You have three minutes.

Married, two kids, and I'd do it all over again.

I'd love to get GasBandit and Krisken in a room to see if/when they'd make out. I think I'd also like to meet DarkAudit (or perhaps already have, as I spent way too many nights of my undergraduate education wandering drunk down High Street in Morgantown). Oh, and CG, just cause you seem nice.

Regarding the bomb, yeah, I'd just let it blow up. I'd love to come up with a witty response, but the drugs are messing with my brain at the moment.

[North_Ranger]

"The test subject's higher cerebral functions are unresponsive to the puzzle presented. Recommend change in dosage."

Alrighty, thanks for participating

[PatrThom]

Simple. Remove the detonator control for the tamping charges with the toolkit and it won't go off. You forgot to mention the toolkit in your description of the room contents. It was sitting right next to the meticulously detailed scale model of the Kobiyashi Maru.

Alternate answer: Sculpt some big fake testicles out of the bubblegum and tie them under the warthog with the string. Make the warthog dance/interact with the german porn video running as a backdrop. The bomb won't go off, ever again.

--Patrick

[PCT]

Hello HalForumItes.

Name's Laep. Actually, the name's Nick, but you know the drill. I'm normally too shy to delurk, but since I'm under the influence of vicodin as I recover from having my gallbladder removed, I figured I'd pop my head in and introduce myself. I've been hanging around as a lurker since the late days of the Image boards, so I'm familiar with most of the old-timers.

I'd say Ask Me Anything but you probably don't REALLY want to know the details.

Ah, hell, go ahead. Ask Me Anything, I guess.

.

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You are in a locked room with a warthog, two feet of string, some bubblegum and a Betamax tape of German porn. How do you use these to stop a nuclear bomb, also located in the room, from detonating? You have three minutes.

1. attach the still freshly used bubblegum to the betamax film

2. Disconnect the wires of the detonator, from the battery with hands.

3. Use the betamax/gum device to adhere to the neutron trigger, and quickly remove it from the bomb. Feed said Neutron trigger to warthog.

4. remove now harmless conventional explosives.

5 Fuck the uranium, let the warthog eat that.

[laep]

Hello HalForumItes.

Name's Laep. Actually, the name's Nick, but you know the drill. I'm normally too shy to delurk, but since I'm under the influence of vicodin as I recover from having my gallbladder removed, I figured I'd pop my head in and introduce myself. I've been hanging around as a lurker since the late days of the Image boards, so I'm familiar with most of the old-timers.

I'd say Ask Me Anything but you probably don't REALLY want to know the details.

Ah, hell, go ahead. Ask Me Anything, I guess.

.

Awesome. Did you make that just for me?

---------- Post added at 07:18 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:08 PM ----------

You are in a locked room with a warthog, two feet of string, some bubblegum and a Betamax tape of German porn. How do you use these to stop a nuclear bomb, also located in the room, from detonating? You have three minutes.

1. attach the still freshly used bubblegum to the betamax film

2. Disconnect the wires of the detonator, from the battery with hands.

3. Use the betamax/gum device to adhere to the neutron trigger, and quickly remove it from the bomb. Feed said Neutron trigger to warthog.

4. remove now harmless conventional explosives.

5 Fuck the uranium, let the warthog eat that.

You're assuming it's a uranium bomb. I see nothing in the original description that tells me whether it's a uranium or plutonium bomb. Uranium bombs don't even have a neutron trigger.

[PCT]

Haha, I'm assuming a fantasy scenario requires a ridiculous answer. Re the poster, yes I did, nicklaep

[laep]

I ran out of Vicodin two days ago. This makes me sad. Luckily Advil is all I need now... though I do miss the buzz.

[Dave]

Good to see you again, Dr. House!

[North_Ranger]

Aw crap, Cuddy's gonna go into conniptions...

[Krisken]

I'd love to get GasBandit and Krisken in a room to see if/when they'd make out..

Wait, what? How did I miss this?!?!?

I'm sure he's a nice guy and all, but my heart belongs to my lovely wife

[laep]

I'd love to get GasBandit and Krisken in a room to see if/when they'd make out..

Wait, what? How did I miss this?!?!?

I'm sure he's a nice guy and all, but my heart belongs to my lovely wife

I can just feelthe love between you two in the politics forum.

[Krisken]

I'd love to get GasBandit and Krisken in a room to see if/when they'd make out..

Wait, what? How did I miss this?!?!?

I'm sure he's a nice guy and all, but my heart belongs to my lovely wife

I can just feelthe love between you two in the politics forum.

haha, I really don't mind the guy. We just disagree on politics. We have regular conversations on almost every other topic without contention.

[Cajungal]

He doesn't need your heart, you know... only your Kriskeny lips.

[Krisken]

Like two sides of a coin, always to be facing away from each other, never the two shall meet.

[PatrThom]

Like two sides of a coin, always to be facing away from each other, never the two shall meet.

--Patrick

[Krisken]

Boy, I hope I'm the face.

[Philosopher B.]

Lol.

[Dusty668]

So how's the delurking going for ya?