The New TSF Surgery - All Welcome! cont...

[sandman55]

Hey DC if his reproductive system is intact well he will wander off from time to time to visit girlfriends and the only way to stop this as you know is a visit to the vet

With your program for your business cards can't you set up Vista to be backwards compatible? I did that with a windows 98 Mavis Beacon Teaches typing on win XP

[gistek]

Congrats on the sugar, DC. Mine's behaving ok the last couple of days, too.

I got my pre-op paperwork yesterday, so I'm one step closer to getting my neck fixed.

[Cathy95820]

Originally Posted by Direct Current

Thanks Werebo and Gistek. Its been awhile sence I made up some Business cards and the program I had, Visa said no I want run it. I use to use a program call Arkose Works, wasn't a bad little graphic program.

I am getting back into doing a little business on the side to sub-pliment my income a bit get some need equip. and material I need for things I design. Also need something to fall back on if I need to, if you know what I mean!
I downloaded that program Werebo and goiing to run spyware test on it before I open it and try it out. I was amazed as to how fast it downloaded "WOW-EEEE.....I'l show you what I came up with after I am finished.
Hay Sandy, my doggy friend as turned up missing all day, I figured he is out doing the doggy thing, but we will see. You know how they say it. If you love it, set it free but if he comes back it was ment to be! I wouldn't think some one would have pick him up at night but then again! Who knows, he might have gotten tired of my drilling,sawing with my new work station I am building.

Hay Gistek 75-88-65- 104 another good report on my sugar!!!!

I have a Business Card software disc I have never used I would be more than happy to send you beings as I am pretty much just in the Grandma business I don't have any use for it.

And been meaning to congrat you on your glucose readings! Have been learning about that stuff lately from Jackie downstairs. She prefers to have hers over 100 as she doesn't feel right when it dips below.

Well if there is any way to transfer the software to you, let me know, and if you want to have me mail it to you let me know and we can exchange mailing info.

[Direct Current]

Wee...... having fun downloading software for my visual basic 2008.
Hay Sandy that is an idea, might try that a bit later. Having to watch over my dad-- he fall trying to get in the house with a handful of grosses today. When he fall he hit the crown molding on the carport door, made a big bruise on his head, so far he appears to be OK. I put an Ice pack on the bruise and it has gone back to normal.

Guess who came Home???? and you are right Sandy, going to take care of that this spring. I hat to do it because I ask myself if I would want someone to do that to me. But I know it has to be done because of the animal numbers.

Cathy you have a EM coming you way.

Thanks for the sugar levels, it has been good today to but it did dip low 67-125-55-106. I don't like the felling I get either when its 100 and below, but the doctor says I will get use to it after a while. But my blood pressure is right on and my nerves have be able to handle a lot more bull from the folks and that is good. So I have to give God and the doctor a pat on the back for getting in-line.

Well let me get back to my download BYBYBYBY BY.......

[sandman55]

Good luck with your neck Barb I hope they can help you
Hey DC I'm sorry to hear about your Dads head the trouble is falls come more often with old age. We won't let on to Hansom or his lady friends what is in store for him Keep on keeping on with the sugar levels

[Direct Current]

hummmm.................... is that after or before I eat a large chollate cake
My dad seems to be OK, I'll know more in the morning. Thanks for the thought.

I second the best of Blessing on getting your neck fix. You could have Glas look at it. he might even give you a discount, you think!!!

[Direct Current]

Where O where are you to night, I thought I found true love, and you found another and-pooo you where gone!!! You know I always wondered why the Pilot in all these movies and the real things say "HOLD ON" What do it matter- if the plane is going down, holding on to something an gonna make any differents-the plane is still going down. Hummmmmm. Wouldn't you rather wait til the last moment and jump up in the air and say "WHY ME!!!!!

[sandman55]

I would say STOP THE PLANE I WANT TO GET OFF!!!!!

[gistek]

When I was first diagnosed with diabetes i felt faint & sick at 120, but now I can go down into the high 70's before I have problems.

Neutering after maturity doesn't always stop rutting behavior, but it does prevent unwanted pups. It also helps prevent some health problems later in their lives.

[WereBo]

I would say STOP THE PLANE I WANT TO GET OFF!!!!!

Or catch a flight that has Steven Seagal as a passenger...

[Direct Current]

Amen brother and sisters. Just our luck, he would say UT-O, I cut the wrong wire. Now I lay me down to go to sleep and hope this is a dream!!!! My luck the pilot is the only one with a parachute. then some one say"last call for ALcOL!!!."

Gustek that's the way my is. I am starting to get use to it be low, that is scare cause you could get low and pass out and not know it. Barkeep my head is shrinking!!! Is there a Doctor in the house!!!!

I once when into a place call "The Last Chance" They had a pool table in a room. Now the pool table was of standard size but there was only 2 feet to spare on either side of the pool table. to solve the proble of shoot ball without bunching a hole thru the wall with the cue sticks they cut the cue stick down two feet. Make kindof odd to shoot with a three ft. cue stick.

[Cathy95820]

20 Useless Body Parts

We all have parts in us that we don’t need, that maybe we did need, or were going to need. Anyway here is just an interesting list of 20 body parts we have that we just don’t need, what we did need them for, or what they could have been used for. Check it out.

This list was found on the net and was originally drafted by Jocelyn Selim.

VOMERONASAL ORGAN
A tiny pit on each side of the septum is lined with nonfunctioning chemoreceptors. They may be all that remains of a once extensive pheromone-detecting ability.

EXTRINSIC EAR MUSCLES
This trio of muscles most likely made it possible for prehominids to move their ears independently of their heads, as rabbits and dogs do. We still have them, which is why most people can learn to wiggle their ears.

WISDOM TEETH
Early humans had to chew a lot of plants to get enough calories to survive, making another row of molars helpful. Only about 5 percent of the population has a healthy set of these third molars.

NECK RIB
A set of cervical ribs—possibly leftovers from the age of reptiles—still appear in less than 1 percent of the population. They often cause nerve and artery problems.

THIRD EYELID
A common ancestor of birds and mammals may have had a membrane for protecting the eye and sweeping out debris. Humans retain only a tiny fold in the inner corner of the eye.

DARWIN’S POINT
A small folded point of skin toward the top of each ear is occasionally found in modern humans. It may be a remnant of a larger shape that helped focus distant sounds.

SUBCLAVIUS MUSCLE
This small muscle stretching under the shoulder from the first rib to the collarbone would be useful if humans still walked on all fours. Some people have one, some have none, and a few have two.

PALMARIS MUSCLE
This long, narrow muscle runs from the elbow to the wrist and is missing in 11 percent of modern humans. It may once have been important for hanging and climbing. Surgeons harvest it for reconstructive surgery.

MALE NIPPLES
Lactiferous ducts form well before testosterone causes sex differentiation in a fetus. Men have mammary tissue that can be stimulated to produce milk.

ERECTOR PILI
Bundles of smooth muscle fibers allow animals to puff up their fur for insulation or to intimidate others. Humans retain this ability (goose bumps are the indicator) but have obviously lost most of the fur.

APPENDIX
This narrow, muscular tube attached to the large intestine served as a special area to digest cellulose when the human diet consisted more of plant matter than animal protein. It also produces some white blood cells. Annually, more than 300,000 Americans have an appendectomy.

BODY HAIR
Brows help keep sweat from the eyes, and male facial hair may play a role in sexual selection, but apparently most of the hair left on the human body serves no function.

PLANTARIS MUSCLE
Often mistaken for a nerve by freshman medical students, the muscle was useful to other primates for grasping with their feet. It has disappeared altogether in 9 percent of the population.

THIRTEENTH RIB
Our closest cousins, chimpanzees and gorillas, have an extra set of ribs. Most of us have 12, but 8 percent of adults have the extras.

MALE UTERUS
A remnant of an undeveloped female reproductive organ hangs off the male prostate gland.

FIFTH TOE
Lesser apes use all their toes for grasping or clinging to branches. Humans need mainly the big toe for balance while walking upright.

FEMALE VAS DEFERENS
What might become sperm ducts in males become the epoophoron in females, a cluster of useless dead-end tubules near the ovaries.

PYRAMIDALIS MUSCLE
More than 20 percent of us lack this tiny, triangular pouchlike muscle that attaches to the pubic bone. It may be a relic from pouched marsupials.

COCCYX
These fused vertebrae are all that’s left of the tail that most mammals still use for balance and communication. Our hominid ancestors lost the need for a tail before they began walking upright.

PARANASAL SINUSES
The nasal sinuses of our early ancestors may have been lined with odor receptors that gave a heightened sense of smell, which aided survival. No one knows why we retain these perhaps troublesome mucus-lined cavities, except to make the head lighter and to warm and moisten the air we breathe.

In 1859, Charles Darwin (1809–1882) published The Origin of Species, which articulated the first full-fledged theory of evolution by natural selection. Darwin viewed the history of life like a tree, each fork in the tree’s limbs representing a shared ancestry.

The tips of the limbs represented modern species and the branches represented the common ancestors shared amongst species. To explain these relationships, Darwin contended that all living things were related and descended from a few forms, or even from a single common ancestor, in a process he described as “descent with modification”.

Darwin’s view was controversial because humans did not receive special consideration in this evolutionary tree: they were merely one of its many branches.

Though he did not make this explicit at first, his friend and supporter T. H. Huxley soon presented evidence that humans and apes shared a common ancestor. The popular press of the day misinterpreted this as an assertion that humans were descended from monkeys.

Darwin’s explanation of the mechanism of evolution relied on his theory of natural selection, a theory developed from the following observations:

1. If all the individuals of a species reproduced successfully, the population of that species would increase exponentially.

2. Except for seasonal fluctuations, populations tend to remain stable in size.

3. Environmental resources are limited.

4. The traits found in a population vary extensively. No two individuals in a given species are exactly alike.

5. Many of the variations found in a population can be passed on to offspring.

From these observations, Darwin deduced that the production of more offspring than the environment can support leads to a struggle for existence, with only a small percentage of individuals surviving in each generation.

He noted that the chance for surviving this struggle is not random, but depends on how well-adapted each individual is to its environment. Well-adapted, or “fit” individuals will more likely leave a greater number of offspring than their less well-adapted competitors.

Darwin concluded that the unequal ability of individuals to survive and reproduce leads to gradual changes in the population as the traits which help the organism survive and reproduce accumulate over generations and those that inhibit its survival and reproduction are lost. Darwin used the term natural selection to describe this process.

The variations in a population arise by chance mutations in DNA, but natural selection is not a process of chance: the environment determines the probability of reproductive success. The end products of natural selection are organisms that are adapted to their present environments.

Natural selection does not involve progress towards an ultimate goal. Evolution does not necessarily strive for more advanced, more intelligent, or more sophisticated life forms.

For example, fleas (wingless parasites) are descended from a winged, ancestral scorpionfly, and snakes are lizards that no longer require limbs. Organisms are merely the outcome of variations that succeed or fail, dependent upon the environmental conditions at the time. In reality, when the environment changes, most species fail to adapt and become extinct.

[sandman55]

Originally Posted by Cathy95820

20 Useless Body Parts


EXTRINSIC EAR MUSCLES
This trio of muscles most likely made it possible for prehominids to move their ears independently of their heads, as rabbits and dogs do. We still have them, which is why most people can learn to wiggle their ears.

Good one Cathy quite interesting.
The one above reminds me of an old work mate who when there was a political discussion would have his say and then it would seem to emphasise his point his ears would move up. It took all my power of control at such a serious time not to burst out laughing.

[Direct Current]

Hummm.... Quit interesting maybe we should promote her to Dr. Quack!
Well me dog took off again and I think he decided to leave permit, this is third day and he is no where in site. Some dogs are roomer's, they just go where the females are, O well, guess I bought the dog house for nothing. Maybe I'll get another Mal and Pal pass on. I don't think Mom like the dog to much anyway.
Well the lady friend found someome she like better but I ant about it that all. Hay what the heck, there is always tommorw.
Hay have you seen the polical leakage from the white house. They are trying to pass a law saying no one has the right to own any type of a gun!!!!! that ant right!
What I am upset about is that I keep ording a buger king whopper with cheese, extra pickle,extra tomato, extra cheese and add beacon and what do I get a regular whopper. FUGG! Sandy can I borrow that chainsaw. I like to shorten something like a counter top
Well back to the VB programming and eating my Dill pickle with icecream and poppy corn!

[WereBo]

Awwww - Sorry to read that Hansom has disappeared He seemed to have made a big improvement to your life. Who knows, he might well be back again, when he's finished whatever he's doing, you can never tell with dogs

You might even get a surprise in a few months, and he returns with the family, for a visit

Re: Your lady companion - Well, if she's a true friend, she'll stay in contact - even if it's just at the bar where you play, for an evening's chat. Keep your spirits up, and someone else could just as easily appear to fill the gap

I've been reading about the US Constitution 'changes' and the Gun Control lobby - I can foresee a lot of trouble landing on the White House, if that bill gets much further There's a lot of patriotic folks out there who, I reckon, will be more than happy to 'teach them city-folks' what they think of it

[sandman55]

Yes I think Hansom will come back when he is ready.
I'm sorry it didn't work out with your lady friend DC I hope there is someone new around the corner.
There is no way they will get a complete gun ban over there but over here after the Port Arthur Massacre Our Government Banned all semi automatic and automatic weapons and I have to say I agree with that.

[Direct Current]

What this Port Arthur Massacre, What happy?

Your right he did change me, I enjoy having him ask a friend, not easy finding friend in this area. But you If you love it, set it free, if it comes back it was mint to be.

I think a lot of my problem have the stress taken by mom and dad, the doctor has changes add on a few meds and getting out in the shop has really help out a whole lot. I even been able to get then to kid around just a bit and thats help out a lot. Add the playing the guitar and getting out a bit to, getting into my studies and writing on my books using my new notebook, I have been feeling better about my self. I real not worried about the girlfriend. How do they say it easy come ,easy go. Next!!!!. who knows I might found some better looking and funner to be with, right! I also have been praying a lot lately and alway makes me feel good.

Anyway I have lots to keep me busy and very motivated.

Now who wants a spinal tap?

Hay Sandy, does it snow over there?

[deejay100six]

Hi DC, not got time to read the latest in the thread but just thought i'd say hi and hope you're keeping ok.

And of course, anyone else who knows me.

[Direct Current]

Hay gang, here's what I have been working on, except the last one and that is my prosthetic leg. thought you might be interested.these are picturec of my work station for my room, It is 90" long by 28" wide, each tower on each is 28" X 24" and rises to the room ceiling, I can put selves between each tower, Giving me plenty of room for all the things I do at my desk computer / robotic/ writing/business and mini recording studio and all my books. I have a few more pic. to but together and stain and then I can start putting in my room and fasten it together.

[sandman55]

Hey DC your quite a handy man and it looks like you have lots of machinery there too.
You asked about the Port Arthur massacre here is a link I'm sorry it's a kids site but it gives a good description. http://encyclopedia.kids.net.au/page...rthur_Massacre