The Off Topic Topic

[MadBurgerMaker]

Got myself another cortisone shot yesterday.  My shoulder hasn't felt this good since.....well since the last cortisone shot. 

[Jaron]

Stay closed I'd say. It's so comforting that other countries (and even one usually thought of as very effecient) can also fuck up in such an extraordinary way.

[Josquius]

Today I noticed one of the candidates in the local elections has the wonderful family name of 'Despot'. My vote is with him.

[Malthus]

Going to work very early today, I saw an ominous sight: two crows cawing, omenically, over the subway entrance in the deserted early dawn.

I was reminded of this old Scottish ballad:

As I was walking all alane,
[8] I heard twa[9] corbies[10] making a mane;
[11] The tane[12] unto the t'other say,
'Where sall we gang and dine to-day?'
'In behint yon auld fail[13] dyke,
I wot[14] there lies a new slain knight;
And naebody kens[15] that he lies there,
But his hawk, his hound, and lady fair.
'His hound is to the hunting gane,[16]
His hawk to fetch the wild-fowl hame,[17]
His lady's taen[18] another mate,
So we may mak our dinner sweet.
'Ye'll sit on his white hause-bane,[19]
And I'll pike[20] out his bonny blue een;[21]
Wi ae lock o his gowden[22] hair
We'll theek[23] our nest when it grows bare.
'Mony[24] a one for him makes mane,[25]
But nane sall ken[26] where he is gane;[16]
Oer[27] his white banes,[28] when they are bare,
The wind sall blaw[29] for evermair.[30]'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three_Ravens#The_Twa_Corbies

I had no idea, until I looked up the lyrics, that the "Twa Corbies" was a more cynical version of an English ballad, "the Three Ravens". Live and learn.

[11B4V]

Stay closed I'd say. It's so comforting that other countries (and even one usually thought of as very effecient) can also fuck up in such an extraordinary way.

[Brazen]

Did we have a thread about the hedge fund manager who took over a pharmaceutical firm and raised the price of a drug used to treat toxoplasmosis, not least in AIDS patients and raised the price 5000% from $13.50 to $750?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-34332363

He's since backed down, but I was interested in the price of the drug in the UK. It's £13. Not each, but for 30 tablets. And GSK aren't shy of making a profit.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-34322720

[Syt]

Wasn't there also a planned price hike for a medication against multi-resistant TBC that went from 500.- to 10,000? And after protests it was reduced to 1,000?

[The Brain]

Pricing is a difficult field. So many companies charge less than they should.

[Josquius]

I give up with the trying to hack my iphone game. And I don't really fancy buying a new one when I already have this.
So I think I'll get a new android.
Are google nexuses (nexii?) much good?

[Grey Fox]

New ones are coming very soon.

The Nexus 5 (2013) is a fine phone, battery life sucks.
The Nexus 6 is a giant phone but is nice.

If you want keep it close to the iOS experience get a Samsung.

[Brazen]

I've had several Samsung Sx models in a row and I will again.

[Malthus]

I hardly ever watch sports, but I was at a relative's house last night (for the post-Yom Kippur feast) and someone turned on the baseball game - Blue Jays vs. Yankees. We only watched a short while, but it was actually a great bit of baseball - the Jays hit a home run. Looks like they are actually doing well this year.

[Josquius]

[crazy canuck]

the Jays hit a home run. Looks like they are actually doing well this year.

Have you been living under a rock the last few months?

[Malthus]

the Jays hit a home run. Looks like they are actually doing well this year.

Have you been living under a rock the last few months?

When it comes to pro sports - yep.  I hardly ever notice them, unless they are brought to my attention somehow.

I was just surprsied that, watching ten minutes of a random game, it was (by pure chance) the exact right ten minutes.