My wife had an offer to add a free cell phone line to her T Mobile family plan.  I'm hoping to retire in the next few months, and while I have a work phone that has my entire life on it, I thought it would be smart to get myself a personal cell phone and start using that one for 2 factor authentication and personal stuff.  I had an old iPhone 11 handy, and I did a factory reset on it and got it unlocked from the AT&T network.  So I got the new T Mobile SIM and put it in the phone and then I added my Google account and Apple account to it.  I was going to really pick and choose what apps I wanted to put on this "new" personal phone to keep it clean. My idea was I would have 2 seperate phones and slowly get all my personal stuff off the work phone before retiring and have only what I needed installed on the personal phone.

I turns out, they don't let you do that.  When my personal phone gets a phone call, both phones ring.  When my work phone gets a call, both phones ring.  All my photos on my work phone wound up on my personal phone (25 thousand of them.)  Texts are showing up on both phone simultaneously. I don't know if it's Apple or Google doing this.  I genuinely thought that 2 different phones would behave differently.  I haven't loaded all the apps onto the personal phone, I didn't do a "restore from iCloud" move. I think it's my Apple ID doing this. I suspect you have to create 2 different Apple IDs or 2 different Google IDs if you want your phones to be not connected.

Still 200 years was a long time ago, and that's some real handiwork.  It makes me wonder if the item was a little expensive and was intended to be washed out and re-used.  When I was in college, a fellow student purchased a 3 pack of sheep skin or  sheep gut or whatever they were natural condoms.  He gave me one, and I opened it up just to examine it.  It wasn't stretchy at all.  I didn't see any advantage over a regular one.

It looks like all the naughty bits are pixelated.  Which seem a bit odd, considering it's a condom that's proudly holding its intended shape instead of being crumpled up like OJ's leather glove.  We can see it looks like a dick, so why the pixeled naughty bits that are just a drawing?

those daipers make OUTSTANDING rags

That sounds like it must be really close.  How many cans away were you from the $25 when you dropped off 247 cans for $24.70?

My wife was an elementary school based sub for years and quit during the pandemic.The lack of respect administrators in this school district had for teachers was really shocking to me. My wife would occasionally read emails to me that were blast emails sent out by the administration to all teachers, and it blew my mind how uncaring and harsh the emails were. And I feel like Arlington is supposed to be one of the good ones.

I thought that might be the case.

Sorry monster.  Hell, it's 3 days later which tells you how out of touch I've been. I'm realizing now I have no idea if you have siblings or other family that would have been paying closer attention to her status and alerted you to her death.  So you had to figure it out yourself that she died, huh? Nobody contacted you?

wait, was this banana lady? 

They just got played in my Apple music mix.  Fun stuff.

It is hard to argue in favor of blindness, so I'm not going to.

But I wonder if we have learned any lessons from history about unintended consequences of making a decision about Mother Nature simply because we didn't understand the bigger picture. Is removing a gene like this similar to introducing a wonderful new plant to the Americas that cattle just love to eat and that would secure soil in the dust bowl? And then Kudzo proceeds to swallow the South.

And then I think of selective breeding of animals, like for example, the bulldog, that have been bred to be a certain way and are unhealthy for it.  Can you imagine what people would do if there are no limits?

I think we need to be cautious with IVF gene editing.

Good luck Fargon.  Hopefully it's the "good" kind of skin cancer.  My wife has had that kind 3 times, and it's not really "good," but she's alive and kicking.

Measles.  WTF?

I'm getting an MMR vaccine tomorrow because I don't have copies of my records and I am of an age where I might have received the measles vaccine that doesn't work.

So maybe you saw that over the weekend, someone with active measles flew into Dulles and took the Metro home.  Went to the doctor a day or two later and learned it was measles.  They must have exposed thousands of people from this region.

Maybe the shot tomorrow will be too late.  On the other hand, maybe I don't even need the shot because I might have received one of the booster shots for older kids who got the worthless shots when they were younger.  Hell if I know.

Show of hands, how many of you have actual records of your childhood vaccinations?