DrDonald

Reply to Dinner and a Story in Just Hanging Out JoeUser Forums

Thanks for dropping by guys stopped by my wife trust me, after a while, she'll just give up. spaghetti and meat balls does sound like something you might want to digest.

Reply to Dinner and a Story in Just Hanging Out JoeUser Forums

here's a huge difference between real doctoring and TV doctoring isn't there? Right, real is much more three-dimensional and varied. Although, I've often seen the likes of House, "el hombre perfecto" in my travels. Yes, there is also much of the noble, the inspirational and the spiritual in medicine. Mainly in the people who suffer. We are priveleged indeed to serve. Remin

Reply to Family Day in Saskatoon in Life Journals JoeUser Forums

Thanks for the great pics and video Dave. Great kids! I'm in Hamilton, Ontario. No Family day here. Sounds like a great idea though. We could use another holiday around here. Having gotten about 70 cm of snow about a week ago, there's been a lot of tobogganing here too, off the sides of reservoirs or off the Niagara Escarpment mostly. Thanks again. - Don

Reply to Lust Is Dust in Poetry JoeUser Forums

Ah... it brings back memories of high school or my wedding night. A dissonance between the turmoil and awkwardness of passion and the structured and elegant style with which the poem was written. No. Beyond being pleasant. Innovative, unexpected and intriguing.

Reply to Into The Ether in Poetry JoeUser Forums

Things of magic and mystery, these words we write. Virtual maso? Not so bad, our thirst for your words sated. Thanks.

Reply to Shadow Girl in Poetry JoeUser Forums

exquisite, tantalizing...thanks

Dinner and a Story in Just Hanging Out JoeUser Forums

Regular kids eat regular meals. Being a doctor, my kids eat meals peppered and spiced pungently and profusely. The bitterness, the sweetness. They're old enough to hear it all, now. But once in a while I hear, "Not at dinner dad." "Can't it wait." "Pulleeasse." Dinner is for sharing and mom's no help. She's a nurse. Oblivious, we don't even know we're doing it. OK, so maybe they didn't need to know about that lady

Reply to The Scouting Party in Writing JoeUser Forums

I read it backwards and it was still funny! You are totally insane maso! Thank you! (ps. try diatomaceous earth, tears their little guts apart - I know, you probably couldn't harm a flea)

Reply to Would you? Could you? Should you? in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Fascinating topic. It is indeed exceptional to find a family that includes more than one child diagnosed with autism. There is a family with four children on my street, for example, where only the youngest has autism. That is the usual experience. The financial impact of properly treating even one case of minimal autism (Asperger's) with one-on-one behavioural techniques can be devastating. Here in Canada it could cost as much as $40,000US annually. One wonders with such a high incidenc

Reply to If we Outaw Trees, Only Outlaws Will Have Trees! in Misc JoeUser Forums

knot yet! Oaky Doak.

Reply to If we Outaw Trees, Only Outlaws Will Have Trees! in Misc JoeUser Forums

5 years in a state pen don't you get more than that for treeson?

Reply to If we Outaw Trees, Only Outlaws Will Have Trees! in Misc JoeUser Forums

...shuffles feet and looks down hoping nobody notices the stethescope around his neck...

Reply to If we Outaw Trees, Only Outlaws Will Have Trees! in Misc JoeUser Forums

Landscaping companies are the true minions of Satan. They actually plant the trees!

Reply to If we Outaw Trees, Only Outlaws Will Have Trees! in Misc JoeUser Forums

Trees, clearly, are evil, and are responsible for most of the evils in the world. Piss on trees!

Reply to Lives In Contrast in History JoeUser Forums

The Great Divorce - interesting, I'll have to look into that one. I loved "Out of the Silent Planet | Perelandra | That Hideous Strength". Lewis had such a passionate sense of good and evil. The human spirit is capable of such diversity that juxtaposed fame will likely always seem quirky, anomalous and dissonant.

Reply to My First Linux Post! in Personal Computing JoeUser Forums

I didn't know about LFS thanks! I know a community college C/C++ prof that had his students code most of the shell commands from scratch, though. Similar concept. Have fun! Java, MySQL, Apache Tomcat web server all run well in this environment.

Reply to My First Linux Post! in Personal Computing JoeUser Forums

Thanks for the post. I have an external hard drive version of Ubuntu that boots off any USB port. I also installed the latest Fedora distro on my wife's old laptop for her recently. I like both. More experienced with Fedora though, because I used it as a development platform while involved in an open source project a couple of years ago - a web based java database app. What I love about Linux is all the open source stuff out there for it - great way to learn programming - twe

Reply to Conversations with the dead in Personal Relationships JoeUser Forums

natural, soothing and elegant - I loved the "Buddha's a good guy...Plus, he's got great aim." We are the target. Zing.

Reply to Thank you, USA! in Politics JoeUser Forums

All values approximate but generally verifiable: Canadian population............32,000,000 Canadian troops in Afghanistan.......2500 US Population.................301,000,000 US troops in Afghanistan...........21,000 So, the US didn't abandon Canada by deploying to Iraq. Conversely, Canada has about the same population-proportionate share of troops in Afghanistan, so she's pulling her weight there. I'm n

Reply to Congratulations, It's A Sock! in Misc JoeUser Forums

nice - perfectionist eh?

Reply to My Valentine's Day Wish in Personal Relationships JoeUser Forums

What a great list. That's more than half the battle you know. I met my wife at a Catholic singles club. Singles clubs let you get to know people in a group setting - dances, pot-luck dinners, doing service work, dinner theatre - before you actually do any dating. This is good. I really lucked out with Mary Lou. She's a "rock" and I'd give it all up for her in a second.

Reply to Beautiful Muslim Lady in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Nice story, Mason. I treat a lot of Muslims and, in addition, 2 of the 10 or so doctors at our clinic are Muslim. I've treated some women that were indeed quite striking. Something about the hajib, maybe, really brings out the eyes. Like that Afghan girl on that old National Geographic cover. WWW Link I've learned in my practice that if a Muslim woman is being i

Reply to Love; a best of and worst of guide in Blogging JoeUser Forums

I was ill with a flu-like malady a few days ago and had to call in to work sick for the day. For the next few days, my 15-year-old son asked me, first thing in the morning, a smile on his face, how I was feeling. He's never done that before. I was pleasantly surprised. I don't remember ever teaching him that. It felt great that he was concerned about me. I guess he's growing up.

Reply to The Cairo... in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Thank you so much. More please when you get a chance.

Reply to A peek at JoeUser's future: 2007 in Welcome JoeUser Forums

Mine complained about the period in my nickname Dr.Donald so I changed it to DrDonald and it was OK. Then again I might be the spurious character here. (very old mainframe computing "joke" - very geeky)