Introduce Yourself!

papachronos

papachronos

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

Cajungal

Staff member
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?
 
papachronos

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Cajungal said:
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?
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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

Dave

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

Holy fuck! YOU'RE HOUSE!!

Welcome, House!
 
drawn_inward

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?
 
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Dave said:
Wait! Diagnostic Medical Physicist and you are on Vicodin?!?

Holy fuck! YOU'RE HOUSE!!

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


Cajungirl said:
What superpower would you want if you could have one for a day?
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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.

Hylian said:
If you could permanently ban one person from the boards who would you ban?
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Invader.
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Seriously, though, such weighty matters are not to be considered by one on opioids such as myself.

North_Ranger said:
Now tell us your funniest work-related anecdote. Extra internets if it involves steak.
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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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dr_awkward said:
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?
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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.
 
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PatrThom said:
Laparoscopic? Or did you do it the old-fashioned way?

--Patrick
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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.
 
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Dave said:
So how do you pronounce your handle and from where does it originate?
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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.

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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.
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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

North_Ranger

Staff member
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.
 
Dave

Dave

Staff member
North_Ranger said:
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.
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He blows up.

 
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North_Ranger said:
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.
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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

North_Ranger

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

Alrighty, thanks for participating ;)
 
PatrThom

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
 
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Element 117

laep said:
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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North_Ranger said:
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.
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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.
 
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Xiaofang Nuren;384803][QUOTE=laep said:
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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Awesome. Did you make that just for me?
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Xiaofang Nuren;384803][QUOTE=North_Ranger said:
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.
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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.[/QUOTE]

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.
 
E

Element 117

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

Jonzac

Well...I suppose its about time.

Name is JonZac...obviously not real, at least not MY real name.

I'm a Lt Col (or will be pinned on in October) in the US Air Force. I'm currently stationed at the Pentagon...and NO I don't fly them, I just fix them after the hamfisted pilots do. (Aircraft and Munitions Maintenance Officer)

Married with 2 boys.

Well, all I can think of.
 
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Jonzac

That's funny, Dave...Thank God that looks like an Army uniform.

And thanks Amy. Been over a month and it has felt like a long time.
 
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