If you have a pizza with radius Z and thickness A, its volume is = Pi x Z x Z x A.
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Attempting to rebuild the directory of an APFS Time Machine backup drive that mounted on the laptop's desktop but the Finder didn't show any of the backups made since late 2022. TechTool Pro app shows there are 23 snapshots on this drive and in the last 15 minutes has worked its way through just nine of them.
For three days prior to Friday's colonoscopy, I have to make sure there is no undigested food residue in my bowel. To achieve this I have a list of permitted foods, such as oils, white rice or white bread, plain pasta, lean meat, well-cooked, peeled potato or pumpkin, clear soups or consommés, milk, unsweetened and unflavoured yogurt, cheese, tea or coffee.
Seems to me I could easily have a nice pumpkin or chicken risotto since such a dish is oil, rice, stock, pumpkin or chicken and cheese to finish. Mac and cheese is another possibility.
A Montana cowboy was overseeing his herd in a remote mountainous pasture when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced out of a dust cloud toward him.
The driver, a young man in a Brioni suit, Gucci shoes, Ray Ban sunglasses and YSL tie, leans out the window and asks the cowboy, "If I tell you exactly how many cows and calves you have in your herd, will you give me a calf?" The cowboy looks at the man, obviously a yuppie, then looks at his peacefully grazing herd and calmly answers,
"Sure, Why not?"
The yuppie parks his car, whips out his laptop computer, connects it to his iPhone, and surfs to a NASA page on the Internet, where he calls up a GPS satellite navigation system to get an exact fix on his location which he then feeds to another NASA satellite that scans the area in an ultra-high-resolution photo.
The young man then opens the digital photo in Adobe Photoshop and exports it to an image processing facility in Hamburg, Germany. Within seconds, he receives an email on his iPad that the image has been processed and the data stored. He then accesses a MS-SQL database through an ODBC connected Excel spreadsheet with email on his iPhone and, after a few minutes, receives a response.
Finally, he prints out a full-colour, 150-page report on his hi-tech, miniaturised HP LaserJet printer and finally turns to the cowboy and says, "You have exactly 1,586 cows and calves."
"That's right. Well, I guess you can take one of my calves," says the cowboy. He watches the young man select one of the animals and looks on amused as the young man stuffs it into the trunk of his car. Then the cowboy says to the young man, "Hey, if I can tell you exactly what your business is, will you give me back my calf?"
The young man thinks about it for a second and then says, "Okay, why not?"
"You're a Congressman in the U.S. government," says the cowboy. "Wow, that's correct," says the yuppie. "But how did you guess that?"
"No guessing required," answered the cowboy.
"You showed up here even though nobody called you, you want to get paid for an answer I already knew, to a question I never asked. You tried to show me how much smarter than me you are, and you don't know a thing about cows.
This is a flock of sheep. Now give me back my dog."
@variablepulserate Went home after 11.5 hours in hospital. Haemoglobin should be better, more tests needed, seeing my GP in 90 minutes.
"…and with the ceremonial Whirling of the Plates successfully completed, Charles is now King of England."
@variablepulserate Here's some blurb from the manufacturer's website: This Sustain Wooden Cutlery Pack contains a knife, fork, spoon, teaspoon, napkin, salt and pepper. Made from birchwood with a light beeswax coating, perfect for food service and takeaway. Made of Forest Stewardship Council® (FSC®-C117930) certified wood.
Premium, sustainable, disposable wooden cutlery pack
This product is made of FSC®-certified wood
Made from renewable, plant-based sources
Compostable in industrial facilities under specific conditions.
These items are sold in a minimum order of 400 units per pack.
Meals in the public hospital sector now come with a sealed paper envelope containing coated wooden knife, fork, spoon and teaspoon, recycled paper napkin and individual sachets of salt and white pepper.
I’m really very worried…
Following annual blood tests I’ve been diagnosed with severe anaemia, my haemoglobin level is close to 60% of its normal (already lowish) level. Tomorrow morning I collect a referral from my GP to take to the big public hospital four suburbs to the west of here for assessment and possible treatment. I don’t know how long I’ll be there but I’m packing a go-bag with essential clothing, electronic communication/entertainment toys, medications and toiletries.