Tag / Tony Carrillo

by zbicyclist

Saturday Morning OYs – July 5, 2025

This reflects recent events in Jef Mallett’s life.

He posted: “for those more curious than squeamish, I landed on my knee lightly (leaving not even the slightest strawberry of an abrasion) but with apparent diamond-cutter precision and sheared off my lateral epicondyle, which is that big knob at the end of the femur so the bone can become part of the knee and so cartoonists can draw the bone. It was reattached with five screws (for reference, visit the Home Depot and wander the deck hardware aisle), followed by eight weeks on crutches. Followed by a lot of physical therapy and a lot more patience. It’s all going very well, thank you, and it’s way too early to wonder about what I might be able to do a year or five from now. But I was fortunate enough to be fairly fit going into this, and very fortunate to land the surgeon I did. And fortunate/unfortunate enough to already be quite familiar with a terrific PT clinic. Onward. And already without a noticeable limp.”

I ate with some friends at a new Indian restaurant. One friend, unfamiliar with Indian cuisine, asked what paneer was. I described it as “the tofu of cheeses”.

by multipleciduers

Sunday Funnies – LOLs – May 18, 2025

Usual John calls out to Geezers: “Any reference to Little Lulu, which stopped publication in 1984, is pretty much for geezers, but Dell did not publish the title after 1962 and John Stanley stopped working on it around 1959.”

This reminds me of a fine example of resume enhancement.

I was preparing to interview a candidate who was getting an advanced statistics degree from Northern Illinois University, a respectable institution. He had a link to his website, so I checked that before the interview, and saw that all across the top of the page he had a large picture of himself in front of the building housing the statistics department … at Northwestern, a very respectable institution.

When asked about that, he said, “I was on the faculty at Northwestern”. And, sure enough, he’d listed a faculty job at CTD, Northwestern. As it happens, I knew that CTD stood for the Center for Talent Development, a summer program for middle schoolers and high schoolers on the Northwestern campus. My daughter had attended that for some summers; the instructors were good, but not regular Northwestern faculty. In fact, my daughter was one of the instructors herself one summer. So, he’d actually taught a group of middle schoolers math during one summer, and had expanded this into being on the faculty at Northwestern.

He did not get a job offer.

by multipleciduers

Sunday Funnies, LOLs – March 9, 2025

Not confusing enough to be a CIDU, but a couple of questions. There’s the English expression “Too many cooks spoil the broth”, which makes sense because you can mess up a broth or soup by messing up the seasoning (Italian herbs make a good soup; Indian spicing makes a good soup; adding both does not make a good soup). But toast?

Second, there’s 23. That’s probably just a random number pick here, but even the most casual fan recognizes 23 as Michael Jordan’s and LeBron James’s number: undeniably two of the greatest basketball players ever.

Mitch4 sends this in:

FYI: PM is short for Project Manager.

On dating shows, the contestants are hoping. Here they are also hopping.

by multipleciduers

Sunday Funnies – LOLs, September 01st, 2024

Such practical good advice!

Chemgal sends in this unusually funny fourth-wall break.

Understanding hotel etiquette.

From Boise Ed, who gets the intended joke but remains dubious about there being something actually funny going on.

And a LOL from Usual John: