Here’s another plug for the film podcast I do with @RogerBW, Ribbon of Memes - apologies, but I’m quite proud of this one, and the podcast in general.
This week, Roger and I are very lucky to be joined by the FlickFilosopher herself, MaryAnn Johanson, as we wander out of the desert to discuss Paris, Texas, and why I really loved it until I didn’t.
I got some new letters after my name
BSc MCOptom DipTp (IP) Prof Cert LV Prof Cert Glauc Higher Cert Glauc
With Covid delays to a clinical placement its been 3 years in the making to get the new bit.
I’m buzzing
That is a lot of letters!
Diploma in Therapeutics - Independent Proscribing? That’s… a stretch, and I say that as a physicist (we’re responsible for Weakly Interacting Massive Particles, Sudbury Neutrino Observatory, and, possibly the greatest, “COordinated Campaign of Observations and Analysis, Photosphere to Upper atmosphere, of a Fast-rotating Star.”)
A shiny nickle for whoever came up with that one.
That I have absolutely no idea what any of them mean! 
That is impressively well worked out
Back in the day I was at a lecture about research into bat sonar. The people doing it had essentially built custom electronics to make and process bat-sonar-like noises in a controlled environment. Their name for this was Field Location (people start to get restless) Echo Detection (people start to groan audibly)… I don’t remember what the rest was but it was indeed -ERMAUS.
Congratulations @Captbnut!
@Lordof1 and I have just released our thirtieth (!) episode of Ribbon of Memes, a podcast in which we talk about films. This time: we are both extremely white.
I have rarely felt so white.
Quite pleased with the introduction to our Back to the Future episode of our film podcast, Ribbon of Memes, if I do say so myself.
https://ribbonofmemes.org.uk/archive/2022/Back_to_the_Future__1985_1990_.html
Okay, I laughed. That was clever. 
Found my book, Once Bitten, in our local bookshop. They say you can judge a person by the company they keep. I hope to Christ that’s not true of their books.
Clearly this is the Weird Non-Urban Stuff shelf.
Why? What’s wrong with Neil Fitzpatrick? Never heard of him…
I couldn’t possibly comment. But apropos of nothing I’ll point you to section 5.2 of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons Guide to Professional Conduct, which states ‘Veterinary surgeons and veterinary nurses should not speak or write disparagingly about another veterinary surgeon’.
The vets at the surgery my mum used to work at ought to be disbarred, or whatever happens to vets, because they were always saying things like “What fucking butcher did that surgery?! I bet it was XXXXX, he wields a scalpel like a bloody claymore”
Oooomph, you read that stuff?? I never bothered… Just paid, for barely nothing but the right to work, as everyone else…
Did you sign it?
Sadly not, I didn’t have a pen and felt too awkward to ask for one.
“Hi, I’m doing a stealth signing like Neil Gaiman does in airport bookshops. Could you lend me a pen then pretend you haven’t seen me? Ta…”
