Boring Middle Aged Guy

I'm a boring middle-aged guy.

[rocedmed]

[peony911-2]

🏰😍

[maxwelton]

I've always loved tall, skinny gable buildings. I hope this is not AI...

[maxwelton]

Mr. Dog awaits his birthday ration on his 8th bday!

[lacnunga]

Personal gold stars

[maxwelton]

First time in my 59 years I've achieved five stars. Yay me

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

[viejospellejos]

Coming in hot

[maxwelton]

I have never been up in a balloon, but did once come around a corner while driving my car as a teen and found a guy staring at a balloon gondola lying in the middle of the road where it had just fallen off his truck. I stopped to help him lift it back on and we couldn't do it, those things weigh a LOT, or at least this one did. A construction crew driving by stopped and got it onto the truck without much trouble, laughing (rightly) at our weenie efforts.

[crookedpuppyfox]

[maxwelton]

My own plunger A10. One above looks like a good project, about where I started.

[pankendev]

there are places in the world today that are experiencing 40°C for the first time in recorded history. of course there's no way to know whether chucking billionaires into volcanos will appease the sun god but i feel we're doing the scientific method a disservice if we don't at least try

[horseavoider-deactivated2025020]

[inwardhardar]

[takethistoyourstardust]

no other warning like this is on any of the other products on the site.

[maxwelton]

There are still wonders for those with eyes to see

[flawlessassholes]

🍀 it’s a lucky max! reblog for max luck 🍀

[normalmammal]

I’m so pro abortion I feel insane hearing any other take on it

[normalmammal]

Even lefties I know will eventually concede to some situation where they think it’s right to force someone to carry a child against their will as if that’s not one of the most inhumane and cruel situations to put someone in regardless of any other factors

[animentality]

[orbitalmirror]

reblog if you're an actual person IRL who gets genuinely upset if you catch someone using ChatGPT and view it as a serious moral failing

[scratchygoddess]

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[chiefofboatwatsonstittymug]

Equivalent in Leeds, England

[maxwelton]

What's beautiful about the Leeds example is the six north-south roads at top right, including the two that bracket all of the "harolds" are all named Thornville...from east to west it's Thornville Street, Ave, Terrace, Grove, Mount and Road. And down lower-left, you'd think Harold Place would continue to the west across Thornville Road, but no, that segment below Harold Grove is "Back Harold Grove", which I suspect means that bit is more of an alley than anything else. Also, the next four streets running east-west north of Harold Ave and east of Thornville Street are also Thornvilles: View, Place, Row, and Back Thornville Row.

So in that one small corner of Leeds you have 10 streets named Harold and 10 named Thornville. (This seems to be a thing in that part of Leeds, just off-map in the above zoom are whole patches where there are multiple streets each of Welton, Hessle, Autumn, and Brudenell. I imagine the Amazon driver hates this part of town.)

[maxwelton]

Mr Border Collie (BC mix, we got his DNA results back: 47% BC, 35% Aussie Cattle Dog, 11% Aussie Shepherd and 7% Golden Retriever) not too impressed with my weak attempt at an "Artistic" shot, trying to use a drainage ditch as a reflecting pond for the cherries. Ah, well, he's handsome enough to salvage the shot...

[sheepdog-and-fakegoldenretriever]

Loves his new mat...

[maxwelton]

My ex-wife and I had a girl border collie who was terrified of the "pergo" floors in this house and so we put down mats and rugs everywhere. There were a couple of places, like on the "backside" of the kitchen island, where there were none, and sometimes she'd be curious enough to venture cautiously back there. She sometimes got 90% of the way around, to where she was only a couple steps from the safety of the next rug, and her brain would melt and it would take her ten minutes of agonizing backing up to her starting point to get back out. Poor thing. "Grippy" hard surfaces didn't bother her, but laminate flooring sure did. I'm not sure she ever slipped on it.

That's floor girl Tess, happy on carpet. RIP you wonderful doggo. Gosh, it's been 8 years.

[depsidase]

[yorgen-sh]

[ef-1]

My favouritest sport fact ever is that in 1990s 2 cardiac surgeons watched an f1 race to save the lives of countless kids. The Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children (GOSH) kept losing the lives of patients after successful heart surgeries. Specifically the 10-15 minutes after a bonefide clinically successful surgery patients would die:

And so the two surgeons filmed a handover after heart surgery and sent it to the Ferrari pitcrew who were told to critique and improve handover process

And from this:

we got this:

The error rate during patien handovers dropped from 30% to 10% with the F1 informed protocol.

I literally love this fact so much because being an pitcrew member is such a thankless job because theyre underpaid and overworked mechanics and they literally saved lives in this instance.

[mondengel2]

When Formula 1 Met Medicine: The F1 Pit Stop That Saved Lives

Doctors at Great Ormond Street Hospital turned to Formula 1 for answers. By studying Ferrari’s pit-stop teamwork, they redesigned how patien

I love this!

And it that it wasn't a one and done.

The doctors went to the race tracks to watch the car changes and the pit crews went to the hospitals and watched a live transfer and offered suggestions and they kept working with them to improve.

After there was a successful improvement of the most vital metrics of a handover of a patient from surgery to ICU, the pit crews also worked with other hospitals for other procedures and it's now a whole thing of trying to apply the specialized, streamlined and speedy teamwork and nonverbal coordination of pit crews to other high-risk fields.

This is a perfect example of how two very different fields of knowledge meeting can make a huge leap forward in progress.