I was in England a decade or two back for reasons.
We were in London, and there was a day of freezing rain. Nobody cared. The next day, there was snow. Not even a millimeter. A dusting. The city literally shut down.
Q: What's your greatest weakness?
A: Well, I'm horrible at interviews, especially with standard interview 'gotcha' questions, because I haven't read enough Salon articles or management fad-theory books.
Every time I take the 407 automated toll highway, I wonder why they're not mailing out tickets.
'Hmm. You got on at Exit A, you got off at Exit B, that's 25 KM, at 100 kph that would take you 15 minutes, you did it in 12, you're speeding. Ticket."
2500 out of pocket? Nuts. I was something like 13 dollars out of pocket for codeine.
It went like this. Go to hospital ER one night in horrid pain. Get ultrasound. Get told I have stones. Get told I should have them out. Scheduled for two weeks hence. Get gall bladder out. Go home.
And besides, do you really think that a species would die out even if the 'original two' were identical except for a single chromosome? I mean - I guess it could happen if they both had tremendously detrimental genes, but let's give the almighty the benefit of the doubt and suppose that he started with a strong breeding pair.
Die out? No. But, whence comes the current genetic diversity of humans, if not Adam and Eve?
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
