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Lowell Tuttle

December 10th, 1966.  Our sophmore year.  55 years ago tomorrow. .  Wrestling activity for off season football over on mats by the South End of the West side of Golden Eagle stadium.  

Anspon went in a foursome (two wrestlers on the same mat standing up.)  He was thrown and dislocated his shoulder.   Bad.

Next was Tuttle vs Eddie Norman  and on the mat with us was Dave Arledge and Don Cannon.  

Someone blew the whistle.  We started wrestling standing up.   Arledge wrestle threw Don Cannon to the ground, but instead of hitting the ground, he crashed into my left lower leg breaking both the tibia and the fiubula.  

Carried to field house.   Actually Andy Harvey came by and said hello.   the trainer kept spraying frozen spray on my ankle to cause the pain to go down.   Parents, I think, came and got me and I was taken to Baylor.

The surgeon was Dr. Pat Evans.  Cowboys orthopedic surgeon.  Didn't opertate, but put me under to set the leg and make a cast all the way up to my hip. 

Dr. Pat Evans was the big rotund Cowboys doctor with the huge belt buckle on the sidlines of all those Cowboys games in the Cotton Bowl.

He actually got together with Walt Garrison to start the Rodeo Cowboy's charity medical practice aimed at giving reduced cost orthopedic help to Rodeo performers.  

He also helped me with a softball game broken leg ten years later.

I made a lot of friends at RhS while in that cast as you got to leave class 5-10 minutes early and someone had to carry your books for you.   Keith Kelley and Mike West were two who helped me by carrying the books...while I crutched about.

Hollis Carolyn Heyn

Hollis Carolyn Heyn

Steve Keene

Jan,

My problem with investing kept me broke until I realized one fact.  When you invest in a stock it does not matter if it is a solid performer, if it makes money or if it has potential upside.  The only thing that matters is what people think about the stock.  Therefore, we have been looking at investing all wrong.  The best investor is one who understands human nature and the companies don't matter.  Elon Musk is a great example of what I am talking about.  He had a car company with very little output.  The hype he created made his stock soar and he was able to use that capital to diversify into space with it's own hype story, batteries and materials for them with the hype of clean energy and fighting climate change.  Now his car company which is doing much better is valued at more than the combined values of General Motors, Ford, Dodge, and most of the Import Car companies, as well.   Bitcoin is the same thing.  The value is in the story of a mystery creator with a limited supply and new applications.  NFTs are a step beyond that.  People are paying outrageous sums for virtual products, images and sports signatures, because they own the original virtual concept by proof of a committee of concept creators.  Now people are paying real money for some of these images to play games online with each other.  People are paying real money for virtual money for these virtual images to use in the video games they play virtually with each other.   The hook is being able to tell their millenial iphone and internet self absorbed friends that they own more nothing than their friends do.  Right now the solid bet it to bet on people being crazy.  It will provide returns for you every time.

Bob Davidson

Lowell -- funny how memories come back:  I remember you on crutches, but could not have told anyone what year or what happened to you.  One of my sisters tore up her knee ligaments playing church league soccer when she was in her late 30s.  She had the same surgeon who put the Cowboys back together. 

Hollis -- your tale of the ER reminded me of my nightmare break.  When I was a shuttle bus driver at UT, a drunk woman ran a stop sign and hit left front wheel of my bus at about 11 a.m. one weekday.  The steering wheel jerked and broke two of the metacarpal bones in my left hand, right under the knuckle -- my hand looked deformed, bent in a way hands don't bend and turned black.  After the accident one of the guys from work took me to the ER at Brackenridge Hospital where I had a very impatient subcontinent Indian doctor treat me.  She jammed the bones back in place without numbing or explaining what she was doing and fussed at the nurse as she put on a cast. She clearly thought I was an idiot who wasn't worth speaking to, the same way she was treating the nurse.  One of the other nurses apologized for her when she referred me to an orthopedist for a follow up the next week. 

When I went to the specialist the next week, he was a kindly, gray-haired doc who treated me like a human.  After the x-rays, he told me that the ahole doc had set the break so that my fingers would have been at an angle to my hand -- he said that there are some docs who have no business practicing medicine.  He said he'd have to rebreak them and reset them.  Then he told me that he could only deaden some of the nerves, but not the big one in the middle of the bone.  Then he said something I've never heard from a doctor -- not: "you're going to feel some discomfort" -- but, "this is going to hurt, a lot." 

He shot me up and my hand felt completely numb when he had the nurse hold my hand at the palm with both of hers and he grabbed one of my fingers with both hands and snapped it, then twisted it around and put it in place.  He was right about it hurting -- I would have told the Nazis the location of all of our secret bases if they did that to me.  While I was in shock  from the first snap and turn, he did the other one.  He then put a new cast on.  I had to have someone drive me home and take me to pick up the super pain pills he prescribed.  The first doc told me to take regular tylenol for the pain.  It healed with normal finger placement.

Jan Alexander

Steveo ......NFT ????????????????? Good way to wake up today..I feel so Fungible ,so pretty and and wise..

A non-fungible token (NFT) is a unique and non-interchangeable unit of data stored on a digital ledger (blockchain).[1] NFTs can be associated with reproducible items such as photos, videos, 3D models, audio, and other types of digital files as unique items (analogous to a certificate of authenticity). NFTs can also be used to define the ownership of a physical product by creating a digital copy of physical product (Digital Twins). NFTs use blockchain technology to provide a public proof of ownership. Copies of the original file are not restricted to the owner of the NFT, and can be copied and shared like any file. The lack of interchangeability (fungibility) distinguishes NFTs from blockchain cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin.

NFTs have drawn criticism with respect to the energy cost and carbon footprint associated with validating blockchain transactions as well as their frequent use in art scams.[2][3] Further criticisms challenge the usefulness of establishing proof of ownership in an unregulated market based on digital files that are easy to copy.[4]

   LIKE RBLX  roblok   stock

Steve Keene

Jan,

I find that it I am kept in the dark and people tell me to eat s--t, I can be a real fungi, too.

Technical Analysis attempts to predict the human behavior factor in equity and etf investments.  You might take a look at  a program called Trade Stops that tells you when it is time to sell or buy and it's sister program Trade Smith.  The beauty is it can monitor your portfolio and execute trades based on your input parameters and it's predictions without you having to take the time from your wine drinking and flower smelling.  They are having an introductory offer at present.  

The thing I like about ETF's is that you can get them that trade volatility, exchanges, or industry types.  They have them with leverage that will sometime return double or triple the actual move in the equities.  If you think volatility will go up you can earn up to three times times the move in volatility.  The downside is these ETFs are time sensitive and pay a management fee deducted from your principal.

Maybe you csn answer a question for me.   What kind of egomaniac celebrates a birthday with one of his relatives and makes his image four times the size of the image of his female cousin?

Wayne Gary

I have been hearing this quote and it reminds me of a classmate

Jim Bedwell

Bob D,

WOW!!! Fascinating finger story. And the "lady" was drunk at 11 a.m.!!! That Indian "doctor" reminded of another bad fit. Some people should NOT be President, as in you know who.

I was riding the Dallas city bus on Abrams Rd on the way home to Richland Park in Richardson in the 1980's when somebody rearended the bus. Yes we felt the crash but no damage to anybody or maybe the bus. I got out and the guy in the car was in PAIN with his seat reclined.

David Cordell

Thanks for your kind comment, Janalu. As a professor, I was known as having high expectations for students. Well, that's my version. The students' version is that I assigned too much, expected too much, and was a hard grader. Anyway, good students tended to like me, and poor students didn't. Big surprise. By coincidence, I just received an email from a "girl" who was one of my first students at LSU 40 years ago. Dea was one of the best students in my entire career. We have stayed in touch, and she and her husband are retiring and building a beautiful new home. Here is part of her email yesterday:  

My stock picking prowess has helped us get this dream house started, so I’m hanging in. Can’t wait for y’all to come see it. I’m appreciative of the knowledge you imparted that got me interested in the market so many years ago. It’s definitely served us well!

So, that's about as good as it gets if you're a professor -- at least if you're this professor. Your professor father probably had some similar experience. Coincidentally, Dea's father was also a professor. Small world!

David Cordell

Went to the Dallas Symphony's Christmas program last night. Very enjoyable. They were filming it to show on WFAA on Christmas Eve. A few days ago went to the Dallas Arboretum's nighttime Christmas displays of the Twelve Days of Christmas. I love Christmas!

Janalu Jeanes (Parchman)

David,

My Dad did indeed have some students who appreciated his teaching methods and kindness.  There were several girls who even invited him and my mother to their weddings!  He never went, but he asked my mother to find out their registries and give them a nice gift.  He was always flattered by that.  I told him he was a soft touch when it came to the women, as he would stay after hours to give them extra help, if they asked him, and I remember that he always offered Juicy Fruit or Doublemint gum while they talked, as well as soft drinks to boot.

There were several students of his who became doctors or nurses that he would see sometimes while working at Southwestern Medical School; the school that eventually joined with UT to form part of UT Health Science Center with Parkland.  I remember visiting one time with my mother at the research lab, just long enough to see all the little mice in their cages, and was so fascinated at watching them.  I remember my mother saying, "Don't try to touch them!  Keep your fingers away from them!"  I also remember seeing the whirling centrifuge, wanting to know all about it, and why it was spinning the way it was. I also remember the smell that was on his clothes after he came home in the evenings from the lab, and I would tell him, "You've been in the lab today, haven't you?!"

Speaking of Christmas music, I enjoy it so much this time of year, and I especially enjoy hearing Handel's Messiah's finale, the "Hallelujah Chorus" on Christmas Eve. Our congregation is allowed to join in the singing with the choir and the thundering pipe organ playing so beautifully, as everyone gets into the spirit of the moment.  It's truly special and thrilling!

Russ Stovall

Lowell: 

I remember the wrestling mats.  I remember you getting hurt as well.   There were quite a few people that got hurt in the mats.   Your's was the worst    Several broken collar bones were broken.  I hated the days we had to do the mats   There were a lot of mismatch's.  After I went back to RHS to coach several of the coaches were still there.  They admitted that wasn't the best of decisions.  I had to wrestle the older Swords.  Hugh mismatch  He kicked by butt   

Steve Keene

Jan,

Merry Christmas and Seasons Greetings to you.  I found a Christmas song that reminds me so much of you!

David Cordell

Love me some Bob Rivers Twisted Radio. This is a good one.

Wayne Gary

Here are 2 more of Bob Rivers

Jim Bedwell

Wayne,

Your Twain quote, with a great picture of that rascal, reminded me of what my father said once, about my sister's 3 kids when she and they would come visiting when they were very young. "I love to see them coming, and I love to see them going.". hahahaha!!!

Steve Keene

David,

A good teacher has a connection with his students and all come away enriched.  You have taught me that 80% of getting what you think you want is taking action and going for it.  He who sits back and waits for what he wants to come to him is destined to not ever have it.

David Cordell

Steve said, "You have taught me that 80% of getting what you think you want is taking action and going for it.  He who sits back and waits for what he wants to come to him is destined to not ever have it."

David responds, "You lost me. Did I say something? Or is it what I haven't said?"

Steve Keene

David,

I watched you by example, got a job as an encyclopedia salesman door to door and started working as a bell captain to take the shyness out of me.  I was amiable and inteligent and learned from people i respected.  That is what I was talking about.  You set a good example and your flaws (yes you have them) are few especially when stacked up against your positive attributes.

No Tommy, I am not sucking up, I am just stating an observation from my point of view.   You are welcome to your own take on these matters.  

Steve Keene

Wayne,

Here is another little Christmas song I like.

Jan Alexander

For you Stevie...Hope you are fungible this fine day. 

Wayne Gary

Here is todays Mallard Fillmore

Kurt Fischer

David:

Just a curiousity question.

When I drive down Waterview and look at the parking lots next to the UTD apartments, I notice there are perhaps 50% of the cars I would normally see.  Does this mean there are far fewer people in the UTD apartments?  Not driving and parking cars?  Since UTD is having face to face classes, it would seem the apartment situation would be back to normal.

Thanks.

David Cordell

Steve - Thanks for the compliment, although I still don't get it. Yes, I am aware that I have flaws, and I bet I can list more of them than you can, although some may be on your list that aren't on mine. We all have blind spots.

Kurt - I'm not sure why there weren't as many cars. Depends on when you drove past, I suppose. The last day of class was December 7 and finals are December 9-15. If you drove by there in the past few days, that's probably the explanation.