Joe,

Congratulations on your timely and successful surgery.
Thanks for being a good sport in this thread.
Happy new year, and best wishes for your continued recovery.

GET WELL SOON!!!

Glad you are out of the hospital.
(so we can bombard you with more questions)

joe,
i guess this thread is your booby prize for surviving the emergency surgery. enjoy! and get well soon!

i realize i know hardly anything about you. this probably speaks more to my ADD or inattentiveness than anything about your self-disclosure.

what is your profession?

what brought you to wtf?

tell us more about your interest in mathematics.

and yes, please do post a picture.

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How did you wind up at WTF?

Do you play the piano? If so, what types of music do you like to play?

What's your day job?

pwned!

well, mark, we might need two of us on his case on this, doncha think?

Yes, we hope that you recover soon...

How did this happen? (no terribly gross details please...)

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what is your profession?

what brought you to wtf?

tell us more about your interest in mathematics.

I am a retired electronics engineer. When I bought a piano and started lessons a while ago I started haunting the Piano Forum and gradually transitioned to the Coffee Room crowd. Today, the Coffee Room Crowd is here at WTF and two other forums. I belong to all.

My interest in math is mostly due to it's usefullness as an engineering tool. Some math does have a transparency that illuminates physical principles very well. A 'real' mathemetician would sniff a little and mumble 'applied math' (as an epithet, of course).

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How did this happen? (no terribly gross details please...)

Pretty simple. I was not feeling well for several days and attributed it to a severe upper respiratory tract infection. I had seen a doctor and finished a round of antibiotics but got to feeling worse. My wife dragged me into the emergency room (actually she managed to make me believe I was turning yellow) and several pretty good physicians managed to make the diagnosis and got the surgery done in the middle of the night. I suspect that between surgeons, surgical nurses, diagnostic inmaging technicians, and others I ruined quite a few New Years plans. I don't know if an actual cause can be attributed. Best I can guess is my gall bladder hit it's expiration date and expired.

Wow, Joe, I just caught up with this thread. I'm so glad it wasn't worse for you, and wish you a speedy, trouble and pain-free recovery.

What kind of piano do you have? Too bad you don;t live in SoCal; I could recommend a good tuner...

And, in case I haven't made it clear earlier, I'm really glad you're a part of this forum, and that you're in this hot seat for the month.

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What kind of piano do you have? Too bad you don;t live in SoCal; I could recommend a good tuner...

I've got a 1921 5"6" Henry Miller grand that suits me well. I can play well enough now to amuse myself. What I need now is a very non-discriminating audience.

Joe, sorry to hear about your gall bladder but thrilled to hear you are recovering.

I'll come back to annoy you with a question after you've recovered a bit more.

Best wishes for a quick recovery!

i always fail to see the WTFer of the month thread..

Glad you survived your surgery and it's nice to know you Joe.

Which piece of music would you nominate to be renamed "Ode to a Sick GallBladder"?

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Which piece of music would you nominate to be renamed "Ode to a Sick GallBladder"?

Dies Irae (Verdi) would be a great choice.