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Posted on 04/20/2006 2:10:46 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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"No, he didn't clean the streams up by 30 %. It was more like 27.5 %."
Bah! That's not good enough, no one would hire someone who only makes streams 27.5% cleaner.
Not even if they rounded up from 27.48%?
Especially not then.
Hehehe....that's what he gets for putting a false 30% on his resume.
He never thought they were going to call his references and check, though.
I think you only need two significant figures on a resume.
So he's okay with the 30?
If you snaiged a precious.... should you quantify how many times? :~D
I thought it was to two decimal places...
So, I started (again) editing my 2005 Nano Novel.
Any suggestions on a good site for medical refernces for writers?
I need to describe a fatal bullet wound to the back (from a distance) and I need to talk about what would be used to sedate a patient in rehab center that didn't really need to be sedated.
I want to delete my NaNo novel... but I can't quite
Have you checked wikipedia? It's a pain but almost anything you want is on there.
Sometimes places like webmd.com will have a bit of info on treatment for various disorders. Describing a gunshot wound, though...you'd probably just hafta search on that, I guess. Looking for where it would need to hit to be fatal? Or just a description of what the bullet would do?
*sigh* I *love* medical details, and I really wish I knew more than I do.
I don't want a lot of detail. Just where the bullet has to enter and lodge to be (pretty much) instantly fatal.
I suppose technically it should also look like it was meant for someone else. You don't find out that my victim was the intended victim until the end of the book.
Well...let us know if you find the answer! I might need to use that someday...
I'm thinking something hitting the liver would do it, but I don't have a diagram to look at to see if that's possible from the back, and I can't recall where exactly it's situated. I need to learn anatomy agin...
What kind of bullet? A large-bore rifle bullet will do some interesting things with hydrostatic shock (exploding ventricles and such) whereas a handgun bullet, say, a .357 hollow point, will do some very artistic expanding tissue disruption. Small-bore rifle bullets (like a .223) tend to bounce around inside the ribcage doing all manner of spirograph designs in the wound channel.
So... it depends... :-)
Evenin' folkses...
[sip]
Cripes. Already a spoiler.
It's a sniper bullet. Everyone ~thinks~ it's for the President. But the reality is, this guy was the intended target.
All I really need to say is that they can have an open casket because he was shot in the back and died instantly. But I want to say it like it's believable.
ooops
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