It's a wild, wild world...
Oct. 31st, 2004 07:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ninevirtues...when your ebay seller turns out to have surprising talents. I bought a seatpost on ebay (cost $1, shipping $5), and when I failed to pay immediately (busy... distracted.... test coming.... hair forcibly removed from head at great speed... you can probably picture that) the following email exchange ensued:
Bikebry: Have not received the HUGE payment for the seatpost you won. Will ship when I receive. Brian
gdecamp: Sorry for the delay. Am facing huge hairy test on foot and ankle biomechanics. Will straighten out and pay up promptly when huge hairy test is over.
Bikebry: No problem. Here's a few quiz questions for you. (1) Which bone of the foot and ankle has NO muscular origins or insertions? (2) Where are the two most common locations for osteochondral lesions of the talus? (3) In the closed-kinetic chain what are the components of triplanar motion the talus goes through as the subtalar joint pronates? (4) Who is Vern Inman?
gdecamp: Medial cuneiform; in the subtalar joint and the dome of the talus; inversion, adduction, and dorsiflexion; he wrote _Human Walking_; and how the heck do you know enough to ask these questions?!!
(It developed that my eBay seller is a podiatrist and is the chief of foot and ankle surgery at a hospital in Seattle. It's a wild world when your eBay seller knows that stuff.)
Bikebry: Have not received the HUGE payment for the seatpost you won. Will ship when I receive. Brian
gdecamp: Sorry for the delay. Am facing huge hairy test on foot and ankle biomechanics. Will straighten out and pay up promptly when huge hairy test is over.
Bikebry: No problem. Here's a few quiz questions for you. (1) Which bone of the foot and ankle has NO muscular origins or insertions? (2) Where are the two most common locations for osteochondral lesions of the talus? (3) In the closed-kinetic chain what are the components of triplanar motion the talus goes through as the subtalar joint pronates? (4) Who is Vern Inman?
gdecamp: Medial cuneiform; in the subtalar joint and the dome of the talus; inversion, adduction, and dorsiflexion; he wrote _Human Walking_; and how the heck do you know enough to ask these questions?!!
(It developed that my eBay seller is a podiatrist and is the chief of foot and ankle surgery at a hospital in Seattle. It's a wild world when your eBay seller knows that stuff.)
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Date: 2004-11-06 05:28 am (UTC)