May 26, 2005
I will be 2 billion seconds old on 3/25/14
And I expect something nice from y’all then.
This piece of superfluity comes via TimeAndDate.com. (Thanks to Marcia Blake for the link.)
May 26, 2005
And I expect something nice from y’all then.
This piece of superfluity comes via TimeAndDate.com. (Thanks to Marcia Blake for the link.)
May 25, 2005
This afternoon I went to an acupuncturist for the first time. Interesting experience.
I went because I’ve been having shoulder pain that extendsdown to my wrist. Of course, it’s gotten considerably better since I made the appointment, but it still ranges from an ache to an intrusive shout of pain. Besides, I’ve never had acupuncture before.
The acupuncturist, trained in Shanghai, inserted about a dozen needles in my back, as well as attaching some suction cups (similar to what my people used to do with small cups and matches) and shining a heat lamp on me. I slept for 15 minutes. Then she had me flip over (well, she took the needles out first) and repeated the drill, so to speak. I slept again. Afterwards I was surprised to learn that the needles had been in a full inch; they felt more superficial than that.
At the moment, my shoulder is pain-free but my arm aches noticeably, pretty much the same as before the treatment. She wants me to come back twice more, a week apart. I will if only for the cat naps.
Besides, I believe the evidence that acupuncture works for some ills, even though I don’t pretend to understand the theory behind it. (Someone once told me that it’s not so much a theory as a mnemonic device. Don’t know if there’s any sense to that remark.)
A joke I hereby donate to Jay Leno:
“I went to an acupuncturist. She was very gentle. In fact, when she ran out of needles she switched to Post-It notes.”
Hey, I said it was for Leno so it doesn’t have to be funny!
[Technorati tag: acupuncture]
May 22, 2005
Marilyn “World’s Smartest Person” vos Savant today in Parade agrees with a letter writer that it’s reasonable to drop friends who curse. Writes vos Savant:
I notice that none of my friends use bad language! I guess I’ve never found an interesting person with a foul mouth.
Wow. Some of my best friends curse like sailors in a croc pond. And some of the best writers do also. Heck, I even know a chief blogging officer who’s been known to have a mouth on him, and no one has ever ever called him not interesting. [Technorati tag: misc]
April 29, 2005
No, not ontology in the computer science. Ontology in the “logos of being” sense, whatever that means, which is exactly why my friend Joe turns to poetry.
Also, it’s spring. [Technorati tag: poetry]
April 22, 2005
Because of my flu — today it’s turned into merely a seal-like cough and Quasimodo’s headache — I’ve been waking up with odd snippets of dreams in my head.
Two days ago I awoke from a dream in which the contestants on American Idol were catching fish shaped like the way they sing. So, the one who does all the Mariah Carey-esque swooping around every note reeled in an eel. Disgusting, but, then…
Yesterday I woke up with this bad joke from the early 1990s:
Why exactly I’m having Ross Perot dreams is beyond me. (And I’d clean up the awful red outlining but I’m too beat. It’s not like it’d be real funny if only I’d done a better job image editing it.)
April 13, 2005
Nicj has started aggregating cool snippets from Google Maps satellite photos. For example, here’s Disneyland, Bill Gates’ house, the Grand Canyon, and Mount St. Helens. The site credits the Google Sightseeing site for the idea…where, for example, you’ll find a bunch of people who have spotted images with planes flying through them. [Technorati tags: maps google]
April 7, 2005
Betsy explains quite clearly why the Dutch use of bicycles make them happier than we are. It’s almost enough to make me get back onto my damn bike. [Technorati tag: bicycle]
March 29, 2005
Why is it that it seems many more Mac owners decorate their laptops with stickers than do PC notebook owners?
Maybe it’s because we PC owners want to be able to re-sell our notebooks while Mac owners assume they’re going to own their machines till they wear them down to the rims. [Technorati tag: macintosh]
March 14, 2005
Shelley’s has finished her proposal for a travel book called One Ticket, Please. You can get a taste here. It’s not your run of the mill travel book. No surprise: She’s taken some beautiful photos.
March 12, 2005
Ethan has posted about 15 seconds of an odd moment at Martin Varsavsky‘s party. Of Ethan, Joi, and Dan G, I seem to be the only one with the good sense to be holding a glass of wine instead of a camera.