Your Friday moment of zen.
Detail, Buick camper, rural Nebraska © 2007, 2011, Joseph E. Lake, Jr.
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Posted: 9:30 am Fri November 25 2011 | Comments(1) |
A reader reacts to Green — With decidedly mixed feelings.
The Dubious Perils of Pac-Man — I think my opinions on video games are fairly well known.
Kinect for Windows to offer ‘Minority Report’ computer control
A Glimpse of CLIMSO — APOD with a striking photo of a French telescope.
Humans were catching tuna 42K years ago
The Poor, the Near Poor and You
Counting Really Small Blessings — A rundown on the distortions and idiocies of the most recent GOP debate.
?otd: Going shopping today?
11/25/2011
Writing time yesterday: 0.0 hours (chemo fatigue)
Body movement: 30 minute stationary bike ride
Hours slept: 13.5 (solid sleep plus napping)
Weight: 209.8
Currently (re)reading: I Shall Wear Midnight by Terry Pratchett
Posted: 9:28 am Fri November 25 2011 | Comments(1) |
Happy Thanksgiving, both to my USAnian friends and everyone else for whom this is just an obscure American harvest festival.
Posted: 8:01 am Thu November 24 2011 | Comments(1) |
Your Thursday moment of zen.
Detail, Buick camper, rural Nebraska © 2007, 2011, Joseph E. Lake, Jr.
This work by Joseph E. Lake, Jr. is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
Posted: 7:59 am Thu November 24 2011 | Comments(0) |
Ranking Exoplanet Habitability
Octopus Walks on Land — I for one welcome our new aquatic overlords.
“Brinicle” – (Antarctica’s Underwater Ice Finger Of Death) — (Via ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=1){kind=small}
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Pizza Is Not a Vegetable — But neither is anything else, really.
Exposing the Cost of Health Care — Most Americans don’t know what medical procedures cost until after the fact. One startup aims to change that. According to the GOP, we’re supposed to be ‘wise shoppers’ who barter chickens. Nothing to see here citizen, not in the greatest healthcare system in the world. Move along.
Congress Nixes Climate Service — GOP lawmakers deny NOAA proposal to create central information hub. As usual, conservative ideology trumps rational thought. (Via corwynofamber
Who can you believe at GOP debates? — Oooh! Oooh! I know this one!
?otd: Got turkey?
11/24/2011
Writing time yesterday: 0.0 hours (chemo fatigue)
Body movement: 30 minute stationary bike ride
Hours slept: 11.0 (solid sleep plus napping)
Weight: 211.6
Currently (re)reading: Unseen Academicals by Terry Pratchett
Posted: 7:55 am Thu November 24 2011 | Comments(0) |
I only met her a few times, but I’ve read almost everything she wrote. She will always stand near the center of what made me a writer.
Posted: 6:48 am Wed November 23 2011 | Comments(0) |
In the home stretch here, two more chemo sessions to go. On the plus side, my lower GI has restarted after five days of silence. On the minus side, my lower GI has restarted after five days of silence. Also I have leveled up (or down?) on fatigue. Slept nine hours straight last night.
The fatigue is going to be killer for the next 4-5 weeks, I think. I can still wake up and function, it’s not quite thoroughly overwhelming, but it’s definitely showing every sign of being a constant companion. And it’s not just physical. Even my strategy of re-reading old favorite books is wearing thin.
The recent scan was clean, but my CEA levels were up to 2.0 on the last bloodwork. My oncologist isn’t worried about this, but I can’t help but be. So I continue bedeviled.
Not too tired to plan, though. Some things are coming together for the first quarter of next year. I’m going to leverage whatever health I have to move forward. For now, I yawn a lot.
Posted: 6:38 am Wed November 23 2011 | Comments(0) |
Your Wednesday moment of zen.
Buick camper, rural Nebraska © 2007, 2011, Joseph E. Lake, Jr.
This work by Joseph E. Lake, Jr. is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
Posted: 6:33 am Wed November 23 2011 | Comments(0) |
Destnio: A Salvador Dalí + Walt Disney Collaboration Circa 1945 — (Via Curiosity Counts.)
The View from Chajnantor — APOD with a striking photo.
On Mars Rover, Tools to Plumb a Methane Mystery
Climategate 2: More ado about nothing. Again. — The evidence is overwhelming, and no amount of noise will stop that. But that’s why the noise is made, to distract you. We are long past the time when this was simple skepticism — the open and honest questioning of evidence — and are now well into full-blown denial. Does the Right ever get tired of being Wrong?
Teaching Good Sex — Only if you want your kids to become well-adjusted adults.
Fox News On UC Davis Pepper Spraying: ‘It’s A Food Product, Essentially’ — And waterboarding isn’t torture. You people are idiots.
Some News Makes You Know Less — FOX, specifically. Well, duh, given that the GOP thrives on low-information voters.
Second Michigan Dem Pleads No Contest In Fake Tea Party Scheme — Come on, guys. We’re supposed to be better than Ailes-Rove Republicans.
?otd: Gobble gobbble?
11/23/2011
Writing time yesterday: 0.0 hours (chemo fatigue)
Body movement: 30 minute stationary bike ride
Hours slept: 9.0 (solid sleep plus napping)
Weight: 215.4
Currently (re)reading: Unseen Academicals by Terry Pratchett
Posted: 6:30 am Wed November 23 2011 | Comments(1) |
Last night I dreamt that a former boss (and still good friend) of mine wanted to hire me for an unusual project. She said I wasn’t radical enough, and she asked me in my dream to drive a Mercedes-Benz from Jerusalem to Beijing.
The dream wasn’t about the road trip itself, though in real life I’d take that on in a heartbeat, but rather about all the preparation. Which borders could or should I cross? How to outfit the vehicle? Do I have friends in the Middle East or Central Asia I could call upon for help?
It was fascinating, how into the project I was, and a bit melancholy to know even within the dream that it was only a dream.
And so goes cancer. A journey that keeps changing, where I look for borders and boundaries and friends and wonder who to call for help. Likewise, I suspect this is the Antarctica project lurching into view from somewhere deep within me. Still, I’d drive that car from here to there, and take ten thousand photos on the way.
Wouldn’t you?
Posted: 6:25 am Tue November 22 2011 | Comments(0) |