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F106 4CH Infared RC Helicopter NEW with Gyro Radio Remote Control Mini Size (Yellow) — Just go read the copy on this one. Preferably aloud as a dramatic presentation. (Via ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=1){kind=small}
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Do you really want to know what your doc is writing about you?
Restoration Projects Bring Coho Back To Johnson Creek — Nuevo Rancho Lake isn’t far from Johnson Creek.
Mysterious ‘space ball’ crashes down in Namibia grasslands
Rare Galaxy from ‘Dawn of Time’ Photographed — That just seems so cool.
1,100-year-old Mayan ruins found in North Georgia — Mayans? In Georgia? Really? (Snurched from @bethmeacham.)
Baboons kidnap and raise feral dogs as pets — Odd but cool. (Via danjite
Bachmann’s overlaps — Heh. (Via Scrivener’s Error.)
Ron Paul gets testy, walks out over talk of racist newsletters — So Ron Paul was a nasty racist when it paid well to scare the rubes and drum up donations, but no longer now that it’s embarrassing. Remember, kids, character counts. I know some political party told me that once, very loudly, but maybe it only applies to liberal-progressives. Also, Ta-Nehisi Coates with more on this.
For Gingrich in Power, Pragmatism, Not Purity — A profile of the Newt which may be of interest to you political junkies. (Thanks to my Dad.)
So… You’ve Been Indefintely Detained — Ah, democracy. We used to live in one, I think.
?otd: Green blood or red?
12/23/2011
Writing time yesterday: 0.0 hours (chemo fatigue)
Body movement: 30 minute stationary bike ride
Hours slept: 11.5 (solid plus napping)
Weight: 207.0
Currently (re)reading: The White Dragon by Anne McCaffrey
Posted: 6:07 am Fri December 23 2011 |
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Michael
December 23rd, 2011 at 1:54 pmMayan ruins in GA? Yeah, not so much:
http://boingboing.net/2011/12/23/no-nobody-found-mayan-ruins-i.html
Bruce Arthurs
December 23rd, 2011 at 2:11 pmre reading your doctor’s notes:
I got a copy of my files from one doctor about ten years ago, and discovered he’d written that I was “exaggerating” my pain. This was in regard to a work-related injury, and was one of the doctors I’d been sent to by my employers. Wasn’t the only work-ordered doctor during that experience who implied I was faking or lying about my pain, or trying to score some narcotic pain-killers for recreational use, which turned a painful experience into a hellish one. Wasn’t until I dumped the doctors working for my employers and found my own that I finally got relief and was able to go back to work.
Lesson learned: Avoid “company doctors”. They’re there to serve your employer, not you. And when your employer’s default position is that their employees are lazy, lying, thieving scum, the company doctors will tell them what they want to hear.
Also helpful: When your employer wants to send you to a particular doctor, see if your state Board of Medical Examiners has an accessible database listing complaints filed against doctors. One of the doctors they wanted to send me to had had eight formal complaints filed against him in the previous year; that’s more than most doctors have in their entire careers.
On the other hand, I also once managed (it took a lot of hoop-jumping and persistence) to get a copy of a psychiatric evaluation from 1995 , which made for really interesting reading, most of which I even agreed with. It’s official: I’m mostly harmless.