Hmm, I didn't know there was a generic for Cylert. I have to ask my pharmacy and my neurologist about that...bet it's cheaper.
I too insist on going to the pharmacy I've been going to for 22 years. Mail-order is fine for stuff you can get a far-in-advance supply of, but they won't let you preorder Cylert (guess why). So if the mail is delayed...well, I could lose my job. And the Lexapro? In the dead of winter, that could be fatal.
Lovely. Jerks!
The slow loris is quick at catching prey, they say...I wonder if it kills by disemvowelment? :-)
Bruce, this is what divination is all about. Random objects, words, cloud formations tell you something about the inside of your own mind. But they're easier to accept if you perceive them as if they came from outside.
I just pointed out to someone who sat down and read the I Ching, then complained that it made no sense, that it wasn't meant to be read straight through; it was meant to be referred to after a long process that put the user into a non-ordinary state of consciousness...one where everything makes a kind of sense, and where it can be interpreted in terms of the user's own life.
Clearly an overhaul of the old phone gag about "Prince Albert in the can" is called for, but I don't feel equal to the task myself.
As I've often said, there aren't enough condoms in the world.
Oh, and: anybody have a theory as to why some of the smaller constructions are drawn curved? Or what the difference is between B-G-B in a straight line (npi) and arranged in a triangle? (No, they don't have both, but why the particular arrangement choices? Just an artist trying to make them look nice? Or is there some meaning here that I'm missing?)
Not to mention that big ring with no lines going across it. I'm sorry, but my hoax detector is still going off (the damn reset button is stuck again, too).
Lenora Rose: You're correct about the second M-M pairing. Boy that was hard to spot.
Notice that that one is between two boys who each had THREE female connections (no overlap, either). Unlike the other, where one boy had no other connections at all.
Makes me want to know the story. Or write it. :-)
Rhandir, you used the semicolon correctly.
Where are you getting that 3% figure? I would contend that it's virtually impossible to get accurate figures in society as a whole, given the strong environment of homophobia we live in. Frex, remember the "study" that claimed we were only 1%? They did that by going to people's homes and asking them. Imagine: "Hi, I'm conducting a study. Are you Thomas J. Jones? And this is 4711 Koeln Street? And are you homosexual?" It's astonishing they got a figure as high as 1% with that methodology.
In addition, there is far more homosexual behavior in highschools than there is homosexual identification. In fact, if my own highschool experience is anything to go by, there are plenty of guys who do what any reasonable adult would call "having homosexual sex" with a known "faggot," but never acknowledge homosexuality themselves, possibly lifelong.
And yes, people, especially highschool students, love to talk about themselves. They don't, however, tell the truth. What did the researchers do when a boy says he had sex with a certain girl, and she says she didn't? IME boys tend to inflate their number of sexual partners, even naming specific girls, and girls tend to deflate theirs. I don't think promising to wait 10 years before releasing the data would do much to change this; they're lying to themselves as much as to the researcher.
Also, teenagers tend to have a very distorted view (from an adult-outside-a-courtroom POV) of what consitutes sex. Is fellatio sex? I'd say yes. A typical teenage boy would say yes if he was fellated by a girl (and a typical teenage girl would disagree), and no if by a boy. And he would claim the other boy WAS having sex.
I should read this and see if any of these issues are addressed. Don't have time now. Forgive me if they are.
The high-school sex map one is interesting, but they don't address the incredibly obvious flaw: lying. The article doesn't say anything (that I could find) about what makes them think the reported sexual habits of these kids are ANYTHING like their actual behavior.
Identifying your partners by NAME?!?!? Good grief, that would get you killed in a lot of places.
I noticed also that there were only two same-sex hookups on the map page: one blue-blue and one pink-pink. Now I don't know whether to be surprised that any were reported (see above) or, if I believe they used nipple and scrotum electrodes to make sure the kids were telling the truth, amazed that there weren't more.
My general take: it's a hoax.
Alice, $15/hour is lousy pay, at least for a professional, in the New York Metropolitan area. In a place where housing prices, for example, are lower, it might be a very good rate of pay.
That said, I know people who are making $7/hour (they work for the gym I go to). They all either have more than one job, or are students and primarily supported by their parents.
Proof once again that Merriam-Webster is a shitty, shitty dictionary. As if we needed more.
(Hmm, having said THAT I'd better check my American Heritage and make sure it's still on the side of the angels...when I get home.)
Stefan: I used to think people (and companies) which called duct tape duck tape were being cute, until I remembered that "duck" is a kind of light canvas and that "duck tape" is the original name for the stuff, although perhaps not for the metallized variety.
Yes, as I said.
Zvi, she says she'll correct 'duck tape' to 'duct tape'. But actually it's called duck tape because it's made from duck, a light cotton fabric.
I'm more pedantic than an Onion parody of pedantry. Wow.
There are no plastic-bag recycling containers near my grocery stores AFAIK. That would take up actual room (if you've never lived in Metro NYC you don't know what a critical issue this is).
But Yellow Rose of Texas? Oh, my, I've spent all my life thinking she was a blonde... Blame it on all my tall, blonde, Scandinavian cousins.
I'm worse than that. I assumed the Yellow Rose of Texas was...you know, a rose. As in, a plant. But then I don't think I've ever heard the words to that song...when I hear an instrumental of it, my brain goes "Because I could not stop for Death He kindly stopped...for-ME!"
novalis, 'Hayden' is pronounced like a really cozy cave (a den lined with hay - though the vowel in 'den' is pretty reduced, as in the 'ton' in Hatton). You have Nielsen correct (as a command to one's male offspring before the altar - similar reduction applies).
Metal Fatigue: you are the anti-Seth? (I will leave aside a theological discussion about whether that necessarily makes you Osiris.) Perhaps you could supply antisethtics for the raffle at Lunacon. (No, seriously, Seth buys a lot of tickets and thus contributes lots of money to the cause. Whatever it is.)
At any rate, I think you actually agree with Paula, who was saying that mutual annihilation would be too mundane, and not involve sufficient abstruse math, to be the end of the Seth and the Anti-Seth.
I suggest that what actually happened when you met in the flesh is that each of you generated a virtual self, which changed places with the corresponding self of the other, and that the originals were, in fact, annihilated and replaced with the virtuals, not that it matters (npi), since they are identical in every respect. To a casual observer it would appear that you passed close to each other (or perhaps through each other, but no such observation has been reported in the Journal of Sethology) with no ill effects, whereas actually mutual annihilation was, in fact, achieved, but the matter generated was exactly equal to the energy released (minus a bit for entropy; I assume you felt somewhat tired after this event).
The abstruse math is left to the reader. If Catherine Asaro is out there, no doubt she can correct my physics (which is a little rusty, since I haven't studied it since about 1972).
I feel guilty throwing out plastic grocery bags. I have saved them to the capacity of my bag saver, but never, ever use them. When I was a kid my mom used them to keep our feet dry, and to make our boots easier to don and doff.
It never occurred to me to make a rug out of them. Maybe because I had asthma as long as I had rugs, and it went away and never (well, hardly ever) came back once I got rid of them all. Still, such a rug would make a great doormat, wouldn't it?
I make only one secondary use of the plastic grocery bags. I unpack them without picking them up, leaving them sitting there on the floor. Then, one at a time and alternating feet, I kick them up to shoulder level and snatch them out of the air. A minor leg exertion, but good for the balance, I find.
Then I throw them away. As I said, my bag saver is full.
Well, Magi are Babylonian astrologers, elevated to the level of a priesthood. Three is a typical Biblical number; if there were at least two and fewer than seven, they probably would have been called "three."
The astrological event in question was a triple conjunction of Jupiter and Mars (that is, Jupiter and Mars were within each other's orbs three times in fairly rapid succession) in August of 4 BCE. I'm told that Jupiter represents Kingship and Mars represent(ed/s) the Jews to Babylonian astrologues; thus they concluded it had to do with the King of the Jews. They were "following the stars" rather than following a star; and if a huge flare of light had appeared above a stable in Bethlehem, a whole lot more people than that would have come!
The gifts that they bring in Matthew are all grave goods of one sort or another. This is to prophesy his death. I actually wrote a Christmas carol (well, OK, it's a Christmas/Epiphany carol) about this. It's on my stack of "arrange this for the choir someday" stuff. Well behind the Et Egressus, the Ave Maria, and the Nunc Dimittis.
There's a certain dogged persistence to these...
Yes, they're determined sons of bitches...
I never noticed before that 'maddog' is 'goddam' spelled backwards.
Coincidence? Perhaps.
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