Monthly Archive for January, 2005

Human bite infections can be nasty 0 cmts

Human bite infections can be nasty – Get it checked out, even if it is embarrassing.

Mapping the sexual network of a high school 0 cmts

Mapping the sexual network of a high school – 58% are sexually active, most with only one or two partners over 18 months, but remarkably the pairings result in a chain of connections linking 288 students, up to 37 steps apart.

Mobile SpeedPass has been cracked 0 cmts

Mobile SpeedPass has been cracked – Fascinating.

Tue

Jan

2005

U.S. Children Still Traumatized One Year After Seeing Partially Exposed Breast On TV 0 cmts

U.S. Children Still Traumatized One Year After Seeing Partially Exposed Breast On TV

Being sick 0 cmts

One of these days I’ll post an entry for which I won’t have to click the “personal” category checkbox. But not this one.

Last Friday I stayed up until, oh, 6:30am to get out the second issue of The Hoot. When I awoke on Saturday, I felt pretty bad. Since then I’ve had an ongoing headache, dizziness, and a sore throat. The symptoms wax and wane but never completely go away. I’ve been tired and sleeping a lot. I’ve been hungry and eating a lot. I don’t really have a good understanding of how sick I am, because it keeps changing, but I would say mild to moderate. Its enough to be really annoying and stop me from wanting to go do anything, but not enough so that I feel miserable.

I feel trapped in a strange middle condition where I can’t tell if I am getting better or worse. I don’t feel well enough to go to the gym, but I have a lot of energy and am really fidgety. I should be doing things like school work (which I really have very little of at this point), but I’m not doing well at focusing. Admittedly that’s not new, but in this instance I’m bored and not going anywhere, so there is no reason not to do something vaguely useful. But I can’t even bring myself to do things relating to my computer, or my web site, or any other kind of thing that I might do to waste time.

In short, it is all very strange. I hope it goes away soon. I’m not in great pain, I’m not bedridden, so I’m happy about that, but being in this weird purgatory state is driving me crazy. And that’s about all I can stand to sit still and write right now. Sigh, back to lying in bed, flipping TV channels. Which is something I never, ever do. What’s going on here?

Things I’d probably say if the Bush administration were just a weekly TV show and I were a regular viewer 0 cmts

Things I’d probably say if the Bush administration were just a weekly TV show and I were a regular viewer

Scalia tries to win chief justice 0 cmts

Scalia tries to win chief justice – Indeed, quite the consensus-maker. Obvious once you’ve read, oh, I dunno, any of his opinions…

Sun

Jan

2005

Hackers steal ID info from Virginia university 2 cmts

Hackers steal ID info from Virginia university – Remember when something along these lines happened at Brandeis? No, you don’t, because it was kept secret.

Yanna is running a marathon! 0 cmts

Yanna is running a marathon! – Track her training progress and donate some money to a good cause.

A little bit of drinking each day helps the brain as well as the heart 0 cmts

A little bit of drinking each day helps the brain as well as the heart – Go figure.