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Aug. 6th, 2007 10:13 pm
there are too many things
Someday I will write a real post.
Last week we went to the ER twice. Mark is fine now, and was diagnosed with a bacterial infection and given extra antibiotics. We weren't reassured by the doctor's "worst-case scenario - it might be Chrohn's disease or colitis". In fact, I'm sort of frustrated that we're in 2007 now and medicine is mostly guessing until you get it right. I'm not saying that our doctors sucked; they were doing the best with the information they had, but still. A little certainty would go a long way, is all I'm saying.
More aggravating was the fact that we actually bought groceries and planned to cook last week, but because of the above, didn't get to do much of it. My mom was sweet, though, and made me bring Mark some soup and "wife cookies". No, I have no idea why they're called that. I went home for dinner on Saturday and she practically kicked me out of the house right after, telling me I had to take care of him. (I bet Mark just looooves that.)
I've been working on my eHub articles and part of that is reviewing different sites. Doing this, as fun as it is, is still annoying sometimes, especially when I have to deal with a website that does stupid things - for example, instead of writing out their features in plain old text, advise you to watch a video, or linking to an "about" page that is non-existent, or my very biggest pet peeve - charge money for things that are now standard to give away for free. If I can get what you are offering for free somewhere else, why wouldn't I go somewhere else?
Today my train was delayed due to a person being struck by another train. According to what we heard, it was a probable suicide. Which is awful.
I will write about New York later. Still have to work on other stuff first. Some links of interest to me, and maybe to you:
Remember that tasering incident in UCLA? UCLA's campus police decided to taser some kid because he had no ID, and there was an internal investigation that found no fault with the campus police. However, there was another investigation and this time found that the officer violated "use of force" policies. via Metafilter.
Daniel Wu's blog is still going. This time he writes about the destruction of the Queen's Pier. I have a soft spot for him because he went to school in Oakland. I mean, true, it was Head-Royce, one of the best private schools around, but still. Oakland!
I am with John Scalzi on the creation of a union for bloggers - WTF? First, who are you going to bargain with? Actually in the comments it's noted that the original person who talked about it was actually trying to figure out ways for bloggers to get health insurance. But still, unless blogging is your sole source of income (in which case you need to start looking for another job) maybe you should just look at the stuff that's already out there.
New York's deliverymen sue their employers.
Last week we went to the ER twice. Mark is fine now, and was diagnosed with a bacterial infection and given extra antibiotics. We weren't reassured by the doctor's "worst-case scenario - it might be Chrohn's disease or colitis". In fact, I'm sort of frustrated that we're in 2007 now and medicine is mostly guessing until you get it right. I'm not saying that our doctors sucked; they were doing the best with the information they had, but still. A little certainty would go a long way, is all I'm saying.
More aggravating was the fact that we actually bought groceries and planned to cook last week, but because of the above, didn't get to do much of it. My mom was sweet, though, and made me bring Mark some soup and "wife cookies". No, I have no idea why they're called that. I went home for dinner on Saturday and she practically kicked me out of the house right after, telling me I had to take care of him. (I bet Mark just looooves that.)
I've been working on my eHub articles and part of that is reviewing different sites. Doing this, as fun as it is, is still annoying sometimes, especially when I have to deal with a website that does stupid things - for example, instead of writing out their features in plain old text, advise you to watch a video, or linking to an "about" page that is non-existent, or my very biggest pet peeve - charge money for things that are now standard to give away for free. If I can get what you are offering for free somewhere else, why wouldn't I go somewhere else?
Today my train was delayed due to a person being struck by another train. According to what we heard, it was a probable suicide. Which is awful.
I will write about New York later. Still have to work on other stuff first. Some links of interest to me, and maybe to you:
Remember that tasering incident in UCLA? UCLA's campus police decided to taser some kid because he had no ID, and there was an internal investigation that found no fault with the campus police. However, there was another investigation and this time found that the officer violated "use of force" policies. via Metafilter.
Daniel Wu's blog is still going. This time he writes about the destruction of the Queen's Pier. I have a soft spot for him because he went to school in Oakland. I mean, true, it was Head-Royce, one of the best private schools around, but still. Oakland!
I am with John Scalzi on the creation of a union for bloggers - WTF? First, who are you going to bargain with? Actually in the comments it's noted that the original person who talked about it was actually trying to figure out ways for bloggers to get health insurance. But still, unless blogging is your sole source of income (in which case you need to start looking for another job) maybe you should just look at the stuff that's already out there.
New York's deliverymen sue their employers.
Jul. 9th, 2007 10:27 pm
an announcement and other things
- I'm now a contributing editor to Emily Chang's eHub site, which is a web 2.0 resource. You know how you've been hearing about how great Twitter is and stuff like that? That's her site, except she focuses on those tools and stuff that don't really get covered in BoingBoing. I've found a lot of useful sites through her, and I feel really excited about this. I am very flattered that she chose me to be an editor, especially when some of the others have been working directly in the industry for years and are older than me. The other editors are from all corners of the globe, and it's been really great working with them as well. This doesn't really change anything I write here, but the writing I'm contributing to eHub will be more polished.
- One of my friends asked if I wanted to do a group blog with him. Which I probably will as soon as he gets it up.
- Sicko got reposted on Google Video and is still up, apparently. Mark and I just watched it, and are now thoroughly depressed. Any further commentary will have to be friends-only.
- This Film is Not Yet Rated is also posted on Google Video. Links taken from Fimoculous, which is a great links blog. We were going to watch it this week but we watched Sicko instead.
- Found out that Jane magazine is folding, which I have mixed feelings about. It annoyed me to no end, but I couldn't help picking it up on a bad day after work and just flipping through it on the train.