I brought my keyboard in to work on Friday specifically so I could compose a post during my lunch break and copy and paste it to Dreamwidth when I got home later. I was going to write all about what I've been doing the past few months: getting a WordPress blog installed for atlepicurean, getting a phpBB board up and running for my book club, as ( Read more... )

I picked up something besides my fork at Taste of Atlanta 2010. I had an awesome time - it deserves its own post - but right now, I'm composing this on my phone from my bed because I'm sick. Yesterday, I couldn't have even managed this much ( Read more... )

I don't really talk about my rosacea much. I have it. I avoid the sun and heat like the plague; I avoid spice past a certain point (jalapenos and up in Tex-Mex cooking are triggers; curiously, wasabi isn't). In my car, the air conditioner is like a cool, moist balm. I've had laser treatments that weren't so successful. I use sunscreen. I try to do ( Read more... )

I didn't get my yearly sinus infection in November or December, so I suppose I was past due to be sick. The thing is, I don't feel full-on sick, just hot and yucky. I have that prickly skin that you get sometimes just before a fever, my eyes are itchy, and I have an earache. Oddly, though, there's not a lot going on with my nose and throat. It's ( Read more... )

My dear husband let me know about this one:

German Doctor Cures an HIV Patient With a Bone Marrow Transplant

HIV is the virus that causes Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). Until now, HIV has no cure and has led to the deaths of over 25 million people. However, a possible cure has appeared. Dr. Gero Hutter, a brilliant physician in ( Read more... )

Curse you, Cliff Bostock, and your appetizing pictures. Now I could really go for a banh mi.

Like many people, we've been eating out less frequently due to the recession, and when we do, I look for deals. Coupons or early bird specials are a plus. I've been cooking more. I went retro and made these beans and franks about a week ago. They didn't ( Read more... )

I heard Jonathan Oberlander speak about this on Fresh Air on NPR last night. There's a decent summary overview here, and the actual article from the New England Journal of Medicine here. In addition to his job as associate professor of social medicine and health policy and administration at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, ( Read more... )

Georgia:

• Crashes involving motorcycles have risen 97% over the past six years (AJC)
• Auto insurance may spike if Perdue signs bill (AJC)
• Too much Lanier water was released (AJC)
• Roswell, Alpharetta ease watering restrictions (AJC)

National:

• Bush makes history ... as the most unpopular president

I found out about this through Jim Davies. It sounds quite interesting:

Want to Remember Everything You'll Ever Learn? Surrender to This Algorithm Source: Wired

From this AJC story, http://www.hospitalcompare.hhs.gov/.