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Julie
Julie had surgery today to remove her left lung, a treatment for asbestos-caused lung cancer. But tonight her daughter posted:Mom is doing really well tonight, alert and only in a little pain. Miraculously, she still has BOTH lungs! When the doctor got in there, he says it appears that she has had a 100% response to the chemotherapy, so there was ( Read more... ) -
Radical Muzak
Not what I expected to hear when I stopped at Sheetz coming home from the SpiralHeart meeting:
Some folks are born made to wave the flag ( Read more... ) -
Handpan Dissonance
Here is a (very naive) attempt to estimate the potential dissonance for Pantheon Steel's Sound ModelsThe idea is to calculate the dissonance you might get if you strike two tones at random, with tones 1 step apart on a 12-tone equal temperament scale counted as the most dissonant; tones 2, 11 and 13 thirteen steps apart counted as half as dissonant ( Read more... ) -
Ride Six Dragons
I've always liked this poem by either Li Bai (Li Po) or Barry Hughart, depending on how you slice it. In his novel Eight Skilled Gentlemen, Hughart's character Master Li says ( Read more... ) -
Dragon poem
When the dragon leaves the sky ( Read more... ) -
Irony
Last night I talked about how my first-week struggles were partially compensated for by the joy my inner geek took in the shiny tech, SleepyHead graphs, and so forth, then wrote "would gladly forgo the techno-euphoria in return for a nice boring reliable solution ( Read more... ) -
My first week as a hosehead
Since February I've had two health goals: to lose weight, and to improve my sleep. The weight had been coming off slowly and steadily, but the sleep just didn't want to follow -- and even when I'd get 9 or 10 hours, I didn't feel much more rested. Sometime around the last week of April the sleep situation got abruptly worse -- I felt incredibly ( Read more... ) -
NYC; UC Davis
I happened to be awake and watching the live stream when Occupy Wall Street was evicted from Freedom Plaza, so I went up to New York for the Thursday actions. I was a late getting to Wall St. Thursday morning, so didn't actually participate in the shut-down. But I found an intersection with people telling their stories via people's mic -- how ( Read more... ) -
Occupy Wall St raided; #N17 call to action for Thursday
Early this morning the New York police invaded Liberty Square (Zuccotti Park), ripping up tents, destroying the 5000-book People's Library, and beating city council member Ydanis Rodriguez (and many others), and using pepper spray and tear gas. The livestream just went dark, and restarted on someone talking on a cell to a person in the park -- they ( Read more... ) -
Last week in Occupy Richmond
Wednesday, Nov 2: Sur, Greg, and Josh H. have a bail hearing. (They'd been held without bail since Sunday's arrests). They are released on $500 bond ( Read more... )