Non migraine sufferers:

Do you have a problem with flashing police car lights? How do they compare with flashing firetruck lights?

(Migraine sufferers are welcome to answer too if they feel left out, but I've already asked two, plus myself, and the answer's been unanimous so far.)

This came up in a couple conversations with different people last week ( Read more... )

In a situation where letters of reference are completely optional, and you're allowed to have anywhere from 0-3, is it better to have one good one and two mediocre ones or just one good one? (By mediocre I mean entirely positive but not detailed, but my understanding is that kind of thing can count against you as much as it can count for you. ( Read more... )

(This is actually a recurring thing for me, although it only escalated quite this far once, a few months ago, but it got nearly this far last night.)

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I borrowed a 405 nm laser pointer from a labmate, since I seem to have lost mine. His is twice as powerful as mine, which is more than a little scary to be playing around with (he's the sort of guy who carries around blindingly/counter-productively bright flashlights, and pocket knives that are as big as the law will allow, and whole screwdriver ( Read more... )

On Saturday night, I went to watch the Perseid meteor shower. The county naturalist opens a park after dark every year for this purpose; last year it was a sleepover, but this year it was only supposed to go until 2 am (and in fact, she kicked everyone out at midnight because it was cloudy and she decided she wanted to go home ( Read more... )

Since aryky loves talking about dreams, I let her pick the topic of my next post. Here is her prompt:

Dreams!

Well, personally, I think the viewpoint issues that we were discussing in that post by q10 you link to are the things that interest me most about dreams, so that's a good topic to write about. Or you could do a poll about whether people play ( Read more... )

This month is the 10th anniversary of my having started a dream journal, so I've decided to write a post about dreaming. A while ago I told q10 that I'd been writing a post about dreams and maybe I'd get around to actually posting it. That was apparently a year and a half ago... I think half the problem is I really have too much to say on the topic ( Read more... )

Here is my Boston schedule so far. It's time to fill in the details, especially since the relatives I'm staying with are now ready to schedule their time with me. So chime in if you want to meet up with me at any of my free times ( Read more... )

I just got a wedding invitation from a friend from high school. How odd. Who would have thought that anyone who knew me back then would remember me at all, eleven years past graduation, let alone remember me fondly enough to invite me to their wedding. Even if this was one of my favorite people from high school ( Read more... )