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Livejournal is anti-abuse?
This is a good example of why I can not trust LiveJournal enough to continue using them as my primary journal. As long as they continue in this vein, Insanejournal will be my journal site of choice.
August 13th, 2007
annoyedAugust 9th, 2007
Time to Update Your Lists
I've been annoyed by LiveJournal and its oh-so-wonderful management in the past, but their latest stupidity has finally pushed me beyond merely being annoyed, into actually doing something about my annoyance. So, all my future journal entries will be posted to InsaneJournal, instead of LiveJournal. I may continue to monitor my LJ friends page, but there's no guarantee I'll notice anything you might have specifically wanted me to see.
So, if you want to see my future posts, look for them at Yinepuhotep, Battered Men, and Knights in Tarnished Armor.
I'll be copying my old posts over, over the next few days, so they'll be accessible there, as well as here, but all my new posts will be going there.
So, if you want to see my future posts, look for them at Yinepuhotep, Battered Men, and Knights in Tarnished Armor.
I'll be copying my old posts over, over the next few days, so they'll be accessible there, as well as here, but all my new posts will be going there.
August 8th, 2007
impressedJuly 23rd, 2007
The World's Longest Suicide Note
Also known as Windows Vista Content Protection.
A relevant quote from the article:
A relevant quote from the article:
In fact, Microsoft is imposing a higher standard of security for premium content than what's been required in the past for any known secure computing initiative proposed for protecting data classified at TOP SECRET or TS/SCI levels (the closest that anything came to what's required in Vista was the LOCK kernel with SIDEARM and BED coprocessors (PDF link), which didn't go as far as the Vista requirements and after 17 years of development effort was a commercial failure to boot). Just to make this point clear, the level of security that Vista is trying to achieve to protect video and audio is more extreme than anything the US government has ever considered necessary for protecting its most sensitive classified data.
tiredJuly 21st, 2007
July 10th, 2007
Ugh! That's gonna rust
So a thought comes to mind...Ratchet wasn't able to fix Bumblebee's voicebox, yet he got his voice back after...well, if you've seen the movie, you know what I mean. Bets that his voice problem was PTSD-related muteness?
contemplativeJune 26th, 2007
So Much For ScriptFrenzy
I was only 6,000 words short of the goal, and then I washed dishes last night. Ended up in the emergency room, getting my finger taped back together. Unfortunately, this means there's no way I can type another 6,000 words by the end of the week. :(
I slipped while washing my favorite knife and got an inch-long gash in my finger. No stitches, thank goodness, but I have this hunk of bandage around the end of my finger that keeps me from hitting the right keys without hitting 3 or 4 keys on either side of it at the same time. Thank goodness I keep my knife sharp. If it hadn't been, that would have been an inch-long tear, rather than a clean cut, and I WOULD have needed stitches.
Oh, whee. I just noticed that even this much typing has me leaking blood. I've got to go change my bandage now. Feh.
I slipped while washing my favorite knife and got an inch-long gash in my finger. No stitches, thank goodness, but I have this hunk of bandage around the end of my finger that keeps me from hitting the right keys without hitting 3 or 4 keys on either side of it at the same time. Thank goodness I keep my knife sharp. If it hadn't been, that would have been an inch-long tear, rather than a clean cut, and I WOULD have needed stitches.
Oh, whee. I just noticed that even this much typing has me leaking blood. I've got to go change my bandage now. Feh.
disappointedJune 14th, 2007
A Brave Dad Battles Parental Alienation
Contrary to what so many liars would have you believe, Parental Alienation is not only real, it has destroyed the relationships between many fathers and their children. It's just too bad that so few men have the hundreds of thousands of dollars it takes to successfully battle it.
June 11th, 2007
Female Abusers
An English editorial describes the traits of female abusers and how they differ from male abusers. It's not in the way you've been taught to expect, either. Reading this editorial, I can confirm many of his points from my own life, and other points from things described by people I've met since I started the Battered Husbands Support group.
June 1st, 2007
creativeMay 21st, 2007
Healing Sucks
But my doctor is good. I'm lucky to have the first GOOD GP I've seen since moving away from the PA I was seeing in Florida. Dr. Damasco (my GP) is simply amazing. She has common sense, she doesn't try to tell me my health is "all in my head", and she actually gives good advice. I am INCREDIBLY lucky that she decided to move to Brattleboro after being an Embassy physician for the feral government.
Since I fell and injured myself 3 weeks ago, I've been dealing with a right arm that just doesn't want to function too well. Dr. Damasco is sure it's a rotator cuff tear, and that PT is the only way it's going to get better. Meanwhile, I have restricted motion, random electrical sensations running down my arm all the way to my fingertips, and pain that feels like a knife in my shoulder and someone beating me with a baseball bat in my bicep.
Oh yeah, and I'm sleeping nearly 12 hours a day, every day, since getting home from the emergency room the night I injured myself. I think that's the worst part of it - how DRAINING it is to heal, and how much time I'm sleeping because of it.
Still, I have my first ortho appointment on June 1, so here's hoping they have good ideas for how to get me back using this arm - and healed enough that I'm not sleeping 12 hours a day.
Since I fell and injured myself 3 weeks ago, I've been dealing with a right arm that just doesn't want to function too well. Dr. Damasco is sure it's a rotator cuff tear, and that PT is the only way it's going to get better. Meanwhile, I have restricted motion, random electrical sensations running down my arm all the way to my fingertips, and pain that feels like a knife in my shoulder and someone beating me with a baseball bat in my bicep.
Oh yeah, and I'm sleeping nearly 12 hours a day, every day, since getting home from the emergency room the night I injured myself. I think that's the worst part of it - how DRAINING it is to heal, and how much time I'm sleeping because of it.
Still, I have my first ortho appointment on June 1, so here's hoping they have good ideas for how to get me back using this arm - and healed enough that I'm not sleeping 12 hours a day.
Everybody Loves Migraines (Part 6 of Not Quite Marty-Stu)
title: Everybody Loves Migraines (Part 6 of Not Quite Marty-Stu)
author: Bill Hartwell
rating: teens
fandom: Harry Potter
characters/pairings: Harry/Ginny, Ron/Hermione, Bill & Fleur Weasley
disclaimer: If you recognize it, and it’s not from Knights in Tarnished Armor, it’s not mine.
author’s note: Believe it or not, I'm back to working on this again.
word count: 3710
May 17th, 2007
How very odd...
The Everything Test
May 16th, 2007
Safety Stats
A friend is writing his Master's thesis on accidental deaths and discovered something interesting that he shared with others.
MSN highlighted the safest vehicle on the road in a report you can find here.
Quoting my friend:
In the data he's been researching, which can be found here, all accidental firearms deaths were .25/100,000 for the same time period. In other words, between 2001 and 2004, you were three times more likely to be killed in an accident with a Chevy Astro Van than you are to be killed by a firearms accident.
Yet the van is considered safe while the firearms are considered "a grave threat, which must be regulated"? How stupid do they think we are?
MSN highlighted the safest vehicle on the road in a report you can find here.
Quoting my friend:
According to this the "safest" vehicle is the Chevy Astro Van which has 7 deaths per 1 million registered vehicles for model years 2001-2004. If you adjust assuming that 1 million vehicles equates to 1 million drivers and further adjust to the standard death reporting statistic which is /100,000 population that equates to .7 deaths/100,000 for *the safest single vehicle on the road*. I'm also assuming accidental death, although to be fair, I did not do a search for intentional vehicular manslaughter with an Astro Van.
In the data he's been researching, which can be found here, all accidental firearms deaths were .25/100,000 for the same time period. In other words, between 2001 and 2004, you were three times more likely to be killed in an accident with a Chevy Astro Van than you are to be killed by a firearms accident.
Yet the van is considered safe while the firearms are considered "a grave threat, which must be regulated"? How stupid do they think we are?
May 10th, 2007
Good Doctor
I just got off the phone with my doctor. Out of the blue, she phoned me to let me know that she just got my x-rays from last week and gave them a look, confirmed that I didn't break my back or neck, didn't break my nose or shoulder, and that my arthritis now covers both C5-C6 and C6-C7.
Do you know how weird it is to have a doctor who cares about her patients enough to call up like that, when she didn't have any scheduled appointment, just to touch base and let the patient know she's checking on stuff like that? She's the first doctor I've had in nearly 20 years who's that good. For the first time since 1988, I actually have trust in my doctor.
Do you know how weird it is to have a doctor who cares about her patients enough to call up like that, when she didn't have any scheduled appointment, just to touch base and let the patient know she's checking on stuff like that? She's the first doctor I've had in nearly 20 years who's that good. For the first time since 1988, I actually have trust in my doctor.
May 7th, 2007
Doctor Followup
Saw my doctor today, she confirmed that I didn't break anything, but I probably tore my rotator cuff (which explains the fact that my shoulder and arm haven't dropped below an 8 on my pain scale since last week) and will need physical therapy once the shoulder heals enough to tolerate it without being damaged more. She also told me to up my NSAID dose until it's healed, since I can't really update my morphine dose, to work my arm as I can tolerate it so that it doesn't freeze up, and to come back in two weeks to see how it's doing.
Have I mentioned recently how much I appreciate having a doctor who treats me as a competent adult, rather than an incompetent, a waste of his precious time, or a drug-seeking psych case? Dr. Damasco is the best doctor I've seen since I moved up here from Florida (and I was seeing a PA in Florida, who I'd love to team up with Dr. Damasco - then I'd have the PERFECT primary care team). She may work with a couple of doctors I wouldn't piss on if they were on fire, but Dr. Damasco is a damned good doctor and a decent human being.
So now I'm home, doing my best to follow her advice while doing some writing and tinkering with my POS computer. (Have I mentioned lately how much I hate Compaq/HP? Yes, REALLY HATE them!)
Have I mentioned recently how much I appreciate having a doctor who treats me as a competent adult, rather than an incompetent, a waste of his precious time, or a drug-seeking psych case? Dr. Damasco is the best doctor I've seen since I moved up here from Florida (and I was seeing a PA in Florida, who I'd love to team up with Dr. Damasco - then I'd have the PERFECT primary care team). She may work with a couple of doctors I wouldn't piss on if they were on fire, but Dr. Damasco is a damned good doctor and a decent human being.
So now I'm home, doing my best to follow her advice while doing some writing and tinkering with my POS computer. (Have I mentioned lately how much I hate Compaq/HP? Yes, REALLY HATE them!)
May 1st, 2007
Gardening is Dangerous
Important safety tip: If you have arthritis, DO NOT leave your cane in the house when you go out to plant irises.
I did, and ended up spending 5 hours in the emergency room getting checked for a broken back, broken neck, broken nose, and injured shoulder. I'm home now, with my arm in a sling (makes using a mouse REALLY HARD) and waiting for my morphine to start working. At least I didn't break my back or neck when I fell, but I DID gouge up my glasses, mashed my nose, either sprained or tore something in my shoulder, got a nice bruise under my jaw, and have a nasty headache.
Other than that, my day was ok. In fact, I got to meet the neighbors for the first time, and they're VERY nice people. I even got to meet three of the town cops (as well as ambulance and fire department crew), and didn't have any problems with them. So the stories about small town New Hampshire people being good people seem to be true -- at least, tonight they are.
I did, and ended up spending 5 hours in the emergency room getting checked for a broken back, broken neck, broken nose, and injured shoulder. I'm home now, with my arm in a sling (makes using a mouse REALLY HARD) and waiting for my morphine to start working. At least I didn't break my back or neck when I fell, but I DID gouge up my glasses, mashed my nose, either sprained or tore something in my shoulder, got a nice bruise under my jaw, and have a nasty headache.
Other than that, my day was ok. In fact, I got to meet the neighbors for the first time, and they're VERY nice people. I even got to meet three of the town cops (as well as ambulance and fire department crew), and didn't have any problems with them. So the stories about small town New Hampshire people being good people seem to be true -- at least, tonight they are.
April 26th, 2007
Digger's Hotline: Know It. Love It.
So I get up this morning and try catching up on two days worth of email, right? No big deal. At least, until just after 10am, when some <sarcasm>absolute frakkin' genius</sarcasm> decides he's gonna start digging in a construction area without calling the digger's hotline first to make sure there's no buried cables, natural gas lines, etc.
Said genius managed to knock out cable and internet service for the entire southeastern corner of Vermont and southwestern corner of New Hampshire. It took until sometime between 7 and 10 pm tonight before the cable was spliced back together. Of course, the splice was done in the rain, by the usual quality Comcast field techs. Which means that we now have another spot in the Comcast line where service is going to break every time the weather changes, wind picks up, it rains, snows, etc.
This is the first time our local Comcast office has had to deal with something this major, and they did a good job of doing it. Our service is --mostly-- back to where it was before. Which means outages or flickers whenever the wind picks up, it rains, it snows, the air pressure changes, and so on, and so forth, etc., etc., ad infinitum, ad nauseum.
Said genius managed to knock out cable and internet service for the entire southeastern corner of Vermont and southwestern corner of New Hampshire. It took until sometime between 7 and 10 pm tonight before the cable was spliced back together. Of course, the splice was done in the rain, by the usual quality Comcast field techs. Which means that we now have another spot in the Comcast line where service is going to break every time the weather changes, wind picks up, it rains, snows, etc.
This is the first time our local Comcast office has had to deal with something this major, and they did a good job of doing it. Our service is --mostly-- back to where it was before. Which means outages or flickers whenever the wind picks up, it rains, it snows, the air pressure changes, and so on, and so forth, etc., etc., ad infinitum, ad nauseum.