I am, of course, upset about the rioting in England. I am worried for the people there. I really hope this is resolved soon and with very little violence ( Read more... )

I was asked for some links, and I don't recall if I have posted any of these before, but I'm going to post some here, given that we just had a major outage. This is what we are putting up with outages for.

A simple summary in the NY Times from April

A summary from April in Moscow Newsand now for some information about the very likely target of ( Read more... )

You always hear that there's a lot of fraud in the medicare program, and I wondered, what is that concept based on? Is that true? So, I decided to do some quick research. I found this neat little page by the IRS with examples of healthcare fraud investigations for 2010 linkSome things you'll notice is that a lot of the examples involve fraud on the ( Read more... )

A somewhat random chain of thought led me to the conclusion that homosexuality is actually rather symbolic of what makes humans so amazing. (Admittedly, I'm biased toward humans by being one ( Read more... )

New Hampshire now denying antibiotics to poor women with urinary tract infections, because hey, they can. Article. And yes, that was the blindingly obvious consequence of the law. When you defund health care for poor women, you are defunding health care for poor women. What did people expect would happen?

Why not? There's apparently a personality test going around at http://psychcentral.com/personality-patterns/ had to turn on a little javascript to do it, but I took it. It's not bad.

The results are a bit long.

( my results )

So, I'm waiting until it will let me invite people, which will apparently happen now and then, as it feels it can handle more growth. I have to catch it when it's willing to grow. As to what it's like... ummm, the interface seems pretty easy to use. The feedback reporting is fantastic though. I reported a suggestion, and it will take a screenshot ( Read more... )

Oh, I also got another package today. This one addressed to the name I actually go by to most people in real life and my legal last name. It was from lady_angelina and contains a freedom foamer bubble bar. :) Thank you. It smells lovely. It seems completely devoid of evil and is very nice.

Someone came to my door and said he had a DVD to deliver to $my_legal_first_name $my_legal_last_name. This seemed weird, but okay... He explained it was from a rabbi who wanted to share his beliefs with person with Jews and wanted person with my name to see it, and they weren't asking for any money. This seemed a bit creepy, but I said okay, and ( Read more... )

I found a label that seems to fit me a whole lot better than the previous ones I have had. I don't think my gender is female. I think agender fits much, much better. I just didn't realize it was an option. I've never liked being identified as female... actually, female is okay, but I really dislike being identified as a girl, lady, woman, gal, ( Read more... )