Syzygy

Is that a watch on your cock ring!?

Waiting for a repeat of Jan 6 from the other side, or a civil war, or the sovcits to take over, or all of the above, or some other unknown catastrophe.

Whatever disasters may or may not have come about due to “bad” presidents in the past will pale in comparison to the events of the next few years.

Sometimes an itch is caused by an irritant on the skin, which causes nerves to send a signal to the brain that there is something wrong at that location. Scratching the itch sometimes overwhelms the nerve endings with signals and causes the itch to go away. (This is what usually happens when we feel itchy).

Sometimes, however, the itch happens from the other end - there is a misfire or false signal in the brain at the location where a nerve signal would be received, and we interpret that as a signal coming from the nerve, where there is actually nothing at the other end to cause a signal to be sent. However, scratching the location where we perceive the itch to be coming from can also overwhelm the nerve endings with signals, which can send signals to the brain and overwhelm the receiving end and cause the itch to go away.

Source: had a neurologist (¿ I think ?) girlfriend who did a study on phantom pain in amputees. They could stimulate bits of the brain and “trick” people into feeling their phantom pain somewhere else where it could be treated, or feeling itchy, sometimes on existing limbs; sometimes the itch would be on the non-existent amputated limb.

Because phone numbers are more complicated than IP addresses.

Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Phone Numbers

He arrives neither early or late, but precisely when he means to.

Argument Clinic

John Hopkins on Short History Of has the most beautiful soothing voice.

“That’s what she said”

Asking for a friend

I use an old toothbrush to get all the bits of crud out, then wipe down with disinfectant hand wipes.

Sleep

Surely it’s only “Gulf of America” from the southern tip of Florida across to the Mexican border?

im not gonna drink much after this for a while

Haha, famous last words

Why isn’t there a license to have a kid? With an exam to make sure you’re going to look after them properly?

When I was young and regularly drank to excess, they used to last until mid afternoon.

No surgery, I have incurable blood cancer (multiple myeloma). I spent a year not responding to several different flavours of chemo. After “getting my affairs in order” and saying goodbye, they decided to do a stem cell (“bone marrow”) transplant, then another. Two more years of chemo, and now I’m in “myeloma remission” — cancer levels are too low to detect, but it always comes back…

Same, but chemotherapy was my trigger. Some doctors tell me “that never happens”; others say “yea, that’s common”.

I used to be able to speak five languages fluently, now three of them have almost completely disappeared. I can’t watch movies because I can’t keep track of who’s who and why they’re doing that. Same with reading books.

I pick up my iPad and can’t remember why. I read something and get stuck on words, I recognise a word and I know that I know what it means, but can’t remember. I’ll be speaking, get halfway through a sentence, and can’t remember what I was talking about.

I feel like the guy in Flowers for Algernon, who had it all and then lost it; and he knows it.

I always thought that fire is “just” plasma, but it’s more complicated: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire

How about “dodgy”, so that describes the department and their behaviour?