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  1. Crash or ExistenZ by Cronenburg Drowning by Numbers, The Cook The Thief, etc... by Peter Greenaway Delicatessan The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari Dr. Caligari (1990) - love the door tongue... Nosferatu
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    Jury duty

    Jury duty is a blast!!! It's a chance to subvert the opinions of a group of derelicts, geezers and half-wits in order to further your own plans for how the system "ought to work." One of my folks was serving in a pool a few years back. During voir dire, a man claimed hardship... i.e. "My employer won't reimburse me for work time lost while serving in a jury pool." The judge asked, "What do you do for a living?" "I'm a legal aid", he replied. "And what firm do you work for?" "X, Y and Z." "Hmmm. I want you to go to my chamber and get Mr. X on the phone and inform him that if he WANTS TO BE TREATED FAIRLY IN THIS COURTROOM HE'D GODDAMNED BETTER BE PAYING HIS EMPLOYEES TO BE SERVING ON MY JURY!!!!" The guy goes to the judge's chamber, and comes out about a minute later. "Ready to serve, your honor!" -t
  3. How did the Donovan song Mellow Yellow get its name? Because "Orange Sunshine" or "Brown Tabs" didn't rhyme as well.
  4. I missed it when it came up last, but it's nice to see someone else come out of the closet on this. Now if I could just convince everyone to ditch the avy. transceivers. -t
  5. Good call PP! I'd love to hear another version of Gypsy Boy (new rising sun)... of which I think there's only two other decent recordings. I think one was a live cut from Rainbow Bridge... After years immersed in squalid Hendrix re-issues, I've largely tuned them out. Gotta admit, however, that a live version of Steppin' Stone remastered back in '85 or so was smoking hot. Seems like a good argument for file sharing. Jimi's dead - he doesn't need the money. -t
  6. What a bunch of pseudo-scientific horseshit. Most NSAIDS knock down production of prostaglandins, IL-1, IL4, IL-8, TNF, etc... through inhibition of the COX pathway. The relationship between catabolic muscle growth and the portion of the immune system associated with inflammation is poorly understood at the cellular level, much less the at the musculoskeletal level. I'd bet my bottom dollar the studies you quote are either overinterpreting their results, misinterpreting their results, or represent an unrealistic system. At best you might be able to refer to tissues healed 'in the presence of anti-inflammatories.' (How did they isolate them? How did they determine "50% strength"? How did they determine it was anti-inflamms and not the nature of the injury itself? How did they control this? Yada, yada, yada... Science ain't that easy, that's why only overeducated masochists pursue it...) You might also want to take note of the differences between rofecoxib, celecoxib, ibuprofen and aspirin. They're all NSAIDS, and they all have very different metabolic profiles. You'd have to eat a lot of ibuprofen to kill yourself. Roughly 50 grams in one sitting, assuming Carolyn is a 110 pound mouse... Millions of years ago, monkeys with chronic back problems were eaten before the age of thirty. They didn't worry about whether or not they could fly across the states and go climbing in a week. NSAIDS will help reduce swelling. Muscle relaxants and pain killers help in dealing with pain. Time and rest will effect healing. I'm not arguing against stretching and heat (although I think cold therapy would be a better call - particularly in the case of obvious swelling), but I think massaging inflamed tissue is jumping the gun. I should have added that I'm in no way a fan of maintenance dosing of ibuprofen (although many docs are...). When your back feels better, stop popping pills. -t
  7. Actually, I'd rethink the desire to rub/massage the area. Your back might respond better if you just leave those muscles alone for a little while. Those 'high tension, twitchy' areas are probably damaged/inflamed muscles. The increased size and secretions of the damaged tissues result in hyperactive nerve signalling ("back spasms"). You don't want to stimulate this area, you want the signals to die down. Conservative docs will usually put you on a high ibuprofen diet - something on the order of 400mg every 4 hours (yes, that's 1.6 grams of ibuprofen a day - so keep food in your stomach and drink LOTS of water) - to deal with the swelling. For immediate relief, anti-spasmodics such as "Flexeril" are often prescribed. You'll know when you need something like that... the pain is excruciating and you'll need help just to move. I've found that "Tylenol 3" (inflamm + codeine) works significantly better at alleviating back pain and spasming. Caveat emptor, as some folks are sensitive to narcotics. Besides, they'll turn you into a haggard, gun-toting, foaming at the mouth, panhandling, bank-robbing junkie... or so I hear. The canucks sell 2-2-2 over the counter, which is another mild codeine/anti-inflamm formulation. I'm very sorry to hear about your problem. In my own experience, once you get two or three days lined up where you're not aggravating things, you regain strength and flexibility very quickly. -t
  8. We'd also sleep in sweats with plastic bags over them, under a heating blanket... You can drop about 10% of your body weight in 24 hours if you really put your mind to it. Of course, it's all water weight and dehydrating the piss out of yourself hardly made wrestling down a weight worth it. It did build the mind, however. Suffering breeds determination... I hate working out with nothing to show for it. There's always dirt that needs digging, firewood that needs chopping/stacking, rocks that need moving, boards that need planing, sawing, etc... My mortgage got me into great shape! -t
  9. Tough day... and it was starting out so good... Not much here: 1. NE ridge Black Peak 2. finally got a Canuck climb in, Matier 3. finally got off crutches... -t
  10. Define "hotshot." And skip on the headhunters. I think I may have even run across a "Frank" at some point (biotech, pharm, biopharm, etc...). They're looking to take a salary cut for lining you up with a WABIO posting... Try Icos, they have a new space they're trying to fill. Given the number of chemists they've hired, it's likely they need greater assay throughput. My personal approach is to put the person I report to through as much public misery as possible - quiz them at meetings, question their results, interpretations, etc... Then be nice to them in private. It keeps them leery, but non-adversarial. Oh yeah, you're always questioning them for the 'good of the team/project/company.' -t
  11. I love the two track thread... kind of an Ornette Coleman thing... WRT Nunberg, liberal or no, he's at least willing to put his numbers out there. -t
  12. It doesn't seem that complicated. You shake the coffee over ice to chill it down without diluting it too much... It's served over ice to keep it cold after serving. -t
  13. I remember being a little dismayed last year to find one about two miles up the Bachelor Creek trail. That was no party... -t
  14. Because you can't. It can only be demonstrated. -t
  15. Hey, hey, hey... Parka Boy!!
  16. Pour 1 - 2 oz. vermouth into a martini glass. Swirl it around, then dump it (ALL) out. Fill with chilled gin. Don't get me started on bourbon... -t
  17. And the part about the UIAA that really pisses me off is all this bullshit about ropes! What the hell right do they have to tell me how many falls my rope should be able to take?? I'm glad they don't speak for me.
  18. For all of those folks who thought, "I love my Yugo, but I wish it looked a little more like an armored car..."
  19. Sorry, but SEWS has a pretty trivial approach. -t
  20. I received the following message from Congressman Jay Inslee this morning: ---------------------------------------- Thank you for contacting me regarding the Recreation Fee Demonstration Program (fee demo). I appreciate hearing from you. You will be pleased to know that I voted for an amendment offered by Representative Peter DeFazio (D-OR) that would have limited the fee demo program simply to the Park Service and excluded the National Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management. I am sorry to report that this common-sense amendment failed to pass the House by a vote of 184-241. I am opposed to granting permanent authority for this program. I believe that public land should be just that, public, and I am concerned that fees would limit public access to these lands. Imposing fees for the use of public lands, especially considering the fact that timber and grazing subsidies are in effect, seems flat out wrong to me. We should not be discouraging anyone, let alone those who can least afford the fees, from taking advantage of the multiple uses that are available to us in our National Parks and Forests. Finally, the fee demo program places an unfair burden on locals in light of the double and regressive taxation aspects of this program. I am a strong proponent of the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF), a program that can help increase recreational opportunities in our public lands. This fund was established by Congress in 1964 to create parks and open spaces, protect wilderness, wetlands and refuges, preserve habitats, and enhance recreational opportunities. The LWCF has been an amazing success and has been used effectively in our state to create and preserve open spaces and recreational areas. In our community, Kirkland's shoreline parks, Seattle's Magnuson Park, Edmonds' Sunset Beach Park, Redmond's Farrel-McWhirter Park, Poulsbo's Liberty Bay Marina, and soccer and ball fields in Shoreline, Mountlake Terrace and Lynnwood are all examples of sites acquired and developed using the Land Water Conservation Fund program. Please continue to contact me about the issues that concern you, I both need and welcome your thoughts and ideas. I encourage you to contact me via email, telephone, or fax, because security measures are causing House offices to experience delays in receiving postal mail. My email address is: Jay.Inslee@mail.house.gov. Please be sure to include your full name, address, including your zip code, in your message. If you are a resident of the First Congressional District and would like to receive policy updates and newsletters via email, please email me to let me know. Very truly yours, JAY INSLEE Member of Congress JRI/mt
  21. Harry Truman, and he was a bourbon man... -t
  22. Read about the history of Great Lakes aquaculture. A few high points: Fish out all the grayling and lake trout then pollute the hell out of the lakes plant salmon/steelhead boom salmon fishery creates charter business salmon clean out the candlefish plant baitfish to support salmonids lamprey wipes out the salmonids planted baitfish beach themselves in massive numbers, creating noxious lake shore for weeks every summer rotenone the creeks to kill the lamprey spawn, while inadvertantly killing off the planted trout/char in the same streams... uh, oh - here come zebra mussels... Now they wonder why it's so difficult to re-introduce grayling and lake trout... -t
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