About nine years after I did, the editor of technology review suddenly realizes the parallels between “Commonplace Books” and personal websites and weblogs.
Too bad he came late to the party and didn’t get the URL he wanted, and had to settle for “New Commonplace” instead. Sucker.
Despite the fact that I love monkeys, and have said several times that I want one, I know that monkeys aren’t good pets, something that’s come up in the news lately.
They’re too intelligent and social to live with people and not with other monkeys, and they become bored and tend to overgroom and self-injure. So the best monkeys to keep around the house are the plush kind.
The original Freeway Blogger, my idol and inspiration, has hit the big time with a news article in the San Francisco Guardian. I’ve corresponded with him a bit in the past (he visited my site and commented on one of my posts once).
Yesterday, Stephanie went to her regular physician for an annual physical (because I insisted that she go) and the doctor found a lump in her breast. She went for a mammogram (several of them, and ultrasounds, too) this afternoon. The doctors believe the lump is benign, because it’s not the shape or texture of a cancerous tumor. She mentioned that it was probably a Fibroadenoma. The doctor said that she wasn’t worried about it, and we shouldn’t be, either.
But it’s large enough that they need to remove it. A lumpectomy is an outpatient procedure, which they’ll schedule here in a couple of weeks. So we’ll meet with a surgeon sometime soon, and then they’ll schedule the procedure. Once it’s removed, they’ll test it to ensure that it isn’t cancerous.
Needless to say, we were both freaked out all night last night and today, and Stephanie’s very concerned about how it will affect her breast and what it will look like and feel.
So, more doctors, and another hospital visit. We’re getting to be pros at this.
VW owners might love this… Pod Caravans are retro trailers that resembled the old-fashioned teardrop trailers from the 50’s.
Sculptor Livio De Marchi has crafted an entire house that appears to be made of books, including the furniture.
From WISH-TV morning news. We’re going to do another interview about my “Big Things” photography, on June 29th. This time we’re going to film first and they’ll put it all together and broadcast it, and they’ll go grab shots of some of my favorite stuff around the city. I have to decide which Big Thing I should do the interview near, though, and it has to be in Indianapolis. Check out all the sites I have, and let me know what you think I should pick in a comment.
The Pentagon finally admitted that Newsweek wasn’t actually wrong, and that the Quran was abused at Guantanamo Bay. Of course they did this late Friday, after the evening news was already on, so that it would miss the news cycle over the weekend.
U.S. military officials say no guard at the Guantanamo Bay prison for terror suspects flushed a detainee’s Quran down the toilet, but they disclosed that a Muslim holy book was splashed with urine. In other newly disclosed incidents, a detainee’s Quran was deliberately kicked and another’s was stepped on.
On March 25, a detainee complained to guards that “urine came through an air vent” and splashed on him and his Quran. A guard admitted he was at fault, but a report released Friday evening offering new details about Quran mishandling incidents did not make clear whether the guard intended the result.
In another confirmed incident, water balloons thrown by prison guards caused an unspecified number of Qurans to get wet, and in a confirmed but ambiguous case, a two-word obscenity was written in English on the inside cover of a Quran.
I’m back at work today for the first time. Woo hoo! It hasn’t bothered me too much, so far. My sternum is still healing, so it still hurts when I move my arms a lot. But I finished up taking the Darvocet last week and I’m just taking Ibuprofen for pain. I can sleep a on my side for a bit before it hurts, which is really cool, because I can’t stand sleeping on my back. I’m still not getting the amount of sleep I really need because of sleeping on my back, but it’s better and in a couple weeks I’ll feel great.
Last week I visited Dr. Beckman and he gave me the all-clear to drive, come back to work, exercise and pretty much anything else. I can’t lift more than 25 pounds or mow the lawn. Or do anything like ride roller coasters.
So maybe next summer we can visit Holiday World. If you haven’t checked out their blog, it’s hilarious. The woman who writes is is their PR person and she’s very smart and funny. A good advertisement for their amusement park.
So far, the republican controlled main stream media are trying to keep a lid on the smoking gun memo from Tony Blair’s office that reveals that Bush was planning to attack Iraq long before there was any intelligence about WMD or terrorist involvement.
Help out with the campaign to blow the lid off this powder keg story and force the media to report the news instead of the White House’s talking points.