Written By phoneboy
2006-12-24T03:54:00Z
Written By phoneboy
2006-12-22T16:25:00Z
Something I do for my wife on occasion is burn CDs. Specifically, I download episodes of Dr. Joy Brown's radio show from iTunes and, when I get enough of them and I actually remember to do it, burn them to CDs she can play in the car.
I suppose I could download the shows any number of ways. The main reason for using iTunes is that I can easily take a group of MP3 and say "burn to CD," it realizes that there isn't any possible way for 24 "hours" of Dr. Joy can't possibly fit on one CD (by the way, after you strip out all the commercials, a "radio hour" is about 36 minutes), and it offers to burn the playlist across multiple CDs. I simply label the CDs using a Sharpie, stack them up, and feed them to my MacBook as necessary. The whole process takes about 6 minutes per CD and aside from prepping the CDs and the playlist, the process is fairly automatic.
Of course, the whole reason for going through these machinations is that the wife prefers the low-tech solution, or rather the high-tech solutions aren't smart enough to cope with things like the car turning off or even switching cars. The CD players in the car will remember where they were when you last turned on the car. Burning CDs is cheap and cheerful, albeit wasteful since the CDs are listened to once and tossed. I suppose it's a good thing I buy them at Costco where they are dirt cheap.
Written By phoneboy
2006-12-22T06:34:00Z
How do you take your tea or coffee?
Submitted by Vasquez.
If it's coffee I make myself, cream, no sweetener. If someone else made it, then I have to cut it with hot water to make it drinkable because, quite frankly, I can't handle all the bitterness. Apparently I didn't inherent my taste in coffee from my old man.
Written By phoneboy
2006-12-21T09:56:00Z
At least according to whatever is behind MyHeritage:
Actually, Bill Gates is there too. This software is on drugs.
Written By phoneboy
2006-12-21T04:13:00Z
It looks like the power crews still working to restore power for 180,000 people in Western Washington are going to have some new problems to contend themselves with. The incoming storms won't be nearly as bad as the ones last week. However, given there are still a lot of fallen trees that haven't been dealt with yet, it could be just enough to cause some additional power-related issues.
What scares me is that in many of these areas that don't have power at the moment, they are having to completely rebuild the power distribution system from soup to nuts. And I bet that in almost no cases are they burying the damned power lines, which would solve a lot of the problems people are having.
Written By phoneboy
2006-12-21T03:05:00Z
They figured out, at least in mice, how to potentially cure diabetes. What I find interesting about their solution is that they basically tackle the problem by addressing the underlying inflammation problem. This jives with some stuff I've been reading from Dr. Mark Hyman, specifically in the book Ultrametabolism and on his Ultrametabolism blog. If you can find the source of the inflammation and cure it, then your body can quickly normalize itself
I wish I knew of a doctor like Dr. Hyman around these parts--one that practices functional medicine and actually understands the body isn't just a series of diseases: it's a whole system that works together. When one part is messed up, it affects the whole thing. If I can figure out what part of my body is out of whack, maybe it will start working better. :)
