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Mar. 26th, 2014 05:23 am* North Korea has tested two missiles. They launched them towards Japan and they landed in the sea.
* A ten year old body is in critical condition in Turkey because the police hit him in the head with a tear gas canister while protesting the death of another young boy who was killed when the police hit him in the head with a tear gas canister.
* Sixteen bodies have been recovered, but they found eight others from the disaster in Oso. At least a hundred are still missing and it is not looking good. The Red is raising money for survivors who've lost everything. The Red Cross cannot accept donations of clothes and other items, but they are in need of cash and blood donations. You can donate money by texting "RedCross" to "90999", phone 1-800-REDCROSS, or go here on the web: http://www.redcross.org/cm/kingnwcn-pub
Look, I've never been closer to Oso than Arlington, but it's a terrifying thing to have happened to anybody.
* I've been very vocal about my belief that birth control should be covered by insurance, but in a similar vein, I think HIV testing should be covered and I'm furious that it isn't. Early detection really helps people. I get that not treating AIDS saves insurance companies money, but I really think our health care system needs restructuring to focus on the health of human type people instead of it solely being about high profits for insurance companies as it is now.
* "Storms expose ancient human remains on Harlyn Bay near Padstow:" http://www.cornishguardian.co.uk/Storms-expose-ancient-human-remains-Harlyn-Bay/story-20823264-detail/story.html
* "Iron Age woman's footless body found:" http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-26636144
* "3,200-year-old skeleton found with cancer:" http://phys.org/news/2014-03-year-old-skeleton-cancer.html
* "Ovid’s Ancient Beauty Elixirs:" http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2014/03/20/ovids-ancient-beauty-elixirs/
* "Ancient palace ruins unearthed in central China :" http://www.china.org.cn/china/Off_the_Wire/2014-03/18/content_31826960.htm
* "Why Did New Zealand's Moas Go Extinct?:" http://news.sciencemag.org/biology/2014/03/why-did-new-zealands-moas-go-extinct
* "What medieval Europe did with its teenagers:" http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26289459
* "Underneath the Arches: Celebrating Borough Market:" http://www.historytoday.com/stephen-halliday/underneath-arches-celebrating-borough-market
* "Bodies of 19th century convicts found by emergency archaeology team near Portsmouth:" http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/archaeology/art472823-Bodies-19th-century-convicts-found-emergency-archaeology-team-near-Portsmouth
* Assorted commentary on the shitty way most of the media has behaved regarding Malaysia Airlines flight 370:
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* As exhausting as clearing the storage unit is proving to be, I have to admit unpacking the books was fun. It was like a combination of opening wonderful presents and seeing old friends.
* Last year, I couldn't find my thesis on my hard drive or in the place I used to keep the hard copy. I thought I'd never see it again because it's trapped behind a pay wall. I found a hard copy in the great storage document sort. I must have packed in a storage box during the move to the previous apartment due to the lack of space there. It's rather a relief. I have no plans ever to read the monstrous thing again, but the bibliography is really useful when I want to look certain things up or list sources for people. With it I found one of the papers I did I was actually proud of, the one on the topic I actually wanted to do my thesis on. I vaguely remember finding my Euripides was a misogynist monster classics paper (It started as a 2 page theme on Medea at some point when I was an undergraduate. For another class I made it a five, then a ten, then every time I got assigned a theme I could fit I added another Euripedes play or two. It's not plagiarism as it was my damned paper and I always added the amount of new material assigned. It was quite large when I got my first graduate degree. If I'd stayed in academia, it would likely have grown into a book.) in the previous document sort a few weeks ago and have an even vaguer memory of the related language paper being in the batch with it. If so, I now have access to three of five things I did in college that I'm really proud of research wise. Another one might be in the stack of late Medieval/Tudor things I tossed in the academic file drawer. I know a bunch of the related materials to it ended up in there. It was a 40 pager on ritual as Propaganda. I did not see the Patrology/Roman history cross over one I wrote the week I had a fever varying between 102 and 104). I know, I know most of you know me as a banana fingered curmudgeon, but I'm also someone who researches things for fun and has pretty much since I learned to read. I LIKE being able to through together a good reading list if someone asks me for one. I LIKE being able to pull the right reference off my shelves to settle an argument or look up a half remembered fact when I'm writing something or plotting for a game I'm running.
* Apparently Agents of SHEILD is still on the air. I assumed it had to have been cancelled by now. Is anyone still watching it? Did it get any better? Did they reveal how they resurrected Phil? Have they told him he was dead yet? I'm vaguely curious, but not enough to sit through an episode.
* Glee 5:13: New Directions
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* I don't want to talk about today. My physical deterioration since going off the antibiotics is freaking me out a little.
* I did have my first scene with a stranger on a Public MUSH since my return. No one ate me.
* A ten year old body is in critical condition in Turkey because the police hit him in the head with a tear gas canister while protesting the death of another young boy who was killed when the police hit him in the head with a tear gas canister.
* Sixteen bodies have been recovered, but they found eight others from the disaster in Oso. At least a hundred are still missing and it is not looking good. The Red is raising money for survivors who've lost everything. The Red Cross cannot accept donations of clothes and other items, but they are in need of cash and blood donations. You can donate money by texting "RedCross" to "90999", phone 1-800-REDCROSS, or go here on the web: http://www.redcross.org/cm/kingnwcn-pub
Look, I've never been closer to Oso than Arlington, but it's a terrifying thing to have happened to anybody.
* I've been very vocal about my belief that birth control should be covered by insurance, but in a similar vein, I think HIV testing should be covered and I'm furious that it isn't. Early detection really helps people. I get that not treating AIDS saves insurance companies money, but I really think our health care system needs restructuring to focus on the health of human type people instead of it solely being about high profits for insurance companies as it is now.
* "Storms expose ancient human remains on Harlyn Bay near Padstow:" http://www.cornishguardian.co.uk/Storms-expose-ancient-human-remains-Harlyn-Bay/story-20823264-detail/story.html
* "Iron Age woman's footless body found:" http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-26636144
* "3,200-year-old skeleton found with cancer:" http://phys.org/news/2014-03-year-old-skeleton-cancer.html
* "Ovid’s Ancient Beauty Elixirs:" http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2014/03/20/ovids-ancient-beauty-elixirs/
* "Ancient palace ruins unearthed in central China :" http://www.china.org.cn/china/Off_the_Wire/2014-03/18/content_31826960.htm
* "Why Did New Zealand's Moas Go Extinct?:" http://news.sciencemag.org/biology/2014/03/why-did-new-zealands-moas-go-extinct
* "What medieval Europe did with its teenagers:" http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26289459
* "Underneath the Arches: Celebrating Borough Market:" http://www.historytoday.com/stephen-halliday/underneath-arches-celebrating-borough-market
* "Bodies of 19th century convicts found by emergency archaeology team near Portsmouth:" http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/archaeology/art472823-Bodies-19th-century-convicts-found-emergency-archaeology-team-near-Portsmouth
* Assorted commentary on the shitty way most of the media has behaved regarding Malaysia Airlines flight 370:
( Embed: )
* As exhausting as clearing the storage unit is proving to be, I have to admit unpacking the books was fun. It was like a combination of opening wonderful presents and seeing old friends.
* Last year, I couldn't find my thesis on my hard drive or in the place I used to keep the hard copy. I thought I'd never see it again because it's trapped behind a pay wall. I found a hard copy in the great storage document sort. I must have packed in a storage box during the move to the previous apartment due to the lack of space there. It's rather a relief. I have no plans ever to read the monstrous thing again, but the bibliography is really useful when I want to look certain things up or list sources for people. With it I found one of the papers I did I was actually proud of, the one on the topic I actually wanted to do my thesis on. I vaguely remember finding my Euripides was a misogynist monster classics paper (It started as a 2 page theme on Medea at some point when I was an undergraduate. For another class I made it a five, then a ten, then every time I got assigned a theme I could fit I added another Euripedes play or two. It's not plagiarism as it was my damned paper and I always added the amount of new material assigned. It was quite large when I got my first graduate degree. If I'd stayed in academia, it would likely have grown into a book.) in the previous document sort a few weeks ago and have an even vaguer memory of the related language paper being in the batch with it. If so, I now have access to three of five things I did in college that I'm really proud of research wise. Another one might be in the stack of late Medieval/Tudor things I tossed in the academic file drawer. I know a bunch of the related materials to it ended up in there. It was a 40 pager on ritual as Propaganda. I did not see the Patrology/Roman history cross over one I wrote the week I had a fever varying between 102 and 104). I know, I know most of you know me as a banana fingered curmudgeon, but I'm also someone who researches things for fun and has pretty much since I learned to read. I LIKE being able to through together a good reading list if someone asks me for one. I LIKE being able to pull the right reference off my shelves to settle an argument or look up a half remembered fact when I'm writing something or plotting for a game I'm running.
* Apparently Agents of SHEILD is still on the air. I assumed it had to have been cancelled by now. Is anyone still watching it? Did it get any better? Did they reveal how they resurrected Phil? Have they told him he was dead yet? I'm vaguely curious, but not enough to sit through an episode.
* Glee 5:13: New Directions
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* I don't want to talk about today. My physical deterioration since going off the antibiotics is freaking me out a little.
* I did have my first scene with a stranger on a Public MUSH since my return. No one ate me.