Another Day, Another Starbucks

Since my early twenties, I have been prey to a peculiar variety of migraine. Called “acephalgic migraines”, they involve no pain whatsoever, but result in diminished vision for a period of twenty minutes. Rarely, they can render me effectively blind for a short period of time, but more often they simply constrict the field of…

First, I feel it is my civic duty to call this to the attention of all my Australian readers. This link appeared in my July edition of mini-Air, the mini-Annals of Improbable Research e-magazine, from the people who bring you the Ig-nobel awards every year (also known as the “Iggies”.): 2004-07-13 Aussie Catnip Controversy Are…

Sal is on Sal’s bad side, Slipperman. I’ve made a series of decisions since the end of September that have resulted in far more strife and bad feelings than I ever imagined they would. I’m too proud to say I’m sorry. Hell, I’m not sorry. I still feel I was in the right. But because…

I hadn’t realized how tricky keeping two diaries on DD was going to be. I’m trying to be careful about not posting to the two at simultaneous times. I doubt that any members of the virtual community I keep the diary for are spending much time reading any diaries other than our own, but there’s…

I can see the notifies for my private comments, but I haven’t been able to read them since the beginning of the week. Steve is working on the problem. Meanwhile, if a reply was expected, please accept my apologies. I can be contacted at my gmail account, user name Salamandervmd, if someone wants to get…

Now we’ll see if we can’t translate that into a job.