I’m still laptopless, it’s in the shop, the guy who fixes Apples is on vacation, and that’s how it will stay until at least next week. Meanwhile: I hate desktops, chairs, and the fact that you’re obliged to sit up straight or suffer the consequences (torqued shoulders, eg.). As the dinner guests in Plato’s Symposium […]
Some recent developments in the arrest of Betty Krawczyk, Jen Bradley, and the Women in the Woods action in the Upper Walbran Forest on Vancouver Island: Stephen Bradley reports on Betty & Jen’s July 8 victory: Justice Pitfield “reworded the injunction and also the undertaking in such a way as to instruct [the authorities] to […]
Chris Locke asks everyone of good will (and without smarmy new age monetary aspirations) to send a prayer Ann Craig’s way. Give it a try. Had a longer post yesterday, but lost it on a borrowed machine, the iBook is still kaput. It was trivial, though: all about unearthing LPs after we found the pre-amp […]
My softly glowing teletubby pal, aka iBook, had seizures and died yesterday, and this is seriously going to impair my blogging. Since I have gotten used to doing it while doing other things, it’s going to be a big change to now do it staying put at a desktop machine. Hey-ho. Meanwhile, I’m hoping for […]
…but be appalled by inflation. The federal government is going to start shipping marijuana directly to physicians who prescribe it to their patients, my local paper reports today. Some provincial health authorities are quite upset about this, because they fear it will wreak havoc with break-ins and thefts in MD’s offices. BC Medical Association head […]
Chris Locke, whose blog Rageboy I’ve lurked around recently, yesterday posted a great in-your-face entry contrasting and comparing New Age Narcissists to Old Aged Bloggers. Check it out, it’s the July 8th entry. Of course I immediately narcissistically pondered myself, wondering whether I was a narcissist or a blogger… but decided that was just a […]
Something medical is in the air. First it was yesterday’s Boomeritis or hip resurfacing story, and today it’s eggs, or “We all know people trying to use natural family planning, and we have a word for those people. We call them parents.” So says Dr. Roger Pierson, director of the Reproductive Biology Research Unit at […]
Another article (in the NYTimes) about Bikram Choudhury’s successful make-over of yoga as an American money-making-machine venture. The Monday Magazine article I mentioned in an earlier post was better than this one, but you get the idea. My two bits: the word yoga is linked to our English word “yoke.” A yoke is never pushed: […]
In 1980, in Vancouver, I had some pretty hoopy orthopedic surgery on my knee: arthroscopy, which today is commonplace but back then was still reserved for athletes at university medical clinics. Bingo, Vancouver had one of those at UBC, and I got in. Just luck; I’m no athlete, but it fixed the damned joint mouse […]
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