Blah blah blah blah boring post. Now with more links!

[shanmonster]

I have a job interview today at this place. You know it's gonna be bad when they don't list the company name or the position in the newspaper--just that they're hiring. The job is M-F 11-8:30. I suspect I'd be doing sales. Blargh.

I also applied online for positions at the gym. I already had some sort of automated online "interview," but I plan on going in today and speaking with someone in person. I want to do a yoga class at noon, anyhow.

I jumped through piles of bureaucratic hoops this week to get my pogey reinstated. Here's hoping it starts again without any interruption. Apparently, I received a payment while back in NB, but because I didn't know, I didn't fill in the new claims, and it lapsed. Drat. I really could have used that money. I still could really use that money.

Some of my CD/DVD sales money was used yesterday to get my bike fixed. The back tire had a slow leak, and someone stole my tail lights. So that was all fixed up, and now my bike is street-ready again, just in time for me to apply for a job at a health food store. I'd much rather work at a health food store than at some corporate sales/marketing company.

While looking through my clothes today to find something suitable for a job interview, I realized I really don't have anything summery and businessy that can be worn bicycling. I'm making do with a pair of palazzo pants that I've tied at the bottom in the hopes that my legs won't bare themselves. That's the best I can manage. I guess I'm going to have to make myself a few swingy knee-length skirts or something.

My foot is still wonky from where I landed square on my ankle last week. I may need to get it looked at, after all. You know that quad stretch where you stand up and grab your foot behind you? Well, I can't grab my foot. It hurts too much when I do that. It also gronks a bit painfull when I suppanate my foot, and less so when I pronate it. Too bad there's a two year wait to get a doctor in this city....

And now, lest this post fill even me with ennui, here are some spiffy links. Enjoy!

Magnets zap migraines: It sounds like a crock to me. Maybe it does work, but what else is it doing to your brain? Maybe it's giving you a lobotomy piecemeal. "A portable TMS would cost between $1,000 and $2,000, and patients would also pay $15-25 for each treatment using a chip-programmed card." Nice way of capitalizing on someone's pain, dudes. Sheesh.

Rare "Rainbow" Spotted Over Idaho: Gorgeous meteorological phenomenom.

Liquid Armor: Bend my body armour, tear it apart!

State offers new guidelines on oral-suction circumcision: Why? Because newborns were getting herpes. Ew.

China Plans to Land on Moon by 2024: Neat in itself, but the goofups on the part of the CBS give it a whole new dimension.

Iron Eggs and Almost Naked Iron Eggs: Can't do this? Then your kung fu is weak (thanks, f00dave).

Sisters lose second coming cover: "Essex-based Britishinsurance.com confirmed it had provided the £1m policy, but said it was reviewed on Thursday following complaints. The firm said the women from Inverness had renewed the policy since 2000. The cover was meant to pay for the cost of bringing up Christ if one of them has a virgin birth."

Kung fu fan tries to stop train: "A 17-year-old boy surnamed Liang almost died when he tried to use a kung fu movement to stop a running train." If he can't fend off a mere policeman, what made him think he could fight a train? His kung fu is weak.

Elements: Tom Lehrer chemistry "rap."

Comments

[f00dave.livejournal.com]

Good luck with the interview, booper! -hug-

[naja-pallida.livejournal.com]

One would think that if magnets helped with migraines, that all those people who get MRIs to try and determine their cause would be magically cured? :)

[thebluestar98.livejournal.com]

that rainbow thing is fricken awesome! quite the site.

the circumsision thing is gross!!!! oral suction circum.?!?!?!??!?!?! what?! ive never heard of such a thing. thats so sad about the newborns!

[real-bethy.livejournal.com]

In very traditional Orthodox Jewish societies, oral suction during circumcision is fairly common. The halacha (law) is that a certain amount of blood must be drawn from the wound for the circumcision to be valid, and with sharp instruments, this doesn't always happen. And, back in the desert, the Jews didn't have fancy suction equipment. Hence, the use of the mohel's mouth. Orthodox Judaism is very focused on maintaining what they see as authentic practice...so if it was good enough for Abraham, it's good enough for them.

However, I would say the vast, vast, vast majority of mohels use a tube when suctioning a wound because they really do care about health regulations and the health of the baby. After all, it is not only against Jewish law to endanger the life of another, but it is also wrong to intentionally inflict harm on another.

This article really didn't get behind the real story...don't get the idea that a bunch of herpes-afflicted old men are going around sucking baby penises!:)

I feel so bad for those babies' families...I think that rabbi should face criminal charges.

[zombienought.livejournal.com]

It's amazing how much work one has to do in order
to get free money from the government, isn't it?
:-/

I read about the migraine zapper yesterday, and
immediately thought of you. And then I thought
of Tesla claiming that X-Ray radiation made him
feel better. I also had a migraine while I was
reading about that article. My mother just told
me this week that her migraines were linked to
high blood pressure.

I'm thinking the easiest way to avoid paying the
makes of that zap gun is to get a metal plate in
your head, and just stick magnets to it.


As for the iron eggs, I said just this week that
I wish I could trade nuts with those guys who
fetishise being kicked in the crotch.

[lethargicmind.livejournal.com]

i remember that exact same kind of body armor in the old, old, olddddd game battle chess.
precisely the same explanation.
i'm pleased.

[sorceror.livejournal.com]

Good luck with the interview!

And re: Tom Lehrer, my very first LJ entry was indirectly inspired by him... (http://sorceror.livejournal.com/2002/05/10/)

[real-bethy.livejournal.com]

Good luck at your interview!!!!