Or is it 2 days?
Anyways. Friday I will be talking to 7th graders about advertising. Wish me luck or give me suggestions.
Awesome.
via 2wenty 4our
So I have an update on the protester. Seems a friend of a friend works at the law firm hired by the clinic to represent them when the protester sued. Apparently what happened was that the clinic offered/suggested a safer, more-up-to date procedure that this woman's husband declined. In writing. According to the clinic he was aware of possible side-effects, but decided to sign the waiver anyways and elected for the tacks.
The problem with the tacks/staples is that they can get snagged on muscle and cause incredible pain - and this is what was happening. She filed a lawsuit which was thrown out and she's been protesting ever since.
And ever since I learned this, her signs have been more along the lines of "What you don't know can hurt you."
Of course, now who do you believe? I dunno. That's when lawyers and people who work for the lawyers seem pretty sleezy to me. That's what got me thinking about pharmaceuticals. I used to work at a law firm and I have friends that are still secretaries there. One of the secretaries was having problems with a difficult coworker. She then went in about foot pain and told her doctor she was stressed about the coworker.
The doctor's solution? Antidepressants.
I told her she was crazy for taking them. She told me she didn't want to be labeled a "difficult patient" in her medical file. WTF - since when does a second opinion get you labeled a "difficult patient." She was also told by one of the lawyers she worked with that women were better medicated.
Yeah, big ol' WTF moment.
I'm so glad my sister decided not to be a pharmaceutical rep. After hearing what she was reading, most pharmaceutical ads make me nauseous if I think about them too much. I like the Rozerem beaver but there's no way I'd take that crap.
So I saw this:
Every pharma team I've worked with says, “Oh, we gotta dumb it down for the physician.” You mean the person who’s had generally 12 more years of college than I have? Yep. He a idiot too.
Sometimes he is. Generally speaking the doctor will get his information from the pharmaceutical rep and because so many medicines come out so quickly they don't have the time to do the research, sometimes the patient will be more informed of the drug they're asking about than the doctor. Oh, and your insurance is paying for only like 15 minutes max with the doctor... so hurry up and ask and have the nice long discussion the commercial tells you to.
Yeah it's messed up. I'd like to know what kind of perks my nurse practitioner is getting for pushing Yaz®.
Disclaimer: My opinions on the pharmaceutical industry and lawyers are my own and you can take them or leave them.
Not that I eat mushrooms that grow in my yard, but with all this fake food I keep reading about, this is the kind of stuff that'll keep me from eating mushrooms for the next two weeks... or until I forget about it.
Some related species cause poisoning when alcohol is taken within five days after ingestion of the mushroom.
via MSN Encarta.
Ty Pennington was arrested for a DUI.
I must say that's not what I thought it was for. But really you can't be arrested for that.
Wait, what? No, I didn't say anything.
I saw an online petition started by students to get Extreme Makeover back to Blacksburg to redo Norris. If that actually happened I seriously wonder who they could get to be the builders... as long as they didn't do it in the middle of December again, that was horrible.
I don't like being in the same room with them - especially marionettes. I'm just waiting for their little heads to turn and cackle at me... like Robert.
But for some reason I like Tim Burton, so I can't decide if this commercial is cool or creepy as hell. The mouth thing at the end is kind of gross, but I think I'm the only one that thinks about that kind randomness. Like when my sister and I were watching The Mummy Returns and the guy blows the powder from the canopic jars... I looked at my sister and said - "If this were real, he just blew 3,000 year-old mummy on them, can you imagine the germs?"
In other randomness Richard's reading a book that has something to deal with rabies (and how it can be transferred by too many things for me to be comfortable with), he had fun playing on my mild hypochondria, so if you'll excuse me I have to go look up the symptoms of rabies.
I guess it'll save us time in the mulched beds.
Boil y'er weeds. Instead of using a commercial weed killer, douse weeds with a mixture of vinegar and boiling water. Cackle maniacally while doing so.
More tips via Consumerist.
Of course my Mom wasn't going to watch anyways.
This pilot is slow, talky and dull… with the only real visual flourishes revolving around the Cavemen donning different costumes throughout the show in their bid to fit in.
Making matters worse: The pilot uses different actors in the Cavemen roles and none of them are nearly as effective as their advertising counterparts. One of them actually reminded me a little bit of Sanjaya.
From Ain't It Cool News
I'd still vote for The Slowskys, you can just pull from their blog. Don't tell me the writing out pi thing doesn't make you chuckle.
via Make The Logo Bigger
Gizmodo says it's for the lazy. But I think it's a perfect companion for porch-sitting. Or mowing green or oasiscape.
Even though the price is steep, with gas prices going the way they are the little guy may end up paying for itself in no time.
And if you don't want to porch-sit, I think it would come in nicely for multi-tasking. I attack the weeds, vegetable and flower beds while this little guy mows. And he doesn't complain.
I think this is a win-win situation.
My birthday is in July. *winkwinknudgenudge*
Update: The cap'n and I have decided it'll probably run into fences more than anything.
The Grey's Anatomy "2-hour special" has been on for 15 minutes and so far the majority of the story-line seems to be about introducing the Addison's (the chic-baby-doctor) new show/job/life. I'm not sure I'm going to be watching this new show.
Oh, there we go – the part of this show I'm watching for is on. And as soon as I write that, we're back to the new show. Ugh.
So, basically it's 2 hours, so there's an hour of Grey's and an hour of this new show. Way to force people to watch it. Actually... way to go ABC, otherwise I probably wouldn't watch.
Put that on the list, I could've seen the Queen. Not that I know anything about HRH or the royal family, but it'd still be cool.
Queen Elizabeth II's Visit To Richmond
Sometimes things aren't necessarily completely bad taste, but they leave you feeling icky. This news story makes me feel icky.
The book deal was "solidified" April 26, Davis said, 10 days after the shooting.
Tech students land book deal.
And in related news, now people are registering the victims' names... talk about making you feel icky.
"I'm really disturbed to hear that people are registering domains that are the names of the victims," he said. "That's really taking the tastelessness to a whole other level."
'Squatters' nab names of victims for web.
And made it. With 3 minutes to spare.
Oh don't get me wrong, everything was done - printed, mounted, everything when I left last night. I got here about 8:30 and knew the client meeting was this morning. I just didn't know when.
So then the boss(wo)man comes in around 9:15 - 9:20. Looks at it one last time and decides to change things. So I get to work, no biggie.
Until she comes by my office at 9:45 and says, "You know they'll be here at 10:00, right?"
No, no I didn't know that. Which is what I tell her. She says she's sorry and she'll try to be better about that. But I made it, the boards and print-outs were on her desk by 10:00 and I just heard them come in and it's 10:03.
Go me.
Record temps yesterday in Bluefield, VA/WV
Why is this interesting? Because last night I learned that Bluefield is known as "Nature's Air Conditioned City." because it's mean temperature in the summer is in the 70's.
So what happens when it gets/got over 80˚?
The Chamber of Commerce would hand out free lemonade. At the JC Penny, the Train Station and one other place but the storyteller couldn't remember where.
You can't hit that thing just once. Not even twice.
If I hit that thing at all I will get up at the last possible moment. I need an alarm clock that turns on all the lights when it goes off.
So we all know how I probably need a new memory card (it had BETTER be the memory card). Luckily for me it turns out that we need to "document" a bridge dedication next week and our usual photographer is on her honeymoon. And instead of getting someone else, they just thought I could do it. AWESOME.
So they asked me if I could use "our" digital camera and I said that it was only 3 megapixels but that I had a 6 megapixel camera and told her the only problem was my little memory card error, but that Google seems to think it's the memory card not the camera.
So I get to buy a new one. Everyone cross your fingers that it works!!!
Changing zoneviii.blogspot.com to thinkinginvain.blogspot.com.
Idea via Jetpacks, since someone lurked and took the URL.
