Archive for May, 2008
Power’s out - and right in the…
Power’s out - and right in the middle of a transfer too
No tags for this post.The Real Peter Pan Story - The Boy Who Wouldn’t grow up…
J.M. Barrie, author of Peter Pan,
was born on this day in 1860
whilst searching the web, I found this interesting snippet which
might explain much about how J.M. Barrie got the idea for the
Peter Pan story:
When he was 6 years old, his next-older brother David Barrie ,
his mother’s favourite, died two days before his 14th birthday in an ice-skating accident.This left his mother devastated, and Barrie tried to fill David’s place in his mother’s attentions,
even wearing his clothes. One time Barrie entered her room, and heard her say “Is that you?”“I thought it was the dead boy she was speaking to,”
wrote Barrie in his biographical account of his mother, Margaret Ogilvy (1896),
“and I said in a little lonely voice, ‘No, it’s no’ him, it’s just me.’”Barrie’s mother found comfort in the fact that her dead son would
remain a boy forever, never to grow up and leave her.
Birkin, Andrew: J. M. Barrie & the Lost Boys
(Contables, 1979; revised edition, Yale University Press, 2003)
via Wikipedia
“A poem should not mean, but be”
Born on this day in 1892:
Archibald Macleish -
poet ( 2 Pulitzer Prizes, 1 National Book Award, 1 Bollingen Prize),
playwright (1 Pulitzer prize, 1 Tony Award),
Academy Award Winner ( Documentary Feature ),
Librarian of Congress and Assistant Secretary of State for cultural affairs under Roosevelt.
Blood Glucose Control observation #1
Eating a cheesesteak and scrambled egg sandwich for lunch
and then discovering that you left your afternoon meds at home
can add 130 points to your Blood Glucose numbers.
notes to self:
in the morning, make sure that afternoon meds are indeed in your pocket.
cheesesteak and egg sandwich from Bui’s = not a good lunch choice.
Karl Marx’s birthday today….
on this day in 1818, Karl Marx was born.
From Wikipedia:
The development of Modern Industry, therefore, cuts from under its feet the very foundation on which the bourgeoisie produces and appropriates products. What the bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its own grave-diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable.
perhaps the fall isn’t to communism, but to prosumerism:
Tags: activist groups, barter networks, corporate profits, disposable income, distribution technologies, economic self sufficiency, economic trends, environmental goals, karl marx, mainstream economy, media creation, proletariat, prosumer, value added products, voluntary simplicity movementYet a third meaning or usage of prosumer is springing up, especially among some activist groups. That is, the producer and consumer roles are being combined so as to exclude (or at least diminish) the role of the corporate producer; thus, rather than generating higher corporate profits from value-added products, producers would, at best, be reduced to supplying lower-profit commodity inputs. Indeed, the more consumer-oriented prosumer spin is irrelevant to many people with diminished disposable income caused by various economic trends such as globalization, automation, and wealth concentration. Identifiable trends and movements outside of the mainstream economy that have adopted prosumer terminology and techniques include:
- a Do It Yourself (DIY) approach as a means of economic self-sufficiency or simply as a way to survive on diminished income
- the voluntary simplicity movement that seeks personal, social, and environmental goals through prosumer activities such as:
- growing one’s own food
- repairing clothing and appliances rather than buying new items
- playing musical instruments rather than listening to recorded music
- use of new media-creation and distribution technologies to foster independent media (see Indymedia); many involved in independent media reject mass culture generated by concentrated corporate media
- self-sufficient barter networks, notably in developing nations, such as Argentina’s RGT have adopted the term prosumer
These blurrings of the roles of consumer and producer have their predecessor in the cooperative self-help movements that sprang up during various economic crises e.g. the Great Depression in the 1930s.
A1c = 9.2 - not good
A1c = 9.2 - not good
A1c = Glycosylated hemoglobin.
In English - a protein in your red blood cells (hemoglobin) occasionally
gets glucose attached to it, which stays for the life of the cell,
which is @ 120 days.
Since it stays around so long, it’s a really good indicator of
long-term blood glucose control (or lack of it, in my case).
The following table is from Wikipedia
| HbA1c (%) |
Avg. Blood Sugar | |
|---|---|---|
| (mmol/L) | (mg/dL) | |
| 4 | 3.3 | 60 |
| 5 | 5.0 | 90 |
| 6 | 6.7 | 120 |
| 7 | 8.3 | 150 |
| 8 | 10.0 | 180 |
| 9 | 11.7 | 210 |
| 10 | 13.3 | 240 |
| 11 | 15.0 | 270 |
| 12 | 16.7 | 300 |
| 13 | 18.3 | 330 |
| 14 | 20.0 | 360 |
2 Doctor’s appointments tomorr…
2 Doctor’s appointments tomorrow - maybe more meds
No tags for this post.Musicnotes’ Digital Sales Growth Exceeds 30% Thus Far in 2008
Lunch at Old Country Buffet
Lunch at Old Country Buffet - salisbury steak, corn, carrots, chips and cheese!
at work, anticipating the chicken and broccoli
at work, anticipating the chicken and broccoli with steamed rice
I just ordered from Campusfood.com for lunch.