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Weekly Linkage: Travel, Doctors, and Bat Wings

10/10/2011 Melissa Avery-Weir

I spent a fair amount of last week (and all of this weekend) sick, so I spent very little time on the wibbles aside from work. Found a few fun tidbits, though:

40 Beautiful Photos of India – See, now I totally want to tour India. All of it.
How to make doctors miserable people (now with data!) – Read the linked articles as well, especially “Doctors as Martyrs“. Any time I read about the stress chamber that is medical residency, I think of 1) Scrubs (sowwy!), and 2) a high school friend of mine who’s a resident now. Oy, vey.
Senator James Eastland: The Mike Wallace Interview – From prometheus 6. A surprisingly pushy interviewer, but Eastland (1957) goes so far as to toss out accusations of “communist propaganda”. o_O

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Weekly Linkage: Harlem Shake

9/29/2011 Melissa Avery-Weir

This is what happens when Greg asks, “What’s the Harlem Shake?”

I just about feel off the couch. Especially when I realized at about 2:40 that that’s a DVD in his belt, not a buckle.

Greg may never ask me another dancing-related question ever again.

A few other nuggets:

Three Word Phrase, by Ryan Pequin – I’ll confess, I started watching Hoarders recently. Just entered Season 3. I’m not sure how I feel about myself anymore. In my defense Season 3 fired off with enough drama that I’ve skipped episodes.
Autumnal equinox – It’s almost time to break out the sunlamp.
Capital One Says ING Direct Deal Will Create Jobs – Capital One taking over ING is a bit worrying…

And one more awesome (no, really) video: Splinter Cell: Lightbulb Assassin:
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Weekly Linkage: Planets, EDs, and Blood Donations

9/15/2011 Melissa Avery-Weir

This past week(…s)’s internet surfin’:

A Newbie’s Guide to Publishing: What’s Wrong With Sex? – Sex in a book doesn’t make it erotica.
Hyperbole and a Half: This is Why I’ll Never be an Adult – As always, I love Allie’s art and humor, and her point here is so well taken. I know very few people who don’t do this.
Twitter / @violetblue: They made me wait a long t … – This is definitely a WTF. Also a “what in the world do you do?” Do you make a kerfluffle about being able to see your stuff when you’re about to be patted down? Do you just wait in silence?
BBC News – Gay men blood donor ban to be lifted – Better than a permanent ban, but a one-year deferral is still discriminatory. And how often are people not sexually active for one year? o_O I ended up in a poorly handled (on my part) Twitter fight about the issue of safety vs. discrimination. Ugh.
Client management: [Forget] you. Pay me. – A contract focus on handling clients that’s polite-but-serious while ensuring you get paid. The video’s funny, though.
finkenstein: TREK JAMMIN’ – Geordi knew better than to participate in this.
Flash Orrery – Planets! Moons!
Just be honest for now – I DO NOT HAVE AN EATING DISORDER – This was a difficult read (it’s a comic) for me, but very, very good and worth the discomfort.
Draw – Google Correlate – Correlate a graph to search terms.
100 ways to get more done – I do so love lists like this. The dubstep background was new to me.
EA’s Origin EULA Proves Even More Sinister | Rock, Paper, Shotgun – More on the EA usage agreement that’s rolling out on the un-Steamed games.

Weekly Linkage: Games, Books, and People

8/23/2011 Melissa Avery-Weir 2 Comments

This week’s internet cruising:

EA takes games from Steam – Hilariously written, and found because I was eyeballing Dragon Age 2 to see if it still comes with Mass Effect, as it did once. …Not that I want DA2. I haven't finished the first one yet.
Abortion may be legal, but that doesn’t mean it’s easy to get one – Includes numbers from a rather large sample-size survey that was done.
Showcase of Inspiring Arabic Calligraphy Artworks – Just a compilation post, but gorgeous.
Showed up on my news feed. Made me feel shocked,… | – Aw, hell no.
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Weekly Linkage: Grumpy Heroines, CRUD, and Prison Work

8/10/2011 Melissa Avery-Weir 1 Comment

This week’s internet cruising:

Questionable Content – Tool reference!
What does English sound like to foreign ears? – The Blogs at HowStuffWorks – An absolutely amazing song and video by an Italian comedian faking English, plus some adorable animal sounds.
Why CRUD might be what they want, but may not be what they need – Reading this sent me back to an old client’s site (from almost two years ago), remembering the CRUD-based admin console I developed that was such an incorrect way to go about giving them the functionality they needed. Oy.
Renaming Many Files At Once with Pattern Matching in Bash | Andy Regan – This proved very handy in renaming about 40 files quickly at work.

Video interlude! This video convinced me to start playing Mass Effect (the first) tonight.

So far, it’s a blast, and not too chock-full of grumpiness. Just enough to be fun.

…I did punch a rambling scientist, though.

On the Lieberman/Coburn plan (again) – “What we really should care about in [using life expectancy as a factor in Medicare change] is not life expectancy at birth, but life expectancy at age 65. In other words, if you make it to 65, how long will you be on Medicare? That’s when things get tricky.”
Leave to live by no man’s leave – Ayende @ Rahien – This is a 2005 post by a developer I frequently read from Israel, writing about his four years in the IDF working in prisons.
“On the one hand you are required to provide the prisoners with proper treatment and on the other hand… you listen to the news and see a bombing in Jerusalem and hear them celebrating. And that is in addition to the usual conflict of being in a position where you need to take care of people who would truly like to kill you.”
Why Steam Makes You Reinstall DirectX | Rock, Paper, Shotgun – Finally, an explanation! It’s still annoying, but I feel a bit better now.
O’Reilly OSCON Data 2011, Steve Yegge, “What Would You Do With Your Own Google?” – YouTube – Learn math and solve important problems, apparently. I’m a fan.
Google, at scale – Ooh, a book review that makes me interested in the inner workings of Google. This one’s going on my wishlist.

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Weekly Linkage: Travel, Doctors, and Bat Wings

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Weekly Linkage: Planets, EDs, and Blood Donations

Weekly Linkage: Grumpy Heroines, CRUD, and Prison Work

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