AW SHIT. I'm clearly not up to the task of working with HTML today. Check out the link to the pentagon report in the first post and see the links to my previous messages in the second post.

ARRRGGGHHH.

(kindly delete/ignore the previous post from me, thanks)

YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING ME.

So the Pentagon put together a report saying that space-based solar power stations are totally feasible but that nobody wants to invest the money required (lame).

But didn't I say THE EXACT SAME THING that everything in that report said... but like, oh I don't know, TWO FUCKING YEARS AGO?

WITNESS:

LINK1 LINK2

Seriously, compare that article to my comments from 2005. I could have given them those conclusions a long time ago.

YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING ME.

So the Pentagon put together a report saying that space-based solar power stations are totally feasible but that nobody wants to invest the money required (lame).

But didn't I say THE EXACT SAME THING that everything in that report said... but like, oh I don't know, TWO FUCKING YEARS AGO?

WITNESS:

LINK1 LINK2

Seriously, compare that article to my comments from 2005. I could have given them those conclusions a long time ago.

you know, this website says nothing about how to decide WHERE you vote... as in what ward...


"To be eligible to vote, you must:

* be at least 18 years old,
* be a Canadian citizen,
* be a resident in Alberta for the six consecutive months immediately preceding election day (as of April 16, 2007)
* be a resident of Edmonton on election day,
* not have voted previously in this election"


so... if I wanted to, could I vote for ward 3??

well, regardless GO OUT AND VOTE TODAY!

"When Norman Mailer wrote his true-to-life novel about World War II, The Naked and the Dead, in 1948, his compromise with the sensibilities of the day was to have soldiers use the pseudo-epithet fug. (When Dorothy Parker met him, she said, "So you're the man who doesn't know how to spell fuck.")"

And yet he had no reservations in drunkenly stabbing his wife in the back at a party? haha

That's funny. The story of him stabbing his wife just came up the other day, so when I read that above bit from the article you posted, Paras, I couldn't help but laugh at it.

our neighbour has a leaf blower/vacuum (I never can tell), and it seriously sounds like he's trying out a hover craft in the back yard... it's sooooo loud.



at least backslashes are more efficient than "directeur(trice)" for typers... that's what I used to do.

It's strange to see the clumsy backslash construct for gender neutral terminology in French:

Le CLC cherche un/e directeur/trice.

Why we curse:

The FCC's decision raises another mystery about swearing: the bizarre number of different ways in which we swear. There is cathartic swearing, as when we slice our thumb along with the bagel. There are imprecations, as when we offer advice to someone who has cut us off in traffic. There are vulgar terms for everyday things and activities, as when Bess Truman was asked to get the president to say fertilizer instead of manure and she replied, "You have no idea how long it took me to get him to say manure." There are figures of speech that put obscene words to other uses, such as the barnyard epithet for insincerity, the army acronym snafu, and the gynecological-flagellative term for uxorial dominance. And then there are the adjective-like expletives that salt the speech and split the words of soldiers, teenagers, and Irish rock-stars.

Jess, the short answer is yes (well, really, it was the doctor I was with who prescribed them; I'm not at a level yet to definitively make treatment choices.)

I have a vague sense of the nature of your strong feelings, so I comment in that direction in the long answer.

First let me say that I haven't done much reading about making treatment choices when dealing with depression -- either in terms of the ridiculous array of drugs available or in terms of counselling and psychological consultations. I cannot for myself speak to the correctness of this doctor's choice to prescribe an anti-depressant except to say that he's been in practice a long time and is often motivated by a "this has worked in my experience" idea.

That said, based on my interview with this patient, this wasn't simply a case of depressed mood with an unconsidered decision to seek pharmaceutical treatment. There was a functional impairment here (which is the criteria for the clinical diagnosis) and despite that, this patient attempted to tough it out for several months.

In any case, apart from doing some reading this weekend, my judgment of our course of action in this case will probably come in 2-3 weeks. While the doctor I was with wasn't my actual preceptor, I've asked him to let me see this patient when the follow-up visit is scheduled. Hopefully I'll have a better sense of my own feelings about the correct treatment choices then.

(And, as an aside, let me say that I didn't feel good merely because my patient had depression. A cold-hearted bastard, I hope, I am not. The good was that a patient was comfortable enough to open up to me with a difficult issue like this, that (I think) I handled the situation well enough -- I was worried about how I would react to this kind of situation, and that we would be able to help someone through something like this.)

Thanks for the pointed question, though. It definitely helps to reflect on these kinds of things, and to remember that what I see done still needs to be considered carefully.

okay... I'm totally confused...

I could've sworn my computer speakers were dead, but noooo... it's just a glitch in programs... arghh! or at least I hope it is... as much as I like watching movies with sound, I'd also like to listen to music on this thing... or thesis writing is going to be even MORE difficult.