Odin's Day
Administration
Hello to new readers
sihaya09 and tbncirce!
Medical
The snot goblins have migrated almost completely to my throat and chest. Just got up, so I don't know yet how weak and shaky I feel, whether it's just my sleeping pills saying "Eh, wot?" or I'm still icky. Feet and ankles, noit happy, as usual.
...but I've had less overall pain since I started the Celebrex.
Now I just have to get Prior Approval on it. The same process that took months with Lyrica. Only when something works do they pull this crap. Insurance company executives are going to the special hell. Yes, the same one as people who talk at the theater.
Blogathon
Thanks toauryn29a and "feather" (joyfulfeather? but you were the one who won the Wearable Sculpture bracelet!), I'm up to a staggering $3,526.95.
Sponsorships are closed, so that is my final official total. But we still have to tallykungfoogirl's photo auctions, and there are still two jewelry auctions up, so the Grand Total won't be final for a few days. And sponsors, you should be getting your how-to-donate e-mails within the next 48 hours - let me know if you don't!
Wow.
$3,526.95.
The folks at BARCC are awed, too. I'll ask them what the money will go toward, and will let you know. :)
Thank you so damn much for helping me do this. All of you who sponsored, who pimped, who supported. And massive hugs to my fellow Blogathonners. I don't know how much we here on LJ raised, but across the 'net, LJ and not, Blogathonners raised a combined $123,695.42 for charity this weekend. Amazing!
(Readslipjig's by-the-numbers Team Venture breakdown!)
Link Soup
* Built in 1995 and disassembled in 2005, the Nagata-Ku church in Kobe, Japan was built by church volunteers whose house of worship was destroyed by the 1995 Kobe earthquake. Using 58 paper tubes, the church is simple in its elliptical shape, but a dramatic spatial experience that turns low-tech materials into spiritual space.
* Continuing the cardboard-tube theme: Japanese architect Shigeru Ban has introduced a bridge over the Gardon river in France made entirely out of cardboard tubes. The bridge is made from 281 cardboard tubs and is strong enough to carry 20 people at a time.
* eXtreme solar living!
* Survival tool in credit card format. Mama wants.
Daily Science
Newsflash: Time may not exist...
There is a temporal realm called the Planck scale, where even attoseconds drag by like eons. It marks the edge of known physics, a region where distances and intervals are so short that the very concepts of time and space start to break down. Planck time—the smallest unit of time that has any physical meaning—is 10-43 second, less than a trillionth of a trillionth of an attosecond. Beyond that? Tempus incognito. At least for now.
Efforts to understand time below the Planck scale have led to an exceedingly strange juncture in physics. The problem, in brief, is that time may not exist at the most fundamental level of physical reality. If so, then what is time? And why is it so obviously and tyrannically omnipresent in our own experience? “The meaning of time has become terribly problematic in contemporary physics,” says Simon Saunders, a philosopher of physics at the University of Oxford. “The situation is so uncomfortable that by far the best thing to do is declare oneself an agnostic.”
Daily BPAL
I can smell again,mostly!
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Plans
Date night tonight, so I don't want to do anything too strenuous today. I have to go to the post office. Otherwise, I've got plenty of tasks that let me rest, mostly online.
*quietly blisses out re: date*
Hello to new readers
sihaya09 and tbncirce!Medical
The snot goblins have migrated almost completely to my throat and chest. Just got up, so I don't know yet how weak and shaky I feel, whether it's just my sleeping pills saying "Eh, wot?" or I'm still icky. Feet and ankles, noit happy, as usual.
...but I've had less overall pain since I started the Celebrex.
Now I just have to get Prior Approval on it. The same process that took months with Lyrica. Only when something works do they pull this crap. Insurance company executives are going to the special hell. Yes, the same one as people who talk at the theater.
Blogathon
Thanks to
auryn29a and "feather" (joyfulfeather? but you were the one who won the Wearable Sculpture bracelet!), I'm up to a staggering $3,526.95.Sponsorships are closed, so that is my final official total. But we still have to tally
kungfoogirl's photo auctions, and there are still two jewelry auctions up, so the Grand Total won't be final for a few days. And sponsors, you should be getting your how-to-donate e-mails within the next 48 hours - let me know if you don't!Wow.
$3,526.95.
The folks at BARCC are awed, too. I'll ask them what the money will go toward, and will let you know. :)
Thank you so damn much for helping me do this. All of you who sponsored, who pimped, who supported. And massive hugs to my fellow Blogathonners. I don't know how much we here on LJ raised, but across the 'net, LJ and not, Blogathonners raised a combined $123,695.42 for charity this weekend. Amazing!
(Read
slipjig's by-the-numbers Team Venture breakdown!)Link Soup
* Built in 1995 and disassembled in 2005, the Nagata-Ku church in Kobe, Japan was built by church volunteers whose house of worship was destroyed by the 1995 Kobe earthquake. Using 58 paper tubes, the church is simple in its elliptical shape, but a dramatic spatial experience that turns low-tech materials into spiritual space.
* Continuing the cardboard-tube theme: Japanese architect Shigeru Ban has introduced a bridge over the Gardon river in France made entirely out of cardboard tubes. The bridge is made from 281 cardboard tubs and is strong enough to carry 20 people at a time.
* eXtreme solar living!
* Survival tool in credit card format. Mama wants.
Daily Science
Newsflash: Time may not exist...
There is a temporal realm called the Planck scale, where even attoseconds drag by like eons. It marks the edge of known physics, a region where distances and intervals are so short that the very concepts of time and space start to break down. Planck time—the smallest unit of time that has any physical meaning—is 10-43 second, less than a trillionth of a trillionth of an attosecond. Beyond that? Tempus incognito. At least for now.
Efforts to understand time below the Planck scale have led to an exceedingly strange juncture in physics. The problem, in brief, is that time may not exist at the most fundamental level of physical reality. If so, then what is time? And why is it so obviously and tyrannically omnipresent in our own experience? “The meaning of time has become terribly problematic in contemporary physics,” says Simon Saunders, a philosopher of physics at the University of Oxford. “The situation is so uncomfortable that by far the best thing to do is declare oneself an agnostic.”
Daily BPAL
I can smell again,mostly!
( Collapse )
Plans
Date night tonight, so I don't want to do anything too strenuous today. I have to go to the post office. Otherwise, I've got plenty of tasks that let me rest, mostly online.
*quietly blisses out re: date*
busy