botany, shoes, books, and justice
My migraines have not been getting better. And I’m going to have to take back what I said last month about having less painful migraines. I ended up in the ER recently unable to eat or hardly speak.
I’d really like to work on my PhD and write Christmas cards and leave my fucking house sometime.
Stuff worth reading
I’d rather watch shows about teenaged girls figuring out what it means to be a monster via Epicene Cyborg
IBM’s Watson is better at diagnosing cancer than human doctors
Basic Income and the Atavistic Appeal of Austerity.
Men are worried that women will laugh at them, while women are worried that men will kill them
13,507 hours Holy shit getting a PhD takes a long time.
The Logic of Stupid Poor People.
The Problem With Male Feminists. So good
MAP: 9 States Besides Texas That Are Making It Harder for Women to Vote Because that’s the way the founders made it: only rich white dudes should vote
The multiple arms races of the college system
What do you DO all day? Questions for a Chronic Migraineur
Where does the time go?
The Grim Math of the Working-Class Housing Crisis.
This is a huge problem.
Quantum Experiment Shows How Time ‘Emerges’ from Entanglement.
I DON’T UNDERSTAND
Artist Morgan Herrin Transforms Construction Grade Lumber into Surreal Classical Sculptures
Nudity and Nerdery, On “Not all guys are like that”
Cannot be repeated enough
Risk and no (professional) reward
I really struggle to understand how people think the takeaway from “Guy constantly overstepped boundaries and grossly harassed women who told him about it and finally lost his job only after massive public outcry and multiple examples of his behavior came to light” is “I should basically ignore all women at work so I don’t make them uncomfortable and lose my job”
Femslash Friday: Little Ditty About Anne and Diana
“He dresses like a lesbian, which is a quality I find very charming in a man.” Indeed I do.
By hubschenhosen on Flickr
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Having migraine really sucks, and I’ll try just about anything to deal with this illness. One of the things I tried recently is the Cefaly, a scifi looking device I previously mocked. A lot of people seemed to be finding relief with it and a couple agencies had verified that it wouldn’t hurt me.
After reading Kerrie’s experience, I was excited and a little wary.
I found it really unpleasant when I started using it. The strength intensifies over the first 12 minutes of a 20 minute treatment cycle. There are three cycle types – relaxation, prophylaxis, and migraine. You can stop the ramp up at any point and keep the treatment at that level for the remainder of the cycle. The first time I used it, I stopped the ramp up after less than a minute. After about 15 uses, I was able to tolerate the full ramp up on the “prophylactic” cycle and started really enjoying it! When I am not in the middle of or starting an attack, I find even the highest setting pleasurable – like a good massage. More importantly, several days I thought would be totally lost to migraine hangover, I was able to do a few small errands and chores after using Cefaly.
Unfortunately, f I tried to use Cefaly when I was getting a migraine or during a migraine , it made me very sick to my stomach and didn’t do a thing for the pain.
The manufacturer claims that frequent, regular use will eventually lead to a reduction in migraine frequency. My migraines are very frequent, so I can’t use the Cefaly enough to find out if it would help my migraines. Using it every day I didn’t have a full blown migraine – and some days I did – over 6 weeks did not cause a noticeable reduction in my migraines.
If you’d like to try Cefaly for your headaches, I’m looking to sell mine for about $150. It comes with a storage case, 4 electrodes, and the manual. Send me an email if you’re interested at enchantressofnumbers at gmail.
I have a post up over on Tenure, She Wrote about how femininity is seen as an incompetent other in my workplace. I wanted to write more about the experience people with queer genders or trans people have, but that’ll have to wait for another post.
Today when I signed into the gmail account I use for all my activities as Sarcozona, Google told me I needed to fill out some info for G+. I was annoyed because I don’t really want to use G+, but you have to have a page if you want to sign into other websites with your gmail account. So I obediently filled in the little boxes. Google thinks Sarcozona doesn’t look like a real name, so they linked me to an appeal form asking for proof that Sarcozona was a name I actually go by. There’s quite a bit of proof since I’ve been Sarcozona on the internet since 1998. My appeal was rejected almost immediately.
Hello,
After reviewing your appeal, we have determined that your name does not comply with the Google+ Names Policy.
We want users to be able to find each other using the name they already use with their friends, family, and coworkers. For most people this is their legal name, or some variant of it, but we recognize that this isn’t always the case, and we allow for other common names in Google+ — specifically, those that represent an individual with an established online identity with a meaningful following. If you haven’t already done so, you can provide us with additional information regarding an established identity by re-submitting an appeal that includes references to where you are known by this name either in online or offline settings.
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You may re-appeal with additional information, if you have not already done so. If you’re already using Google+, your current name will continue to be used.The Google+ team.
I didn’t want to use G+ as Sarcozona, but it was weirdly painful to be told that an identity I’ve inhabited for 15 years isn’t real enough for them.
Google+, you can go fuck yourself.
