I'd rather be the pauper of Scranton than the King of Wilkes-Barre
I’ve been listening
To all the dissension.
I’ve been listening
To all the pain.
And I feel that no matter
What I do for you,
It’s going to come back again.
But I think that I can heal it,
But I think that I can heal it,
I’m a fool, but I think that I can heal it
With this song.
– Leonard Cohen
Friday Morning at 12:00 AM, Leonard Cohen will announce his 2009 North American Tour.
The Pennsylvania Game Commission will present the 23rd Annual Middle Creek Wildfowl Show on September 19 & 20, 2009 from 9AM to 5 PM (rain or shine). Admission is free. Show features wildfowl carving, artwork, decoy competitions, retriever demonstrations, and the state duck and goose calling championships.
Location: Middle Creek Visitor Center
Directions:
From Pennsylvania Turnpike Exit 286 – Take Route 272 North for three miles, and at the traffic light, turn left on Route 897. Follow Route 897 North for about 14 miles into the village of Kleinfeltersville. In Kleinfeltersville make the first left after the stop sign (Hopeland Road). The Visitors Center will be on the right about 2 miles down Hopeland Road.
From Pennsylvania Turnpike Exit 266 – Take Route 72 North (about 4-5 Miles to Route 419 North. Follow Route 419 North for approximately 7 miles to Route 897 in Shaefferstown. follow Route 897 South for about 2 miles to Kleinfeltersville. Turn right a Hopeland Road in Kleinfeltersville. The Visitors Center will be on the right about 2 miles down Hopeland Road.
I get these more than ever…
A hypnic or hypnagogic jerk is an involuntary myoclonic twitch which occurs during hypnagogia, just as the subject is beginning to fall asleep. Physically, they resemble the “jump” made when a person is startled.
Often accompanied by a falling sensation, it is commonly caused by irregular sleep schedules.
Origins
The neurological reason that hypnic jerks occur is not fully understood, although there are two predominant theories.
Some researchers suggest that as a subject’s heartbeat and breathing slow down, hypnic jerks occur as a natural part of muscular transition.
Another theory states that as a subject falls asleep, their muscles begin to relax and cease working, causing the brain to believe that the body must be falling through air – and triggering a response to thrash the limbs in an attempt to catch something or turn oneself upright.
Occurrence
Hypnic jerks are usually felt once or twice per night. More regular, and usually less intense, hypnic jerks often occur during normal sleep. In extreme cases, this may be classified as a disorder called periodic limb movement. The person with the disorder will usually sleep through the events. When a subject is deprived of sleep and is trying to fight sleep, hypnic jerks can occur more often. This normally happens to subjects who have deprived themselves of sleep for longer than 24 hours, or to those who have recently awakened after insufficient sleep.
This is the closes point where the Delaware and Susquehanna Rivers meet. This only 16 minute drive connects you to two of the largest rivers in the Eastern U.S. (which do not intersect or become tributaries of another major river).
“It just goes to show you, if you leave Scranton, exciting things can happen.” – Michael Scott
Since buying my 1 year old Subaru Outback in February of 2006, I decided to keep track of how I put my miles on it. I don’t know how I have managed to be on the verge of putting 56,000 miles in 3 years. This averages approximately 50 miles per day. The significant increase from 07-08 lines up with graduate school. The car has also only taken 3 significant trips: Maine, Toronto, and The Outer Banks.
Twentynine Palms, I feel the heat of your desert heart.
Birders rejoice, as there is at least a 50% chance of seeing a bird team win the Superbowl. Go Eagles!
Football
Bird teams in the NFC: 4 (Eagles, Falcons, Seahawks, Cardinals)
Bird teams in the AFC: 1 (Ravens)Baseball
Bird teams in the AL: 2 (Orioles, Blue Jays)
Bird teams in the NL: 1 (Cardinals)Hockey
Bird teams in the Eastern: 2 (Penguins, Thrashers)
Bird teams in the Western: 1 (Ducks)
Other teams with bird sounding names; 2 (Red Wings, Blackhawks)Basketball
Bird teams in the Eastern: 1* (Hawks)
Bird teams in the Western: 0* does not include the Raptors, even though they are diapsids
TwitterTools plug-in is just not that helpful if you need some differentiation of tweets vs posts.
TwitterTools needs:
• a way to distinguish tweets from a typical blog post
• needs ability to have a fixed title or at least a flexible title which is not just an abbreviated form of the content
• also would be nice if a WordPress theme could distinguish them and format them differently
…only supports Intel CPU. Boo. 🙁
http://picasa.google.com/mac
A few days from now will mark the 16th anniversary of my first time skiing. It also marks the 16th anniversary of me breaking my right femur. In honor of that glorious month of 7th grade I missed, I decided to see if the surgery I had to repair the bone is still being performed.
The answer: yes. Pretty much nothing has changed if you break your femur in the same manner: Intramedullary Fixation for non-comminuted mid shaft fractures. It’s a pretty straightforward procedure: knock me out, cut hip open, drill a hole into the head of the femur, ream out the center marrow-y part, drive in 13.4 inches titanium nail, insert two proximal screws at the top end to hold the rod in place (keep it from moving up and down in the bone), put the end cap in place, and stitch and staple shut.
Read the brochure, and note the odd choice of text/graphics ala Ralph Steadman.
Being a thirteen year old, and having expectation to continue to grow for 5 more years, I had the femoral nail removed after a year. I have it next to me as I type this.
• saw Leonard Cohen perform in Toronto
• saw Jonathan Richman perform in Philadelphia
• finished my masters degree
• Phillies win the World Series
• saw Stella live in Glenside
• visited Chicago and Toronto for the first time
• went to the beach twice
• Rudy Giuliani stakes it all on Florida
• Mitt Romney let the dogs out
• Hillary recalls being shot at by terrorists
• Obama keeps his mouth shout
(these are not in any particular order)
