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  1. Changing Medications (Level of Trust Required)

    Prof, variations in your blood sugar could be the cause, or part of the cause, of your sine waves. (But then, there are some serious oddities in my experience with medical conditions. My wife is one of those weird people who can tell when her blood pressure is up a bit for no apparent reason. And she had to stop taking one medication that lowers blood pressure, because it raised her blood pressure.)
  2. What Are You Ingesting?

    Maybe add something appropriate to your Amazon wishlist and see what happens?
  3. Things that make you go WTF

    In theory anyway.
  4. Things That Are Just Annoying

    Have you tested speed between your computer and your wife's, just in your home network over wifi? That speed is an absolute upper limit on the speed at which you can get anywhere else. (Assuming your wife's computer isn't so lame that it can't run its network connection at full wifi speed.)
  5. Story Wednesday May 24, 2017

    It's kind of strange... most of the great battles that are taken as defining the English identity occurred in the "Hundred Years War"... which England pretty decisively lost. Seriously. At the beginning of the war, the territory that owed fealty to the King of England included (approximately) the southern half of the island of Britain and the western half of France; meanwhile the territory that owed fealty to the King of France consisted of most of the northeast quarter of France. At the end of the war, Britain was almost entirely kicked off the mainland, and France had approximately its modern border. And yet... France derives most of its sense of identity from the Napoleonic Wars. Which France lost.
  6. What Are You Ingesting?

    Professor, you probably should wait until your toe's moe bettter.
  7. Changing Medications (Level of Trust Required)

    I read it. There's one thing that really struck me about it, that I absolutely HATE to see in a medical report (or lots of other professional contexts):
  8. Story Monday May 22, 2017

    Wouldn't an even more sensible Aberration do its best to run quietly?
  9. OT14 - Any updates appropriate?

    Tedd probably barely remembers his mother at all - or perhaps less than that. My opinion is that "Ugly Cousin" is a defensive reaction to being physically attracted to a close relative before he was old enough to have the slightest clue what that physical attraction is all about. As for self-cest, not necessarily, in EGS.
  10. NP: Monday May 22, 2017

    Have we seen that Rhoda has a spellbook? I am not remembering it (but then I have something less than a photographic memory). If it's just a list of Awakened people, then add Justin. Ellen zaps a beam at Elliot, it hits Magus first, turning his body female... oops, he doesn't have a body... so the magic hits him and looks around going "NOW what do I do?". Meanwhile it's a powerful enough beam to throw Magus backward into Elliot, and Magus WANTS to possess Elliot's body temporarily, and the magic says "Oh, okay!" Voila, one male Elliot possessed by Magus. Let's go find the diamond! The result of that is one male Elliot who can - at will - become possessed by Magus and then throw off the possession, and one male Magus who can - at will - cause others to become possessed or dis-possessed by Magus. So in principle they could have a whole bunch of people all possessed by Magus running around at the same time.
  11. Changing Medications (Level of Trust Required)

    It could also be the fact that you just had surgery... Unless an actual doctor says otherwise, I would suggest that you push yourself to the point of discomfort or tiredness, but not pain or exhaustion. And if the discomfort or tiredness starts coming sooner and sooner, you need to talk with one or more of the docs again.
  12. Things That Are Just Annoying

    I will be very careful to never consume a half ton of bananas in one day. It might be difficult, but I think I can manage that.
  13. NP Friday May 05 2017

    I think it's more a matter of there being prisoners whom you wish to eventually be able to hand back unharmed - and even have saying you treated them decently - for diplomatic reasons, and prisoners whom you have no such concerns about because either there's nobody important to hand them back to, or the important people to hand them back to don't care about them any more than you do.
  14. Changing Medications (Level of Trust Required)

    I spent some time last night reading a fanfic (still in process) about being a doctor in Zootopia... Warning: this is an EMOTIONALLY difficult read... as most of the main characters are staff at a clinic and research facility specializing in inter-species fertility... and it's written by a guy qualified to work there...
  15. Story Thursday May 18, 2017

    I wasn't certain I remembered what kin selection is, so I looked it up... and what I thought I remembered was correct.
  16. NP Friday May 05 2017

    Nowadays we could put a smartphone - with the possible exception of a battery to last all day - in a wristwatch. But imagine typing on that on-screen keyboard...
  17. Changing Medications (Level of Trust Required)

    Maybe see if some of them are worth sharing?
  18. NP Friday May 05 2017

    Cell phones that can reach orbit are uncommon and the service is frightfully expensive. Cell phones that can reach the nearest cell tower which is hooked into a network including both satellite links and undersea cables... those are rather more common and affordable.
  19. Story Thursday May 18, 2017

    It seems entirely appropriate that Pan paniscus should be pansexual. Sometimes it's a matter of luck. If competitive pressures force you out of the prime hunting grounds and way up into the mountains just before a huge flash flood destroys the prime hunting ground and kills everything there, you're obviously more fit than the critters that forced you out...
  20. Story Thursday May 18, 2017

    Yes, Heidi is very perky. ----- And actually, all this fits with my theory that people who are absolutely-purely heterosexual are rather rare. I figure that for our way-distant ancestors, attraction to each other was exclusively either sexual (want to mate with them) or dietary (want to eat them), but then when our somewhat-more-recent ancestors started becoming social creatures it was necessary to form non-dietary attractions with other members of the group - of both sexes - and the sexual attraction was there to adapt and make more flexible. So the absolutely-pure heterosexual would have same-sex acquaintances but not same-sex friends.
  21. NP Friday May 05 2017

    Shortly after that event I read an article laying out - based solely on publicly available information - exactly why the government really should have expected the recent terrorist attack on a US Navy vessel in port while the Vice President was visiting it. Everything in the article was true, except for one detail: there had been no such attack... and that was the point of the article. They have evidence credibly pointing at TOO MANY possible terrorist attacks, every day... they can't all be true, and the government can't act to disrupt all of them without massive violations of the rights of innocent people...
  22. Things That Are Just Annoying

    Spreadsheets are pretty good at string manipulation. I have a spreadsheet designed to produce wikicode for a table on the wiki site, from data that is loaded into the cells - so really all I have to maintain is the data, and then I can copy the complete wikicode from another column and paste it into the wiki.
  23. Changing Medications (Level of Trust Required)

    I love the way you word that - it sounds like either you or the person you're addressing are an alien.
  24. Story Monday May 15, 2017

    102199 * 103573 * 103993 By the way, thanks for having that space in there - factoring 1100771835408811! would be absurd. In my model, "how much is being male part of your identity" and "how much is being female part of your identity" are two dimensions. People who are agender are somewhere near zero on both scales; people who are bi-gender are fairly high on both scales; what you're referring to as "cis-genderless" are (assuming I'm interpreting that correctly) more often called "gender-neutral", and are somewhere between those two - and more or less even on both scales. Cisgender people are, of course, significantly higher on one scale than on the other - as are transgender people, but the scale they're higher on doesn't match their physical sex. My suspicion is that most agender and gender-neutral people simply assume they are cisgender, because they don't experience anything that would cause them to question it - and if something magically changed their sex but not their gender, their questioning of the results would be over developed habits/knowledge and other people's expectations, not over their identity. (Prime example: Elliot.) The difference is that the gender-neutral embrace being the sex they are, while the agender don't care; so after a change the gender-neutral would seek out experience related to their new sex, while the agender would try to eliminate disruption as much as possible. Or to put it another way, after changing sex to female an agender would buy a few bras to wear under their existing T-shirts while a gender-neutral would buy bras, blouses, skirts, and dresses. (Meanwhile, a cisgender would have become transgender, so would be wanting to do some combination of hiding and passing-as-male. And a transwoman would have become cisgender, and quite happy about the change. Although it would undoubtedly still take at least a little getting used to.) The bi-gender, unfortunately, get stuck wanting to be both at the same time. And at the other end are folks who are in significantly-negative numbers on both scales, actively wanting to be neither; the most common term for that is "neutrois". Both of these are difficult to achieve or to get anyone else to recognize and respect - particularly in languages with exactly two sex-linked genders.
  25. Things That Are Just Annoying

    Or use a spreadsheet. They are very good at getting tables right.