I’m told that besides bipolars and schizophrenic visionaries, political dissidents andsubversive herbalists were also tortured and burned at the stake. Let’s add gays and Lesbians to the list. It makes sense that a single woman might make her living from herbalism. Which she may have learned from a lesbian mentor. Which was part of that […]
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Shamanism and talking to Dog
The anthropological literature has whole books on how different cultures view mental illness. A bipolar makes a perfect shaman, because unmedicated we tend to have periods of remission between any episodes of talking to Dog. How we perceive our own level of functioning is an important part of the diagnostic criteria. I quote from pendulum.org: […]
Your Library – A Meme Game
A little game from bipolar disorder: the story of me and it. Grab the nearest book you have on the subject of Bipolar Disorder. Open the book to page 18. Find the ninth sentence Post the text of the sentence. Have a laugh. (a derivation of the page 23 meme) There is a higher prevalence […]
Today’s meanderings
Well, the news is full of fun stuff today. The press could do so much good if they directed their energy into improving the world. Man faints, dies after seeing epidural. Ok, I can almost see this. The needle is three inches long and marked in stripes to indicate depth of penetration. It looks kind […]
On the question of animal intelligence
I believe that the answer is to treat all animals as humans and to provide vocational rehab for those who have trouble functioning in human society. – me, 25 Apr 88 20:03:56 GMT in sci.bio Are Animals Patentable?
Hacking the vacuum cleaner
New use for those robotic vacuum cleaners. What sort of add-ons could you have for the Roomba? Angle: For the Roomba, there is a group that’s working very seriously and looking at the idea of using the Roomba as a physical avatar. I might log into a Web page and see what the robot sees, […]
Mathematics vs. Religion
The good Christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a covenant with the Devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in the bonds of Hell … –Saint Augustine (heh heh heh) SSDD, huh? Feb 11 1988, 12:43 pm in […]
Fedora?
I’m considering getting a Linux laptop. Now that Red Hat has been seduced to the Dark side, Fedora it will be. I get the scratch-and-dent email from BobJohnson.com and I’m hopeful that there will be a suitable laptop soon. And that they will actually be able to ship it to me this time.
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