Howard Tayler

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Jeff Stahler
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tl;dr - rotator cuff pain is like the canary in the coal mine.

The rotator cuff is built from attach-points for the deltoid, tricep, bicep, pectoralis, lats, and trapezius. There are *so many* muscles that go into that little knot. You can (for instance) imbalance it with a weak delt, and end up with neck/back pain from compensation stress in lats/traps.

Speaking from experience - it sounds like the thoracic outlet nerve might be impinged by inflammation in the rotator cuff. I had this on the right arm. Shoulder pain, plus tingling in my thumb and outer two fingers (ring and pinky), with added weirdness in the carpal area (but no carpal tunnel).

Hey, now. Tolkien spent like forty years creating languages before he wrote books about the people who used those languages. Who the Hell am I to think I can go faster than Tolkien?

(obligatory sarcasm tag goes here)→→→ <*>

The #mecfs #LongCovid slows the healing process, but I've figured out how to walk the (currently quite narrow) line between "frozen shoulder" and "torn shoulder."

Sometimes you can sail safely between Scylla and Charibdis, and sometimes they're in bed with each other and the ship won't fit.

I also owe future-Howard an apology, because in my ill-tempered efforts to scrape speedbumps out of my workspace I successfully deleted a bunch of tools. Reloading/refreshing the workspace didn't bring 'em back, so now I get to make a list of what's missing before I try to rebuild.

I can count on one hand the number of people who have to deal with me in person today (Sandra & 2 kiddos) and it's a good thing, because I should be able to keep track of this.

Three. THREE. Just three people to whom I will owe apologies for my (pain-induced but not really excusable) irascibility.

My left rotating shoulder cuff is misbehaving, delivering stabs of startling pain when I do stuff like reach for something on my left side.

Dunno what I did to injure it, but now I'm on the DIY Phys therapy track again with penetrating lotions, anti-inflammatories, and very slow stretching.

Democrats may not be able to prevent Mullin's confirmation, but they can certainly turn his track record of offense and stupidity into two days of televised humiliation so spectacular that he is wounded in Trump's eyes from day 1. That is the job.

If not then it should be. :-)

(I have a Nuka Cola bottle that glows when plugged into USB. I no longer find it as cool as I used to so thanks for that.)

MR. SCOTT: "I'm no miracle worker, Cap'n. The warp core may take months to fix."

GEORDI: *jiggles a cable*

WARP CORE: "vroooOOOOMM"

MR. SCOTT: "Don't do that while he's WATCHING. He needs to think I'm a miracle worker."

Corporate Media Buries Story of US and Israel Killing 168 in Girls School Attack No front-page stories in NYT, WSJ, WaPo. No mention on NBC and CBS Sunday Shows. No stand alone segments on Evening News shows. A death count on par with the OKC bombing is relegated to the back page.

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a man in a military uniform says are we the baddies Alt: A soldier, looking both bewildered and concerned, asks: "Are we the baddies?"

We are. We have been for a while now.

Your restraint is heroic. I would have punched a hole in the universe.

Oxoplanet - fun looking typo
Oxo planet - makes gyms
Oxyplanet - probably a world of opioids
Oxiplanet - the whole planet is rusty or on fire
Oxenplanet - In space no-one can hear you moo
Axolotlplanet - dunno, but @ethankocak.com probably drew one already

Apparently there's a company called Oxo Planet that makes things like climbing gyms and other receational park thingies.

Or that it could be gifted

A spreadsheet with rows of page numbers and check-boxes with columns for scripting, layout, roughs, pencils, inks, flats, backgrounds, and paints. The only unchecked boxes are for page 10 (paints), page 11 (backgrounds and paints), and page 13 (inks, flats, backgrounds, and paints).

When I stare at the unfinished pages it feels like I'll never be done, but when I check the project spreadsheet I can see that I'm actually quite close to the end.

Everyone be nice to my friends and colleagues at ECCC and buy all of their stuff. Why support big business when you can become an art collector on the cheap? Artist Alley is where stars are on the rise.

How I arrived on BlueSky:

MICROFICTION:

MRS. GENIE: "Honey, have you been keeping the baklava in the same leftover container as the Limberger cheese?"

MR. GENIE (who cannot lie, I guess?): "No, my love. Why do you ask? Does it smell like feet or something?"

"Howard, the genie is out of the bottle. It's too late."

No it's not. Tell the genie we know about his barefoot-in-the-baklava fetish and he'll crawl right back into that bottle for another seven hundred years.

(I'm optimistically assuming someone will be around to rub the lamp then.)

The incongruity I'm experiencing is this: for some reason the focus of the article is "wow, we are seeing some weird stuff in this end-user footage" instead of "Meta employees can watch everything you see through those glasses."

If you're wearing Meta glasses then, per the article, "much of the footage being recorded by the glasses is being sent to offshore contractors for data labeling, a widely-used preprocessing step in training new AI models in which human contractors are asked to review and annotate footage."

The headline reads "Meta workers say they're seeing disturbing things through users' smart glasses."

In a moment of uncharacteristic incredulity I assumed it was badly written. Why would Meta *workers* being seeing things through Meta *users'* glasses?

SILLY ME.

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