Note to self: Sudafed 24 Hour Tablets have peak speediness about 12 hours after taking. Taking one at 2:30 in the afternoon means you will be wide freaking awake at 2:30 the following morning. That’s where I find myself now, except I’ve already been awake for almost two hours, and figured I might as well get the day’s blogging done.
So why was I taking sudafed in the middle of the afternoon? Well, because I was up at mom’s yesterday, and just before lunch we’d picked up her dog from the dog-barber, and the ten-mile ride in her car with the dog had completely clogged my head. It took me a couple hours to buy the sudafed, and then almost another hour to get smart enough to actually take it.
The only real positives of yesterday are that we got mom off a medication that didn’t seem to be helping her and had side effects that were making her miserable, plus I got to help her out by running some errands for her. Good for mom, but not so good for me. I’m still stuck in a productivity wasteland, and am starting to seriously wonder whether I shouldn’t just take on some mindless scut-work like driving bus again so I get the cash-flow flowing on days when I can’t concentrate enough to be productive programming. That’s not really a viable option, but it’s starting to sound attractive nonetheless.
- It’s going to stand: Supreme Court backs ‘do-not-call’ list. Of course it won’t matter, since companies will call anyhow. Just last week I got (in spite of being on the Do Not Call list, and having that annoying
You have called a number that does not accept solicitations
thing on my phone) a telemarketing call from the local basketball team, trying to sell me season tickets. I wasted about twenty minutes of the guy’s time before telling him I had no interest in basketball at all. [fark!] - They did it. SpaceShipOne Wins $10 Million ANSARI X PRIZE. But that’s not the end. There will now be the Xprize Cup, a ten-day long annual competition to be held in Las Cruces, New Mexico.
- Bruce Schneier asks Do Terror Alerts Work? and comes to the conclusion that no, they don’t really. But there’s the quote
most of the time the administration projects a ‘just trust me’ attitude
which points out a big part of the problem right there. When we start trusting the government, that’s when we’re completely screwed. Also,The second [way of terrorizing people] is to keep people living in fear with the threat of doing something horrible. Decades ago, that was one of the IRA’s major aims. Inadvertently, the DHS is achieving the same thing.
I agree with Bruce on that, except I’m not so sure it’s inadvertent.