G+ Migration Blog

Not really a surprise. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-overtime-idUSKCN1BB2Y8?utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&utm_content=59a8bf2804d3013f95ce0d1e&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-overtime-idUSKCN1BB2Y8?utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&utm_content=59a8bf2804d3013f95ce0d1e&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter

Famous SciFi TV obit. Apparently, they could not rebuild him. http://pagesix.com/2017/08/31/six-million-dollar-man-actor-richard-anderson-dies-at-91/ http://pagesix.com/2017/08/31/six-million-dollar-man-actor-richard-anderson-dies-at-91/

Yes, at this point, you can't have a trial. The thing that gets me, though, is that this says that he had at some point in the past, when he finally admitted to having ever been at Auschwitz, said he was unaware of the crematoria. And this is common, that people claimed they didn't know anything, whether they were civilians or military or whatever. Here's why I would never, ever believe that for a second. There's a funeral home company around here that built a cremation facility at their original funeral home location before the area around it got overdeveloped. People complained about the smell, so they tried to move it somewhere else not as close to homes. And people complained about the smell if they were within a given distance and down wind. So they have had a hard time finding a location for a new crematorium that was not ridiculously inconvenient and costly because it had to be far away enough that nobody complained and it could meet legal requirements and so on...

- locked - My mother, queen of the over-dramatic catastrophizers. 1) Always remember to start by speaking as if you are speaking to yourself, but in a room with at least one other person. 2) Follow up by saying, "I am speaking to [insert name here of person]". Because any normal person would assume you were just talking aloud to yourself, so make sure to make it an announcement, preferably fraught with unspoken meaning. No, really, you can totally convey this by tone. 3) Optionally, state that This Is Important. Because you must reinforce The Tone. 4) Proceed to give some sort of general information that probably has a point but make sure not to explain the point. Be annoyed when people don't get the point you haven't stated. [At this point you are reasonably certain no one has died, but you never know.] 5) Restate, including the Catastrophe to Come, but still somehow not making it clear to anyone not inside your head what the catastrophe is supposed to be. 6) Get sup...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/08/31/the-worlds-most-friendless-people-are-under-assault-yet-again/?utm_term=.d7ddf4325110 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/08/31/the-worlds-most-friendless-people-are-under-assault-yet-again/?utm_term=.d7ddf4325110

I can haz lump in throat? https://www.sunnyskyz.com/blog/2238/Family-Moves-With-Their-Senior-Dog-Now-This-Is-What-They-See-Every-Day https://www.sunnyskyz.com/blog/2238/Family-Moves-With-Their-Senior-Dog-Now-This-Is-What-They-See-Every-Day

Eerily pretty horse. https://www.sunnyskyz.com/blog/2232/Horse-That-Looks-Like-It-Was-Dipped-In-Gold-Might-Be-The-World-s-Most-Beautiful-Horse https://www.sunnyskyz.com/blog/2232/Horse-That-Looks-Like-It-Was-Dipped-In-Gold-Might-Be-The-World-s-Most-Beautiful-Horse

Updated useful list - it's long, but it includes a lot of local organizations, some that might be of specific interest for support. http://www.chron.com/news/houston-weather/hurricaneharvey/article/Hurricane-Harvey-How-to-help-victims-of-the-12003372.php?utm_medium=email&utm_source=onward&utm_content=2+-+collecting+ways+to+help&utm_campaign=hh&source=hh http://www.chron.com/news/houston-weather/hurricaneharvey/article/Hurricane-Harvey-How-to-help-victims-of-the-12003372.php?utm_medium=email&utm_source=onward&utm_content=2+-+collecting+ways+to+help&utm_campaign=hh&source=hh

Pizza Hut - makin' deliveries - for free - in kayaks. http://www.chron.com/news/houston-weather/hurricaneharvey/article/Sugar-Land-Pizza-Hut-workers-deliver-food-to-12162025.php http://www.chron.com/news/houston-weather/hurricaneharvey/article/Sugar-Land-Pizza-Hut-workers-deliver-food-to-12162025.php

Sweet ;) https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/inspired-life/wp/2017/08/31/flooding-trapped-these-mexican-bakers-for-two-days-they-spent-it-baking-for-harvey-victims/?utm_term=.0a3ca136caf2 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/inspired-life/wp/2017/08/31/flooding-trapped-these-mexican-bakers-for-two-days-they-spent-it-baking-for-harvey-victims/?utm_term=.0a3ca136caf2

I should probably do more than piggle on the internet. #meh

Oh, Ann, honey, this isn't even original anymore. https://www.indy100.com/article/ann-coluter-hurrican-harvey-more-likely-lesbian-mayor-climate-change-7919856?utm_source=indy&utm_medium=top5&utm_campaign=i100 https://www.indy100.com/article/ann-coluter-hurrican-harvey-more-likely-lesbian-mayor-climate-change-7919856?utm_source=indy&utm_medium=top5&utm_campaign=i100

I don't know what's going on, but this is evil. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/08/31/oregon-court-couple-must-debark-dogs-cutting-their-vocal-cords-after-neighbors-complain/?tid=hybrid_collaborative_1_na&utm_term=.f10e990adb76 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/08/31/oregon-court-couple-must-debark-dogs-cutting-their-vocal-cords-after-neighbors-complain/?tid=hybrid_collaborative_1_na&utm_term=.f10e990adb76

This is from an article on CNN. That is one angry, wet cat. That is every pissed off, wet cat everywhere in one concentrated ball of fury. I hope he/she made it out. I hope whoever took the picture was able to rescue him/her and didn't just leave. I hope the cat didn't claw them to death when they did.

Well, that's a bummer. http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-41107019 http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-41107019

Being an optimist, I wonder how many species we wiped out in that time. Oh, well, the new monkeys are furry and cute. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-41107862 http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-41107862

Great. http://abcnews.go.com/US/risk-chemical-plant-explosion-houston-prompts-evacuation-harvey/story?id=49521170 http://abcnews.go.com/US/risk-chemical-plant-explosion-houston-prompts-evacuation-harvey/story?id=49521170

- locked - I think I might be just a little bit depressed. #csb

This is so sad. All that linguistic complexity and culture and knowledge will be gone. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-39935150 http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-39935150

SNORT Look, it's all fun and games until someone gets bit on the cloaca https://twitter.com/SUEtheTrex/status/902880724868575232/photo/1 https://twitter.com/SUEtheTrex/status/902880724868575232/photo/1

Oh, HELL no. Sorry, Texas, needs to be nuked from space - with fire! https://twitter.com/The_Reliant/status/902536760038711296 https://twitter.com/The_Reliant/status/902536760038711296

This is pretty cool. The people aren't as close as it looks, but the orca up there do not seem to bother about you if you leave them alone. Meanwhile, they managed to capture the light, which is one of the difficult to describe aspects of what's so beautiful in the area between Vancouver Island and the Mainland, amongst all those other littler islands. The light up there is incredible, and it is captured very well in these videos and pictures. http://globalnews.ca/news/3702919/orcas-gartley-beach/ http://globalnews.ca/news/3702919/orcas-gartley-beach/

This, otoh, is awful. What a waste of manuka honey, not to mention the matcha. https://www.traderjoes.com/fearless-flyer/article/3693 https://www.traderjoes.com/fearless-flyer/article/3693

This stuff is delicious. I wish I knew what specific oolong they were using, because I'd buy the tea and brew it myself. It's completely not bitter and actually fruity and sweet. The bottles say it's from Japan, which, ok, is it brewed there or grown there or is that just the distributor? I mean, it's expensive to buy it from them by the bottle but it's sooooo tasty. https://www.traderjoes.com/fearless-flyer/article/3697 https://www.traderjoes.com/fearless-flyer/article/3697

This is a nice story. http://globalnews.ca/news/3705854/woman-calls-for-emergency-help-in-beaumont-texas-she-reaches-beaumont-alta-and-gets-it-anyway/ http://globalnews.ca/news/3705854/woman-calls-for-emergency-help-in-beaumont-texas-she-reaches-beaumont-alta-and-gets-it-anyway/

Some useful info in comments about Houston Food Bank and various religious affiliated charities - Catholic, Jewish, Episcopalian, and others. A number of these groups don't proselytize while they are helping you, although as someone pointed out there are groups like the Salvation Army that may not discriminate while helping during a disaster, but have problematic standing policies. I think it's unfortunate that this article needs to remind people about this, but it's true. Accountability, not exploitation, is critical. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/30/opinion/harvey-red-cross-donations.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/30/opinion/harvey-red-cross-donations.html

It's not french toast, but it's something. Go Waffle House. http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/08/29/547079242/keep-it-simple-and-stay-open-the-waffle-house-storm-menu http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/08/29/547079242/keep-it-simple-and-stay-open-the-waffle-house-storm-menu

Some attempts to get perspective (it's possible that inconceivable may be exactly the word to use, here). From a Harris County meteorologist: 1 trillion gallons of rainfall has fallen in Harris County over 4 days which would run Niagra Falls for 15 days #houwx #houwx #txwx #harvey 9:29 AM - 29 Aug 2017 from Houston, TX https://twitter.com/JeffLindner1/status/902568818542653440 And for the graphically inclined: https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/8/28/16217626/harvey-houston-flood-water-visualized https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/8/28/16217626/harvey-houston-flood-water-visualized

He isn't going to get dinged for being himself, that is, he doesn't care about individuals. He's the front man and he is good at that; other people are there to do the actual work. Fortunately, the professionals are there and doing their job, and lots of ordinary people are helping, too. He will get acceptable points for showing up and boosting people's morale. To be fair, that is something that people need, as well. The bigger issues will be whether Congress can get an aid package together and passed without being jerks. By which I mean the GOP doesn't try to poison the well with something they know the Dems don't want stuck into whatever aid bill is proposed, just to make the Dems look bad. At which point, of course, he would happily tweet away and make things worse. But he has met the minimal presidential standard (mps), which is the standard under which we are currently operating, so he'll get a pass on lacking human empathy. https://qz.com/1065191/hurri...

I suppose it's an open question for the future whether this disaster will change how Houston is built. https://qz.com/1064364/hurricane-harvey-houstons-flooding-made-worse-by-unchecked-urban-development-and-wetland-destruction/ https://qz.com/1064364/hurricane-harvey-houstons-flooding-made-worse-by-unchecked-urban-development-and-wetland-destruction/

This does not sound awesome. http://www.kens5.com/weather/harvey/crosby-chemical-plant-at-risk-of-fire-explosion/469007487 http://www.kens5.com/weather/harvey/crosby-chemical-plant-at-risk-of-fire-explosion/469007487

Oh, LOL. https://twitter.com/Bluedane22/status/902585446106091520 https://twitter.com/Bluedane22/status/902585446106091520

I was wondering about this. Not sure this answered the question, really, though. http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/08/29/546803147/why-are-atlantic-salmon-being-farmed-in-the-northwest http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/08/29/546803147/why-are-atlantic-salmon-being-farmed-in-the-northwest

Things to look forward to. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/houston-flooding-biggest-health-threats-from-hurricane-harvey-flooding/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/houston-flooding-biggest-health-threats-from-hurricane-harvey-flooding/

Eru, these people are ignorant. There is no such thing as a place that only provides abortions. All they are doing is imposing an irrational control, primarily on poorer women who haven't got great access to healthcare in the first place. https://www.newsmax.com/US/south-carolina-henry-mcmaster-abortion-defund/2017/08/25/id/809861/ https://www.newsmax.com/US/south-carolina-henry-mcmaster-abortion-defund/2017/08/25/id/809861/

I looked and it's so well known that it's on Wikipedia. Houston, we have a problem. Essure is causing problems, regardless of why, it's not all it was cracked up to be and the initial studies were, as suspected, way too short (but standard for what happens, not something unique). Also, it's the fibers inside that are supposed to cause the inflammation. I'm guessing that was originally inspired by observing the body's response to various suture materials. Anyway, looks like it's not the advance it was intended to be. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essure

Poor little bats. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CahR8q0pSm0 http://www.chron.com/news/houston-weather/hurricaneharvey/article/Houston-bat-bridge-Hurricane-Harvey-12025478.php https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CahR8q0pSm0

As heart-rending as most of these pictures are, I just want to say that I find it ironic that there is a picture of cows that got loose in ... Port Lavaca. For real. It's the last picture in the article. Cows. In Lavaca. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4826216/Poor-dog-abandoned-Texas-flood-waters-rise.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4826216/Poor-dog-abandoned-Texas-flood-waters-rise.html

Poor doggies and kitties. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/28/us/harvey-pets-animals.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/28/us/harvey-pets-animals.html

Hm ... https://twitter.com/AmjadIsmail90/status/901067014596419584/photo/1 https://twitter.com/AmjadIsmail90/status/901067014596419584/photo/1

Just a little of the cherry tomato harvest that has been coming in over the last couple of weeks. The red grape tomatoes are the least productive ones, while the so-called heirloom variety yellow gooseberry produces golf ball or ping-pong ball sized tomatoes, so large for a cherry. The currant variety was supposed to be heirloom gold rush, but they're red, so obviously not and therefore, I don't know what kind of currant tomato they are. Nevertheless, they are currant sized and very productive. The best ones, though, are the sun gold (or sungold, I've seen both). They are cherry tomato sized, very orange, very sweet, and super productive. #victorygarden

So, I got curious and poked the lazywebs, because how come all this refining is concentrated in one part of the country? And is that a good idea? Turns out, there were at least 2 refineries in and around Buffalo that were shut down back in the 80's. I'm guessing there were refineries elsewhere, as well. Now, this also led to the discovery that the former site of the one refinery was listed as a brownfield clean-up site. Not optimal. Isn't this critical infrastructure? Is it really so old and unsafe? I mean, we kind of still need this stuff; everything hasn't gone renewable and it won't any time soon. Just wondering, as I wait for gas prices to hit $3.00/gal. https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2015/03/02/forget-about-climate-change-americas-refineries-make-keystone-xl-a-bad-idea/#36fca4206d95 https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2015/03/02/forget-about-climate-change-americas-refineries-make-keystone-xl-a-bad-idea/#36fca4206d95

Minimal effort points (he was killed in 1968). It's about bloody time. http://www.npr.org/2017/08/28/546156225/martin-luther-king-jr-statue-to-join-confederates-at-georgias-capitol http://www.npr.org/2017/08/28/546156225/martin-luther-king-jr-statue-to-join-confederates-at-georgias-capitol

Kids. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-storm-harvey-children-idUSKCN1B81XZ https://www.reuters.com/article/us-storm-harvey-children-idUSKCN1B81XZ

There's already scams (#shocking), and they have warnings about that, but both links reiterate and expand on places to donate. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/28/us/hurricane-harvey-texas.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/28/us/donate-harvey-charities-scams.html?ribbon-ad-idx=3&rref=us&module=Ribbon&version=context&region=Header&action=click&contentCollection=U.S.&pgtype=article https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/28/us/hurricane-harvey-texas.html

A playlist for Harvey. There's lots of pop songs about rain, but not all that many seem entirely on point at the moment. I mean, the Winnie the Pooh song is kinda of appropriate but it seems too cheerful, ditto for The Unicorn Song, so I skipped those. "Who'll Stop the Rain" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIPan-rEQJA "A Hard Rain's A-gonna Fall" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5al0HmR4to "Rainy Night in Georgia" (Except that it says Georgia, the lyrics seem apropos.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDRbF80NKDU Of course, there's always the classical stuff: Chopin's "Raindrop" Prelude. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_6APTb3RNQ Debussy's "Estampes - Jardins sous la Pluie" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jx0LpAPNESk Beethoven's Symphony No. 6 "Pastorale", the 4th movement "Tempest, Storm" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZVdVuskkKU Ok, here's the Disney Fantasia version (It starts wi...

Um, Kenneth Cavness, that smoke might be from Canada? http://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/b-c-s-record-setting-wildfires-in-one-chart/ http://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/b-c-s-record-setting-wildfires-in-one-chart/

Two thumbs up, Daario. http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-41077054 http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-41077054

More suggestion that "inflammation" is the major issue in heart disease. Iow, the body not being able to manage its own repair mechanisms in a balance with what it thinks it needs to 'fix'. As far as specifically using an IL-1beta monoclonal to treat patients post heart attack, well: However, it also found a "significantly higher incidence" of potentially fatal infection and sepsis among those treated with the drug, according to the study Maybe not. http://www.bbc.com/news/health-41071954 http://www.bbc.com/news/health-41071954

Guess I was wrong. Trump's press conference apparently including reiterating his Mexican wall thing. http://www.politico.com/story/2017/08/28/trump-hurricane-harvey-press-conference-242104 http://www.politico.com/story/2017/08/28/trump-hurricane-harvey-press-conference-242104

Yep. They are very worried about helping people out in Texas. Lest we forget what a group of disingenuous individuals are running this country. Sessions said that Trump “is rescinding restrictions from the prior administration that limited your agencies’ ability to get equipment through federal programs, including life-saving gear like Kevlar vests and helmets and first responder and rescue equipment like what they’re using in Texas right now.” Surely the attorney general knows, though, that grenade launchers are not needed to rescue anyone from a flood. Fact check: the policy did not ban rescue or first responder equipment - https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/criminal-afmls/legacy/2015/05/21/05-18-15-wire.pdf Not to mention that rescue and first responder equipment is available from many non-military sources. But lets not miss an opportunity to abuse this disaster to our advantage, even if it's just some offhand, manipulative doublespeak. Lies, damn lies, and this admin...

This is an, uh, interesting read, especially considering that housing will be one of the major problems in recovering from Harvey. https://www.propublica.org/article/is-anybody-home-at-hud-secretary-ben-carson https://www.propublica.org/article/is-anybody-home-at-hud-secretary-ben-carson

I gotta say, Governor Abbott is at least saying and apparently doing the right things, even if this disaster has nothing to do with Climate Change ™. Ahem. Also, Mexico has offered assistance, a la the help they sent for Katrina. Fuck whether Trump accepts it, Abbott can accept it directly and he sounds like he is in direct contact and vice versa, per the article from the Dallas News. WaPo is all grumpy in their article, but I wanted the pic of the Mexicans helping during Katrina, because helping. https://www.dallasnews.com/news/weather/2017/08/27/mexico-offers-help-harvey-soaked-texas https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/08/27/mexican-troops-saved-american-lives-after-katrina-would-trump-let-them-do-it-again/?utm_term=.e166e332c3ab https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/08/27/mexican-troops-saved-american-lives-after-katrina-would-trump-let-them-do-it-again/?utm_term=.e166e332c3ab

Ugh. I forgot about the fire ant rafts. Geez. https://patch.com/texas/meyerland/hurricane-harvey-houston-floods-dredge-alligators-snakes-fire-ants https://patch.com/texas/meyerland/hurricane-harvey-houston-floods-dredge-alligators-snakes-fire-ants

Mooooo-ving to higher ground. (What are rural areas with farms and livestock going to do with all the flooding? This can't be good.) https://twitter.com/Harri8t/status/901950620843769856/video/1 https://twitter.com/Harri8t/status/901950620843769856/video/1

Was that just 2 weeks ago? Man. https://www.bustle.com/p/trump-killed-obamas-flood-safety-plan-just-weeks-before-hurricane-harvey-79433 https://www.bustle.com/p/trump-killed-obamas-flood-safety-plan-just-weeks-before-hurricane-harvey-79433

Yeesh. https://twitter.com/NWS/status/902174274571689984/photo/1 https://twitter.com/NWS/status/902174274571689984/photo/1

Warming the planet's oceans and other large bodies of water seems like a very bad idea, at this juncture. It makes a lot of weather events much worse. By inference, this is also a reasonable explanation of why Houston was not evacuated. - Harvey did not track in the direction of Houston, - Allison (2001) had given them experience with exactly this sort of rain event, - not mentioned here but Rita (2005) missed altogether and the attempted evacuation caused deaths because millions of people stuck on the roads. Thus, a body of logic and experience suggested staying put for Houston. It's just that this was incomprehensibly worse. Plus, while meteorologists are right a tremendously high percentage of the time, sometimes, like with Rita, they are not. So if the only reference they could give officials was "like Allison, but worse", it's unlikely most people would understand what that could mean, and even the weather folk saying they knew it all along are being a bit se...

Catching up - this is from the 4th annual Miyazaki chalk fest. You can see which ones got washed out by the rain on Saturday even though people had tried to protect some of them. People redrew or started new on Sunday. Really neat to watch in progress. Naturally, after viewing the chalk drawings, I went and got a soft serve matcha ice cream at the new place nearby. Link with all the drawings: https://www.facebook.com/northparktheatre/posts/1780247758670441 Link with the winning drawings: https://www.facebook.com/northparktheatre/photos/a.668362293192332.1073741826.628817627146799/1783472628347954/?type=3

The left is from this morning; the right is now. It's not just how bad and how widespread the flooding is, it's how many gauges that they aren't getting data from (the gray ones). And this is supposed to get worse? Scary.

I've been in that convention center - it's enormous. That's a lot of people. Yipes. Also, there's info on donating blood and the SPCA for donations. I'm sure there will be more things like blood drives in the near future, when they can get things to the people who need them. #HurricaneHarvey http://www.nbcdfw.com/weather/stories/Dallas-Prepares-Convention-Center-as-Mega-Shelter-for-Harvey-Flooding-Victims-441910563.html http://www.nbcdfw.com/weather/stories/Dallas-Prepares-Convention-Center-as-Mega-Shelter-for-Harvey-Flooding-Victims-441910563.html

Yet another well-written article about what sparked in Charlottesville. http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-richardson-black-confederate-history-20170827-story.html http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-richardson-black-confederate-history-20170827-story.html

Yikes. Be safe, guys. NOAA flood gauge map. Orange is minor flooding, red and purple are very bad badness.

I don't know anything about hawk behavior, but, uh, aren't they usually not ok with people bothering them? Would it matter if it was an immature bird? Because that doesn't look like an adult, fwiw. http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/08/26/harvey-hurricane-hawk-rides-out-storm-with-houston-family.html http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/08/26/harvey-hurricane-hawk-rides-out-storm-with-houston-family.html

This is a well written and thought provoking article about this. You know how else the medical and research establishments continue to fail to address these legacies? The required ethics courses always talk about Tuskeegee and syphilis. This is the example given of "why black people don't trust the medical establishment". That was a study done on black men. Men. There are many reasons why it should still be archetypal as an example of unethical medical and research behavior. Nonetheless. Of course, it is possible that now they may include information about Henrietta Lacks and HeLa cells. That's gotten a lot of attention since Rebecca Skloot's book came out. Rebecca Skloot is white. I'm sure that isn't relevant, at all. Meanwhile, nobody even mentions this guy. At all. Maybe if you do a whole ObGyn residency they do? This would mean talking about a white man, BMOC, and the totally crappy way that people still treat ALL women medically, and how much worse ...

Satire may be dying under the withering hail of this administration, but it is gonna go kicking. He may have been delirious, but there are accounts that one of Stonewall’s dying requests was that a gay bar in Greenwich Village be named after him. http://www.salon.com/2017/08/26/who-in-the-hell-was-stonewall-jackson-everything-you-were-afraid-to-ask-about-this-once-again-important-person/ http://www.salon.com/2017/08/26/who-in-the-hell-was-stonewall-jackson-everything-you-were-afraid-to-ask-about-this-once-again-important-person/

TIL. (Yep, we're totally post-racial, post-bigotry in this country. Totally.) https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/08/23/neo-nazis-rallied-around-jeffersons-statue-at-uva-but-it-was-jews-who-saved-monticello/?tid=a_inl&utm_term=.aa708b60a59c https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/08/23/neo-nazis-rallied-around-jeffersons-statue-at-uva-but-it-was-jews-who-saved-monticello/?tid=a_inl&utm_term=.aa708b60a59c

In other random news, saw the most adorable Tibetan Terrier, who needs a little work on the discipline but is very friendly, at the farmer's market, today. Also a cute Wheaten terrier and a yellow lab who just randomly licked people hello.

So much for fish farming. Nice try, pinning it on the eclipse. Very 1400's of you. Except for the part where SCIENCE. Not sure the we can feed the world with fish farming if you let us part makes up for the but we have to destroy the world to do it part. Here's a hint: only farm fish native to the waters where you are farming. http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/08/24/545619525/environmental-nightmare-after-thousands-of-atlantic-salmon-escape-fish-farm http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/08/24/545619525/environmental-nightmare-after-thousands-of-atlantic-salmon-escape-fish-farm

This guy is awesome. I will totally watch his show. http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/08/26/546141386/kentucky-chef-charms-and-cooks-his-way-to-food-network-victory http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/08/26/546141386/kentucky-chef-charms-and-cooks-his-way-to-food-network-victory

- locked - Unbelievable. Home less than 24 hours, maybe 5 minutes of contact with my mother, and she's gone full psycho witch on me. Over cleaning up the stupid board that lists what's in the fridge. Which is obviously not really the point, of course. And then walks out the door muttering in her patented 'I'm muttering under my breath so no one can hear me just loud enough to make sure everyone hears me' voice about how nice it was when I wasn't here. Fucking ----- . I hope she enjoys living alone, because she is going to end up living alone.

Eek. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hurricane-harvey-texas-coast-live-updates/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hurricane-harvey-texas-coast-live-updates/

Did I miss this, too? http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41059672 http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41059672

Good luck with that. This is that asshole tyrant that the Founders apparently couldn't prevent. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/24/opinion/trump-arpaio-pardon-arizona-sheriff.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/24/opinion/trump-arpaio-pardon-arizona-sheriff.html

It's 5pm, right? Friday? I hate this timeline. http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/controversial-arizona-sheriff-joe-arpaio-pardoned-president-trump/story?id=49426093 http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/controversial-arizona-sheriff-joe-arpaio-pardoned-president-trump/story?id=49426093

Math is hard. http://money.cnn.com/2017/08/25/media/bill-nye-the-science-guy-disney-lawsuit/index.html http://money.cnn.com/2017/08/25/media/bill-nye-the-science-guy-disney-lawsuit/index.html

Look at all the stuff I missed during the eclipse. http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/08/24/louise-linton-instagram-marie-antoinette-215527 http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/08/24/louise-linton-instagram-marie-antoinette-215527

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2017/08/23/does-talcum-powder-cause-ovarian-cancer-experts-are-divided/?utm_term=.a23fbd58b2b0 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2017/08/23/does-talcum-powder-cause-ovarian-cancer-experts-are-divided/?utm_term=.a23fbd58b2b0

About all that HIPAA bull that hospitals and doctor's offices go through every dang day ... I hope they sue the heck out of Aetna. Having envelopes with windows bigger than needed just to show an address are stupid. Also, you print just the address on the section that is supposed to show in the window. Content should be on a different part of the trifold. Major screw-up Aetna. Major. This is egregious because HIV and our society sucks, but any personal health information can be used against people in a discriminatory manner. The only reason this is getting the coverage it is is because it's about HIV. How many other people had other info publicly exposed about other medical concerns? And if it was only the HIV patients, what the actual heck is going on at Aetna, because that suggests something discriminatory, as well. I've never seen anything this ridiculous and stupid from any financial institution and certainly not with health info. Very bad form. http://www.npr.org/sec...

Just for fun, somebody throw this into Trump's news feed. Maybe he'll fund a big new space program - for diamonds! https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/08/25/it-rains-solid-diamonds-on-uranus-and-neptune/?utm_term=.783f1d27851f https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/08/25/it-rains-solid-diamonds-on-uranus-and-neptune/?utm_term=.783f1d27851f

I know the Victorians worshipped the Greeks and Romans, but it would be cool if somebody else was doing stuff, too. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/08/ancient-babylonian-trigonometry-tablet-plimpton-322-video-spd/ http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/08/ancient-babylonian-trigonometry-tablet-plimpton-322-video-spd/

Tired but alive. Had a great, low stress time. Glad I got to see some folks, looking forward to seeing some folks again in about a week! #thebeaglehaslanded

Heading Northerly in a little bit, prob get food on the way. See you guys this afternoon!

I am inexpressibly grateful I did not grow up in these conditions. http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/08/11/542583939/angelique-kidjo-has-been-waiting-a-long-time-to-sing-this-song http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/08/11/542583939/angelique-kidjo-has-been-waiting-a-long-time-to-sing-this-song

Way to put a positive spin on things. http://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2017/08/21/eclipse-economy-700-million-loss http://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2017/08/21/eclipse-economy-700-million-loss

According to the dictionary of the Institute of Turkish Language, jihad is an Arabic word meaning "a religious war". Education Minister Ismet Yilmaz argued that the word was misinterpreted and what it actually meant was to serve the community, to increase welfare, to secure peace and understanding of one another. Um, may I request if some of you who might know something about this could offer clearer info? I somehow find it challenging to think one word means both religious war and community service, peace, and understanding. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-41003105 http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-41003105

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/08/20/why-there-are-no-nazi-statues-in-germany-215510 http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/08/20/why-there-are-no-nazi-statues-in-germany-215510

For McConnell, this is practically feisty. http://www.politico.com/story/2017/08/21/mitch-mcconnell-trump-fake-news http://www.politico.com/story/2017/08/21/mitch-mcconnell-trump-fake-news

Well, there was an earthquake, somewhere. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/earthquake-ischia-island-rome-buildings-damaged/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/earthquake-ischia-island-rome-buildings-damaged/

And the Star Wars jokes continue. https://twitter.com/NASA/status/899713988186955776/video/1 https://twitter.com/NASA/status/899713988186955776/video/1

Apparently, I am not the only person who thought the ISS looked like a TIE fighter. https://twitter.com/Space_Station/status/899679364920389632/photo/1 https://twitter.com/Space_Station/status/899679364920389632/photo/1

Missed this. Seems significant in today's culture. http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/08/19/544769294/dick-gregory-comedian-and-civil-rights-activist-dies-at-84 http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/08/19/544769294/dick-gregory-comedian-and-civil-rights-activist-dies-at-84

Different kind of eclipse. :( http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2017/08/20/540965889/in-turkey-schools-will-stop-teaching-evolution-this-fall http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2017/08/20/540965889/in-turkey-schools-will-stop-teaching-evolution-this-fall

Tens of thousands of years of cultures and communities figuring things out, some of which we could probably document with science, if we bothered. Who knows? We might even learn something to our benefit. http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/08/21/544191316/to-get-calcium-navajos-burn-juniper-branches-to-eat-the-ash http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/08/21/544191316/to-get-calcium-navajos-burn-juniper-branches-to-eat-the-ash

This story is sort of the inverse of today, but it's a story I remember making me very, very angry when I read it as a kid. I wanted to hurt those kids; I wanted to lock them in a hole forever. There was nothing bad enough to do to those kids. And the teacher, man, was I mad at that teacher. Reading this story as a kid was probably the closest I have ever come to actually hating. What it does do, though, is capture the wonder of seeing the sun, of anticipating a cosmic event that is rare, and incredible. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Summer_in_a_Day http://www.btboces.org/Downloads/6_All%20Summer%20in%20a%20Day%20by%20Ray%20Bradbury.pdf

Wow, I-95, I-85, I-77, I-26, and I -20 are, as the news so quaintly put it, "snail trails". South Carolina is a parking lot.

Mostly terrible eclipse photos. Lots of nifty tree pinholes as it progressed. Totality: - It did get a little cooler, although not hugely. However, the air got completely still and there was almost like a suspended animation thing. - The light got darker and weird, like, flat, or something, just before and just after. - It did not get as dark as I expected. I think I was expecting it to get, like, midnight dark. It reminded me of summer in Vancouver, where if you looked west over the ocean it looked like the sun had set but the light never quite completely disappeared, even at 11:00 pm. - The stupid cicadas apparently got a little confused, but they never completely shut up. Like, they weren't all noisy and then poof quiet during totality. Nope. They just got a little confused about their usual crescendo decrescendo cycle. They actually shut up for a while after the sun came back post totality. Weird. - The corona may not be bright enough to damage your eyes, but it sure feels int...

There's a little black spot on the sun today It's the same old thing as yesterday https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3l0kpl5tA4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3l0kpl5tA4

Criminey, it's hot out. I am reconsidering the whole walking to a high point for totality thing. "Feels like 96" and it's going to get hotter. Looks pretty cool, though.

This timeline - noooooo!!! http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/trump-says-sun-equally-to-blame-for-blocking-moon http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/trump-says-sun-equally-to-blame-for-blocking-moon

And my most favorite song for today: And even when it's out of sight, the sun shines night and day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JdWlSF195Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JdWlSF195Y

And my second favorite song for today: The sun, and you and me, and all the stars that we can see Are moving at a million miles a day In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour Of the galaxy we call the Milky Way So remember when you're feeling very small and insecure How amazingly unlikely is your birth And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space 'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvwH8Qij0JY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvwH8Qij0JY

More reading for the day. Brilliant literary description. https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/08/annie-dillards-total-eclipse/536148/

Oh, man. I went out and came back before 8:30 am. It's already getting crazy. People are camped out all over already, including the big open grass area near the hospital and in the mall parking lots. There's accidents already, and the major interstates coming into South Carolina are already parking lots. I hope all those people planning on sitting outside from 8 am until then have a LOT of water. Don't know where they're gonna find a bathroom, though. I think I mostly made a wise move not to be anywhere in downtown, even though I'm sure there's great viewing parties and other stuff going on. The museums, the zoo, the universities, and state parks are all sold out and many are already at capacity. The temperatures are over 80, now, and will be well over 90 by this afternoon and the time of the eclipse. The cicadas are loud . Interestingly, they are supposed to go quiet with totality. It'll be interesting to see hear.

Along with Pink Floyd and The Beatles, Total Eclipse of the Heart, and other classics, there are some great playlists out there. This is a partial for me in addition to those: Moody Blues - Sun is still shining https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lq-aa9WYtK0 Lucinda Williams - Big Red Sun Blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVvzPPIDWXw The Animals - The House of the rising sun https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sB3Fjw3Uvc Kesha - The house of the rising sun - surprisingly good, which is why it's a doubled https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83kHQ7RB53s Civil Wars - You are my sunshine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHa71o7qPE4 Harry Belafonte - Banana Boat Song (Day-O) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Tou8-Cz8is The Whites (from O Brother where Art Thou) - Keep on the Sunny Side of Life https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VB5aBkRI7w The Doors - Waiting for the Sun https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0kypyGSKsE Katrina and the Waves - Walking on Sunshine - soooo 80's https://www.youtube.com/...

Somebody says it out loud. Will it matter? Probably not. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/19/republican-party-white-supremacists-charlottesville https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/19/republican-party-white-supremacists-charlottesville

Intensely contemporary. https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/08/american-totality-eclipse-race/537318/ https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/08/american-totality-eclipse-race/537318/

Something literary for Monday. If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore, and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightfall_(Asimov_novelette_and_novel) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightfall_(Asimov_novelette_and_novel)

I have arrived in Greenville, SC. The flight to Charlotte, NC went fine, and then we had one of those landings where you're flying, and then you're not. Nothing wrong, just probably somebody thought they had the nose up a bit more than they did, so the plane kind of smacked into the runway a little. And then it seems they build extra time into flights in and out of Charlotte because sitting on the tarmac waiting to get to your gate because traffic patterns on the ground is a thing? The airport is a construction zone, yay? I was fortunate to get a rental car, even though I had reserved one. I know what happens when there's a convention or whatever and apparently they've been getting attacked for days because of the eclipse. So I have a bigger car than I wanted, and one that somebody obviously smoked in (hack cough hairball) in spite of them obviously trying to clean it. At least I didn't end up with an SUV, which I would not have loved. Traffic was better than I expe...

Leaving in about 30 minutes for the flughafen. Not feeling super, and def dehydrated so will try to hydrate now so can pee before having to sit on plane for a couple hours. Plan to sleep on plane. Woo.

Along with Pink Floyd and The Beatles, Total Eclipse of the Heart, and other classics, there are some great playlists out there. This is a partial for me: Moody Blues - Sun is still shining https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lq-aa9WYtK0 Lucinda Williams - Big Red Sun Blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVvzPPIDWXw The Animals - The House of the rising sun https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sB3Fjw3Uvc Kesha - The house of the rising sun - surprisingly good, which is why it's a doubled https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83kHQ7RB53s Civil Wars - You are my sunshine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHa71o7qPE4 Harry Belafonte - Banana Boat Song (Day-O) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Tou8-Cz8is The Whites (from O Brother where Art Thou) - Keep on the Sunny Side of Life https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VB5aBkRI7w The Doors - Waiting for the Sun https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0kypyGSKsE Katrina and the Waves - Walking on Sunshine - soooo 80's https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPUmE-tne5U J...

I am packed (finally), I have cleaned and organized the refrigerator and freezer (it will be a mess when I get back, I'm sure), and I have cleaned my room and made it nice so my sister can stay in it on her way to returning my niece to college via London (it's a unique route to Massachusetts). I have left keys to everything (well, I have one house key with me), I have left notes about everything (I cannot believe this is my life, now, but it is), and my niece's and sister's presents are wrapped and will be on my bed for them to collect while I am gone. I am going to take a shower and go to bed. At least, that is the intention. I have survived today on coffee, so I hope I get some sleep.

A little something for Monday. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mbBbFH9fAg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mbBbFH9fAg