on 27 February 2004 : 12:58, jane sez:
on 27 February 2004 : 13:12, Stewart sez:
I think I was the last person to recommend Pullman to you (at ETech). If you don't like them, blame the other 5: they did it first.
on 27 February 2004 : 13:12, Stewart sez:
I think I was the last person to recommend Pullman to you (at ETech). If you don't like them, blame the other 5: they did it first.
on 27 February 2004 : 14:11, jlw sez:
This isn't related to your post, but are you saying that the bowtie pic is from this month? You look about ten years old in it. Perhaps being sick has a positive effect on you.
on 27 February 2004 : 22:14, Andy K sez:
Wow, this is the most enjoyable entry I've read on your site in...well, maybe ever? Do you realize how annoyingly confrontational it feels to have my consciousness assaulted every 30 words or so by an intrusive hyperlink (yes, a redundancy)? The comfortable flow of congenial prose is abruptly breached and now I must deal with yet another demand on my attention: CLICK ME! Should I comply? Ignore? Come back to it later? If I don't click now, I'll be dogged by an accrual of side-reference debt that's nearly overwhelming by the third paragraph. But if I relent and pursue your hypertrain of thought, the familiar frustration of textus interruptus will descend like a deflated...balloon, and by the end of the entry all I'll want to do is finish the damned thing and get the hell outta here.
This time, though, I feel energized, refreshed, fit to take on a Russian novel, or perhaps an illustrated article on muons and neutrinos. JAH Rule!
on 28 February 2004 : 01:22, . sez:
on 28 February 2004 : 03:57, robin sez:
on 29 February 2004 : 20:20, Wendy sez:
You seem weary, Justin.
Some unsolicited advice: Make some changes before life takes away your options, kicks your ass and forces you to make changes.
on 29 February 2004 : 22:52, Abbe sez:
Hey, I'm sorry you aren't feeling well.
Did you get the long email I sent with a ton of advice based on hard-earned experience? Dude: I paid a fortune in medical bills, therapy, public yoga lessons, private yoga lessons, air filters, allergy medicine, allergy testing, and perhaps hardest to quantify: opportunity cost. It took me almost 4 years to get it down to a science.
So, start the new healthy chapter in your life! What more do you need: your body is telling this to you; the readers of your site are telling you; Howard is telling you; your self-appointed Jewish mother is telling you.
Don't wait until you have another major health crisis like the shingles incident.
Come home and stay home until you have gone 3 to 6 months without a cold or other health problem.
I dare you!
on 29 February 2004 : 23:05, Bubbe sez:
So nu? I'm sorry you aren't feeling well. But veyes meer Justin, we are all getting blue in the face from you what with our advice you don't take.
Didn't Bubbe write you a long email that took so much time to write? You think Bubbe is making these things up. You think Bubbe has all the time in the world.
Bubbe has spent here a small hard-earned fortune on medical bills, psychotherapy, physical therapy, public yoga lessons, private yoga lessons, air filters for the allergies, medicine for the allergies, and who knows how much in opportunity cost. You think Medicare pays for these things. Medicare has no check box for opportunity cost. Trust me on these things.
So, stop your kvetching. Come home and stay home until you have gone 3 months, maybe 6 months without a cold, without some other health problem to kvetch about.
What more do you need: your body is telling this to you; the readers of your site are telling this to you; Howard is telling this to you you; and now your self-appointed Jewish mother is telling this to you.
What do we need to do with you: come over there and beat you with a chicken soup ladle?
You want you should have another major health crisis like the shingles incident. Bubbe knows from such things: how many chances you think you get?
So. I dare you. No I double dare you. Come home and stay home and start this here new healthy chapter in your life that everyone is so busy advising you about!
What are you waiting for shmendrik!
on 1 March 2004 : 11:04, Howard sez:
on 1 March 2004 : 14:04, alison sez:
on 1 March 2004 : 17:21, misuba sez:
(and try to squeeze that water-damage repair into your newly de-travelled budget. bet you a dollar it will make a difference. let's have a game night at my place when you get back in.)