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07/16/2008 23:24 #45048

Fighting over pills
Category: chrohns
I was on Asacol for Chron's and moved on Lialda which in fact changed my life. It is once a day, it seem sto absorb way better and it means I don't have to carry around pills all day an d remember to keep taking them. I am also 100% better since the swicth having liek 5-6 good days a week instead of 2-3.

Anyways, so I was surfing around for info about Lialda and found this forum
where pharmaceutical sales people ar arguing about Asacol vs Liadla. It is so freakin hilalrious the way they rip at each other. I never realized that those kind of arguments also went online.

Sales reps are strange individuals.


hey douche. symptomatic relief does not equal symptomatic remission. it took 43 days to get patients into symp remission. it's in black and white and it's in the study that you keep in your bag. look at it. ever ask yourself why the number of days to symp remssion isn't even reported in the Kamm study?



Nice post, douche. If symptomatic remission data is so important why are you assholes telling your docs that Asacol provided symptomatic relief in as little as 9 days? Because if you showed your docs the symptomatic remission data, they'd laugh at you and prescribe placebo. Keep sniffing the P&G glue, how many years do you have left until you can retire with that promised package?




mike - 07/18/08 09:42
you people should seriously read the whole thing, it is ridiculously hilarious!
tinypliny - 07/17/08 18:41
"Keep sniffing the P&G glue"

HAHAHA.. This is hysterical!

07/16/2008 22:33 #45047

Day at work, night at gym
Category: gym
Work
Work was great today. I had a meeting about my new position and get to move on the stuff I planned on working on as they seemed to vibe good with the VP and the auditors. I have so much responsibility now. My plan is to let the groups of people that use the specific languages, which there are many, decide on the standards, co-incding with industry ones. It is going to be fun to work on standards for languages like COBOL that I will have to leanr a lot about.

Then we had a meeting about the intranet and decided on the people for the focus group. I think the ideas I had are pretty radical and what Roswell needs to get by in for a new progresive intranet. It will be such a huge, yet fun undertaking. It is amazing how big my projects are and how much influence I have had over the direction of how things are going. It makes all those endless hours of programming, teaching, studying and practicing seem worth it. Before I thought I was throwing my life away being bound to the computer for so many years and now I realize it was just laying a foundation for something greater.

The Gym
Speaking of laying the foundation. Man, I am getting way buff. Tonight I worked out so hard I was exhausted afterwards.

In the lockerroom, I was talking to this gym friend of mine about documenting life on the internet and how sometimes I am scared of what would happen if the political climate changed and gayness was more frowned upon with some sort of reprocussion. It is kind of hard to pretend when your whole life is in google cache. He seemed kind of amazed at how much of this generations life is online. Imagine gen Y. I mean I am only X.
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paul - 10/05/11 00:49
I miss the muscles.
metalpeter - 07/17/08 19:02
I misunderstood sorry. I hope that doesn't happen. But I'm sure there was a time when Jews thought being in Germany was safe so if it can happen there, we must learn from that and not let it happen here, oh wait it did with the Japanese I mean let it not happen again.
tinypliny - 07/17/08 18:48
I hope we humans don't get more insular and segregated as we evolve!! That would defeat the point of evolution.

Anyway, I would LOVE to be a part of the focus group, if you are still recruiting. :)
paul - 07/17/08 18:15
I meant more like the government rounding you up and putting you in concentration camps kind of dangerous, not street dangerous.
metalpeter - 07/17/08 18:03
Maybe I'm just a little bit crazy. But if i understood what you meant is that if things changed and being gay publicly became dangerous. I think it is important to know that it can still be dangerous. I think that there are areas in each city and each state where acceptance is different for gays, blacks, woman and others. For example the Elmwood strip you might see girls holding hands (i have) or two guys shopping in Wilson Farms who are together and you can tell and no one says anything. But at the same time there could be places in Buffalo that the same activity could get you into trouble real quickly. I'm guessing that there are places that if you where out and on the internet it wouldn't be safe (the sterotype is small towns and the bibble belt) not sure where those places are. I think that most people who don't approve won't get up in your face about it. I know that in the military they have that stupid Don't ask Don't tell policy but I wonder if you where found on the net but you never said anything if they would let you join, or if later they found stuff but it had no military link like that you where a soilder I wonder what they would do?
hodown - 07/16/08 23:51
Wow sexy!

07/14/2008 23:33 #45020

The rental property
Category: housing
The top apartment at our rental propert is coming along. We redid the kitchen floors, we painted, new appliances (still have to get a new fridge as the other one molded on the inside), finsihing new counters and light over sink - then it is done. It is looking really good finally.

It sucks doing work and having it not be the house you live in. We spent a lot of the weekend working on it.

The kitchen
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The sink counter ends still need to be fabricated
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The dining room. What to do with the hutch? Should I leave it?
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The living room looks nice in white.
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tinypliny - 07/15/08 00:07
If you lower your monitor Gamma to zero. Sigh.
tinypliny - 07/15/08 00:06
The last photo is a page out of a spooky movie...

07/14/2008 23:29 #45019

The yard and squiddy
Category: linwood
These flowers are pretty but not as prettyy.

A lilly of the nile
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And some Holly Hocks - we got japanese beattle traps that saved them this year.
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But not as cute as squiddy.

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He wants to go in the house so bad.
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metalpeter - 07/15/08 18:43
Well here is the thing be careful what you let the little guy do if you let him inside he will think it is his place to go inside and will want to go back in again. it is to bad that there isn't some way to like a little room in the basement for him where he can do in and out and he can't get to any other place and only he and no other animals could get in. On a side note other then for Tony's Party where the bands played down there, that was pretty cool by the way is the basement really used for anything?
tinypliny - 07/14/08 23:40
Yikes, its actually purple. Nevermind. I have been playing with the gamma-correction of my monitors and have seriously impaired colour-perception today.
tinypliny - 07/14/08 23:38
I don't think I have ever seen that wonderful blue flower in the first picture. It's almost like multiple flowers are growing out of a central one. And the blue is almost the blue of forget-me-nots. Will Matthew be posting the forget-me-nots?

07/14/2008 19:25 #45016

Damn someone had a bad day
Category: buffalo
I noticed this new hypodermic needle jammed through the window in one
of the buildings Kalaeda is buying near main and north. Having it
occupied should really clean up that section of town.

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Here is the building that got stabbed.
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tinypliny - 07/14/08 23:34
Can a needle really have that much impact. I wonder how much force was concentrated in that one moment of pure irrational hatred...
mike - 07/14/08 23:13
i hate when my needle gets stuck in a window. It ruins my whole day!
james - 07/14/08 23:06
That is fucking crazy.
tinypliny - 07/14/08 21:14
What a crazy photo! Cool.