Paul's Journal

04/20/2011 00:53 #54102

Parking on the lawn
Category: church of the ascension

(e:Matthew) talked on the phone with the warden from the church last night. The guy sounded surprised people parked on the lawn. Then this morning as I left for work - another car on the lawn.

Who the fuck thinks it's normal to park on the lawn in an urban setting? Especially one with plenty of free street parking and even a spot in the driveway right next to it.

It is so trashy looking, not that the grounds at the church can look much trashier at this point with all the grass ripped up from the plow and the leaves from last year having destroyed the remaining grass.

flacidness - 04/20/11 01:19
Are those rocks there to divide your lot? Wows things have gotten ugly.....

04/20/2011 00:26 #54101

Internet Issue?
Category: estrip

Weird, our internet went down for like 20 minutes. Well not all connectivity - but all domain resolution on each computer at once. They are all trusting the router, which in turn uses time warner's DNS. Then it suddenly came back up. The weird thing is amazon and buffalo rising worked the whole time.

Primary DNS Server: 24.92.226.11
Secondary DNS Server: 24.92.226.12

Maybe I should switch back to opendns.

uncutsaniflush - 04/20/11 20:22
I've been using Google Public DNS for a couple of years now with no problems. I had problems with Time-Warner DNS before that. Including redirecting my google search to a Time-Warner-branded search page (for my convenience and safety, of course) without asking me first.

paul - 04/20/11 00:40
I switched over to opendns and it seems to have resolved it for now

208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220

04/18/2011 08:38 #54081

I've fucking had it
Category: orange tongue

I joke woke up at 7am to have the "doctor" take my $20, touch my throat and tell me my tongue looks freaking normal. It does not look normal. Then she said it might just be retaining the color of food I have eaten. I had to leave or I was going to kill her.

After a really stressful evening it turned an even prettier orange.

tinypliny - 04/20/11 23:51
HEY! I happen to like this picture-documentation. Back off.

kookcity2000 - 04/20/11 23:15
you can use my tongue for the next six months if you promise to stop posting those gross pics

tinypliny - 04/19/11 03:12
No, you certainly don't have this. I have been reviewing several citations of this article and things don't add up in your case.

tinypliny - 04/19/11 02:39
Please note. Not not.

tinypliny - 04/19/11 02:39
Finally. :::link:::

Please not that I am not saying that this is it. In fact, I am not even sure I should be sharing this with you when I have no basis or even reason for thinking in this direction. Consider it as merely some food for thought about what could possibly be orange...

tinypliny - 04/19/11 02:34
Hmmm... Fri, Sat, Sun, Mon = 4 days. That does not count as several days! Give it some more time...

Stressful? In what way? How do you define stress? (I am really curious now... ) Did you experience any heartburn along with the stress? Did you happen to measure your saliva pH today evening?

I am uploading an article from 1985 that describe a saprophyte being responsible for a "golden orange tongue". I am still searching for proper documentation or even case histories of your (and several other people across the net) particular symptoms... So far, its a really elusive search. Maybe I am not using the accurate scientific keywords.

paul - 04/19/11 00:58
P.S. tiny - I have almost entirely changed my diet for several days now with no effect on the tongue. However, the heart burn is totally gone. I kind of think maybe that was more the green apple, no eating, jamming in food before yoga, eating right before bed thing.

tinypliny - 04/19/11 00:32
You will find this interesting: :::link:::

flacidness - 04/19/11 00:25
I'm so sorry babe. But really how can she say it's normal? And wtf thank you for takin the 20 bitch.....

tinypliny - 04/19/11 00:10
And yikers. I wash every leafy thing like a maniac. Three times or more if I am in an OCD mood. You should do the same even if it is organic or super-pesticide free. You just don't know what's in the soil. Organic just means they didn't use inorganic fertilizer or pesticides (and I sometimes doubt that even). You do realize what the best organic fertilizer is... human or animal excreta with PLENTY of organic organisms and fungi.

tinypliny - 04/19/11 00:05
Tempting. Very tempting! But the logistics of culturing scrapings is a bit more complicated than what we can possibly achieve at home. There are kits out there that can help students culture bacteria etc. at home. See: :::link::: and :::link:::

However, I am not sure that is your objective here. I think you are looking for an accurate diagnostic culture here, to determine what that organism is - if it is fungal or bacterial or whatever or maybe not an organism at all but some chemical reaction. This is so we can determine what is its favoured environment of growth and target measures at depriving it of this environment or maybe understand what exactly it is. With that objective in mind, you would need an absolutely sterile environment to avoid cross-contamination with foreign bacteria or fungi. It's not enough that you have a clean, bleached place. You need an air-controlled cell-culture hood to make absolutely sure that you are introducing no other organism but the organism of interest. Let's say you have this sterile hood from somewhere, the next step is setting up the culture in SEVERAL media - all of which don't come pre-prepared. This is because we don't know what that orange thing will grow best in. For example, they found that the Tuberculosis bacteria grows best in the LJ medium :::link::: after years of experimentation. All these media need to be sterile as well - to prevent contamination.

I could make a few basic media using recipes provided by the lab, but quite honestly I doubt my media making and culturing abilities without supervision - for diagnostic culturing. Many of these media etc. are provided to institutions by scientific companies like Fisher etc. I am not sure if they even supply individuals....

To cut my rambling short, yes it's possible to culture random organisms for fun at home (hey! that's how microbiology started centuries back!). But diagnostic culture is a completely different (sterile) beast that is next to impossible to achieve (with the degree of confidence you need) from a home setup.

I am wondering if you can request a culture from UB or any institutional microbiology lab or even a commercial lab without a prescription/order from a practicing physician... Some infectious disease-focused GPs who also do research can do these cultures in their lab...

Also, if by changing your diet habits, you see an improvement in the orange tongue symptoms, it will show indirectly that the organism (or chemical product) cannot survive in the changed environment of your mouth. In that case, why bother with the culture - when you know how to stop it from coming back?

paul - 04/18/11 22:34
I need a microbiology lab. Can I culture it myself with some investment? Do you know how to do that?

paul - 04/18/11 20:37
I don't wash my organic greens very well. Holy crap. I barely rinse them at all and honestly sometimes they are dirty. Ironically, I believed a little dirt was health. Maybe not then.

enknot - 04/18/11 16:37
BTW: this is why I'm in love with (e:tinypliny)

"I wish I worked in a microbiology lab. I want to take a scraping of that orange stuff and see what it grows..."

enknot - 04/18/11 16:36
but my presentation of this post was heightened by the fact that you and the banner are making the same face... you know, with your lounges out.

leetee - 04/18/11 11:10
maybe you need to stop eating orange food, Paul.

Yeah, not all doctors are good doctors.

I wish i had some advice for you. All i have are sympathies and well wishes!!

tinypliny - 04/18/11 10:22
BTW, I have a question - are you sure you wash your organic greens very well before eating them raw? Soil saprophytes are pretty hardy...

tinypliny - 04/18/11 10:20
I wish I worked in a microbiology lab. I want to take a scraping of that orange stuff and see what it grows...

04/17/2011 18:34 #54074

Snow in mid april
Category: weather

The other day I was telling someone about this video we had taken of it snowing April 19th back in 2003. Well here is snow on the 17th. Its coming down super hard right now. Lets hope it stops.

metalpeter - 04/18/11 16:52
It might snow again as well......

enknot - 04/18/11 16:22
What snow Paul? It dosen't snow in Spring. It snows in winter. These are all a fraud. :: denial, denial, denial ::

tinypliny - 04/18/11 02:29
It was such rotten weather out today. The moon is out now though...

04/17/2011 14:01 #54072

orange tongue continued
Category: orange tongue

Tomorrow I have a doctors appt. No one seems to be able to figure it out.

Symptoms: orange tongue followed by spots that appear small and pink and grow larger. The spots never have orange.

Doctor thought geographic tongue but I can't find anything connecting geographic tongue to orange tongue.

Eventually the pink areas grow large and the tongue looks like new. Then it stops, several weeks go by and the cycle starts over. The orange never goes away.

paul - 04/17/11 18:38
Oops I forgot to type before saving. I was going to say the heartburn seems to have gone down. Then again I totally fucked up and fell asleep for most of the day. Now I am eating a big meal. Luckily its not just before bed.

paul - 04/17/11 18:35

tinypliny - 04/17/11 15:17
That is not entirely correct. You do have some answers now! We know that you have had a somewhat rickety eating schedule and possible acid reflux - which you are working on now (aren't you???) If you eliminate the acid reflux or reduce it considerably, then chances are, this time the orange will never come back once the pink outgrows the orange.

terry - 04/17/11 14:50
yer blog is like a minefield. never know when you'll stumble upon something nasty lol.