Paul's Journal

05/06/2011 21:58 #54232

A new awesome phone I don't have.
Category: mobile

Just when I thought my current phone was still good enough I saw the infuse 4G coming out on AT&T

and

. It is super thin and has nice front and back cameras. The network speeds sound crazy. They are saying it will go up to 21mbps down and 5up. Thats about the same as my super fast wired connection.

The only downside is the lack of 3D and dual core. A lot of the new phones have 3d cameras and 3D displays. I just have this awful feeling I will regret not going with 3D when everyone else starts to have 3D pictures. Maybe the lack of dual core is a good thing for battery life.

tinypliny - 05/07/11 11:28
I have heard that the Nexus one is predicted to have a lifespan of around 2 year and it will start failing. Start smiling in 3D.

paul - 05/07/11 11:05
No like truly 3d stereoscopic images. They have two camera distanced similar to you eyes. The camera then mixed them and displays the images in glasses free 3d. It is the future of imagery just as color replaced black and white and sommeday holograms will replace 3d.

Stereoscopic imagery is not new. In fact the civil war was one of the boat stereoscopically recorded events. The problem has always ben the lack of a convenient viewing medium but new 3d displayss have solved that. Current example of 3d devoces are the evo 3d and the Nintendo 3ds.

My fear is that if I wait a whole mother phones lifespan I will miss out an years worth of 3d images and will regret it in the future.

tinypliny - 05/07/11 07:23
what is a 3d picture - is it like a gif animation? How can pictures be 3d. (Well, I know (e:matthew) can make them 3d... but yeah what is an inherently 3d photograph? Like a hologram?)

05/06/2011 20:12 #54230

Hair crisis
Category: haircut

omfg. I decided to trim my hair because I have an important meeting on Monday. I thought for once I would use the "right ear" and "left ear" attachment.

The thing shaved racing stripes in my hair, argh.

Can I pull this off or do I need to shave my head now?

libertad - 05/07/11 08:51
You could just go to a barber and they could probably fix it. There is a new one on Elmwood I have been curious about. You probably shaved your head by now?

tinypliny - 05/07/11 07:21
hahahahah @ the the last picture. :-)

fing - 05/06/11 21:53
I did that one time trimming my beard when it was thicker. I think I pushed to hard and it caused the plastic guard teeth to spread apart a bit. Just shave it.

05/06/2011 13:08 #54227

fun with tetnus

Oops I must have left these on the porch over the winter. Luckily no one got stabbed.

05/05/2011 09:50 #54219

Orange Tongue at The Gastroenterologist
Category: orange tongue

Also has no idea about the orange tongue. He seemed totally surprised by it. Thinks maybe acid reflux, maybe the tooth, maybe something else but not related to Crohns. The fact that terry also has an orange tongue was the real strange part. He kept referring to my UC, and I was like, "I thought I had crohns?" He now seems to think it is UC instead which I guess is better and I can cut the meds from 3 to 2 pills a day.

The doc gave me a script for a test called prometheus IBD Serology 7. "Helps identify IDB and differentiate between UC and CD. Includes 7 tests: ASCA IgA, ASCA IgG, Anti-OmpC IgA, Anti-CBir1, NSNA ELISA, IFA perinuclear pattern, IFA DNase sensitivity."

He also told me to try prilosec for a short two week stint to see if it helps with orange tongue and to rule out GERD.

I think I am finally at the point where I am just going to try acupuncture. I mean I have spent probably $200 in copays at this point and gotten nothing from western medicine. Maybe its time to try something else.

paul - 05/07/11 22:54
I don't take any vitamins.

tinypliny - 05/07/11 11:30
I can't believe I didn't ask this before but do you eat Vit B complex or any Vit B everyday?

tinypliny - 05/06/11 15:55
Too bad. I picked him because he is in infectious diseases and he has co-authored this paper: :::link:::

paul - 05/06/11 15:21
I called him an explained the situation to his appointment line. They said that he doesn't deal with that kind of thing. Its mostly diabetes based wound care and infections.

tinypliny - 05/06/11 14:00
His specialty is infectious disease... Also, not sure he has an active microbiology lab, but he might have research going on. :::link:::

I am not sure how primary practice works here though. Can you ask for a consultation with anyone?

tinypliny - 05/06/11 13:54
Do you tell them how horribly your life has been affected because of this? If not, you should. You see, you seem motivated to find out what is the orange thing here on your blog. But they have no idea about how it is consuming your life. They should. It automatically then places it in the category of a primary symptom.

paul - 05/06/11 13:50
I don't know really. I guess the fact that it doesn't cause pain makes them not care. I mean besides being unsightly I am not sure what its doing.

Everytime I went to the otolaryngoloist I got a different student doctor who never has any idea and is always gone the next time I visit. They always suggest more magic mouthwash or "some people's tongues are all different colors", or "maybe it autoimmune." , "lets just monitor it some more and see, make an appointment for 2 months from now" or my very favorite: "are you sure you haven't eaten anything orange?"

I think I have been there 5 times. Do you know a better doctor who would do a culture? I would gladly go to anyone who is interested in figuring it out.

tinypliny - 05/06/11 13:50
Last few months.. of which you have a distinct timeline. Would you mind if I posted your reconstructed timeline from your emails to me on my blog?

tinypliny - 05/06/11 13:48
BTW, I knew what you meant. I was just feeling annoyed about a completely different run in with "western medicine" (my parents back home have a similar war with diagnosis going on). Things like this make me want to return to primary care practice.

tinypliny - 05/06/11 13:43
So why aren't they doing a culture??

paul - 05/06/11 12:44
Thats not true. I don't mean relief from western medicine. I mean't identification of the problem. To me it seems if (e:terry)'s tongue is also orange it is something we have or something in our environment. It seems like tests could devised to determine the nature. That what I expected. Not a cure but rather an identification of the problem. I don't believe this was years in the making as it distinctly started this within the last few months and (e:terry) has no history of any digestive issues like I did.

Strangely, since the orange tongue I have eaten so much less protein. To rule that out. My urine and salva PH are pretty normal. My diet is mostly vegetables, brown rice, white rice and some fruit. I gave up protein shakes. I have had one this month. None of those things changed anything. My tongue is still freaking orange.

Lets say (e:terry) didn't exist. In that case, I guess with the prolosec I thought of it as more of an identification method. If taking the prilosec makes the orange tongue stop it would seem like I then could stop it and try and modify my diet further. However, if the prilosec did nothing then we could just lee out GERD. Part of me is slightly terrified of trying it because if it reduces your stomach acid, is it just going to make me more susceptible to orange tongue pathogen?

The gastro and dentist said I could try removing the metal tooth as some people have reaction to metal that change the color of their skin.

I mean they are doing this surely expensive genetic test for for Crohns/UC differentiation/identification you think they could try a simple culture of the orange tongue to try and identify a pathogen, so that at least that could be ruled out.

tinypliny - 05/06/11 07:32
I still want to try the controlled diet experiment - this time controlling EVERYTHING, breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks, everything. But I honestly have no time even to eat properly these days. :/

When you say you have received nothing from western medicine and are ready to try anything, what you are saying is that you get no *instant relief* from anything. That, in a nutshell, is what western medicine is ALL about. Instant pill. Instant relief. The concept of prevention is brought out as a facade whenever it is convenient - sometimes never.

The "something else" is non-evidence based kooky and often exotic stuff which may or may not work but it ALSO atrociously expensive. Again, prevention is a concept that is never explicitly stated in alternative medicine. Prevention takes a LONG time, a lot of patience and there is no instant anything. By LONG, I mean YEARS, DECADES. And why should it be any different than that? How can you expect to fix anything that has broken over years and decades in a month or less? It is llogical.

/Friday morning crazy rant over.

tinypliny - 05/06/11 07:22
Short two week = Long one month = Year-long trial = Lifelong dependency.

Who brought up the GERD btw?

tinypliny - 05/06/11 07:21
And there it is. Prilosec.

:/

tinypliny - 05/05/11 10:58
If you are 100% Terry has it...that means
a) its from a common shared environment - including food, microbes.
b) OR its contagious... does Matthew have it? Have you checked?

tinypliny - 05/05/11 10:56
Terry definitely has the orange tongue? Are you sure?

tinypliny - 05/05/11 10:56
UC -> Ulcerative Colitis.

libertad - 05/05/11 10:44
What is UC? I tried acupuncture for quitting smoking and it didn't help at all, not that it might not help you.

05/05/2011 00:26 #54218

Wegmans gnocchi - yuck
Category: food

The most disgusting gnocchi ever smelled. They smelled sour like rotten fruit. I tried to boil them anyways for some reason and the the whole kitchen smelled. Is that just what stuff with preservatives smell like or were they bad. Either way I would never buy them again. They smelled so much I had to take the garbage out after I through them out.

lilho - 05/06/11 00:51
the pasta i ate was delish...... i think we should make pasta when i visit in aug. get (e:terry) to the canning...

tinypliny - 05/05/11 08:28
You should write a complaint with the box number. They take consumer complaints seriously. Maybe something went terribly wrong with this batch?

flacidness - 05/05/11 01:04
They look like over weight maggets! Yuck indeed