Randomness

[Alelou]

It could also be that the candidate or his ad agency of record is using a media buyer who is an idiot.

[honeybee]

Could very well be and idiot. Could also be a glitch in the cable company's software.

The last time I read about this was in and article about GMs bankruptcy. It allowed them to break ad contracts they had had for years. Stations had to fire sale ad slots in bulk. One company that bought? The Snuggie!

[aadarshinah]

don't diss the snuggie. My dad bought me one for xmas as a gag gift and it certainly is the ugliest thing in the world, but it does work and is great for reading. Well, in the winter it is. At a heat index of 100+, its not so great.

[WarpGirl]

My sister wants to buy me a snuggie, I'm always cold even in the heat because of my CP. Nice to know they work.

[Aikiweezie]

At Universal we went on the new Harry Potter ride...O M G! It was the most insane ride I have ever been on. Fun, but insane. We waited in line for 4 hours because the ride broke down, but I have to say it was worth it!

Wow! I'm so glad you had a great time. Please tell me what happened on that ride that was worth a 4 hour wait!

It's hard to describe. It's not a roller coaster (I don't do roller coasters - hate the sensation of falling), but you get in this roller-coaster like "bench" with bars that come down across your chest to keep you in the seat. It's suspended from the top and your feet are hanging. If I remember correctly, most of the movement is sideways, I don't remember ever going straight forward or straight backwards, but you DO end up leaning way back and way forward. All I could think was "Oh my God, I'm gonna fall out!" Valdemort is coming after you, and there are spiders and dragons chasing you. Very cool ride.

[Distracted]

A Sumatriptan Needle-Free Injection
for Migraine

Sumatriptan was first marketed in the US in 1993 as
Imitrex for subcutaneous injection, followed by tablets
for oral administration and then by a nasal spray. It is
one of seven serotonin receptor agonists (“triptans”)
marketed in the US for treatment of migraine, but it is
the only one available for subcutaneous injection.
Now the FDA has approved Sumavel DosePro
(Zogenix), a needle-free device for delivering sumatriptan
succinate to subcutaneous tissue, for treatment
of migraine and cluster headache in adults.
DELIVERY — A nitrogen gas-powered injection
pushes the drug through the skin to subcutaneous tissue
within one-tenth of a second; delivery of the drug
with this device is bioequivalent to injection through a
needle.

It's an Imitrex hypospray. How cool is that?

[Grrr]

It's an Imitrex hypospray. How cool is that?

If I can actually figure out how to use it when I have a headache real cool!

Grrr

[Kevin Thomas Riley]

What's a "snuggie"?

[aadarshinah]

A blanket with sleeves. Incredibly ugly, surprisingly practicle - though it leaves your back cold most the time...

[Kevin Thomas Riley]

Ah, thanks! The visual image I get alone makes me think it looks terrible.

[WarpGirl]

A Sumatriptan Needle-Free Injection
for Migraine

Sumatriptan was first marketed in the US in 1993 as
Imitrex for subcutaneous injection, followed by tablets
for oral administration and then by a nasal spray. It is
one of seven serotonin receptor agonists (“triptans”)
marketed in the US for treatment of migraine, but it is
the only one available for subcutaneous injection.
Now the FDA has approved Sumavel DosePro
(Zogenix), a needle-free device for delivering sumatriptan
succinate to subcutaneous tissue, for treatment
of migraine and cluster headache in adults.
DELIVERY — A nitrogen gas-powered injection
pushes the drug through the skin to subcutaneous tissue
within one-tenth of a second; delivery of the drug
with this device is bioequivalent to injection through a
needle.

It's an Imitrex hypospray. How cool is that?

AMAZING! And about time! One problem, I'm allergic to Imitrex.

[Alelou]

That is very cool, especially since if you miss your window of opportunity with a bad migraine, you can't keep any pills down. (Or at least, I can't.)

[honeybee]

I've been waiting for hyposprays as long as I've been waiting for transporters, so that's so cool. Communicator - check, TriCorder - check - PADD - check. Hey, my iphone is all three! Now, a hypospray.

Warp Drive & Transporters can't be that far away, can they Dr. Krauss?

[Alelou]

There WAS a physicist on the Colbert Report a few weeks ago who, if I remember correctly, claimed teleportation was already being done on a molecular level and might happen in our lifetime. Invisibility cloaks, too. I think he mentioned time travel as well. Is this the same guy who thought travelers from the future were trying to stop the giant hadrion collider (or whatever it's called)?

(He struck me as a nut, personally.)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/0 ... t_52779371

Further down, there's a clip from the same show of Mary Roach from last night talking literally about turds in space. (Her new book is called Packing for Mars.)

And since I cut and paste it before I got side-tracked, for those of you in the less polar regions who might want to be on the lookout for Northern Lights: http://rr.com/news/topic/article/rr/845 ... ther_south

[honeybee]

That's Michio Kaku - he's a little nuts, but he's got a lot of cred, too. He's a string theorist and futurist and one of those "popular" science guys who is always on the Science Channel. He's written a few books, including Parallel Worlds, Hyperspace and The Physics of the Impossible.

The Physics of the Impossible is where he talks about the transporter stuff and warp travel and time travel - but to be fair, he makes it clear that the transporter technology is way, way far away from being usable and probably will never be usable on living things, if I remember correctly. He calls it a class I impossibility, in that it doesn't violate the laws of physics.

I saw him interviewed about the making of 2001: A Space Odyssey. He was hired out of grad school to be the technological consultant. Kubrick listened to him up until he told Kubrick that the final sequence was all wrong because the hero would not see anything if he was traveling faster than the speed of light because we see light. Kubrick looked at him funny and kept the light show.

He also gets points for being a huge trekkie!