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Tuesday, August 05, 2008
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Myspace feels unmanageable
I dont know about any of you, but my myspace page feels unmanageable. I feel like if there's no way to find the posts that I may actually want to read anymore and that I'm just swimming around in some sort of self created spam hell. It's sort of bumming me out that it suddenly seems so isolating. Maybe it's just my state of mind? I know that I've been guilty of being a complete hermit for the past few months. I used to use myspace as a way to keep up with my friends and find out what the people I like were up to, but now that seems almost impossible. I thought the "categories" thing might help, but that just seems like a pointless way to look at pictures.
Has anyone found a way to read only the posts they want to read? Why isn't there a way to read only those posts? Is myspace that paranoid? I mean I would still look at other posts if I could put them in groups like "comedy shows," "music," and "friends", or whatever, but right now it's just exhausting. Is there something else other people are doing that I haven't figured out? I'm startign to wonder if I'm the only living thing on here.
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Friday, August 01, 2008
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Information that diabetics everywhere should know, but probably dont
I never copy and paste stuff into my blogs, but I'm doing it today (below) because I think this information is really important to share. To be honest it sort of makes me angry that it hasn't made newsworthy considering how many people are directly and indirectly affected by diabetes. When I think about the sorts of things that change blood sugars that I never knew (like how eating fats with foods can lower you blood sugar and things like that) I get angry.
Case in point; as many of you know I did not have any healthcare for a large part of my life and even when I went into fostercare as a child I had no real help or encouragement in getting knowledge that could have improved my overall health. And that has had very direct effects on my body now. Because when a diabetic's blood sugars are out of control over time it is cummulative and results in complications that are irreversible. (By the way no one argues that point, it is common knowledge in the medical community that bad diabetic care results in complications. ) And even now that I have a diabetic clinic that I go to through USC I have to work to get information out of many doctors that have knowledge, but for some reason forget to share it with the people who could most benfit from that knowledge. Ugh. How sad is that? Tragic in my opinion. And I mention this not because I want to throw myself a pity party, but because it's not just about me, it's about the thousands of people that this happens to right under our noses.
Because I am fortunate enough to have an education while having no healthcare, I have the presence of mind to see exactly what a terrible job public social systems (our schools, public health and informations, the media, etc) do in properly eductating diabetics that come from different socio-economic backgrounds. In my opinion it is truly a crime that lower income people are constantly handicapped by those systems in this way.
Now granted I'm not going to be a whole helluva lotta help by posting some of this in my stupid myspace blog. I mean how many people like that are wasting time on myspace reading blogs? Probably few to none, I am guessing. But I can't go wall papering it on bus stop benches in three languages in weird parts of town around the country all by myself in an attempt to save the world either. So my hope is that maybe one of you will benefit from this information, or maybe one of you knows someone else who will, or maybe you will mention it to someone else who will mention it to someone that may benefit. If that happens and helps improve the health of even one diabetic's life even slightly then that would matter a great deal.
Please remember although these single pieces of information are important, they aren't miarcles on their own either. I didnt just stumble on the cure for diabetes or something while online. These are just examples of important information that aren't common knowledge that have the potential to make a difference in a diabetic's life that I read this afternoon. And it's not one of those sites that came up with some snake oil ideas. It just happens to be a site that caters to and collects diabetic information. There may be even better sites out there that do this, this just happens to be the site I found these on.
I'll list them here in brief and then paste the full info about the vinegar one below.
Helpful Stuff Diabetics Should Know
Note: These things are to be done on in addition to the medicine the person already takes and would lessen the units a person should take with a meal.)
1. Vinegar
Vinegar can naturally lower blood sugar in a HIGH CARB meal. (Note: doesn't work with other meals or when carbs and protein are eaten together.)
2. Fiber
Fiber drinks, suplements, or food high in fiber lower blood sugar.
3. Sunflower
About 3 1/2 teaspoons of oil with a meal stops the spike of after meal high blood sugar.
4. Cactus
Eating prickly pear cactus with a high-carb meal can lower blood sugar response by almost 50 percent.
All of this information was found on the website below. Their sources are all listed after the articles. I have copied and pasted the one about vinegar.
http://www.dlife.com/
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Vinegar and Blood Sugar
A Spoonful of Vinegar Makes the Blood Sugar Go Down?
By Jack Challem
Strange as it might seem, including some vinegar in your diet may improve your blood sugar. Although vinegar has a bit of a checkered past — it has too often been hyped in weight-loss diets and miracle cures — solid research has clearly shown that it can improve glycemic control.
 "Scientific studies over the past 10 years show benefits from vinegar consumption," says Carol Johnston, Ph.D., head of the nutrition department at Arizona State University, Tempe. Vinegar decreases both fasting and postprandial (after-meal) glucose levels, she says. "It's inexpensive and can be easily incorporated into the diet. Used in combination with diet and exercise, it can help many people with type 2 diabetes." Much of the vinegar research comes out of Johnston's laboratory and that of Elin Ostman, Ph.D., at Lund University in Lund, Sweden.
The biologically active constituent of vinegar is acetic acid, also the source of the liquid's lip-puckering pungency. Nobumasa Ogawa, Ph.D., of Tokyo University in Tokyo, discovered that the acetic acid inhibits the activity of several carbohydrate-digesting enzymes, including amylase, sucrase, maltase, and lactase. As a result, when vinegar is present in the intestines, some sugars and starches temporarily pass through without being digested, so they have less of an impact on blood sugar.
According to Johnston, some people have far greater responses than others to vinegar. However, she says, "We documented small but important average decreases in hemoglobin A1C in people with type 2 diabetes — over the course of 12 weeks, taking a couple teaspoons of apple-cider vinegar daily," she says.
In another study, Johnston found that taking 2 tablespoons of apple-cider vinegar along with 1 ounce of cheese before bedtime led to a 4 to 6 percent decrease in fasting blood sugar levels, according to an article in Diabetes Care (November 2007). Meanwhile, Lund University's Ostman found that people were less hungry a couple hours after consuming vinegar with bread, as opposed to bread alone, according to a report in the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition (September 2005).
Because taking a teaspoon or two of vinegar alone seems to cause burping and acid reflux in a lot of people, Johnston suggests that people include vinegar with food. The easiest way is by using oil and vinegar salad dressing, made with balsamic, red wine, apple-cider, or any number of flavored vinegars (avoid the fruity, sweet ones, of course, or you may cancel out the benefit). When making the dressing, use about 50 to 75 percent vinegar, and add some diced garlic, dried oregano, and basil — or stir in a little Dijon mustard.
Johnston recommends also using vinaigrette dressings drizzled over steamed veggies, such as cauliflower. Another option is to dip small, thin slices of whole-grain bread into a mix of olive oil and balsamic vinegar. Or, better, try sourdough bread, which contains a substance that also seems to mediate blood sugar response.
Vinegar is a natural meat and fish tenderizer, so you can use it to marinate meat and chicken. It's also used to cook brisket, sauerbraten, and in the preparation of the spicy Korean vegetable, kimchi. Look for low-sodium versions of dill pickles, and consider other condiments and veggies pickled or preserved in vinegar.
As for the weight-loss claims attributed to vinegar, Johnston noticed in one study that people consuming a tablespoon of vinegar before lunch and dinner lost an average of 2 pounds over four weeks. It may be a case of "if it sounds too good to be true…," but consider this: The study was conducted in November and December, when people often eat more than usual. There may be something to it after all.
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Tuesday, July 22, 2008
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Jim Turner (brilliant comic) has a show about diabetes on DLife which I appeared on
I tried to embed this earlier, but it was too confusing, so here's a link to the video. I haven't watched it, but I know I'm sprinkled throughout. I hate seeing myself on stuff, but let me know what you think I guess. Unless you hate it, then keep it to yourself you heartless bastard!
...Also Jim is hilarious and if you haven't seen Two Headed Dog or Girlie Magazine Party you should.
I appear in this video about Diabetes several times.
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Monday, July 21, 2008
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Maria Bamford, Blaine Capatch and J. Elvis Wenstein added to Cartoon Dump tomorrow!
Hi Kids!
Maria Bamford and Blaine Capatch will BOTH be performing at this month's Cartoon Dump. And J. Elvis Weinstein will be manning Dumpster Diver Dan, and of course Moodsy and Compost Brite will be there to oversee the festivities. We hope you can make it!
"Highly Recommended" –Time Out NY "It's like a children's show, but in Bosnia." –Patton Oswalt "It's weird. It's wrong. It's awesome." –SequentialTart "To Do" –Defamer www.myspace.com/cartoondump NY Review: http://www.isntlifeterrible.com/2008/01/cartoon-dump.html LA Review: http://www.sequentialtart.com/extranet/articlepreview.php?articleID=817 Feature article by Peter Sanderson, Quick Stop Entertainment http://www.quickstopentertainment.com/2008/01/15/comics-in-context-209-down-in-the-dump/ Interview w/ Cartoon Dump's Erica Doering http://www.sequentialtart.com/article.php?id=876 Cartoon Dump! Tuesday July 22nd 8pm @ The Steve Allen Theater/Center for Inquiry, 4773 Hollywood Blvd, LA, 90027 .Advanced tix: http://www.tix.com/Schedule.asp?ActCode=18988
Hope to see ya there!
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Friday, July 18, 2008
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Cartoon Dump turns 1 yr old Tues. 7/22
Hi Kids Come on out and celebrate our 1st Birthday
Tues. July 22 8pm
@ CFI WEST/ STeve Allen Theater
4773 Hollywood Bvd.
la, CA
90027
Frank Conniff, Jerry beck, Erica Doering, Joe keyes and
Comedian Blaine Capatch
Advanced tix here:
http://steveallentheater.tix.com/Schedule.asp?ActCode=18988
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Thursday, July 10, 2008
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RE: What the heck are those new videos??
For those of you wondering what the new video clips I've added are, they're just short snipets of a test shoot I did a ways back for a webseries i'm creating. A few of the scripts have already been written and non onf the voices have been done yet or shots complted or properly eidited. They aren't meant to be silent bits. I uploaded them here in order to remind myself to do something more with them. So they're more of a video post it to myself than anything. of course you can take a look if you're curious, but most of it will probably be slightly lost on you at this point.
As for what else I've been up to: had a scray incident where the gate got unhitched and my dog was lost and then hit by a car on the 4th of July.She was luckily found and picked up from the pound and is recovering at home, I'm also still wokring a graveyard shift for Whale Wars and I'm exhausted a large part of the time while that goes on, and I'm looking forard to this month's cartoon Dump which will mark our 1 year anniversary. That's pretty much it for now.
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Friday, June 27, 2008
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Dumb hands-free law clarification question
Okay this is going to sound dumb, but I'd rather sound dumb than be pulled over.
I don't have a blue tooth thinger. I have a regular cell phone.
So can I call someone before I am driving and then switch to speaker phone and be legally okay and just not touch the phone?
Also could I get one of those ear bud things with the dangly microphone? The old kind from like 5 years ago that like clip to your shirt?
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We need experienced loggers ASAP
The show I'm working on (Whale Wars) is looking to hire a few more experienced loggers ASAP. Night crew shift is now 7-4 or 8-5.
Days are 9-7
Email me or send me a myspace message, unless you know my number then call me. He needs people ASAP I'll pass you his email.
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Monday, June 23, 2008
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Tomorrow 6/24 Cartoon Dump= Dana Gould+Josh Weinstein+Ron Lynch=Frank Conniff+Erica Doering+
This Tues 8pm
This month's Cartoon Dump Live should be a keeper.
New stuff and old favorites from Moodsy and Compost Brite plus Dana Gould!! Josh Weinstein(MST3K) as Dumpster Diver Dan! and Ron Lynch! Crappy cartoons w/ Jerry Beck, yay!
Cartoon Dump Live Tues.
6/24 8pm
CFI/The Steve Allen Theater
4773 Hollywood Blvd.
LA, 90027
Advanced tix; http://www. steveallentheater. com/cartoondump
or
800-595-4tix
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Monday, June 02, 2008
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Outlook: Bleak (updates)
I've added the updates here at the top starting with the most recent.
-Tues. 6/3: I contacted At&t and apparently that wasn't a fake email, or maybe it was, but they have been sending messages out regarding error 553 to people, so probably not. Either way i didn't click on the email, but I did speak to someone and changed the outgoing server to an updated one, which is one of the things I'd suspected was the problem. So that is good news. That means I can now send and recive emails. yay! BUT
-Tues. 6/3: I still haven't done anything about that "trojan found" message. So I dont' know exactly what to do. I think I am going to download the AVG thing.
-Tues. 6/3: And I am trying to figure out if I should switch from OUTLOOK to THUNDERBIRD, which I've heard is less suseptible to virus stuff from one person, although i've also heard that neither one is better than the other, so I'm trying to decide whether that's worth it or not.
-Tues. 6/3: The first time I try to reply to emails in OUTLOOK I still get the wondows installer pop up. I am thinking that might be because I downloaded some sort of update or something when i was going to the windows office sites loking for security updates. I jhaven't put my windows CD back in yet though since I'm busy loking for work. For the time being I've just been hitting cancel and then it stops and lets me reply to the emails.
-Tues 6/3: Basically I can use my email now, but I dont know if I have a virus or if everything has just been wacky and coincidental or not and I haven't taken any real action on how to fix the problem other than running the Clam Win and something I have called Panda Active Scan pro and I'm not entirely sure what to do yet because I don't want to waste time doing the wrong thing.
- also this whole thing has been annoying and tedious and makes me want to shoot people and objects.
Sunday: Note: In addition to the stuff below now when I open word docs I get something that says, "winows installer is installing" or something like that and I have no idea what that means either. Maybe it's nothing, who knows. Bleh. Anyways thought I should mention it.
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So I still am not sure if I have that virus that my clamwin thing told me I had or not, but my computer woes seem to be far from over regardless.
I forget if I mentioned this but for the past few weeks I've been getting about 600 or so spam emails that were coming in saying they were undeliverable mail into my Outlook. They have apparently stoppped for the time being. But my outlook email has ceased to be able to send emails at all. It may have something to do with all those spam emails, maybe? Or maybe it's because I have at&t? My dsl used to be through yahoo and I guess they switched over to being At&T a while back. I never changed anything in the set up my outlook though and it just kept working, but while I was trying to figure out what was going on I realized the incoming and outgoing servers and stuff aren't set up with the at&t, they're still set up with the sbcglobal account that was thru yahoo. The problem is I have no idea how to change them, correctly to find out if that is the problem.
It's very confusing because I guess I use the outgoing server as the sbc email, and the incomign mail is my badcelluloid account, and my outgoing serrver requires auhentication. But my incoming server (POP3) fails. Bleh. Anyways I never changed any of it, but I'm thinking the change over from yahoo to sbc to att might be the problem, if I'm lucky. However I have no idea what the passwords are or anything for that. Bleh. I wanted to try and switch from outlook to thunderbird since I was told it was safer, but I casn't do that either since I dont know how.
I've also been getting this email to the outlook account (I can still receive emails there). But i thoguht it might be a phishing thing, so i haven't clicked on it. Also because the email isn't even from at&t, but maybe it is legit? I have no idea. This is the email:
From: AT&T@mxw08.daemonmail.net [mailto:AT&T@mxw08.daemonmail.net]
Sent: Monday, June 02, 2008 2:26 AM
To: undisclosed-recipients:
Subject: Important: Verification Required - Action Needed Dear AT&T Internet Services Member, We have received questions regarding the following error message which is received by customers when they send e-mail using a non-verified e-mail address: "Unable to send the message. Please verify the e-mail address in your account properties. The server responded: 553 From: address not verified." If you have received this error message, you will continue to receive it for emails sent with a non-verified address until you verify your Yahoo! email address or any other non AT&T email addresses (e.g., name@company.com, name@college.com, name@yahoo.com, etc.). Verification instructions are available on the AT&T Help site http://helpme.att.net/article.php?item=11646. If you have already verified your non AT&T email address and are no longer receiving the 553 error message, please disregard this email. Thank you for your attention to this matter as we work to improve your Internet service. Our goal continues to be to make you a very satisfied customer. If you are experiencing any issues and would like to speak to a customer support representative, please contact us at 1-877-722-3755. Sincerely,
AT&T Internet Services Yahoo! is a registered trademark of Yahoo! Inc.
© 2008 AT&T Intellectual Property. All Rights Reserved. AT&T and the AT&T logo are trademarks of AT&T Intellectual Property.
Please do not reply to this message via e-mail. This address is automated, unattended, and cannot help with questions or requests. Anyways it's all sort of left me depressed and unable to commincate much with the outside world. It's stoppped the momentum I had looking for work at the fevered pace I was going at and that's pretty bad, since I still don't have work and need it more now than ever. If anyone has any insight into this problem please let me know. Also I wanted to thank the people who helped me get the cord I needed to replace the one that set on fire. I have it now and that's at least made my life less difficult. It was a big help, but it's like embarassing to be hit with this barrage of problematic crap and I'm getting tired of it. bleh. Hopefully there will be something more fun and positive to report soon. At the moment I don't even have the energy to make fun of any of it.
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