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phinnia ([personal profile] phinnia) wrote2009-02-26 09:53 am

clickies

brought to you today by [livejournal.com profile] machineplay (who is seriously the best girlfriend ever) and [livejournal.com profile] cueballex (one of my beloved internet children):

chronic pain hurts the brain, disrupting the default mode network dynamics.

they're autistic and they're in love. i adore this article because it pokes holes in the autism stereotypes. the first developmental pediatrician we saw at Seattle Children's Hospital was very careful to point that out - that autism and affection aren't necessarily contradictory, for one.

wooden sarcophages found in egyptian tomb.

oldest english words identified.

snowed today with possibility of more snow. kid is home today. fortunately all the stuff i had to do outside the apartment is already done. and i resecheduled my therapy appointment. (still do not especially want to go as it eats up my entire afternoon for something that i can't guarantee will work, but ... eh. should probably try it i suppose. maybe it won't be so bad. meh.)

(i was thinking about it, actually: i think one of the things i don't like about it in retrospect is the whole 'passive listening/"witnessing" thing that happened the last couple of times - a lot of affirming that x y z happened and it happens to lots of people and it sucks that it happened to you? and i'm thinking, dude, i can get that for less money from my friendslist. what i was/am looking for is something more concrete, i suppose. this guy's literature bills him as 'stress management'. so maybe that's less with the mm-hmming. i hope so, because i'm not interested in that.)

anyway. coffee nomnom.
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[identity profile] brewsternorth.livejournal.com 2009-02-26 06:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Coffee good, yes.

And though I'm not surprised at there being such things as wooden sarcophagi, that they've survived is a very good bit of luck.

Interesting about the oldest words. I'm hesitant to say that words will die out; probably they'll just drop back a few ranks in the great Cosmic Wordle.

Here's another interesting link: new "director's cuts" (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/arts_and_culture/7907632.stm) of Robert Frank's 'The Americans'.

Are you my Mummy?

[identity profile] rosencrantz319.livejournal.com 2009-02-26 06:14 pm (UTC)(link)
I thought sarcophagi were generally made out wood.

Re: Are you my Mummy?

[identity profile] zaratyst.livejournal.com 2009-02-26 08:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Nope, they are typically carved out of stone.

[identity profile] bishojo-kitsune.livejournal.com 2009-02-26 06:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Here's a random clicky for you Phin :D
http://cakewrecks.blogspot.com/
Just one to make you smile.

[identity profile] causticchick.livejournal.com 2009-02-26 06:56 pm (UTC)(link)
I absolutely LOVED the article about the autistic couple. It totally goes against everything people think about when they think of autism. Thank you for sharing that!

[identity profile] lizardling.livejournal.com 2009-02-26 07:37 pm (UTC)(link)
The snow made my commute this morning particularly obnoxious. :p Normally, after 10AM I'm not stuck in gridlock.

SUN!

SNOW!

OMG CANNOT COMPUTE!

*shakes tiny fist*

[identity profile] zaratyst.livejournal.com 2009-02-26 08:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Wooden sarcophagus reminded that I saw someone making a ranty comment about how Thundercats vilifies egyptian religious practices. The trolls, oh the trolls, they are sometimes creative.

[identity profile] shutterbug-12.livejournal.com 2009-02-26 10:31 pm (UTC)(link)
That oldest English word article is fascinating. It doesn't surprise me that those words are suspected to be the oldest. Also, it's strange to imagine words becoming "extinct", but I suppose that's already happened with words. Huh.

[identity profile] brightflashes.livejournal.com 2009-02-26 10:55 pm (UTC)(link)
I love the words article.

[identity profile] cueballex.livejournal.com 2009-02-27 12:40 am (UTC)(link)
I'm sharing that autism one with my mom. She has a hard time really grasping how people with autism think, even though she works with autistic kids; I think that will help. I loved it.