Digital purgatory.

[reddragdiva]

• Somehow, I don't think you thought your cunning plan all the way through.

• Internet Fatty Toasted Sandwich.

• A George Carlin HBO special on death from earlier this year. Fun with computer address books!

• Wikipedia wins again.

steer has sent me a replacement MP3 player! Despite the different case, it's the same beloved brain-damaged Z80-based S1 Actions chipset (that pissed him off too much to tolerate using it) as my old one. With 4GB instead of two! And a speaker, so Freda can make it make noise when she chews on it! And an even worse and more confusing arrangement of interface buttons that would make anyone else but me want to smash it into tiny little pieces with a toffee hammer! I am enormously happy. Thank you, sir!

Freda had her first MMR jab Friday, and by crikey immune-response nappies reek. Measles is of course now actively present in London, because MMR uptake is now 72% and immunisations in general have fallen below 90% — herd immunity level is 95% — because of a general fear of vaccines, as people slowly forget that the diseases they protect against are actually worse and new doctors have no experience of or training in the diseases in question. So giving your kid all possible shots as soon as possible is now vitally necessary, and immune-response icky feeling and shits go great with teething and growing pains. Thank you Andrew Wakefield, you fraudulent cockmongler.

Freda was playing with redcountess' purse yesterday and managed to get the credit card out. Nothing else, just that. Well done!

Comments

[steer.livejournal.com]

I wish you luck with it. I simply lost patience with the delays taken to select anything. Still, I hope you manage to get some cool new firmware on it -- or that Freda enjoys chewing it.

[reddragdiva]

I'm loving it because it's actually an improvement on my previous one. And I already understand the shitty, shitty interface. I can see how it would make anyone else want to smash it into tiny little pieces with a toffee hammer, though.

[reddragdiva]

Oh, and thank you for leaving it full ;-)

[steer.livejournal.com]

(grin) No problem. Enjoy.

[greylock.livejournal.com]

by crikey immune-response nappies reek

I preferred not to know that.
But, since I don't have to deal with the issue, I don't much care.

(but... immunisation is INJECTING OUR CHILDRENS WITH DISEASE! IS BAD!!)

Which reminds me, I am probably well overdue for an MMR booster. I think my last was when I was 15. Oops.

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

People these days.

I dunno, in my day, we didn't have these new fangled vaccines, we got our immunity the proper way, by getting the diseases and not managing to die from them!

(I can't say I remember mumps with any affection. Nor the others.)

[greylock.livejournal.com]

Somehow I missed measels when I was younger, and when the time came I got the MMR in my teens. I'm not twice as old and I still haven't had the pox. It fills me with a nameless dread.

I can live with sterility, but I grew up with tales of death and blindness if one caught measels in adulthood. Hence the nameless dread. It's one of the minor reasons I don;t think kids should be bought into the office.

[redcountess]

I can remember when my brother and I had measles when I was about six and him four, it was all very Emily Dickinson with the blinds drawn and quiet.

[fluffymormegil.livejournal.com]

I didn't know they did MMR booster jabs. I'm pretty sure I am overdue (or if not, very nearly due) for a tetanus booster, though.

[greylock.livejournal.com]

They may not do MMR boosters. I have to look into that one.

[vatine]

... fraudulent cockmongler? Not "pustulent cocksocket"?

[tenshikurai9.livejournal.com]

Freda will probably retain the skill well through adolescence.

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

Though I'm sure by that point Diva will not be involved with her egestory processes!

[reddragdiva]

Better not be!

[tenshikurai9.livejournal.com]

Or be involved because it'll be his wallet too. Alliances will change, that's for sure.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Heh, so that's where Azzarello got the dueling ice cream truck vendors idea for that "100 Bullets" arc.

[secretlondon.livejournal.com]

The idiots who fell for it as they can't judge risk are as bad, really. I know the newspapers don't exactly help.

[reddragdiva]

Vaccinations are fundamentally risky. We were cautious about Freda's MMR because arkady's older daughter had had an allergic reaction to the egg it's cultured in, for instance. And the immune response the vaccination triggers does kill some children. But people have forgotten that the diseases are actually worse.

[richgoth.livejournal.com]

As someone who has experienced a type of Cholera and para-Typhoid as well, I couldn't agree more with you. The only danger from immunisation these days is from egg allergy and to people with weird undiagnosed immune disorders (eg.Pneumomonia vaccine can be fatal to people with ITP). Any parent with concerns that are scientifically based can get simple tests done for both. Also I would recomend not getting more than one immunistaton at the same time into the same limb.

BTW as parents I hope you have all had whooping cought boosters? The stuff to get is called Boostrix, its Tetanus, Diptheria and Whooping cough in one shot. I found out before my last big trip I had missed boosters for almost everything in my last year of highschool so I am pretty clued up on immunistation.

[metal-tiara.livejournal.com]

In Canada, there was a outbreak of Mumps centres around the Nova Scotia/New Brunswick area around April/May of 2007. Since no information as to which province/country most of the afflicted were from, it was widely announced that the MMR vaccine given to my cohort (1975-1985 or something) was faulty and we needed to get reimmunized/boostered is necessary.

Since I was in NZ and had already gone through the immunity checking etc etc inorder to enter the country as per the Health Exam required for anyone staying over six months, I just had them test to ensure that I was still vaccinated or what have you. It would have cost me just as much to get revaccinated but this root was the way to go.

My suggestion, before Freda heads out to College/University/Glastonbury, make sure her vaccination remained effective.