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Comment · 6 years ago
If you're in the UK there are lots of Mutual Aid societies that have set up to help neighbours who are self isolating. You can see the directory here - https://covidmutualaid.org/
I'm in one of these in Shacklewell and it's great to see people helping each other on small scale with shopping, prescriptions and friendly phone calls and chats.
It's interesting that most of them are using WhatsApp or Facebook groups. They're not really tools that are suited to this kind of thing but they're the easiest and most available thing we've got.
Comment · 7 years ago
Such a strange stance. To point out the hypocrisy visible to 99.2% of the world's population.
Comment · 9 years ago
The law in the US is the CAN-SPAM act in 2003. It requires email to have unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of the email and to take people off the list within 10 days of a request. There are similar laws, many of them stricter, in different jurisdictions.
https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/business-center/guidance/can...
Comment · 10 years ago
I walked it this year and found http://www.shikokuhenrotrail.com/ is a great site for information, particularly about the individual temples. It has a forum as well where you can ask questions.
It took me 50 days but I did 20 extra temples and had a few diversions (some intentional, some not).
You can find my contact details on my journal http://wasaking.com/introduction/
Marc
Comment · 10 years ago
I walked it this year as well, about 20 days before you it seems. I've started reading your journal, it's great. I found a picture of a woman who gave me a mikan and told me "when you are hot, it will exist" on Day 5, she was lovely.
It was one of the best things I've ever done.
Returning to the real world, work was a bit of a struggle. The charity and spirit of giving and receiving was incredible.
http://wasaking.com/ for my diary
Comment · 10 years ago
Great. It's a nice project, nice demo as well.
I realised when I was living in Japan recently how much I miss the UK postcode system. When I'm in the UK I can give anyone a short alphanumeric string and they can find me. A global coordinate system like this is really useful. I hope you can get some traction with it.
Comment · 10 years ago
My current location is 5308 AFRAID ANUS. Might be best to exclude ANUS from the word list.
Comment · 10 years ago
I spent six months travelling and working remotely recently, in Japan, Taiwan and Australia. I only had a carry on suitcase and I never missed anything.
I'm now back in London and after two weeks I have bought at least three small suitcases worth of new things. It's amazing how quickly things pile up. Once I had the space I started accumulating possessions. I go into shops and come out with things I didn't know I needed.
Comment · 10 years ago
In the UK I'd always been told you had to give a reference, usually by phone, and couldn't say anything negative but would just say "she worked here" if the employee wasn't very good.
One day at a small company I worked for the phone rang and a fellow developer answered. He said "the CEO's in a meeting right now, can I help?... Oh Andrew? He was terrible, couldn't code his way out of a cardboard box and he was really hard to get on with. I couldn't stand him personally... Ok, you're welcome, bye". My mouth was on the floor, I'm pretty sure Andrew didn't get that job.
Comment · 11 years ago
They're cousins, they were both at Cambridge. Simon is a world renowned expert on autism, Sasha on comedy.
Comment · 11 years ago
This article on a site I manage provides a great overview of sleep hygiene and other behavioural changes needed for good sleep http://en.hdbuzz.net/120
It applies to anyone, not just Huntington's disease patients. The article is a humanised version of an article from a special edition of Experimental Neurology on sleep disorders: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00144886/243/su...
Comment · 12 years ago
Bullshit
Read the main paper cited in the article by Alexander at Texas A&M in 2002. It says: female MONKEYS prefer COOKING POTS.
Then if you aren't debilitated by laughing read the methods, it's a total piece of shit yet is quoted again and again because it agrees with people's prejudices.
https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/the-new-york-times-just-invente...