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Sometimes I have to remind myself…

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2018 06 10 cziltang Comments Off on Sometimes I have to remind myself…

Decoration Day

Another Memorial Day has come ’round, and once again, I didn’t make the family pilgrimage to the cemeteries.  I was hanging out at home, hoping someone at one of the local plants had an accident (non-lethal, of course; you can’t do drug testing on a dead guy) so I could pick up the relatively lucrative […]

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2018 05 28 cziltang Americana Comments Off on Decoration Day

A treatment for Depression and Anxiety in Cancer Patients

Mushrooms.  As in “Magic Mushrooms”.  As in hallucinogenic Mushrooms. Well, actually, psilocybin. About 80 percent of cancer patients showed clinically significant reductions in both psychological disorders, a response sustained some seven months after the single dose. Side effects were minimal. (‘both disorders’ being Depression and Anxiety – cziltang) As one might expect, researchers don’t really […]

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2017 01 29 cziltang Health Care
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Chinese New Year Horoscope

The Czar has posted your Chinese New Year horoscopes for the coming year over at the Gormogons. I can never remember which “year of” I was born in.  I’m thinking it may have been the Year of the Sleestak.

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2017 01 27 cziltang Comments Off on Chinese New Year Horoscope

Well, this should be fun

For the last week, the weather folks have been forecasting a major ice storm here in the Ratlands.  They are predicting up to a half inch of ice around these parts, up to an inch a bit further north.  Needless to say, the likelihood that a significant number of folks around here are going to […]

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2017 01 14 cziltang No particular point Comments Off on Well, this should be fun

Pretend

Lovely graphic seen at Borepatch (who has excellent taste in these sorts of things) Of course, I’m immune.  I don’t use WiFi in public places.  And, I didn’t talk to people in public in 1995, so it would pretty much be business as usual for me.

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2017 01 13 cziltang Humor Comments Off on Pretend

Drugs are Like Shoes…

“Drugs are like shoes: everybody needs them, but they don’t always fit.” I have no idea what that means.‡ The Head Rat has me watching Sense8 on Netflix.  Not one of my favorites (although, I have to admit it’s better when you see the first episode).  The quote is from the show.  I only mention […]

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2016 12 24 cziltang blogspeak
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Electoral college

Because I am working today, and because it has been a rather slow day, I have been following live reports on the electoral college voting.  According to the reports, Texas has just put Trump’s total over the 270 necessary for election.  Texas and California started their voting process at about the same time.  California is […]

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2016 12 19 cziltang Politics Comments Off on Electoral college

Some things I just do for my personal amusement

Some time back, when I was tinkering with my WiFi set-up, I changed the SSID to “FBI Surveillance Van #2”.  Just a bit of personal amusement. I found out today that my younger niece completely freaked out recently because she thought the FBI was in the neighborhood snooping around.  (Given the legal history of her […]

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2014 03 04 cziltang Humor Comments (2)

Weekend Roundup

I install house arrest ankle bracelets part time on the weekend.  If I’ve had a particularly unusual day, I send an email to the boss on Sunday night so he knows what he’s walking into on Monday morning.  It also gives me a chance to vent a bit.  Here’s an excerpt from tonight’s email: Ok […]

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2014 02 23 cziltang Corrections Comments (1)

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