The coldest winter I ever spent
Archive for November 2009
I just installed the WP Ajax Edit Comments WordPress plugin. Mainly what I was looking for in this plugin was a way for commenters to edit their posts after writing their comments. But it has a lot of other nice bells and whistles too.
My friend Laura owns an apartment in New York City at about 185th st. It was severely damaged by bad plumbing work from an upstairs neighbor to the tune of $90,000+. The insurance companies are bickering and not fixing her home. She needs her place repaired and doesn’t have $90k to fix it now and sort it out later.
Can you help Laura find a real estate insurance lawyer near 185th st in New York City?
If so, please comment or email me and I’ll hook you all up.
Here is an excerpt of her plea
As you may have heard, much of my home, which we call Hanna Manor because there have been so many house guests over the last eight years, has been destroyed by water damage caused by my upstairs neighbor doing illegal plumbing Oct 24th. I’ve attached a few pictures so you get that is truly is destroyed, not just a couple of wet spots. The electric system also blew out so there is no power in most rooms.
Her insurance company, State Farm, for the last month has told me that they would cover it all, and house me until it is rebuilt. This afternoon, as a Thanksgiving surprise, they’ve informed me they won’t, as they believe it should all be taken care of under my homeowners’ co-op policy. Of course, the co-op does not agree. So I’m still in a hotel, which they will only cover through December, and everyone is saying it’s not their responsibility. I need help. I need a good attorney who will fight for me to save my home. Please, spare a few moments when you are at some Thanksgiving gathering this weekend, and ask who knows someone who might know someone, who might know someone.
I went away for Thanksgiving. When I came back, my iPhone wouldn’t complete a sync with iTunes. This is what would happen:
And one time when I tried syncing, I got a message on my computer:
Attempting to copy to the disk “iphone” failed. The disk could not be read from or written to.
Here is how I fixed it:
I went into iTunes on my PC and deleted the video podcasts I had recently watched and subsequently deleted on my iPhone. It was several items from the “Best of Youtube” video podcast. I then synced the iPhone again, this time successfully. Hurray!
I’m not sure if this had anything to do with it but I also did the following:
When I was travelling, I had updated several iPhone apps directly on my iPhone. I went and updated the apps on iTunes and then synced. I’m pretty sure the fix I mentioned in the previous paragraph was what did it, but if not, try updating the iPhone apps on your computer.
Feel free to comment and tell me if this works for you!
I’m just about ready for Thanksgiving with the family. Hopefully my caps will go over well!
KOIT switched to Christmas programming today. I bumped and jammed to Bob Seger’s Little Drummer Boy, Frank Sinatra’s Santa Claus is Coming to Town, and Sarah McLachlan’s Happy Xmas for about 2 hours.
Ok, I’m done.
Bring on the Arbor Day music.
Holding Flame was at Burning Man 2009 and I missed it.
wow. Built by Poetic Kinetics.
Oo OO! Look!
They built those giant flowers too!
check out their photo gallery on their site. They’re amazing, ten times so in person!
Julie Bernstein took many photos of lasertag this weekend. She’s a really good professional photographer.
Here’s the whole set of lasertag photos set.
Update 11-16-09: Be sure to read the comments before assuming this post has all the info you need.
from the CDC on their page Key Facts About Seasonal Influenza (Flu)
Every year in the United States, on average:
- 5% to 20% of the population gets the flu;
- more than 200,000 people are hospitalized from flu-related complications; and
- about 36,000 people die from flu-related causes.
From the Associated Press and The Discover Channel
SWINE FLU COUNT: 4,000 DEAD, 22 MILLION ILL
The fall flu season has only just begun and already thousands have died from the H1N1 virus.
Estimates of deaths caused by the swine flu have grown to nearly 4,000 since April, roughly quadrupling previous estimates
To borrow from TJIC’s (and the creator of the ONOZ OMG avatar)
But wait. How deadly is the Swine flu really? Let’s see…. four thousand divided by twenty two million is…
4,000 / 22,000,000 = 0.000181
Swine flu AKA H1N1 is 0.018% fatal
Ok, so how deadly is the average flu?
From the CDC stats above, roughly 10% of the US population gets the flu each year… that’s 30,400,000 people. And 36,000 people die from it…
36,000 / 30,400,000 = 0.00118
The average flu is 0.11% fatal
Comparing the two…
0.0011 * n = 0.00018
n = 6.1
The average flu is 6.1 times more deadly than swine / H1N1 flu.
WHAT????
You’re kidding, right???
Someone is making a lot of money by causing an unwarranted panic. I’m betting it’s the maker of the influenza vaccine and influenza test.
