The big one was done today. Taking antibiotics and Tylenol #3 (hah! I love that there’s a wikipedia article about that).

It occurs to me that Tylenol #3 is to Tylenol as ActionScript is to ECMAScript.

Yes, even drugged, I am a bit odd.

I’ll probably lie down for a while.

Wealth Without Work
Pleasure Without Conscience
Knowledge Without Character
Commerce Without Morality
Science Without Humanity
Worship Without Sacrifice
Politics Without Principles
Rights Without Responsibilities

…from the M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence

Deep cleaning, root canal x 2, antibiotics.

It’s a fun week so far.

I have no idea how many people read me. I don’t follow stats closely. I do have a sitemeter account and I read the numbers, but I’ve no idea what that really means in the scheme of things. In the end I’m not driven to blog differently based on traffic.

One of the things Leah did did recently was implement FeedBurner. I’m following her lead because the stats available via FeedBurner are appealing to me.

Update: I have 34 subscribers to my feed, it looks like. Leah has two hundred and something. Fascinating!

Bizarre term I came across at the latest Viridian Note:

Procrustes – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In Greek mythology, Procrustes (the stretcher), also known as Damastes (subduer) and Polypemon (harming much), was a bandit from Attica. He had his stronghold in the hills outside Eleusis. There, he had an iron bed into which he invited every passerby to lie down. If the guest proved too tall, he would amputate the excess length; if the victim was found too short, he was then stretched out on the rack until he fit. Nobody would ever fit in the bed because it was secretly adjustable: Procrustes would stretch or shrink it upon sizing his victims from afar. Procrustes continued his reign of terror until he was captured by Theseus, who “fitted” Procrustes to his own bed and cut off his head and feet (since Theseus was a stout fellow, the bed had been set on the short position). Killing Procrustes was the last adventure of Theseus on his journey from Troezen to Athens.