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It’s a Siemens SX66. I reviewed it earlier this year. Read my review . I’m posting this from it via my home wireless network. Cingular has their own GPRS network, and I’ll use it in a pinch, but it’s really sssslllllooooowwww, not to mention expensive. I prefer other options. It is very important that you password-protect your home wireless network. I bet there are scads of middle-aged women driving around looking for open wireless networks so that they can steal bandwidth.

I decided it was time to drag the intellectual level of my blog up, kicking and screaming if need be, with an anthropology piece about understanding other cultures’ customs. I may have lent that book out. I always feel like I’m blowing smoke if I don’t have quotes to back up my bizarre ideas. But here goes. The book is called “Magic, Witchcraft and Religion” and I believe the editor’s name was Lehman. So in this piece, an anthropologist is studying a traditional tribal group. One of the interesting things about this tribe is their belief in an afterlife. They believe that the soul is attached to the body, and when a person dies the soul remains stuck to the flesh, leaving slowly as the flesh leaves the bones. In order to faciliate their loved ones’ progress to heaven, the tribespeople build a high platform and lay the body out exposed to the elements, occasionally visiting to leave gifts and turn the bones, or to collect some of the fluid...

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It’s all the rage. Everybody wants to cut and cry and puke and write bad poetry.

From an article on PubMed : “Patients on treatment with antipsychotic drugs had a lower current full scale IQ, lower general memory scores, and lower working memory scores.” I submit that psych meds actually make you less capable of effectively participating in your treatment, or even in life. Why are they doing this to us?

My husband is an electrical engineer like I am. He is a much better electrical engineer, in part because he still has a memory. His father has been ill and has let his Prius sit for a while. Six weeks or so. So my husband went over to take him for a ride in the Prius. The old boy wants to go to Valhalla. Or something like that, he’s going on about some non-existent amusement park with ferris wheels and roller coasters up Rte. 413 near the Burlington-Bristol bridge. Valhalla. I suggested he set the car on fire and push them off the bridge. Where *is* that man’s sense of humor? So my husband just called. The Prius is dead, he said. The doors don’t unlock. Can I give it a jump without blowing up my car? It’s only been six weeks, it can’t be dead! Is the hood lock electrical? Yes, ok. Take a deep breath, Leslie. The car is dead because – well, my classic Prius supposedly uses 75mA when it’s just sitting. But people also tell me that the...

Well, I finally made it to the big time. Well, no, what I really mean is that the spambots found “Into The Void” this week and they are hammering my WordPress blog with comment spam. I’ve received 500-some requests in the last 48 hours. Would anyone in their right mind patronize a company that has its people dump irrelevant ads into sites? The most common were drugs and online casinos, followed by mortgages, and then a specific bank’s credit cards. Oh, yes, let me just give all my financial information to someone who uses a fake email address. Anyway, I installed Bad Behavior . Let’s see how it goes. Update 9/22/2007: Bad Behavior, when it isn’t used in the sense of “Leslie’s hobbies,” is a WordPress plugin that blocks spammers from the site. Bad Behavior works great. See the bottom of the page for stats. FYI, Homeland Stupidity has moved to a new website . They also have an immensely satisfying project called Project Honeypo...