Allergies (was: Getting silly Re: br!n: war)
--- The Fool wrote: From: Ronn Blankenship At 02:58 AM 10/27/02, The Fool wrote: Most hot and spicy sauces will help clear the sinus', but it's better to keep them clear in the first place. Agreed. What should one do to insure that when one has severe allergies that make them block up at the slightest provocation (or sometimes no apparent provocation), so one never really has clear sinuses to keep clear? And only relatively strong medicine provides some relief, which generally wears off before it is time to take the next dose, though if you're lucky it allows for a long enough span of relatively free breathing so you can get to sleep, and if you're not, you lie there miserable all night and feel even worse the next day . . . 8 grams or so of vitamin c/day can do wonders. For more than just a couple of days, this is an excessive dose. While Vitamin C is water-soluble, at this dosage it would be very easy to overload the kidneys if one was not _extremely_ well hydrated. Joint pain can be another side-effect of chronic Vit C megadosing. I personally find that daily intake of salsa/some form of chili-type peppers tends to cut down on my allergic problems, but I have no research to back that up. For really severe allergies, I resort to nasal steroid spray (eg. Flonase, Nasacort etc.) because cromolyn sodium nasal spray (eg. Nasalcrom) doesn't work well for me (although I know others who like it very much). And of course non-sedative antihistamines (eg. Allegra, Claritin), but I try to keep systemic drugs to a minimum. I hate to mention it, but, as a cat-lover who is in fact allergic to cats (though much less as the years pass! :D), you may just have to put up with it; you could consider allergy testing and subsequent immunotherapy, but that is a long time commitment. Anecdotally, I have a good friend who claims that her daughter's allergies were cured by acupuncture. shrug Who knows? Debbi __ Do you Yahoo!? Y! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your web site http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Allergies (was: Getting silly Re: br!n: war)
In a message dated 10/28/2002 5:24:56 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: as a cat-lover who is in fact allergic to cats (though much less as the years pass! :D), I did a close inspection of a used SF book I had just picked up. Almost every page had a white long hair sticking out of the bottom edge. Was it a cat lover who loved science fiction, or a cat who loved the cat lover while the cat lover read science fiction? Did the cat love science fiction? Either way, I took a vacuum to the PB. William Taylor - Some SCAers have to be careful armouring, or they could wind up with a felined helmet. ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Allergies (was: Getting silly Re: br!n: war)
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [I wrote:] as a cat-lover who is in fact allergic to cats (though much less as the years pass! :D), I did a close inspection of a used SF book I had just picked up. Almost every page had a white long hair sticking out of the bottom edge. Was it a cat lover who loved science fiction, or a cat who loved the cat lover while the cat lover read science fiction? Did the cat love science fiction? G Yes, I'm sure! My cats _do_ seem to like marking my books while I'm reading (that's rubbing with their cheeks...not their tails! :P). Some people have dust bunnies, others dust rhinos; mine are dust dinos. :) Some SCAers have to be careful armouring, or they could wind up with a felined helmet. I know one who regularly used to threaten to turn his two black cats into a pair of gauntlets. ;) Children Of A Greater Purr Maru __ Do you Yahoo!? Y! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your web site http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
RE: br!n: war
Actually, David is on nomail until Nov. 2. (I knew this would happen.) Nick -- Nick Arnett Phone/fax: (408) 904-7198 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:brin-l-bounces;mccmedia.com]On Behalf Of Erik Reuter Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 9:31 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: br!n: war Note that JDG's and Jean-Louis' posts had brin: in the subject line. Those messages were being forwarded to David Brin, who asked not to have any messages sent to him (unless urgent) until after the election. ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: br!n: war
Note that JDG's and Jean-Louis' posts had brin: in the subject line. Those messages were being forwarded to David Brin, who asked not to have any messages sent to him (unless urgent) until after the election. ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: br!n: war
Erik Reuter wrote: Note that JDG's and Jean-Louis' posts had brin: in the subject line. Those messages were being forwarded to David Brin, who asked not to have any messages sent to him (unless urgent) until after the election. Actually, JDG has put brin in the subject line only once since Dr. Brin last made the request to remove it, and he re-posted soon after asking folks to respond to the version that had brin stripped out of the subject line. (Of course, someone else responded to the version that still had brin in the subject line, despite the request not to do so.) The post with brin in the subject line that Jean-Louis was responding to was posted by The Fool. It just happened to mention JDG in the part that Jean-Louis quoted. Right now, Dr. Brin is on nomail, so he's not getting the posts. But we really need to watch the subject lines. All of us, myself among the especially crowd. Let's practice by taking it out of ALL subject lines until the election. If you're replying to something that had brin in the subject line, take it out before you hit send. Thanks! Julia who will be monitoring posts and noting who might need frequent reminders when the good doctor returns ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: br!n: war
On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 11:56:07AM -0500, Julia Thompson wrote: Actually, JDG has put brin in the subject line only once since Dr. Brin last made the request to remove it, and he re-posted soon after Actually, twice from the first time DB asked it to be removed (DB asked more than once, the first request I saw was Oct 21 at about 18:00 ET), but you are right that I was thinking of the Fool's post and not JDG's when I wrote that. Sorry, John. Right now, Dr. Brin is on nomail, so he's not getting the posts. But That's good to know. -- Erik Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.erikreuter.net/ ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: br!n: war
In a message dated 10/25/2002 9:31:05 AM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Subj: Re: br!n: war Note that JDG's and Jean-Louis' posts had brin: in the subject line. Those messages were being forwarded to David Brin, who asked not to have any messages sent to him (unless urgent) until after the election. Love it! Way better than what I was doing. (Nirb) Hats off to Erik. ..hey. Hay! Stop that Noor! It's got my hat! William Taylor ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
RE: br!n: war
Erik Reuter wrote: Note that JDG's and Jean-Louis' posts had brin: in the subject line. Those messages were being forwarded to David Brin, who asked not to have any messages sent to him (unless urgent) until after the election. Sorry about that, I didn't check: my bad. Jean-Louis ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: What's Wrong Here? Re: The Future of the World Re: br*n: war
At 09:46 23-10-2002 -0400, John Giorgis wrote: You mean it is completely amazing to hope that Democracy and Free Markets might triumph over Totalitarianism, Autoritarianism, Repression, and Fanatacism?? This is an opinion that I am to be ridiculed for? What's going on here? You misinterpreting what DB was saying -- that is what is going on here. Many people on this list have a fairly good idea of what DB's political views are -- and they all know that what you mention above is very, very, very far removed from His views. Jeroen Reading must be a difficult skill van Baardwijk __ Wonderful-World-of-Brin-L Website: http://www.Brin-L.com ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: What's Wrong Here? Re: The Future of the World Re: br*n: war
Jeroen wrote: What's going on here? You misinterpreting what DB was saying -- that is what is going on here. I must confess that somehow I am also misinterpreting His ideas about Iraq. I would formulate a question, but I was stopped by a holyday exausting trip, His recent absence, and my ignorance of the Latin word for Bush [it is Arbustus? :-)] Alberto Monteiro ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
RE: Getting really silly Re: Br¡n war
-Message d'origine- De : Ronn Blankenship [mailto:ronn.blankenship;postoffice.worldnet.att.net] Oh. You wrote bonking, not boinking. --Ronn! :) For the englishly challenged among us, what exactly would each term mean? Jean-Louis ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Getting really silly Re: Br¡n war
At 12:47 PM 10/22/02, Julia Thompson wrote: Please administer suitable bonking, someone Oh. You wrote bonking, not boinking. Never mind, then: I was going to ask if perhaps you had already experienced some, and that's why you were sore . . . --Ronn! :) I always knew that I would see the first man on the Moon. I never dreamed that I would see the last. --Dr. Jerry Pournelle ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Getting silly Re: Br!n war
Oh, I thought it was only a problem at the beginning of the subject. It seems we need to remove Brin: from ANYWHERE in the subject (must be a non-clever filter he has set up). On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 10:17:38AM -0700, d.brin wrote: Pleese! Only put Brin: in the subject line if it seriously needs my attention. Interesting. Topical. Urgent or about real SF. -- Erik Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.erikreuter.net/ ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Getting silly Re: Br!n war
Erik Reuter wrote: Oh, I thought it was only a problem at the beginning of the subject. It seems we need to remove Brin: from ANYWHERE in the subject (must be a non-clever filter he has set up). On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 10:17:38AM -0700, d.brin wrote: Pleese! Only put Brin: in the subject line if it seriously needs my attention. Interesting. Topical. Urgent or about real SF. My bad -- should have taken it out when I changed the tone with getting silly. Please administer suitable bonking, someone (Unless that's what Sammy's doing to me today) Julia ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
RE: Getting silly Re: Br!n war
No, it's Mailman doing the filtering. I should write a regex that allows for Re: etc. before the phrase that causes the filtering, but I'm lazy, or busy, or something. And I can also put DB on nomail, which I'm about to ask him. Nick -- Nick Arnett Phone/fax: (408) 904-7198 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:brin-l-bounces;mccmedia.com]On Behalf Of Erik Reuter Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 10:26 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Getting silly Re: Br!n war Oh, I thought it was only a problem at the beginning of the subject. It seems we need to remove Brin: from ANYWHERE in the subject (must be a non-clever filter he has set up). On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 10:17:38AM -0700, d.brin wrote: Pleese! Only put Brin: in the subject line if it seriously needs my attention. Interesting. Topical. Urgent or about real SF. -- Erik Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.erikreuter.net/ ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Minutiae (was Re: br!n: war)
At 01:11 21-10-2002 -0400, John Giorgis wrote: Come on, John! If you have the courage to go on record as saying that the EU is completely mistrusted by the European citizenry, you should also have the courage to back that claim. Put up or retract. Hey Nick, do I get a point in the predictions database for this??? ;-) Now, why is it that when I sent that post, I *knew* Giorgis would post something evasive, rather than either backing his claim or retracting it? I must be clairvoyant. I do not know if you will get a point in the predictions database for that, but you do get something else for your post: yet another entry in the Brin-L HOS. Jeroen Clairvoyant van Baardwijk __ Wonderful-World-of-Brin-L Website: http://www.Brin-L.com ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
