» Make your own library with LibraryThing
Hey Mom, just what you’ve been waiting for. Now you can trade in your 3×5 index cards for this online tool. It does say you can make your own comments about each book.
On Cape, evacuee gives birth to a son and a new dream - The Boston Globe
“His name is Cape Cod Bannister, or ”C.C.” for short.”
Although we could go back to calling Nathaniel “Prince of Cod”.
ANA: CO2 Nasal Spray Relieves Migraine Pain
A device that sends pressurized carbon dioxide up one nostril and out the other — without being inhaled — appears to rapidly abort migraine pain, researchers reported.
A patient experiencing a migraine attack would place the device into one nostril and initiate a flow of carbon dioxide for as long as a minute, Dr. Spierings explained. The gas would actually flow up one nostril and effectively exit the other nostril while patients either hold their breath or keep their mouth closed for about 60 seconds.
While the gas is flowing, carbon dioxide readily permeates the nasal mucous membranes creating carbonic acid and decreasing the pH of the nociceptive nerve fibers, Dr. Spierings said. The acidosis created is potent enough to prevent stimulation of neurons and activation of the pain cascade. A bystander effect that follows prevents activation throughout the trigeminal nerve system.
I’ve wanted a site like this for a long time now. Weather Report Card collects data from various forecasters daily, analyzes their predictions, then tells you for a given area which service to trust. Smartly, it also tells you which to trust for specific forecasts: Today, Tomorrow, 3-day, 4-day, and 5-day. Here’s Boston weather forecast, San Francisco weather forecast, Los Angeles weather forecast, and Austin weather forecast.
Just in case you wanted to see what Pinot Noir would be like in Jelly Bellies…
Wine X Magazine: Combine these flavors to get Pinot Noir
From today’s DailyCandy.com email: Belly Up
Reminds me of that wine-tasting kit you can get with 30+ scents in it, that you smell and compare to your wine, to help you identify the flavors in the wine. But this is much more approachable and less wine-geeky.
Nathaniel has become attached to Band-Aid(tm)s. He’s learned to say “Spiderman” because of them, and now “Dora” (for Dora the Explorer). Maggie just got him some Batman ones. He knows the Spiderman and Batman theme songs… If you do the Spiderman song he’ll say …”Out! …Pider-mannn…”
Problem is, he’s had these Spiderman Band-Aids on for week now, and the injury has healed. Today, Sophie said we are out or Spiderman Band-Aids but he replied “Mommy [will] buy more”.
Nathaniel had a check-up and is officially:
Height: 36 1/2 in., 90th percentile
Weight: 30 lbs., 75th percentile
And his hair is way too long. Overdue for a haircut!
