Month: September 2017

prostheticknowledge:

The Premium Mediocre Life of Maya Millennial

Worthwhile article from
Venkatesh Rao on a current social-economic state entitled ‘Premium Mediocre’:

Premium mediocre is the finest bottle of wine at Olive
Garden. Premium mediocre is cupcakes and froyo. Premium mediocre is
“truffle” oil on anything (no actual truffles are harmed in the making
of “truffle” oil), and extra-leg-room seats in Economy. Premium mediocre
is cruise ships, artisan pizza, Game of Thrones, and The Bellagio.

Premium mediocre is food that Instagrams better than it tastes.

Premium mediocre is Starbucks’ Italian names for drink
sizes, and its original pumpkin spice lattes featuring a staggering
absence of pumpkin in the preparation. Actually all the coffee at
Starbucks is premium mediocre. I like it anyway.

… Much of the manufactured cool of K-Pop (though not the subtly subversive Gangnam Style, whose sly commentary on Korean life takes some digging for non-Koreans to grok) is premium mediocre. Carlos Bueno
argues that Johnny Walker Black is premium mediocre in the Caribbean.
In Bollywood, the movies of Karan Johar are premium mediocre portrayals
of premium mediocre modern urban Indian life.

The entire idea of the country that is France is kinda
premium mediocre (K-Pop is a big hit there, not coincidentally). The
fact that Americans equate “French” with “classy” is proof of its
premium mediocrity (Switzerland is the actually elite European country).

At its broad, fuzzy edges, premium mediocre is an expansive concept; a global, cosmopolitan and nationalist cultural Big Tent: it is arguably both suburban and neourban, Red and Blue, containing Boomers and
X’ers. It includes bluetooth headsets favored by Red State farmers and
the tiki torches — designed for premium mediocre backyard barbecues —
favored by your friendly neighborhood Nazis. It includes everything
Trump-branded. It covers McMansions, insecure suburbia-dwelling Dodge Stratus owners and Bed, Bath, and Beyond shoppers. It includes gentrifying neighborhoods and ghost-town malls. It includes Netflix and chill. It includes Blue Apron meals.

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Yep it’s full on Lyme I really hope i caught it early enough to be treatable and so far it’s exactly like what I reading about and it’s No Fun.
Haven’t done much or left the house and feel like I can’t really.

I have to say how amazing my followers are and especially those who reached out – thank you thank you thank you.

Ugh it might be imaginary but Lyme symptoms seem to be happening and they suck!

At least I have a sleeping baby and a quiet empty home and all I hear is the outside rain.

Last night I saw a s.african movie Chappy and slid down a slippery slope of reading about Die Antwoord and zef subculture.

It actually resolved itself better than I thought.

My medical practice has an app with an option for free video calls with a doctor or a nurse with a 5 min wait time – she was able to take a look – and yes it does look so much like Lyme disease that there is no point in blood tests.

She sent an antibiotic prescription to my nearby pharmacy right there and then from her app, and it was ready in an hour.

The pharmacist gave me enough free pills to last till Tuesday until I get my insurance sorted.

Yay, 21st century?

Finding a bulls eye rash a week after I was in a tick-infested area can’t be good.

This also might explain the perpetual tiredness.

Finding myself with no health insurance now that September has started and R changed jobs – and on a long weekend just adds to the anxiety.

The following is a statement from acting NASA Administrator Robert Lightfoot on Friday’s announcement of the intended nomination by President Donald Trump of U.S. Rep. Jim Bridenstine to serve as the 13th NASA administrator:

http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-statement-on-nomination-for-agency-administrator (via spacemayne)

Ugh I try to stay away from political posts with bad news, but a nomination of climate science denying politician – not an engineer or scientist – to lead NASA can’t be good.

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/09/trump-has-picked-politician-lead-nasa-good-thing