Adventures in brain tumors: Hormone Medications FTW!

Earlier today I did a full scan of my brain via an MRI procedure. It wasn't as bad as I thought, and I even got to listen to music for most of the procedure (and the radiology dude commented at the end "Nice tunes dude. Tapes 'n Tapes? Love that album"). In the past couple …

In Defense of Twittering During Tragedy

Yesterday, I noticed blogs lighting up as they passed along the story of a mother supposedly twittering while her son drowned and the massive backlash that followed including instant accusations of parental neglect. The story sounded too good to be true, the kind of stuff people write in their heads and hold in draft mode …

Four hours with a Motorola Droid Phone

Some notes from spending a few hours with my first Droid phone. The first thing I encountered that drove me crazy was trying to login to my own sites. When I highlighted a text field, it took up the entire viewport in landscape mode, not even showing the label for what I was entering. I …

La Blogotheque takeaway shows

I’m a late comer to La Blogotheque’s Takeaway shows (Andy turned me onto them six months ago). From what I gather, the site is like a French Pitchfork, and when musicians come visit, a video director and sound guy throw some instruments at the musicians and they play wherever they can. Buses, street corners, and …

Adventures in brain tumors: some ups, some downs

Another week, another set of appointments. This week I did a long appointment with an eye doctor, had an ultrasound of my heart, and then checkups with my neuro surgeon/endocrinologist. The eye appointment was excruciating as it involved many dilation drops over a period of around three hours. Once per hour I'd see the doctor …

Adventures in brain tumors: a frustrated start

I wish I had a copy of the images to show you, because they're kind of amazing. Imagine a cross-section shot of a head and what isn't brain, is tumor. In the small gap at the base of the brain, there it is, and it's huge. Tumor, all of it. So large you can't see …