I Gots Pants

Since 6 May, I've worn either hospital gowns or sweat shorts. But as the weather cools and we begin to progress towards being mobile outside the house, I sort of thought pants might be in order.

I already had the OT therapist help me with a prelab -- my jeans were loose enough in the legs that I could get them on over the AFO. Today I thought we'd start with sweat pants. There's an old pair with narrow cuffs and I fear, some thin spots which might go someday. So we tried the other, newer pair that don't have elastic cuffs.

I remember that I haven't worn these in a long time, something about the fit. Turns out that (a) they are foolishly lower rise so they slide off my butt within a few steps and threaten to take my undershorts with them -- not cool, fashionwise -- and (b) the fabric was clinging to the AFO and its Velcro, which accelerated the pants pull down. So, no dice.

On to the blue jeans!

Funny how heavy they feel -- well they are heavy -- compared to the lightweight stuff I've been wearing. Indeed, lots of things have felt surprisingly heavy since I've gotten home. And loose somewhat, given the weight I've lost. That's why one wears suspenders. (grin)

Anyway, I am now officially dressed in real clothes for the first time in nearly six months. Strange to think how this has all happened, even as that long time away from home is quickly fading from the top memories.

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LAX Security

Yeah, not like anyone is going to make that joke.

So Friday some nut took an AR-15 into the Los Angeles airport and killed a TSA agent, shot up others. Or whatever -- I never trust early details on these things. But what I wanted to talk about was how I heard the news.

See, Friday afternoon I was switching between AMC showing Aliens and another movie, when I saw a note on Facebook. Jim Wright had written that he had heard about the shooting on Twitter. Comments to that post discussed the nature of Twitter versus news organizations to report breaking news. To be fair, one commenter pointed out that Twitter doesn't require fact checking, which most news organizations still do sometimes.

Jim lives in Alaska. Someone commented on how unreal it was that they got their news on LAX from an Alaskan. Me, too:

AMC is running Aliens. Nuke them from orbit -- it's the only way to be sure. And yeah, I too got my news from some Alaskan on Facebook... Dr. Phil

As for the tweets Jim had gotten:

Notably some of the first ones I saw were from Tory Bellaci and Grant Imahara of Mythbusters fame, who were apparently at the airport.

How cool is that? I'd trust the Mythbusters B-team on this. (grin)

And, of course, one commenter pointed out that xkcd had already talked about the Twitter news flash phenomena brilliantly, as usual, with both science and sarcasm.


I could do Twitter, I suppose, but I like to work uninterrupted. Plus social media is such that things get crossposted. Even this blog entry was written in Dreamwidth, crossposted to LiveJournal and then I link back to LJ or DW on Facebook. So I'm not missing too much. Yet. (grin)

And yeah, "everybody" knows all this. So I'll point out that this post is also a marker -- ten years from now, I'll be reminded how we did this... way back in 2013. And Get Off My Lawn!

The technology changes us so fast. No guarantees that any of this infrastructure will be used in 2023. Makes it hard to come up with novel methods of information transfer in SF. (double-post-grin)

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