Awesome is: being one of the urban Northeastern elite.

[coldforge]

I just found out that the guy who wrote the awesome web based Yiddish dictionary that I use is the same guy who started the Jargon File, the primary document of hacker lore! Raphael Finkel is the coolest hacker ever!

[Aglaya]

It's raining!  Hooray!  Wash some of the pollen away!  Of course it also means that once it stops raining, the pollen will just stick worse, but still!

[Maaik]

Big yellow puddles

[davy]

Is it just me, or is the pollen a little more overwhelming than usual this year? My sinuses have been putting up a good fight, but I mean, the air is like 30% pollen at this point.

[Maaik]

Yesterday it was almost at the point where you'd kick up pollen dust when you walked, it was getting so thick on the ground.

[jm]

It certainly seems worse than usual up here.

[Aglaya]

I can't tell.  It looks like pollen hell to me every single year.  My Camaro is no longer blue, it's kind of a yellow-green.

[milesofsparks]

I am having itchy eyeballs, itchy ears, and occasional breathing problems, plus oral allergy syndrom URGH, but overall way less bad than recent years (knock on wood).  I guess all my allergy & asthma meds are helping?  I need to shell out for new air cleaner filters ASAP, though.

[Aglaya]

In other awesome news, my friends' baby may be being born AS I TYPE!  Even if not right now, it'll be damn soon!

[jm]

oral allergy syndrom

???

[FreddyKnuckles]

I think the pollen thing is the constant rain/snow/rain we've had for about three months combined with the sudden super hot summer weather

[Maaik]

In other awesome news, my friends' baby may be being born AS I TYPE!  Even if not right now, it'll be damn soon!

Yeah, I got that text from Stacie as I was leaving for work this morning.  *fist pumping* BIRTH.

[milesofsparks]

oral allergy syndrom

???

er, syndromE:  
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oral_allergy_syndrome
it is a real drag.  I have to cut down on fresh fruit, esp peas, apples, strawberries, etc. during allergy season.  kiwi makes me look like I've had a collagen injection go awry, so I avoid it entirely.

[Aglaya]

In other awesome news, my friends' baby may be being born AS I TYPE!  Even if not right now, it'll be damn soon!

Yeah, I got that text from Stacie as I was leaving for work this morning.  *fist pumping* BIRTH.

C section in two hours, as it turns out.

[jm]

oral allergy syndrom

???

er, syndromE:  
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oral_allergy_syndrome
it is a real drag.  I have to cut down on fresh fruit, esp peas, apples, strawberries, etc. during allergy season.  kiwi makes me look like I've had a collagen injection go awry, so I avoid it entirely.

Ugh, that sucks!  Sorry to hear that.

[Greg Nog]

miles, have you looked into infecting yourself with a PARASITE?

[auto-da-fey]

oh hey, my place of employment stiffed me on reimbursing my in-my-official-capacity trip to San Diego in January for three months, which I figured was some kind of payback for leaving, but all of a sudden I just got a big old direct deposit that actually exceeds what I had been advance-cleared for. rock the fuck on, I think tonight I'll buy some shit online.

[jm]

BOOSH

[milesofsparks]

miles, have you looked into infecting yourself with a PARASITE?

er, no, no I haven't.

[Greg Nog]

HOOKWORM

[Maaik]

HOOKWORM

I was talking to someone recently who was talking about an episode of This American Life that followed this guy.

[Aglaya]

I suppose if this can help people with life-threatening allergies, then yay.  As for me, I'd rather just keep taking my pills every day.

[elpollodiablo]

Gonna have health insurance in August! For the first time since I was 20! Woot!

[donblood]

I began a totally awesome power grab at work today, and am playing it like a pro, now that I have a few power grabs under my belt.  I feel like a ruthless captain of industry.  (As with previous power grabs, the ultimate goal is to make everything work better, make people happy and save the company money, but hey, a power grab is a power grab.)

[auto-da-fey]

filed my taxes, and finally did my 2008 ones too; turns out I owed California $56 but got back a relative windfall from the federal government. I don't care so much about the money, but am tremendously relieved to have finally taken care of this--in the future, I stay more on the ball, or at least such is the goal.