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You know how much I hate my health insurance company? $553.89. That's how much. Oh, plus another $690 or so that I'm going to owe them soon.
Poor coverage or high premiums? Or, more likely, both?
- Rochelle Rochelle
Mine is proving itself to be pretty worthless, too.
- Steve is older than ever
Ack!
- lris
The $553.89 is what I just paid for lab work, because apparently they only cover lab work if it is done in the doctor's own lab, so if your doctor doesn't have a lab, your screwed. They also don't cover outpatient mental health treatment. I actually had better health insurance as a grad instructor at Iowa than I do now.
- laura x
That sucks. There are so many loopholes and switchbacks with payment. What's the point of even having insurance?
- Derrick
*sits quietly up in Canada*
- DJF
I got the discount because the lab was at least in my preferred provider network?
- laura x
that is insane.
- marthalib
Yeah. I paid $1200 to the periodontist yesterday, even though I have dental insurance. Thank Og I hadn't spent out my FSA and I'll get $1150 of that back, but still.
- ÉllbeeÇee
That is terrible coverage. I'm sorry. :(
- Laura H.
I hate that my dental insurance covers dependent's braces but not adult. It's not my fault my parents couldn't afford braces when was a kid. :(
- Kårín Dalzĭel
Mine actually will cover adult orthodontics, karin, and a good portion of it. Periodontic coverage sucks on mine though - some will be covered by insurance, but not much.
- ÉllbeeÇee
I had some outpatient surgery recently. Before I went in, my insurance approved the whole thing and indicated it would be covered. Now I get a statement from them indicating that I may owe around $800 that they aren't covering. Hopefully, that won't be the case. If not, then the hospital damn well better take installments, 'cause I don't have that much cash lying around.
- ǎňňǎ
Reading about William Worthy via external links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
"Little humor and no surprises, though the sense of tedium seems authentic enough." Someday I would like to become snarky enough to review for Kirkus.
lris, Sarah June, Kirsten and Victor Ganata liked this
The Economist book reviews are at their best when the reader doesn't like the book.
- DJF
Is the book about library school by any chance?
- Steve is older than ever
It's a British police procedural. So not exactly.
- laura x
@violetgloss Percolators are evil and are designed to make coffee taste like mud. Or such is my belief, anyway.
Mar₭ the Engaged liked this
Percolators still exist? I agree with your belief, but I haven't seen a percolator in many years. (Remembering pre-Peet's SF Chronicle front-page headline, "Great City Forced to Drink Swill.")
- Walt Crawford
Lazyweb: your favorite examples of propaganda online, preferably okay for 5th graders.
This site looks great: http://www.calvin.edu/academi...
- Steve is older than ever
This site is irritating, but might be worth it? http://www.pbs.org/redfiles/
- Steve is older than ever
What kind of propaganda? Big national stuff or just examples of misleading ads?
- Laura - Barry's figment
I haven't been able to talk to the teacher at length yet, but I don't think it matters too much--sounds like she just wants to introduce them to the concept.
- laura x
When we learned about propaganda in elementary school, it was more about how advertisers tried to persuade you to buy things. Here's a page with a basic list: http://www.foothilltech.org/rgeib....
- Laura - Barry's figment
wait, you are saying propaganda is bad? ;)
- marthalib
Martha, until WW II, propaganda was just the term used for persuasive speech. So all political and advertising speech was considered to be "propaganda." It's amusing looking at old print volumes of Library Literature and seeing the subject heading "library propaganda".
- DJF
Nice, Laura! I am also thinking of showing her one of the Star Wars/Triumph of the Will mashups, because those usually blow people's minds the first time they see them: http://www.youtube.com/watch....
- laura x
Wow. I hadn't seen the mashups before.
- Laura - Barry's figment
My long-time favorite "teach the kids about ads" thing is the one about the North American House Hippo: http://www.youtube.com/watch... . It won the 1999 Golden Marble Award (outstanding achievement in kids advertising).
- Betsy (bentley) Vera
(btw, if anyone's thinking Christmas presents: I wouldn't mind a north american house hippo of my own.)
- Betsy (bentley) Vera
"I want a hippopotamus for Christmas..."
- Katy S
"Only a hippopotamus will do..."
- Betsy (bentley) Vera
Got two fillings at the dentist and brought ice cream home, but I am eating peas for dinner. I fail at self-indulgence.
lris, Alex Scoble and Laura - Barry's figment liked this
depending on what you had done, cold would not be an indulgence.
- DJF
Oh, I'm fine, I just can't chew very well. But I got home and was craving savory, not sweet.
- laura x
there's a restaurant near here that makes garlic icecream.
- DJF
Yes, BUT AM I ANYWHERE NEAR THERE? No. But you could go get some for me.
- laura x
I am going to make pumpkin bread. YOU CAN'T STOP ME.
Alex Scoble, MASTER OF THE OBVIOUS, Katy S and 3 other people liked this
I can't stop you, but you can't stop me from enjoying the results.
- Julian
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- D0r0th34
WHY WOULD I STOP YOU?
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
AND NOW I AM EATING IT.
- laura x
yum
- marthalib
hey i just made some yesterday too! it was awesome!
- βℜ∀ñÐi
I hate it when I get the coffee all ready to brew in the morning after swimming and then hit the on switch on the coffee maker. DOH.
Listening to NPR's story "by popular demand about high school marching bands and wondering how many requesters are marching band alums.
Dinner tonight involved homemade mozzarella with grape tomatoes, beet and carrot salad, and a pasta/chickpea/chard/garlic/olive oil mixture with a little parmeseano reggiano. If I ever have to be fed via a tube, it's time to pull the plug.
Galadriel C., MASTER OF THE OBVIOUS, Laura - Barry's figment and 3 other people liked this
remind me to come visit you
- marthalib
Any time!
- laura x
hmm...i wonder if i can get my husband the cheese guy to ship you some of their parm...it's delicious! and aged in a cave under the store :)
- ~Courtney F.
Mmm!
- Laura H.
Oh yuM!
- Rochelle Rochelle
Courtney, if the cheese guy ships me some parm, I'll ship you something from our chocolatier in return!
- laura x
That sounds fabulous!
- Galadriel C.
"I'll only eat one a day," I say when I make brownies. Yeah right.
Jim Hearts FF, MASTER OF THE OBVIOUS, Laura - Barry's figment and 2 other people liked this
I ate 4 today but they were small, does that count?
- Daenel Vaughn-Tucker
My friend Dutch just stopped by worried because I hadn't noticed him wave the other day. "Jesus," he said, "I thought, well what have I done to get that broad pissed off at me?" I love this place.
Kenton, VAL D., Catherine Pellegrino and 6 other people liked this
I wonder how many people besides Dutch can get away with calling Laura "that broad?" (I don't intend to find out if I'm one of them.)
- Steve is older than ever
Heh. Dutch does have the advantage of being 60-something. He also gets away with calling me sweet pea.
- laura x
I saw you in the LSW Wave today! It hasn't gripped me and I'm so busy ... I've only been checking it about once a week. Also, keep forgetting to open it in Chrome which, apparently, helps it run a little faster. I invited you to the Laura wave (no, I didn't start that. I swear).
- Laura Norvig
Germans will be knocking over a symbolic row of dominoes today. You know, once one country falls to capitalism, it's just a matter of time.
joshua "magic" neff, Pete and Steve is older than ever liked this
You know, putting on a hat and scarf inside the house is probably an indication that I should turn the heat up.
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In the Good Earth Market in Billings enjoying the combination of crunchiness and wifi.
Got up not too terribly late; had oatmeal and coffee; got semi-organized, and now I'm off to Billings for the day.
Derrick, JSNFLMNG, Laura - Barry's figment and lris liked this
@nprscottsimon Thank you so much for the bombastic fog commentary. http://bit.ly/2p3TmH
MoMA | The Collection | Marcel Odenbach. You Can't See the Forest for the Trees. 2003 - http://www.moma.org/collect...
This whole exhibition blew me away last month when I saw it in person, but sadly the web version isn't doing much for me. #artgallery
- laura x
from Bookmarklet
Look! Some of your WY peeps here in NYC! http://www.metmuseum.org/special...
- Stephen Francoeur
Hot damn!
- laura x
Two more cavities. Wyoming is bad for my teeth.
Jim Hearts FF, J. Abdul-Qahhar and Laura - Barry's figment liked this
The telephone is absolutely the worst way to reach me.
Jim Hearts FF, Elaine Nelson, Jen and 5 other people liked this
yup
- D0r0th34
phone? what the heck is that?
- Sir Shuping
"Also, most programs are more interesting than this one." Favorite line so far in the reading for http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb...
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Are you planning to do that course systematically?
- Steve is older than ever
That is my plan, yes--I'm following along via this Dreamwidth community: http://intro-to-cs.dreamwidth.org/ (thanks to Dorothea for pointing me to geekfeminism.org, which in turn pointed me to this)
- laura x
RT @bgazettewyoming LARAMIE - Forty years ago, 14 black University of Wyoming football players... http://billingsgazette.com/news...
My mother says her new cat does not understand why the kitty in the mirror doesn't want to play with him.
Jennifer Johnson, M F, Jemm and 4 other people liked this
Some cats pay attention to mirrors, some don't.
- D0r0th34
My Plum cat likes to meow at her image in the mirror.
- Katy S
Dream likes to beat the living daylights out of his.
- D0r0th34
Your cat is violent!
- Katy S
Awww. :)
- Laura H.
My cats have not discovered the kitties who live in the mirror--or they have and are just uninterested.
- laura x
My cats all seem to understand the concept of mirrors.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Plum is the only one of mine that seems interested in the mirror. Sophie has bigger fish to fry, like figuring out how to remove her collar: http://ff.im/ajrRE
- Katy S
7 a.m. Laura wishes she'd gotten up to go swimming. 5:30 a.m. Laura, however, was much more interested in sleep.
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There was a 'Roasted' cartoon like this. '*Yesterday* me wanted to go running at 6, *Today* me *hates* yesterday me...'
- Pete
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