Pendant Transmitter Button For Your Medical Alarm – Shop At Alert One? With this system, you can receive incoming phone calls – and it’s waterproof, so the pendant or wristband can be worn in the shower or bath. Battery lasts 3-5 years. Discreet and private – no one needs to know you’re wearing it.
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My team leader pointed me in the direction of an interesting article in the Sunday Times about technological solutions to the problem of looking after elders who need a little extra help so they can stay in their own homes as long as practicable. My husband David might find some of the really high-tech stuff interesting, but I’m more interested in the simple, least intrusive solutions. Personal autonomy and empowerment are important, in my view. I’m not interested in an electronic nanny or a computerized tattletale system. Chicago Tribune | Keeping track of Dad Clearly the biggest worry associated with…
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Don’t mind me, I’m just gathering links here. Nothing to see. ::whistles:: I heard a story on NPR about a new philosophy behind elder care a while back, and now I’m trying to run it down. So I’m going to gather a variety of links that may be useful later on. It’s not this one, it was more recent: NPR : Assisted Living vs. Nursing Homes, Housing First Doctors Share Their Woes Caring For Aging Parents Senior Health: Overcoming Fears of Falling NPR Search: Senior Health FOUND IT at last: this is the story I remember hearing last summer: Reformers…
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Blah, blah-blah, blah-blah, blah-BLAH. The excellent Fox News Alert! Theme Music is available for your listening and freaking out pleasure, courtesy of Joey. The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century :: Joey deVilla’s Weblog :: Theme Music for “FOX News Alert”
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BoingBoing’s Xeni Jardin gets around, finally, to making this observation: “We are being lied to.” Yep, we sure are. Finally, several days after I first heard part but not all of it, here is the link to This American Life’s Guantanamo report, “Habeas Schmabeas.” This is the one where part of it, in explanation of the origin of the legal concept of habeas corpus, entails a visit to Westminster Abbey. I was wrong about the guide, his name is Tony, and thus is not the same one we had when we visited the Abbey year before last. And remember, the…
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Huffington Post, that haven for lefty slebs, has a new blogger, and I say “Right on, right on, see you at the barricades.” The Blog | George Clooney: I Am a Liberal. There, I Said It! | The Huffington Post The fear of (being) criticized can be paralyzing. Just look at the way so many Democrats caved in the run up to the war. In 2003, a lot of us were saying, where is the link between Saddam and bin Laden? What does Iraq have to do with 9/11? We knew it was bullshit. Which is why it drives me…
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Oh, boy! Time to infect (or re-re-reinfect ) my husband David with The Geek Rivalries Meme! Star Trek or Babylon 5? Tough one. Very tough. Although Trek informs a lot of my SF psycho-DNA, B5 never betrayed my trust by making me shell out the ducats to watch Drek VII: Teh Resurrection Wot Shunt’a Been. My mind says B5, my heart longs for chest-thumping Kirk and cerebral Spock. In the end, I have to say Trek. I miss not having it to watch (and occasionally, mock) on TV anymore. Because Enterprise, the most recent entry, was just starting to pick…
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Hey, the WKJ is up for a Lulu Blooker prize – this is awarded to books that started out as blogs. It’s one of 5 finalists in the fiction category. Boing Boing’s Cory Doctorow is one of the judges. Cool! Good luck, Gus!
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Man! I want me one of these!! Riley would be up near the top of the scale, he has a relatively high-pitched voice. Usually, he says “Mee! Mee!” and occasionally says “Meu. Meu.” I’ll have to get out the pitch pipe and figure out his most usual “note.” Stuey, on the other hand, would have been a non-musical sound effect near the lower end of the scale, making his trademark nasal “Ow. Ow. Error. Error.” sounds. Guess he would have been a contiuno kitty. Via Boing Boing: Cat piano
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The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century :: Joey deVilla’s Weblog :: Dad Ah, no! Joey’s father has passed away. My condolences to Joey DeVilla and his extended family for their loss. I’ll try to light a candle for Dr. DeVilla later and think of the good he did and the joy he brought into the world – he was an OB-GYN.