Tonya and PQBON's WebLog
OK, so I broke me arm on wednesday, August 27th, 2003. I did it on my motorcycle. Yes, I had a motorcycle accident. I was coming onto the freeway (101S) @ university in palo alto. I was doing about 25 maybe 30, and thought I saw something in the road. There is a wall that runs up to corner, but a curb that runs anouther 200' or so. As I drifted left to avoid the raod debris I saw, I noticed the curb at the last second. As the bike hit it, i dropped off the side. I landed on my arm. I broke the metacarpel behind my pointer finger. I also snapped my radius and ulna. One of them has two brakes. These were open fractures (the bone broke the skin but wasn't sticking out). I also have a bit of roadrash on my knees and right hip. I was treated as a truama case on the abulance and in the stanford ER. Due to several gunshot injuries wednesday night, the ER was under lock down. That made it so that Ken and Amsnda couldn't see me in the ER. I was stuck on a backboard for like 2 hours while I was poked and proded for every possable side effect of an accident. Eventualy me and my bent and broken arm were escorted to an OR and my roommates were sent home for the night. I woke up in a bed surrounded by residents and an attending who were doing rounds and they put my hand in a big foam block that keeps my hand raised above my heart. I spent the next day sleeping eccept for the occasional minstrations from various nursing functionaries. And that was about all I did on thursday. Ken and Amanda came and went which was very nice because I needed a friendly presence. Friday was spent bouncing around trying to get medical insurance crap finished. Stanfords hand specialist wanted to do some surgury on my hand on tuesday. My insurance company wanted a second opinion. The hand specialist that works with my leg Dr. recommended not going the surgury route after taking some xrays. My pointer finger will be a bit shorter then it used to be but it should have full function and range of motion. With surgury the length would be fixed but I would likely loose rang of motion.
FAQs:
1) No, I won't be giving up on motorcycles. I have been riding off and on for 13 years or so and this is the first time I have been seriously injured.
2) yes, I consider that onramp to be poorly designed and poorly marked.
3) yup, I typed this only my left hand.
It looks like my leg is actually healing. It seems all the pain I've been feeling has encouraged my leg into a stage of hypergrowth. Bone caluses have finally formed and the bone seems to be filling in the gap. The Dr. was suprise how much growth my bone demonstrated only 6 weeks after the surgury. Unless something really nasty happens, I won't need anymore surgury.
The Dr said 4 to 6 weeks before I can expect to walk with out pain, two to three monthes before I can run, and 4 to 5 monthes before I can play basketball (or other jumping high leg stress sport...).
The good news is the last surgury was a success and I am healing.
I don't go back to the Dr. for 2 monthes.
Tribe.net is cool. It seems in many ways to be cooler then Friendster.
Everyone should join... if you search for the email address: sdeutsch@yahoo.com...
For people that know what I'm talking about I am going to create a tribe for pho people.
Tappered for maximum penitration....
I saw the Italian Job this weekend. It was a lot of fun. One of the things I liked about it was the stunts were stunts not digital effects. The minis really were minis driving around town. Sure, it was obvious that they didn't have heavy weights in the back by the way they were handling, but they really did handle like a front wheel drive car.
The story was also kinda cool. The whole honest good guy thiefs getting back at the evil bad guy thief.
(I like the title it rhymes with an orgy of sorts which sounds kinda dirty)
OK.. Over the past two days I: Sailed a 35' sailboat in 20-30 knot winds. We had the boat healed over so that the rails were in the water... It was in a word AWESOME. We sailed from the Alameda Yacht club to pacbell park, up across Alcatraz, back down to the bay bridge (from behind Alcatraz) around treasure Island and home... It was a grand trip, and well I want a sailboat now... Something like a 30 or 32 footer with a racing profile. I can't really afford one now but, hey...
The next day, I loaded my YZ250F into a friends pickup and went dirtbike riding. I just went to the Santa Clara County Motorcycle park (Metcalf Park). I rode for about 2hours. It was great until it started to pour and thunder. At this point either because of the rain or my over extension, my leg started to give. The bike started to do things I didn't tell it to do, and I went from a rider to more of a passenger. The nice thing is if your careful about where your going you can kind of cruise most of metcalf. I then loaded up and went home to dry out.
Boing Boing: A Directory of Wonderful Things
"Fully interactive" porn DVDs become a reality
NYT story on the growing popularity of "interactive porn" DVDs, such as one presently top-selling set of nine DVDs (retailing for $31 per disc) that promises "Virtual Sex With..." various stars:
The actress is shown looking at the camera the whole time and talking directly to the viewer. Her co-star is never fully revealed. Only his hands and other crucial appendages are visible, depending on the sex act that the viewer gets to choose.(...)In "Virtual Sex With Devon," the DVD starts with a brief introduction: "I'm Devon. Are you ready to play with me?" At that point Devon's head bobs robotically back into place and the same greeting is repeated until the viewer chooses from four features offered on the on-screen menu: "Strip," "Stories," "Foreplay" and "Sex."
If the viewer chooses the "Foreplay" or "Sex" option, he can choose one of four sexual positions and even Devon's "demeanor" like "innocent" or "nasty" (when she "talks dirty and gets dominant"). There are also little icons on screen in the shape of tongues, vibrators and fingers to choose from to further direct the action."You choose the sexual positions!" screams the box text for the "Virtual Sex" series. "You choose the camera angles! You can choose her moods between innocent and nasty! You ask her to strip naked for you! You control this gorgeous sexual animal and enjoy her countless times!"
- From Boing Boing...
I know, the technolgy to do this was invented with DVD, but to my knowlage there are very few DVDs that use camera angles or interactivity. An interesting question, How many DVD players will break with this disc due to features that aren't fully supported?
Slashdot | Power Outages Strike East Coast
1) Though shalt always design redundancy...
2) Always design to double your expected capacity...
The Onion A.V. Club | Savage Love
I'm a 37-year-old father. I recently discovered that my 14-year-old son is jerking off. He was in his room and really quiet, so I opened the door and saw him. I was shocked! I told him that we need to have a talk later on, but I have no idea what to say. What on earth do I say to my son?
Shocked And Upset
Your son is 14 fucking years old, you moron. OF COURSE HE'S BEATING OFF IN HIS ROOM. Where did you beat off when you were 14? Buckingham Palace? If you don't know what to say to your son, SAU, I have a suggestion: "I'm terribly sorry I walked into your room without knocking, kiddo. I promise to respect your privacy in the future. Forgive me. What I did was wrong."
Went to dinner at the Moss Beach Distillery. Here is my review:
The place is tri-level. The lower level is a lower cost, coastal restaurant. Food is ocean themed but seemed to be lower end. We didn't eat there. The bar area servers food and drink but is located in the center of the building so you don't get an amazing view. You can get any food from either the lower restaurant or the upper though the bar plus you can get drinks. We had appetizers in the bar from the main restaurant menu. The appetizers were amazing. We had seared ahi and smoked salmon. They were both simply amazing. I can say anything better then that. The main restaurant is a very nice place. Every table seemed to be situated for an amazing view of the ocean and the coast. The food was great. I had the Prawns. They were almost as large as baby lobstertails and just as sweet. The only thing that left me less then impressed was the "local legend" about the place being haunted. The location was beautiful, and the food was great. They should have left it at that. Instead they have apparently teamed up with UnSolved Mysteries and have the ghost story about the blue lady haunting the place. That is the closest thing to a down side. You can expect to spend around $200 for a nice dinner for two. Appetizers and drinks were $40 and food was $70. That didn't include wine or dessert.
I moved from dhs.org to pqbon.com due to problems dhs.org was having. toryn.dhs.org will still work but now I have my own domain...
Actually, I have pqbon.{com,net,org}...
The Onion A.V. Club | Savage Love
"Gee, BT, you're such a charmer-chopping blocks? brown eyes?-that I imagine every woman you meet is anxious to bear your child. But, for the record: Pulling out is not birth control, guys."
Georgy Russell For California Governor
I came across this yesterday... or more a friend of mine IMed it to me... Amanda beat me to the punch in blogging it, because I too have been busy working.
Secondary Source: Meta's blog entry...
I think I found someone I can back in the next election:
She's got good ideas...
She supports education...
She's not a republican...
She doesn't seem to be pandering to ANY special interests groups...
OK... to see pictures of the screws they took out of my leg:
Leg Pics
Here are two images that have been scaled so you can see the size relative to a number 2 pencil, and the self starting tip. As you can see they aren't small...
This weekend I went to Stanford Shopping center, I was hoping my leg would fall off. By the end, I was just gritting my teeth to walk. I think the surgeon took the screws out as punishment for not healing as well as he thought I should.
Today, I tried to find a cane. I went around the whole stanford shopping center. The only canes there were in a lugage store. The kindof funny thing was that all the stores pointed us to the luggage store. Macys, Neiman Markus (I was really suprized Neiman Markus didn't have canes), and a few others... none had them but sent us to the luggage store. All the canes at the luggage store were jenky. I might as well use my crutch if I can't find a cool cane...
Does anyone know of a place to get cool canes?