Andrew Sandwich

Diuretic

Inhibiting the kidney’s ability to reabsorb sodium, thus enhancing the loss of sodium in the urine. And when sodium is lost in the urine, water goes with it. (This type of diuretic is called a high-ceiling diuretic or a loop diuretic).

Enhancing the excretion of both sodium and chloride in the urine so that water is excreted with them. This is how the thiazide diuretics work.

Blocking the exchange of sodium for potassium, resulting in excretion of sodium and potassium but relatively little loss of potassium. These diuretics are therefore termed potassium sparing diuretics.

August 9

“ It’s a hell of a logistical nightmare to try and take and keep South Ossetia against a rather fine Georgian military.

http://www.thenational.ae/article/20080809/FOREIGN/69401707/1002

Interesting article from a newspaper, and place, where war is common.

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“ The hipster represents the end of Western civilization – a culture so detached and disconnected that it has stopped giving birth to anything new. From the new Adbusters cover story, “Hipster: The Dead End of Civilization”

via Valleywag (via catbird)

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catbird:

Fine, I concede! Chris wins the Monty the Montauk Monster contest.

via topherchris

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catbird:

Someone should really sue this Marvel Comics joint for putting this stuff in front of children.

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June 20

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Animatronics date at least as far back as Disney’s Lincoln robot delivering part of the Gettysburg address, although Abraham’s delivery all but ignored any emotional fervor.

-David Byrne

http://journal.davidbyrne.com/2008/06/06102008-voice.html

June 11

Is Google Making Us Stupid?

catbird:

Here’s the short answer, since you won’t actually read the article because it’s 4 pages long: Yeah, probably.

Cell phones are no better for us; I LITERALLY cannot remember MY OWN phone number anymore.

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“ This leads toward the question posed by all these amateur photogs at indie shows: are mp3s— the common currency for music distribution these days— also inauthentic representations of the music, helping create a culture in which so many feel the need to not only say “I was there”, but also “The band was there!”? In other words, when the majority of people are listening to music as digital files with very limited information of any sort about the artists, does the need to “authenticate” the music by documenting its presence right in front of them increase that much more? marathonpacks: cigarette math is full of surprises: Got Live If You Want It (On My Flickr Page) (via perpetua)

June 9

http://www.catandgirl.com/view.php?loc=604

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Deerhunter’s Microcastle is perfect « elastic resonance

perpetua:

Charming hyperbole!

I enjoy this guy’s enthusiasm, but my feeling thus far is that the band have improved, but the new album lacks the emotional urgency of Cox’s best work. Some of the songs are gradually sinking in, though — I’ve come to quite like “Agoraphobia” and “Never Stops,” the latter of which stikes me as a spacier version of GBV circa Under The Bushes, Under The Stars.

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Is that blogging?

catbird:

maura:

But a half hour after the band came onstage, I would have happily barred every camera from the place. And mobile phones too. An endless array of shiny silver doodads held up, videoing, photographing, relaying. There’s something distracted about the way we’re enjoying ourselves now. It’s not just that new technologies are affecting our attention span, it’s like people are trying section away a portion of their enjoyment. Saving it for another day. Unable to simply experience the moment, as cliched as that sounds. Just fucking stand there and listen, or dance, or whatever. Just let the thing that’s supposed to happen happen.

Or, as I like to say: if you didn’t shoot photos or video of it, if you didn’t “tweet” it (ugh), if you didn’t rush home and blog/Tumbl/Facebook it, DID IT REALLY HAPPEN????

May 15

“ My lack of empathy for Kevin comes from my sense of loyalty to the generation born between the years of 1961 and 1981. Generation X. Kevin is part of the generation born between 1982 and 2002—a Millennial, formerly known as Generation Y. (They got renamed after whining too much.) They’re younger. They’re healthier. They got to do anal in high school. They think updating a spreadsheet while simultaneously posting to a Twitter account about the latest gossip on perezhilton.com is an essential corporate skill. And, like Kevin, they’re always doing stupid shit, but rarely getting called on it. Features : Radar Online : A Call to Arms Against Millennials Very bitter and hyperbolic, but it gets at a certain truth. (via perpetua)

May 12

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The first part of the equation, though, is where this whole thing gets tricky, and where the problem of anxiety about influence comes in. If we think that this was a valuable experience to have, and if we think opportunities to have this experience no longer abound, it should follow that we want to encourage what few there are so that kids these days can be fortunate enough to have the same kind of adolescences we did. Putting it that way is stacking the deck a bit, so I don’t want to lean on this too heavily. Certainly the present decade has all sorts of problems, and there are many aspects of “the 90s” that I wouldn’t mind seeing return. If there’s anything that argues against merely accepting the social environment as it is, it’s that it changes every seven years or so.

But ultimately, the things I want changed aren’t specifics, but generalities. I would like to see more awareness of sexism, but I don’t necessarily think that it needs to come via take back the night marches. Requiring that a new generation deal with the same issues in the same ways seems like Boomeritis. “Political problems? Well then, by gum, you need protest singers and protest marches! If you’re not doing that, well then, you’re not really dealing with the problem, and you don’t really care! Unlike us! We cared, man!” Replace “protest singers and protest marches” with “hardcore music and community centers” and you have the critical discourse surrounding No Age.

clapclap.org knows writers who use subtext and they are all cowards: Punk Grammar (via perpetua)