Archive for the tag "scintillating scotoma"

• Zerbert – When the world went shimmery
• Downloading MAMP, gonna try installing a local copy of WordPress to play with. 2.5 got released today as well… I better put on my glasses. #

• Twitterrific is sending things without me hitting the fricken return key! I was SAYING I love Junior Mints but they give me a stomache-ache. #
• @ijustine: Junior Mints are covered in bug juice y’know… http://tinyurl.com/nyton I like to nibble around the edges, then smoosh. #
• Cortical Spreading Depression… a brain thing, related to migraine auras / scintillating scotoma. Google it… http://tinyurl.com/34cl4y #
• From hot out herre – a rare meme: > 1) go to wikipedia and click random article. that is your band’s name. > 2) click random article again; that is your album name. > 3) click random article 15 more times (or however many times seems >     appropriate for your band); those are the tracks on your album. I got the following: 1) Emiliano Moretti 2) Kevin O’Neill (rugby player) 3) Paul Schütze; Richard B. Hays; Euphemia Elphinstone; Nelson; Gennaker; Cynosarges; Shepton High School; Piura (disambiguation); Collie Power Station, Western Australia; Saga, Kōchi; Sugar crust; Cold Wars (gaming); Filmation’s Ghostbusters #
• Overheard on Kindle Korner: “I am naming my kindle Safira, the blue dragon from the book Eragon.” #
• “My Kindle is Bartimaeus, the 2000-year-old djinn from the Amulet of Samarkand.” #

• Got woken up way too early by a buzzsnort. Not my own but it very well could have been! I do that AND talk in my sleep so I’m the lucky one. #
• Amazon Filler Item Finder (via Metafilter)
• Bad Behavior antispam plugin for WordPress et al
• Jesus, I just installed the Bad Behavior plugin for WP like five minutes ago and it’s already blocked 6 access attempts. :-o #
• When I get the sleep-paralysis thing where I think I’m getting up, I can “stretch” my “leg” into the air and actually feel the burn. Freaky. #
• The TV was on (IRL) and I could “see” it… but when I put my hand up to cover that view, IT WAS INVISIBLE. Everybody look at your hands! #
• Earlier I’d caught a young woman who’d broken into the house. Shrank her down to 3 inches and held her squirming while I called the cops. #
• @gruber was there!?! I told him I’d just shrunken the last intruder and he’s like “heh… in your dream!” and I’m all… “well, yeah!” #
• Gotta very wily spammer trying to post pharmaceutical links in my Scintillating Scotoma group after I told him nicely to STFU. GRRRR!!! Ban. #
• Louisiana Fried Chicken forgot to give me my dirty rice, so I walked back. They made it right AND gave me free 7-Up cake. Customer service! #
• Wil and Happy last night at Armadillo Pizza

• Uploading my Demos album to Virb. I forgot I could do that. :-) Virb is nice, I wish more people would show up. http://virb.com/edith #
• I have crazy-hair today, and a bandaid on my chin #
• Vet extracts toy lizard from real lizard: http://tinyurl.com/2boqla #
• Listening to Edward Burch covering "Easy To Love". It’s very surreal, like I just unearthed an early version with the vocals at half-speed. #
• p.s. MP3′s on the web if you wanna hear it… http://tangleweed.org/downloads/kennett/ #

• Oh YAY, somebody finally commented on the new migraine-aura forum. Relieved. I think it’ll work out, & we’ll get hella pageviews at Google. #

• Testing how importing works from EE to WP, I found a buttload of uncategorized posts that I had to fix. EE makes it easy, but WP? I dunno… #
• Nice to see such a dizzying array of bugly WP themes. Like always I guess I’d just pick one with the right layout, then hack it to pieces. #
• Heh! 1Passwd has revealed to me that at some point I changed a certain password to "*******". Literally! Fucked up the cut’n'paste I guess. #
• SIGH… I’m about to kick the Auranauts off my poor beleaguered website, and onto a Google Group I just created. Please wish us all godspeed #
• Holy crap, the Chicago Reader got bought out and my friend Sheila Sachs is getting the boot after TWENTY-TWO YEARS as art director! UUUGGGH. #
• Dang, my NPR puzzle answer was wrong! Or, not exactly wrong, just too obscure. Naturally, my idea of “famous” is very different from theirs! #
• This week’s puzzle is TOO EASY! And, I just saw three lil’ raccoon babies, cute as they could be, staring curiously as mama hustled ‘em by. #

Okay, so… here’s the deal y’all. The phrase "scintillating scotoma" is now outranking my own damn name in Google search queries leading to this site.  Which means migraine auras are more famous than I am, and we ABSOLUTELY can’t have that, can we?  Just kidding.  It’s not a bad thing, it just means our little group has grown to magnificent proportions, so much so that it’s probably outgrown its living quarters.  Time to give it a home of its own.  So… I hope this isn’t totally lame of me, but please say hello to the new Google Group I just created, with the brilliant and original name "Scintillating Scotoma"!  http://groups.google.com/group/scintillating-scotoma

It’s totally empty right now. But once I get my shit together, I’ll post an archive of this site’s SS-related entries and comments to a page in that group, for easy reference.  I won’t post any of y’all’s e-mail addresses, don’t worry, just the comments themselves. And if anybody doesn’t want their old comment appearing over there, just let me know and I’ll get rid of it, no prob.

It’s been deeply interesting for me to host this group over the years, and I fully intend to keep it going, just not so much *here*.  I hope y’all understand… ::sniff::

• Goo-dammit. The top search query for my site is “scintillating scotoma”, not “edith frost” which is number f’n TWO. I oughta go back to bed. #
• This is the best: Twitterrific notifying Growl using Chat Bubble style, and “Stay On Screen” set to “Always”. Read tweet, and close. Love it. #
• Anybody know if there’s a key combo to insert a carriage return into an MP3′s comment in iTunes “Get info”? Other than cutting and pasting. #
• Oh god I’m playing with WordPress. Feels very much like I’m sneaking around behind ExpressionEngine’s back. :-o #
• @beep: SSSSSHHHH. I’m just playin’, not switchin’! err… right now… ‘cuz I’ve been wanting to check it out. Seriously invested in EE tho. #

Update: I’ve decided to move this conversation to a new place on Google Groups: http://groups.google.com/group/scintillating-scotoma. Any future comments should be placed in the new group rather than here… anyone can post, you don’t have to be a member. The reasons behind the move are explained over here if you’re interested.

I haven’t had a migraine aura in about three years, knock on wood. But we’re up to almost 200 comments on the last post so I reckon it’s time to refresh this thread. I do that every once in awhile so it’ll be less taxing on the system.

Here’s a roundup of previous posts, where you’ll find approximately one bazillion comments from other migraine-aura-havers: Part 0, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3

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Tonight in Portland, I got a migraine aura — first time it’s ever happened during a show. Weird. I’m down in the dressing room waiting for it to go away now.

Update: Comments are closed on this post; the discussion continues on this newer one.

Yup, I’m having one again. Good thing I’m a touch typist! ;-) It’s equally intense in both eyes but is floating off to the left side a bit. Classic C-shape and pulsing very brightly. It’s mostly black and white but I am perceiving a bit of red and blue in there too. I’m having a real hard time reading now so if there are typos I’ll have to fix them later.

We have 120-someodd comments on the last  SS thread, so I think it’s time to start a new one. I’ll go post a note over there and send people over this-a-way. It seems no matter what blogging system I use, it’s never really too happy when it has to serve up an entry with THAT much text on it.

Man, this is bright and shimmery. I can read now, it’s expanded wide enough in the 5 minutes it took me to type this. Eh… no pain, no big deal. Just weird.

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Tonight (=last night) I had another ocular migraine, the first one I’ve had in three years. I was driving; we were on our way to the store, stopped off at the money machine and there it came. It was pretty mild in comparison to others I’ve had… only lasted about 15 minutes and was only in black and white zig-zags, no colors that I could detect. By the time I noticed it, the C-shape "porthole" was wide enough that I didn’t have to stop driving, and by the time we got to the store it had expanded all the way out to my eyelids so I couldn’t see it anymore. It was only in my left eye like always. (That’s my "good eye"… the other eye is totally wacked-out and lumpy with astigmatism.)

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Note: This is a journal entry — it was written on paper or on my computer, then transferred to my website, maybe years later.

Had another ocular migraine today. No pain, but a far-out light show!

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Note: This is a journal entry — it was written on paper or on my computer, then transferred to my website, maybe years later.

Had my first ocular migraine since before Thanksgiving.

Discovered Napster!

Update: Comments are closed on this post; the discussion continues on this newer one.