via metafilter

Dating services are one of the leaky corners where the truth drips out about how we treat each other. In this case, it’s American “Christians” trying to avoid dating pathetic loser poor people. Maybe there are too many people at their churches who make crap money.

Where Christians Meet, as long as you don’t make less than $25,000 a year!

“Our members are intelligent, attractive professionals in search of meaningful relationships.” Well, scratch the Prophets, the Apostles, the Holy Family, Mary Magdalen, and the LORD then. You might want to give Pontius Pilate or the Pharisees a call, though.

The rest of their “web properties” are 581% sleazy, too.

Brain update

Some notes on the great Fix the Brain Project:

The verdict on Adderall XR so far is; good. I don’t feel overstimulated as long as I remember to have a lot less coffee than usual, and I don’t have insomnia if I remember to take it early in the day. I do feel more focused and calm. It’s not a cure-all but it seems to be a somewhat-cure-some, and I’ll take that right now.

The challenge is to make something of this window of opportunity before bad habits drive me back into the same troubles. Since my big problems are with things that are problems for everyone (exercise, routine, organization, chores, bullshit), and I’ve had a lifetime of being a total fuckup at this stuff, it’s going to take a lot of work to improve things.

The EMDR, or as I like to call it the Mesmeric-Optical Phrenotherapy, is useful too. It feels like voodoo, but slowly I’m chopping away at the big nasties. Situations, images, problems that triggered me into a full-blown phobic anxiety fit are increasingly accessible without as much fear and loathing. Unlike 20 mg of stimulant, this is a slow technique, but the changes seem to be permanent. When I’m dealing with something I’ve fucked up, I still feel nauseous and helpless and enraged, but it doesn’t take me right down to the ground. I just get grumpy instead. Pretty good result so far.

The reduced appetite from the Adderall is a benefit, too. Especially since I need to lose about 30 more pounds over the medium term or I’m going to DIE.

Tsunami warning canceled. Whew.

I like my earthquake
—–Original Message—–
From: wcatwc list1
To: conrad@tmail.com
Subject: TsunamiWatcherMessage
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 04:23:28 +0000

WEPA41 PAAQ 150409
TSUWCA

TO – TSUNAMI WARNING SYSTEM PARTICIPANTS IN
ALASKA/BRITISH COLUMBIA/WASHINGTON/OREGON/CALIFORNIA
FROM – WEST COAST AND ALASKA TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER/NOAA/NWS
SUBJECT – TSUNAMI WARNING BULLETIN – FINAL
BULLETIN NUMBER 2
ISSUED 06/15/2005 AT 0409 UTC

…THE TSUNAMI WARNING AND WATCH STATUS IS CANCELED FOR
CALIFORNIA – OREGON – WASHINGTON – BRITISH COLUMBIA – AND
ALASKA…

EARTHQUAKE DATA
PRELIMINARY MAGNITUDE – 7.4
LOCATION – 41.4N 125.6W – 85 MILES NW OF EUREKA-CA.
300 MILES NW OF SAN FRANCISCO-CA.
TIME – 1851 ADT 06/14/2005
1951 PDT 06/14/2005
0251 UTC 06/15/2005

A SMALL TSUNAMI WAS OBSERVED AT THE FOLLOWING SITES
WATER LEVELS REMAIN NORMAL AT ALL COASTAL SITES. NO WAVE
BEEN DETECTED.

EVALUATION
NO TSUNAMI DANGER EXISTS FOR ALASKA – BRITISH COLUMBIA –
WASHINGTON – OREGON OR CALIFORNIA. HOWEVER SOME AREAS MAY
EXPERIENCE SMALL SEA LEVEL CHANGES. AS LOCAL CONDITIONS
CAN CAUSE A WIDE VARIATION IN TSUNAMI WAVE ACTION THE ALL
CLEAR DETERMINATIONS MUST BE MADE BY LOCAL AUTHORITIES.

$$
PKZ032-031-042-034-033-035-041-036-PZZ130-131-133-134-132-
135-150-153-156-110-250-210-255-350-353-356-450-455-550-
530-535-555-670-673-650-655-750-AKZ023-024-025-026-028-029-
027-WAZ001-002-005-006-007-008-009-010-011-013-014-015-016-
021-ORZ001-002-021-022-CAZ001-002-005-007-006-075-074-009-
034-035-039-040-046-041-042-043-150508-
COASTAL AREAS OF CALIFORNIA – OREGON – WASHINGTON – BRITISH
COLUMBIA – AND ALASKA.

…THE TSUNAMI WARNING AND WATCH STATUS IS CANCELED FOR
CALIFORNIA – OREGON – WASHINGTON – BRITISH COLUMBIA – AND
ALASKA…

$$

THE PACIFIC TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER WILL ISSUE A FINAL BULLETIN.

THIS WILL BE THE LAST WEST COAST AND ALASKA TSUNAMI WARNING
CENTER WATCH/WARNING BULLETIN ISSUED FOR THIS EVENT.
THIS INFORMATION IS ALSO POSTED AT WCATWC.ARH.NOAA.GOV.
$$

Stanley C. Jaroszenski: Terrorist

From the L.A. Times, via L.A. Observed. Oddly, although he mailed real or threatened biological weapons together with politically threatening messages to public officials, there’s no mention of the Patriot Act or special circumstances of terrorism. He just got arrested by cops. Maybe it’s the last name.

L.A. Man Held in String of Threatening Letters

A Los Angeles man was arrested Monday on charges of mailing 56 threatening letters denouncing Jews, blacks, Latinos, Asians and homosexuals to a spectrum of private citizens and public officials.

Most of the letters that Stanley C. Jaroszenski is accused of sending also contained hypodermic syringes with needles, authorities said.

Jaroszenski, 64, was taken into custody without incident at his downtown residence after being named in a 117-count federal grand jury indictment accusing him of mailing threatening letters and injurious devices.

Last June, federal officials said, the field office of Rep. Linda T. Sanchez (D-Lakewood) was evacuated after one such letter arrived, warning, “CIA to kill Sanchez.”

In February, they said, one floor of Childrens Hospital Los Angeles was evacuated after a letter arrived declaring “Kill Chinese murderers” and “Chinese Poison + Cancer in Your Body N-O-W.”

Thirty-two letters threatened Jews and typically contained the message: “A good Jew is a dead Jew.”

The most recent letter, mailed April 2, was sent to Los Angeles Police Chief William J. Bratton and accused him of being a child molester.