Remember Bella, and her rescuer Dalai Rasta (Scott)? They could use some help right now…. Unfortunately, everything hasn’t been well. Bella had her first phenobarbital level taken on July 27. Her vet slightly reduced her dose because Bella was close to a toxic level; unfortunately, she had a seizure the following Saturday morning, so she …
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Cat Brothers Rescue Bleg – Wilmington, NC
From longtime commentor EFGoldman: My son-in-law’s mother died suddenly this week. She had two cats, which she mistreated by overfeeding them terribly (one weighs 40 lbs!!). They need to be rescued or rehomed. Can we put out a request for possibilities in the WILMINGTON NC area, please. I will pass them on to my son …
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Pet Bleg III: The Buddy Update
Look at that face! You know you want to help that face!!!! BL has sent along an update about Buddy. First the good stuff: Buddy now likes to play ball. At first he was horrible at catching balls, but is getting better. His walking is also improving daily. At first he could hardly walk; now …
Managing the information fire hose
How do we manage the information fire hose when critical public news breaks in an area with significant technical jargon, precedents and folk ways breaks through the barrier of interesting to vital. How do we, people who want to be reasonably well informed, differentiate between the spectrum between expertise to bullshit to active noisemaking to …
Tech Bleg
Hey, all. Here’s a post that substitutes fecklessness for anything even remotely resembling politics. The sprout, a gamer, just came in to ask if we could upgrade to 330 mbps internet from RCN, from our current 155 mbps. We got the latter on a 12 month intro price that has just expired, and we’d get …
Programming bleg and open thread
Hi folks, this is a straight up call for a small programming job. In my laboratory we have two pieces of equipment that communicate through an improbably complex relay which includes a few obsolete pieces of expensive equipment from companies that no longer exist and a Mac desktop that only exists to receive a trigger …
Medical Bleg
Asking for a friend: Anybody got advice on picking a competent hernia surgeon? And/or tips on good elective surgical programs in the Boston area, or the Northeast generally?