Craigslist is great, but it can sometimes be hard to really find good deals. What I do is use their RSS feeds to keep track of what gets posted. Do a search for your desired keywords, like "fremont" or "ballard" or something, then at the bottom of the results page copy the link from the RSS button and subscribe to that feed in your favorite RSS app. I use mail.app on my mac and the feeds show up on the left sidebar next to my mailboxes. This way you can easily keep track of the listings you've already looked at and stay current on the latest postings that fit your search criteria. The mail.app refreshes the feeds every few minutes and shows the number of unread posts in the name on the sidebar. I found my current house this way and called the landlord within minutes of him posting the ad. I've been living in that 4 bedroom, $1200/mo house in wallingford ever since.

I remember reading somewhere that it means roughly "looking each other in the eye and hoping that either will suggest that which both desire yet neither are willing to admit". You know, when you really want to kiss someone, but you're not sure if they want you to or not, but you also don't want to make the first move. Something like that.

Loewyn, I'm curious about your results. After doing all those things did the spots completely go away or do you still have slightly pink smooth spots with no plaques? Also, when you have flareups (if you do), are they in those same spots? Thanks a bunch for your input, you deserve bunches of mushrooms for your help here. Like pants, I find your diet suggestions intimidating, yet encouraging if they yield such good results.

I know what you mean about feeling uncomfortable. I love swimming more than anything but can't help thinking that if I went to swim at the pool people would freak out so I really only swim outside in the summer.

Sunlight definitely seems to help in my case, but I literally need to burn in order for the patches to disappear and I Just don't have the time to spend 6-8 hours in the sun every day. I'd like to try out NB-UVB phototherapy since I feel like it would probably be pretty effective, but the idea of going to the doctor every couple days for the rest of my life just to stand in front of some lights for two minutes is not very encouraging. The home systems seem to be $3000+ for what is essentially a couple fluorescent lights in a box. Not to mention the fact that you need a prescription to buy bulbs for those things. I really wish there was somewhere I could go and just buy a special compact fluorescent bulb that emits NB-UVB, no Rx, no fancy huge light box, just a little bulb.

While it's true that the actual moving of funds between two parties isn't really the governments business, the facilitation of the transaction is and has been for quite some time.

Imagine that there were no treasury bills to use as a medium to transfer value between two parties. You would inevitably need to take your item to a bank and exchange it for private money with which you could then go buy the item you wanted. This of course would cost a fee since printing and shipping bills and coin isn't cheap. At some point the government decided that it would be better if they printed and shipped those bills around to help ease the transfer of value from one person to another.

Running a e-cash system would be no different. What would be different would be that the entire economy would pay the cost of running the network (through taxes) rather than the current system of disproportionately extorting money from small businesses and acting as a barrier to keep new businesses from opening. Then maybe you'd be able to use you debit card at the farmers market and such.

P.S. I call it "skimming" because the fee is charged to only one side of the transaction, the receiver. It is literally funds being siphoned "off the top" of the transaction.

You mean like that guy in the twilight zone who gives everyone what they most desire? I sure hope it wouldn't somehow backfire on you when somebody wishes you were dead or something.

They've got the big bottles at trader joe's in the u-dist.

I miss the medium sized ones that they have in the british virgin islands. They have orangina everywhere down there, restaurants, mini-marts, grocery stores, even soda machines, it was heaven.

Don't forget the Sony Alphas, there is a good range of models to choose from, and they all use the same lens mount as the old minolta cameras. I've got an old Minolta and have been looking real hard at the Sony A-350.

No Fnarf, I realized there wasn't anything in them about a month after I took them. At the time of my visit with the homeopath I had no idea it was a scam. At the time I had no reason to believe that it wouldn't work and on a psychological level I was sure it would. Obviously my own body was responsible for the changes that ultimately resulted in me being cured, not those little sugar balls. If I only needed to be convinced by a confident caregiver that they held the solution to my problems, why didn't I respond to all the tests performed on me by researchers at the UW? I don't know, perhaps it had something to do with their being so upfront about the fact that they had no idea what to do. And that's my whole point, that modern medical science, in it's quest for quantifiable results, ignores an obviously effective, although unpredictable method of healing; using the placebo.

I'm not trying to legitimize homeopathy or hocus-pocus bullshit, just pointing out that if medicine payed more attention to the psychological factors involved in healing, then maybe we'd all be a little better off.

To be clear, fuck those parents in the first article, they should be tried in court for the death of their kid. Fucking idiots. They had plenty of time to notice whether the treatment was working or not and when it didn't they just sat on their ass, they deserve every minute in prison that they get.

What I meant to convey in my answer is that since your own body has very real healing capabilities, far more than we give it credit for, discounting your own ability to heal is a bad idea sometimes. There are plenty of ailments that your body is perfectly capable of curing, and western medicine's belief that only outside factors are able to help is naive and potentially destructive (as in the case of the psoriasis drug raptiva). So until western medicine devotes one single second of its time to activating the bodies healing abilities, there will always be a need (and some results) for homeopathy.

So while its true that homeopathy won't cure cancer or apparently even baby eczema, discounting its ability to trick us into healing ourselves is stupid too.