Today, August 31st I am officially New Testament bound! It’s been a long but rewarding road. Reflecting on the past a little tonight and tomorrow morning; looking towards the future.
Reading the bible through in 1 year continues tomorrow!
Category: Life
Gizmodo has a great piece on the created business of EpiPens by soulless individuals:
EpiPen, the life-saving allergy product, is now a $1 billion a year business for Mylan, a drug company that’s currently enduring a wave of bad publicity over the extraordinary surge in EpiPen pricing. In 2007, an EpiPen cost about $57. Today that price has skyrocketed to over $600 — all for about $1 worth of injectable medicine.
EpiPen is an emergency medication that’s stabbed into a person experiencing anaphylactic shock, a life-threatening allergic reaction that can be triggered by anything from bee stings to food. I’ve never used an EpiPen, but as someone with a peanut allergy who once made his own trip to the ER after a particularly unfortunate restaurant experience (“these Chinese beans sure are crunchy…”) I can tell you that anaphylactic shock is really no fun.
Mylan is able to do this because they have no competitors in the U.S. Not one. If you need an EpiPen, you’re buying theirs. It’s despicable. Some readers of this site may know that my son has a severe dairy allergy, so we’ve been buying EpiPens for years. We’ve never had to use one, knock on wood, but they expire every year, and we need a set for home and a set for school. We can afford it, but barley. Many parents can’t.
I don’t know how the executives at Mylan sleep at night.
Here are some links for people who are interested:
I just wanted to give everyone a heads up. For the months of August, September and October the site will be a little slower than usual operations. I am in EMT class and preparing for National Registry, studying for my driver exam at the fire department, going to take florida practicals and studying for my FF2 certification in these months. So as you could imagine my life is a little crazy now. Of course there will be some updates, just nothing long form.
With that said, I am working on long form, opinionated stuff. And after these months, you could expect some.
Thanks for understanding guys and gals. Hopefully all this testing ends up on the side of passing.
By the way.. Apple event on Sept 7th! Excited!
Awesome story out of Chicago. Some people in the world are still decent.
“I mean there was temptation. I’ll be honest with you. But me being a Christian, I couldn’t. I wanted to make sure I sleep good, so that’s what i did. I returned the money and the wallet,” Figueroa said.
After I posted my Lovely Bones review, my email got slammed with comments. Mostly compiled of many of you claiming that I lost my edge deciphering what a good movie is. This got me thinking… What actually is a good movie and why do people care so much?
Just to be clear in my humble opinion; there is no such thing as a “good” movie. If there was how would you identify it? By the # of oscars that film won? I will point you to “Chicago” and “Shakespeare in Love“. Or “How Green was My Valley” beat cinephile favorite, “Citizen Kane” at the 14th Oscars. But we don’t talk about that. Some of my favorite films were not received well by others. If I didn’t experience them based on others opinions, I wouldn’t be who I am today. Anytime you take popular opinion and morph it into fact is a dangerous walk. Do the legwork yourself. Find out who you are based on your true feelings. But thats for another blog post…
You see calling a movie good is simply just saying you’ve enjoy it. There is no universal formula on how to make a good film. Example: Lindsey and I go to the theaters. We see a “her” type of film. We leave, she asks me how I liked it. I didn’t. She loved it. Does this make it a bad movie? Nonsense. Not to her.
If you fancy yourself on calling a movie bad, you are utterly underselling the art. Why are movies special? Or more importantly why are movies special to you? Think about it.. I’ll tell you why, because they connect, in other words they are intimate. And when a film reaches that point of intimacy it immediately crosses over to an experience. It elevates over the good or bad tag. It’s something bigger. When you lose that, you lose the magic of movies and your place in the experience.
So to say me liking The Lovely Bones is equal to “losing” my eye is a little idiotic and more so of a ignorant statement. The fact that The Lovely Bones moved me and not you is fine. That’s ok. Life goes on.
I bet every single person in the world has a movie they enjoy that the majority doesn’t. Are they wrong for liking it? Of course not. Opinions can’t be wrong. Just defended and hopefully given the chance to be understood by the opposite party.
Regardless of what the world would have you to believe, we all don’t have to think alike. That would be crazy. Right?
Well, if you follow basketball you’ve no doubt heard by now Kevin Durant has left Oklahoma City to Play for the 73 game winning Golden State Warriors. I have been reading a bunch of stuff lately on why he may have left and so on. Some people call him a coward and some people agree with his decision. But no explanation I’ve read yet intellectually makes a case. Linked below is Chris Ryan’s take. Ryan focuses on the weight Durant may have been feeling from the franchise. Interesting take.
Shortly after Durant announced his decision to leave Oklahoma City on The Players’ Tribune today, the Thunder released a statement. In his remarks, general manager Sam Presti called Durant “a founding father of this franchise.”
This statement is true, and remarkable. There were no Thunder before Durant. To a lot of people, even outside of Seattle, this was a franchise born of theft. Durant has done a lot of amazing things during his time in Oklahoma City, but making and keeping this team likable was perhaps his greatest achievement. Along with Russell Westbrook, Durant made Oklahoma City into a viable and successful NBA organization, despite some of the organization’s self-sabotaging moves.
I don’t usually write about the political world. I try to avoid it, truth be told. But if you want a good, accurate, no agenda recap of the tragedies of Orlando below is link that is worth your time. My prayers go out to all the families touched by this cowardly act.
Many of you have all had the same 2 requests for a while now: 1. Put the “categories” tab into a page. 2. Make a “best of” tab.
I’m happy to say I finally did these things! The “Categories”page was actually really simple. Although the “best of” tab and page was a little difficult. I wanted a living list that would change based on clicks without me tending to it. Time will tell if this works. But the idea in principle seemed good. As far as a number goes; I settled on top 10. 5 seemed too little and anything over 10 seemed too much.
Anyways, If you want to check these revolutionary (joke) new features out. Go to the sidebar. Or if your on mobile device, tap menu. enjoy!
Also, to answer some emails, yes I will be posting WWDC predictions soon.
-danny
Whatever your opinion is on Elon Musk, you can’t deny his similarities to Steve Jobs and his relentless drive at challenging the ordinary.
“If you’re going to choose a place to die, then Mars is not a bad choice,” he said.
Musk wants to send humans to Mars in 2018, then human cargo in 2024. Interesting. Even more so when you look at his financial backing and Space X’s unbelievable progress thus far
*ddileo 