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Daddy’s Moving In

DaddyFranklin — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 06:33:28 +0000

NOTE: This post is not by Lori. I (Scott) am moving in.

I have decided to shut down my blog called Zone Defense and move all my posts to this blog, making it the central location for all things related to our little crew of five Franklins.

From now on my posts are going to be here and only here. I posted a notice over at Zone Defense. I am assuming, hopefully not too much, that if you are interested in what Lori has to blog about our family, you’ll be able to put up with what I blog about this family as well.

I have already moved my posts from Zone Defense so if you happen to read through the old stuff here, you’ll find all my junk mixed in.

We’ll be making a few collaborative adjustments to this blog to reflect this change (like adding author pictures, etc.) so bear with us during the adjustment phase.

By the way, if you happened to be following Lori on Facebook or Twitter, you may have accidentally been inundated with post notices. For that I am sorry. I take full responsibility for the mishap.

How to get rid of hiccups

DaddyFranklin — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 20:50:09 +0000

I know everyone has their own technique and what works for one person won’t work for another. I, personally, get hiccups fairly regularly, generally after not chewing my food well enough followed by a large swig of Diet Dr. Pepper. Although, sometimes they show up spontaneously.

I have a list of things to try and almost never have to live with them for very long. The first thing I try is around 90% effective for me. I’ve offered the suggestion to a few of my friends and they’ve had mixed results. Nevertheless, it’s a fairly sure thing for me.

Technique #1: Timing the Hiccups

Depending on if I have watch handy, I’ll do this different ways. When I can watch the second hand of the watch or the seconds on a digital watch, I will count the number of hiccups in a minute and then focus very intently on making the subsequent minute have fewer hiccups. I came up with this by remembering when I was in grade school and I had a few friends that would use hiccups as an excuse to go to the bathroom or the water fountain. The teacher would ask them to hiccup and the entire class would turn and watch. Then, inevitably, they wouldn’t be able to. A few times, I actually had the hiccups and asked to go get a drink. When I was put in spotlight, I was unable to follow through no matter how severe the hiccups had been. Seems to me that focusing intently on making yourself hiccup can help rid yourself of this infirmity. Timing is a good way to make myself focus on them and force the next one. If I don’t have a watch, I time them by counting the number of seconds between each hiccup trying to make the time extend longer and longer, until they are gone. Usually if I can get to 30 seconds between hiccups, they are gone.

Technique #2: Holding my breath

This has been much less effective. In those 10% of cases I can’t rid myself of hiccups otherwise, I will just hold my breathe as long as possible. It occasionally works.

Technique #3: Drinking backwards

This stopped working for me years ago, but in the last few months I have gone back to it and have been surprisingly successful. Take a full glass of water and drink the entire glass from the opposite side. Drink from the side that is farthest away from you. You have to lean yourself way over, ending up almost upside down by the time the glass is empty. You might want to excuse yourself so you don’t do this in public, because, not only is it an embarrassing position to contort yourself into, you are also likely to spill some up your nose which will definitely create a scene.

Happy hiccupping!

Hey Jude Baby

DaddyFranklin — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 03:49:55 +0000

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Twitter Updates for 2008-04-03

DaddyFranklin — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 07:59:59 +0000

Trying out Remember the Milk for task management. I really like the firefox add-in for gmail. #
Met with a former student of mine today to attempt to help him with a project in grad school. Wasn’t a lot of help. #

Twitter Updates for 2008-04-02

DaddyFranklin — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 07:59:59 +0000

The WordPress 2.5 upgrade is fantastic #
A day full of writing reviews for my upcoming exmas next week. I dread the week of grading that awaits me. #

Twitter Updates for 2008-04-01

DaddyFranklin — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 07:59:59 +0000

Developing a short demonstration on using Zotero as a citation manager. #
Off to Plainview today for a Scientific Computing meeting and some of my students are presenting later. #
Just dropped off Emily’s entry in the yourg writer’s contest at KTXT. Now off to Plainview. #
The scicomp meeting is still not started. Looks like the committee chair forgot about the morning. #

Twitter Updates for 2008-03-31

DaddyFranklin — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:59:59 +0000

@kctipton: That point did come up. Actually we meant that, for her sake, we schedule a time to talk about existing disagreements. #

Twitter Updates for 2008-03-30

DaddyFranklin — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 07:59:59 +0000

Church was muy excelente this morning. Learned how to face my giants and to schedule my disagreements with Lori #

Twitter Updates for 2008-03-29

DaddyFranklin — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 07:59:59 +0000

So tired. I’m so glad this week is over. We’re sitting down to watch Meet the Robinson’s. #
Traveling back to Plainview for a recruiting weekend at Wayland. Despite all my whining, I kind of like these events. #
Back to Lubbock. Talked to 3 pre-engineering recruits, only one of which is a senior. Makes sense. Awful late to be deciding on a college #

Twitter Updates for 2008-03-28

DaddyFranklin — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 07:59:59 +0000

When my wife says "Twitter", it drips with disdain. #
@kctipton: If you worried about threats to your system, probably not. If you are worried about someone looking at your data, absolutely! #
Today’s main event is the Math and Sciences Division meeting this afternoon but maybe I can get some lecture notes written this morning. #
@WilHarris: Does that mean you’re offering psychological counselling as well, say if we spill coffee on our laptops? #
This is a test from my phone. Off to a seminar on water purification. #
Commuting home from Plainview to Lubbock. Another $12.50 in gas money. Don’t you love these gas prices? #