Facebook, the fast-growing company that now boasts the world’s biggest social-networking site, is planning to move from its ad-hoc, five-building “urban campus” in downtown Palo Alto to a nearby property that can accommodate the company’s expanding workforce.
Any such move figures to alter Facebook’s evolving internal culture while raising the average age of the workforce in [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Migraines'
Retirement begins at 40
June 25th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Tags: Aging · California · Health · Migraines · My Company · News · Working World
Cranky crone at the gym
June 23rd, 2008 · No Comments
I’ve been going to a gym or pool pretty much consecutively for about 30 years, but tonight was the first time I had to leave in less than 10 minutes because I was becoming physically ill.
The booming bass from the spinning class at the downtown YMCA was so loud that I couldn’t take it even [...]
Tags: 27701 · Aging · Durham, NC · Health · Migraines
Haiku
April 30th, 2008 · No Comments
Jackhammers downstairs
My skull is vibrating, too
Turns my brain to mush
Tags: 27701 · Haiku · Migraines · Working World
Why? Because they can.
March 30th, 2008 · No Comments
Stumbled on this news brief today about hackers putting seizure-triggering posts on an epilepsy board. Neurologically, migraines and epilepsy are cousins; flashing lights and patterns are a trigger for both.
It’s easy enough to see why someone would inflict harm on another for reasons of greed, hatred, political gain, etc.; anything in which the inflicter stands [...]
Tags: Migraines · News · Society · Weird shit
Harry Potter’s migraines
March 22nd, 2008 · No Comments
Looks like I’m not the only one who picked up on the telltale signs of migraine in the Harry Potter books. I hadn’t thought about the scar in that respect, but when he is gets a pounding headache from the fluorescent lights in his aunt’s kitchen, I had my Aha! moment.
Tags: Books · Health · Migraines
Speaking in tongues
October 24th, 2007 · No Comments
An article in the October issue of Scientific American reports on the neurology of mystical experiences.
I’ve been meditating in one for or another for around 30 years. I started originally for stress reduction in an attempt to short-circuit migraines. My intention was never spiritual, but in the process I’ve experienced what many consider spiritual experiences.
I’ve [...]
Tags: Atheism · Brainworks · Migraines
Let-down headache
September 23rd, 2007 · 2 Comments
Everybody who gets migraines has a slightly different set of triggers and symptoms. One of the patterns that I follow is what’s called the “let-down headache.” I tend to get a headache after the stress has passed, rather than during, or in anticipation of, a stressor. For myself, deadline pressure is the killer: grief, emotional [...]
Tags: Migraines