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YDN in six words or less: 10-16-09

joe — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:29:21 +0000

Yale’s Swine Flu strategy: drink cocoa and wear a doile on your face

joe — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:27:43 +0000

I am a major hypochondriac, so I assume I have every trendy disease that hits the market a given season. When SARS came around, I feared my minor cough and sore throat was going to start a pandemic in Northern NJ. Same with Bird Flu (and no, I had not been traveling in Guangzhou, fka Canton). So of course, when yesterday I started to feel “fatigue” (I fell asleep reading Venus and Adonis—who wouldn’t?) and coughing, I settled into my couch for the worst. I called the surprisingly difficult to navigate flu hotline, explained my symptoms, and was told to send my roommates to my dean’s office to pick up the “Flu Kit” so I could check my temperature. For the benefit of the healthy, here is the full list of contents:

10 Tylenol
1 package Halls cough drops
10 Ibuprofen
10 Tempa-DOT thermometers
6 masks
1 package tissues
1 package hot chocolate

I went straight for the very strange Tempa-Dot thermometers—which are basically narrow strips of paper that say whether you have a fever or not. Kind of like litmus paper for the tongue. Or a mood ring. For me: no fever. Still, even if I don’t have the swine, I’ll certainly be able to put the flu pack to good use: who doesn’t love hot chocolate? It’s nice to see Yale cares. And if I decide to go topical this Halloween (Michael Jackson and flu victim in one!) the masks will serve me well.

Yale re-affirms that not washing your hands is gross.

miranda — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:20:00 +0000

Swine flu=aliens??

Gmail is down, but the world keeps spinning

joe — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:31:25 +0000

Gmail is incommunicado for the moment—all you people who never got around to forwarding your yale mail are probably sitting pretty and smiling now. But fear not, those who love the google! There are many things to do in the meantime, namely:

Twitter about how gmail is down! So 21st century! Gmail is currently sitting at #3 on the top twitter trends. And while you’re at it, follow The Bullblog on twitter!
Get an iphone! I’m still getting e-mails on my mobile even though it links to my gmail account.
Go to class for once! My german class starts in six minutes, and my elevator takes at least one minute to ride, so the lack of gmail means I might just make it to class on time-ish. Or maybe I’ll just tell my professor I feel fluey (“Professor Gehlker, ich denke, dass ich die ‘Schwein-Grippe’ habe!”).

Another reason to get the H1N1

joe — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:14:31 +0000

You don’t have to take out your own trash:

This is a reminder not to leave *anything* on the entryway landings. Custodial staff are finding many landings with stacked cardboard boxes, trash bags and personal items.

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The only exception is if you’re in medical quarantine because of flu or flu-like symptoms. Special trash bags will be provided for sick students to leave outside the suite door for special pickup, according to a central list maintained by the Master’s Office and Custodial Services.

(via an e-mail from the Berkeley College Master’s Office)

Mad Cow found at Harvard

miranda — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 14:00:41 +0000

Most colleges are feeling the heat because of swine flu, but our poor ivy relatives at Harvard now have to worry about catching the swine disease of the 1990′s: Mad Cow! The source seems to be coming from infected Professor Harvey Cox, who decided to bring his cow to graze on Harvard Yard on Thursday. Professor Cox, who is in the process of retirement brought his Jersey cow Faith onto the Yard in an attempt to go bring Harvard Yard back to its glory days of a vegetable garden and grazing cows, or so he says. Bullblog believes that he’s really trying to focus attention off swine and back to his precious cows.

In this video Crazy Professor Cox tells us about his hopes to save the earth by bringing more cows to keep Faith company on the Yard.

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joe — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 13:43:51 +0000

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