the cold and the sickness

[bellwether]

I hate being sick. I especially hate being so sick I don't even want to watch TV and veg. That was yesterday--my fever has been swinging wildly between 97 and +100 degrees. Anyone know what that means? It seems very strange to me--I'm normally at 98.5 or 98.6 on the dot.

I stayed home yesterday and today--and I probably should have stayed home Monday as well, but I felt guilty about having so much vacation last week. Gah. *sigh* this week has felt wasted--hopefully I can go in to work tomorrow and kick some serious booty. Research needs to get done--both on the coding front and on the prospectus writing front. On the upside, I have made serious headway with TLS--I came, I saw, I conquered both Key and Trust managers. I think I can make them do what I want--the hard part is now defining exactly what it is that I want. I need to define the mechanism by which two unknown peers can establish some partial trust--enough to go through a TLS handshake, which normally requires a common root of trust (ie., a common root CA certificate). Absent a root of trust, we are open to MITM attacks....Sideband channels to the rescue! Eventually. For now, I think we assume the existence of a common root cert.

Comments

[morganlf.livejournal.com]

i'd shake your hand any day, baby.

[cubetime.livejournal.com]

my fever has been swinging wildly between 97 and +100 degrees

Means you need a new thermometer. Or perhaps you're biasing the data.

[bellwethr.livejournal.com]

I don't think so... the thermometer is typically consistent. I don't tend to take my temperature right after drinking hot tea or eating ice cream--so I don't think I'm adding circumstantial bias. I'm always taking it on the same side of my mouth, so as to mitigate behaviorial bias. What other bias might I be introducing?

[coldtortuga.livejournal.com]

When I get a fever (thankfully a very rare occurrence), they seem to flare hotter when I've actually eaten enough calories for my body to burn up. No food, no fever (or greatly reduced).

I learned this fact when I got a bad fever and went to a dumbass doctor -- who prescribed medication which had to be taken on a full stomach -- having a full stomach spiked my fever above 100! (That's "wow, one hundred!" not "factorial(100)".) I had to swear off (at?) food and the medicine.

The bias you're introducing is metabolism. Call yer mum, I'm sure she'll tell you straightaway, "You stop metabolizing right now, young man, or there will be consequences!"