Thursday, February 07, 2002
I was on "The Pill" for a little while |12:03 PM|
This short story is interesting, and was posted by Zusty on her Top Secret Diary page thing. My question is what led the author to write it? It's not so much a "where do you get your ideas" so much as "what drove you?".

We were talking about various drugs used for different purposes than what they were originally designed for, such as Minoxidil (the magic stuff in Rogaine) was originally used to treat high blood pressure. At some point someone noticed "Hey! I got my damned hair back!". The human body is still clearly a black box in some way to the medical industry. They try some things, they watch what happens, they take notes, but some stuff is really weird. Like a lot of anti-depression medications will give you permanent muscle twitches if you're on them for more than a couple years, but they may also make your jaw grow. What the hell? That's like using the wrong oil in your car and then the damn tires go flat.

My co-worker mentioned something that had me find This article. It has an amusing (at least I think so) line that ends with "hat". Note to men who don't want commitments, do not drop hats. Listed in this article is one of the drugs that I used to take for acne, Tetracycline. This particular version of "The pill" was also found to have anti acne effects. Hence, the title, I was indeed on the pill for a little while.



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We need one created for the years, and then the months. The months are the /////tricky ones, since they need their ID to increase more than the years, but since the functions keep referencing ///// the same name system, we have to be careful not to make the years close up when we click on a month. ///Set some Variables $YearMenuID = 1; /////What ID the preceding year link controls. Needs to be same for all the months under a given year. $MonthMenuID= 1; ////What ID the preceding month link controls. Needs to be the same for all the weeks under a given ////Month but not the same as any year, etc. $LastYearUsed = 0; $LastMonthUsed = 0; echo '
'; /////That should be the "Year" div. All the years should be in this one DIV. ///Start the main loop. foreach ($myDateArray as $key => $value) { ////Pulling the year/date. $month = ExtractMonth($value); $year = ExtractYear($value); $YearMenuID = $year; $MonthMenuID = $month; $PrettyMonth = $MyDateArray[$month]; ////Is this a new year? If ($year != $LastYearUsed) ///Then we need to put the year down. No DIV created quite yet. { ///First off, we need to close the preceding year's DIV. Twice if it ain't 2001 if ($year != 2001) { echo '
'; } echo '
'; //That should close up the previous year. ///Say this is the swap from 2001 to 2002, that should close up the 2001 links. ///Problem is, we also need to close up the final month links too. /// echo '
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