Jul 2015
- Jul 7
- tags in Jekyll
So it took me a while to figure out how to implement tags in Jekyll the way I wanted.
· Read more… - Jul 8
- Skynet deferred
I think it's going to be a while before all human manual laborers are going to be replaced by robots.
· Read more… - Jul 9
- 14th Amendment
Today is the 147th anniversary of the ratification of the 14th Amendment.
· Read more… - Jul 9
- Jeb Bush sez ur lazy
Jeb Bush thinks American workers are lazy, even though American workers work 47 hours/week on average and get far fewer benefits than workers in other industrialized countries. But I think Jeb Bush is still going to win the nomination. And then we'll all be working 60-80 hour work weeks when he wins the presidency. #GrimMeathookFuture
· Read more… - Jul 10
- Alternative Medicine and Conspiracy Theories
I got sucked into following this story about three seemingly unrelated health care providers who incorporated alternative medicine into their practice who were all murdered within a short period of time. I even have Google Alerts for their names.
· Read more… - Jul 14
- Neil deGrasse Tyson defends Pope Francis on Climate Change
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- Jul 22
- Rediscovered Wisdom (or Madness)
It's been four(!) months since I started migrating my 14+ year old blog to a new domain and to a new blog engine and I am entertained by [some of the things I've forgotten][2]:
· Read more… - Jul 22
- Minaj-Swift War
Oliver Willis' chronicle of the Minaj-Swift War (between the Minajadeen and Swift Junta factions) is cracking me up.
· Read more… - Jul 23
- Jekyll timestamps and timezones
It just occurred to me that the way Jekyll handles timestamps and generates permalinks to posts is not ideal for me.
· Read more… - Jul 24
- Smiling Makes You Happy
So I was reading this old blog post that I wrote after being post-call on my internal medicine rotation during my M3 year in med school and I mention this study where they concluded that forcing yourself to smile can actually make you happy.
· Read more… - Jul 24
- Chris Brown vs. Iglesia ni Cristo
So apparently Chris Brown is being held against his will in the Philippines because of the Iglesia ni Cristo. Karma is weird sometimes.
· Read more… - Jul 28
- Artificial Sweeteners
The Evidence Supports Artificial Sweeteners Over Sugar • • Aaron E. Carroll • The New York Times
· Read more… - Jul 29
- HTML dreams
I have the nerdiest dreams sometimes.
· Read more… - Jul 30
- Google ngrams
In an effort to become even less prescriptivist and even more descriptivist, I've decided to stop using dictionaries to determine proper spelling and have started relying on Google ngrams usage data instead.
· Read more… - Jul 30
- Morbid Thoughts
This time last year, I was certain that the only things I had to look forward to were burying people and being buried.
· Read more… - Jul 31
- police officer charged with murder in the death of Samuel DuBose
When I indict a murderer, I don’t pull punches. …
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