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I used to play a lot of World of Warcraft, averaging like a couple of hours a night at least. I sort of stopped playing towards the end of Mists of Pandaria because (1) AK took a break to play FFXIV and battlegrounds just weren’t the same without him and (2) I met ﾐA彡

But I ended up getting Warlords of Draenor a while ago and have been playing for about 30 minutes every so often and my main is just a few percent short of dinging 95, and most of my leveling has involved mining ore in the mine of my garrison, and I wonder how long it will take to get to 100 this way….

Things might have turned out differently if Fox News hadn’t spent the last three years screaming “Benghazi” at the top of their lungs and turning it into a punchline, but this ridiculous committee hearing is just the sad, pathetic denouement that I expected.

I was trawling around the WayBack Machine’s archive of Jeff Atwood’s Coding Horror because he had changed his permalink style sometime between 2007 and now, and I stumbled upon this old post about Logo (and Processing)¹.

It’s weird how I figured out that Logo was a dialect of Lisp back when I was a kid², but I guess that’s what happens when you’re a weirdo who hangs out in the library, especially the aisle with all the computer science books.

It’s funny how what little code I write still deals with processing lists.

I will admit, I haven’t really been looking too closely at the antics of Martin Shkreli, founder and CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals, who is famous for buying the rights to the drug Daraprim (generic: pyrimethamine, used for the treatment of toxoplasmosis in patients with AIDS) and jacking up the price from $13.50/pill to $750/pill.

What I figured would happen is that (1) health insurance companies would just pay up and then try to make up for it by raising customer’s premiums and/or lowering health care provider’s reimbursement rates and/or (2) hospitals and pharmacies would just stop ordering the drug and providers would just use atovaquone (± sulfadiazine) or even dirt cheap trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole. The outrage would soon die down. Regardless of actual sails of Daraprim, Martin Shkreli would still make millions of dollars. Yay, capitalism! regulatory capture and government-backed monopolies!

Guess I was wrong.

Imprimis Pharmaceuticals has decided to sell pyrimethamine/leucovorin for 99¢/dose which is pretty hilarious.

The CDC recommendation for treatment of toxoplasmosis is to use pyrimethamine and leucovorin with sulfadiazine anyway, so this is perfect.

The only thing that really remains to be seen is how soon health insurance companies will cover it, especially since Imprimis is compounding this formulation.