memories for Oct 29
2015
I never prescribed Auvi-Q because I don't think they were ever covered by Medi-Cal managed care plans, but I thought they were kind of cool. They're kind of like Siri talking you through a scene from "Pulp Fiction".
· Read more…Christopher S. posted this animated GIF on Facebook and I knew I'd seen it somewhere before….
· Read more…Without some new breakthrough in physics, it seems unlikely that the original formulation of Moore's Law will continue to hold. This is certainly not the first gloomy forecast.
· Read more…So it's kind of embarrassing that the first time I ever heard of the LAM-ELISA test was because of the unsolved murder of Elisa Lam.
· Read more…Imagining a grim meathook dystopian science fiction story where some terrible virus causes people to shuffle along like zombies and not be able to talk and generally be out of it, but they aren't actually undead, they're just sick.
· Read more…Realistically, if you eat a ton of bacon, sausage, or Spam or eat an entire porterhouse steak every night, you're probably not going to die of cancer. Coronary artery disease is probably going to get to you first. (crossposted on Facebook)
· Read more…Crazy headlines like these might make you want to throw up your hands and just start smoking cigarettes and inhaling asbestos…
· Read more…2007
Love is watching someone die.
· Read more…2006
I have spent the last 80 hours or so without speaking to another soul. (I am not counting buying stuff at the store, or communicating via computer.) I can’t help but wonder if anyone would miss me if I disappeared.
· Read more…2003
Again, I am perhaps entering a situation that seems remarkably familiar. (Sisyphus' stone rolling down again.)
· Read more…2002
digital root word digit, from Middle English, from Latin digitus finger, toe. (Courtesy of The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition.) We don’t stick computer probes up there, just fingers.
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