Saturday, August 20, 2022

Phone and data services for travelers to Europe

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Our daughter is doing a semester abroad in Florence Italy so I've been looking into voice, SMS and data services. In particular the tran...
Sunday, July 24, 2022

Putting down a marker on post-COVID encephalopathy (PCE)

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I generally have opinions on things even in the absence of science or data. They are often wrong. Even so, for my own future amusement, here...
Saturday, June 11, 2022

Paxlovid indications and the Test to Treat program

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Paxlovid is indicated for persons at significant risk of bad COVID. As of June 2022 it's crazy-making hard to find a description of what...
Sunday, May 15, 2022

What is Great Replacement Theory?

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 [Copied over from a tweet stream .] So now I'm trying to figure out what Great Replacement Theory is. It seems to be one part true and ...
Thursday, May 12, 2022

Google Search: 1996-2022. RIP.

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Alta Vista was a very good search engine. I didn't feel like I was missing much in early 90s; I could answer many questions easily. Then...
Saturday, February 05, 2022

We need non-Apple App Stores - because Apple's store has trash like Luni Scanner App.

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[Update 3/6/2022: After I exposed this scam I revisited our purchase history and the listing for the scam subscription had changed. Instead ...
Saturday, November 27, 2021

Civilization, complexity and the limits of human cognition - another attempt at explaining the 21st century

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The 70s were pretty weird, but I was too young to notice. (Not coincidentally, the Toffler/Farrell Future Shock book was written then.) By ...
Friday, October 29, 2021

The Cybernated Generation: Time Magazine, April 2nd 1965

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First check out the Time magazine covers for 1965 . That was a very long time ago. Things have improved. Now look at the April 2nd issue an...
Wednesday, October 27, 2021

Inline Skating San Francisco -- from 1997!

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I wrote this in 1997 and found it in my old pre-blog Web 1.0 archives. I decided to republish it here because, you know, I could. Some of it...
Sunday, October 03, 2021

2021, 3 causes

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Copied from a tweet of mine, a cartoon explanation of our peculiar economic situation. 1. Wealth became extremely concentrated.  2. Returns ...
Wednesday, September 15, 2021

Trek's Mino Link of Doom - beware the lost spacer (Trek Fuel EX mountain bike)

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Update Oct 18, 2021 : I wrote Trek a paper letter (!) about my experience and they are working on removing any references to trailside Mino ...
Wednesday, August 18, 2021

Exercise for Olds: year 63 (CrossFit and so on)

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I entered my 63y recently. For me this means another look at what I'm doing with the old arthritic body I've got. I started doing Cr...
Saturday, August 07, 2021

Schwinn IC 4 / Bowflex / Nautilus cycle trainer - review with Zwift and Peloton apps

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We've used our Schwinn IC 4 cycle trainer for about 10 months now. It was a pandemic purchase in December of 2020. The same trainer is s...
Sunday, June 13, 2021

Alzheimer's and Amyloid: How even a perfect aducanumab could help some and hurt others.

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Representational drift , if validated, tells us that a memory is a set of relationships, not the specific neurons that embody those relation...
Wednesday, June 09, 2021

Why did the patient's leg swell up?

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I'm a physician. Ok, so it's a very part-time practice; I'm mostly a bureaucrat trying to keep civilization together. Still I h...