Monday, February 20, 2023

Be afraid of ChatGPT

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TL;DR: It's not that ChatGPT is miraculous, it's that cognitive science research suggests human cognition is also not miraculous. &q...
Saturday, February 18, 2023

Tips for the geriatric CrossFit addict (Update: a parallel essay by ChatGPT 4)

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My 10 year CrossFit anniversary is two months away. A few months after  I started as an old man of 53 I wrote : ... I now do CrossFit twice ...
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Wednesday, November 02, 2022

What I learned about managing catalytic converter theft: OEM vs aftermarket vs universal

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The catalytic converter on my much loved 2010 Kia Sedona van was stolen. (I think there are two and the rear converter was removed. I'm ...
Monday, October 24, 2022

Installing a NiteRider headlamp on a Bell helmet's GoPro mount with K-Edge adapter and Suptig thumbscrews

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My Bell Super Air mountain bike helmet (removable face guard) came with an undocumented snap-in GoPro mount. I figured I'd use it to ho...
Tuesday, September 20, 2022

On buying a less expensive bike for riding dirt trails - used and new

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A friend asked me for advice on buying a bicycle suited to dirt trails (up to novice singletrack as well as city trails). She would want to ...
Sunday, September 11, 2022

What is "manliness" in 2022?

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Over the past year or two several of my favorite writers have expressed uncertainty about the American cultural standard for "manliness...
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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...