some notes on health
I got hooked on tobacco several years ago. Been quitting it ever since. It’s easier not to smoke when it’s warm outside. Particularly when it’s warm and humid. And in the past six months I’ve had maybe...
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After an almost three-week absence, I have not quite gotten my room back to an acceptable allergen level. This is a daily challenge even normally, no surprise considering I live with five cats and a...
View Articlewhy technology is awesome, flu season edition.
“We’ve found that certain search terms are good indicators of flu activity. Google Flu Trends uses aggregated Google search data to estimate flu activity in your state up to two weeks faster than...
View Articledrugs for the competent
A bunch of scientists have written a commentary in Nature arguing that mentally competent adults should be able to use what have been referred to “brain doping” drugs (Adderall, Ritalin, etc) at will,...
View Articlemoods, reflections, re-collection
S.A.D. is kicking my ass this year, but this doesn’t come close to last year’s suck. Of course, I’m also not in crisis mode this winter, but there’s still a lot going on, and it’s good and bad and hard...
View ArticleNational health care and how we elect people
This has been sitting in my blog as a draft for a couple of weeks. It’ll be old news by now, but healthcare is a long-range political issue, and Lawrence Lessig and Joe Trippi‘s latest project Change...
View Articlehealthcare, now
I have NO time to write this, so it’s short. Here’s part of an email from Obama’s PR people I got today: Last week, Republican Senator Jim DeMint made it pretty clear why the opponents of health care...
View Articleand now for something completely different.
Something Completely Different — SCD — is the name of my house. It’s a good house, with good caring quirky people who have been extremely indulgent of me these past couple of weeks. Good thing, because...
View Articlelately
Life’s been chugging along, and the best I can do sometimes is keep up. In the now-venerable tradition of good-thing, bad-thing, here’s my week and a half, give or take. ++ Birthday! I had one. I went...
View Articlechanges coming
Seasonal changes, for the most part. Many of my friends are busily packing for Burning Man. I’m not going this year, and it’s the right decision, and mostly I prefer it to going (this year), but damn,...
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