Geeky Updates

I plan to also write a post about medicine – it’ll be part personal, part essay, sparked by a recent diagnosis for a dermatitis that is actually apparently how some human physiologies work – no unpleasant symptoms besides what I think is an aesthetically interesting appearance change, no treatment, no cure except waiting. But anyway, this is the post about the geek.

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Upgrades

Since returning home from the Left Coast, I’ve undertaken a number of tech upgrades at work and in personal life.

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Travels – 8/23/2010

Same drill different day. This post expanded from what I wrote on MetaFilter.

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Travels – 8/22/2010

Same drill as yesterday. I jotted some stuff down on the summary on Metafilter, then crashed out. Today I’ll take that copy and add stuff with [] brackets.

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Decibels

For a rigorously trained former scientist in a discipline with lots of different kinds of units for measuring things, I’ve never really understood decibels (dB). I just found a great accessible explanation of decibels and I finally understand!

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Travels – 8/21/2010

I wrote this over on MetaFilter last night, but I’ll repost it here with some extra stuff in square brackets in case folks are interested.
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Travels – 8/20/2010

Miscellaneous doings. Continue reading Travels – 8/20/2010

Kirala times two – Lunch with Mom, Dinner with Dad

Going to Kirala twice was just fine with me. Their Lunch and Dinner menus are so different it’s easy not to get bored. Continue reading Kirala times two – Lunch with Mom, Dinner with Dad

Ground Zero Mosque

Honestly, these ridiculous fantasies our politicians are bandying about are horrifyingly simple.

I wrote the majority of this essay up on the plane.

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Travel update: 2010-08-19

These are going to be a journal type format. Not so linked, mostly musings.

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