I don’t really have healthcare, not outside the US. Not for anything short of life-threatening. My employer has been steadily decreasing options, and increasing prices for several years, so after paying the $$$ in order to stay out of an HMO, in the end that’s the choice I’m left with [1]. I’m back in the […]
Symantec taking up 219.7% of my work computer (octocore MBP) to examine a backup disk. Yay, ***IT! Also testing to make sure the fans still work, I suppose. They do.
Yep, that’s right. 1.10 GB available, 8 MB required. 1.1 GB is more than 100 times as much as 8 MB. The status bar tells me that there is 4.4 GB free. Sigh…
Tagged appleParis. Either time. Nor any of the others. Too busy monitoring everyone’s GPS and email in the US, I suppose. Including the senators who are supposed to have oversight. Shut down the NSA. Salt the earth in Langley. Nothing good will ever grow from that ground.
I’m remarkably tolerant of the usual behavior in the gym that bugs other people. I don’t care if you grunt, scream, holler, breathe loud, drip sweat, or drop your weights. I like to see people try hard. It’s inspiring. I’ll do another set if I see someone gettin’ after it. I get motivated. I don’t […]
Coming any minute now, one assumes. After they finish with Hillary's email server and Benghazi. Brennan is, after all, a man of such moral rectitude that I am sure he welcomes a full and open investigation.
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the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray’s case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually […]
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