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In Praise of — Can You Believe It? — the Diesel
It is now two weeks into 2014, and I am now six weeks the owner of a new VW Passat TDI, aka turbo diesel, in a glorious color called Opera Red. I transitioned from a 9 year old BMW X … Continue reading
“Girl Gone” by Jillian Flynn: An Appreciation
First off, a spoiler alert: if you haven’t read this book, you might want to skip this post until you have. Not, mind you, that knowing the plot “spoils” the book. What tension there is about why the girl is … Continue reading
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You’ve Got It All Wrong – Sleep Studies
You’ve got it all wrong if you think that a sleep study is actually performed to judge how well you sleep: it’s actually to determine if you’re able to sleep at all in the face of all of the hook-ups … Continue reading
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Tagged CPAP, RLS, sleep apnea, sleep study
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Lamb Meatball Lasagna
For Bill Components Lamb Meatballs Tomato Sauce Assembly Lamb Meatballs Ingredients 1 lb. ground lamb 1 large egg 1/2 c. crumbled feta cheese 1/2 c. bread crumbs 1/4 c. chopped parsley 2 T. tomato paste 2 T. milk 1 T. … Continue reading
The End of Time
Two thirteen: done, kaputt, Almost. A year of bad days, Yet on the heart beats.
Aphorisms
Wherever you go, there you are. Again. And again. And again. Whatever does not kill me, probably pretty fucking well beats me up. Would that a loss of faith was not accompanied by an increasing difficulty in keeping the faith. … Continue reading
COPD
At the edge of breath Lungs barely in- or exhale Ragged coughs and then
Troubled Organizations
You know you’re in a troubled organization when senior managers meet new ways of thinking (new now to this organization, even if the idea is widely understood and followed by others) with: We’ve never done it that way. We could … Continue reading
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Tagged diversity, IT, medicine, organizational change, work silos
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Thinking Too Hard About “The Book”
A recent article in the New York Times about the current state of books/electronic books notes that not only is the book not dead, the whole question of the future of the book is wearying. Frank Stein, founder of the … Continue reading
RBS and the Conundrum of Sleep
RBS. No, that’s not Royal Bank of Scotland, despite what you may have heard. That’s what my wife and I call Rapid Brain Syndrome, a phenomena that drives sleep from our heads and occasionally us from our beds. So you … Continue reading
Marginalia and Aphoristica 