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At my annual mandatory physical yesterday my doctor told me that there's a new shingles vaccine that's around 90% effective as opposed to the 60-70% effectiveness of the previous v…

The basic problem is that if you're bored you're boring. If you want to be interesting try to be interested.

If you liked Dobson's book then I heartily recommend Zelazny's "Doorways in the Sand", which I've read half a dozen times over the years with equal pleasure.

An expert or a so-called expert?

I stopped watching 24-hour news channels in 1991 when I saw how the Gulf War coverage was turning so many into zombies. By 2010 I had stopped regularly reading a list of news web s…

9. "there is no known way to create any permissionless blockchain that is impervious to malicious nodes without having a trusted-third party"

I had a major crash and burn a year or so into my 40s. According to my post-collapse thereapist this was a really predictable thing among single, male academics, and not all that u…

A not unrelated barrel of fun is Holbrook Jackson's "Anatomy of Bibliomania".