Meet Charlie
He’s 10 weeks old and super cute. Expect many Charlie posts in the near future.
We got our first dog, Coby, from North Shore Animal League. This is a wonderful shelter on Long Island and Coby was the best first dog. Coby passed last March and it finally felt like time to get another dog.
How it started (11 years ago):
How it’s going:
I’m starting my retirement as of the end of the year. It’s been a wild ride with Origami Risk, the company is doing great, and I’m officially old. Time to enjoy the next chapter of life.
Will I blog more? Less? About very random things? How would you know the difference?
Hopefully there will be pictures from all around the world…
I was at an indoor beach volleyball venue where my daughter was playing, and in the men’s bathroom above the toilet I saw this:
Hilarious.
Network effects and tipping points are amazing things. Over the course of about a week, everyone I follow on Twitter bailed and moved to Bluesky.
It really is amazing how things happen gradually, then all at once. Two weeks ago I would go straight to Twitter, but today that icon isn’t on my phone’s home screen at all.
This, from Josh Marshall at TPM, is very good. It’s not short and it involves thinking, so click the link with that in mind.
I’m sure there are problems at FDA, NIH, CDC, the whole complex of food, medical and public health agencies. There’s no question that there’s a significant degree of agency capture when it comes to the national food supply, nutrition guidance and so forth. But that’s not going to be solved by a crank degenerate who claims COVID was created as part of a government plot
The next couple of years will be very interesting…
We saw the new production of Our Town last night, starring Jim Parsons. He was great, as was the entire cast. While he obviously isn’t like Sheldon from the Big Bang Theory at all, every once in a while, there would be a gesture that reminded us of Sheldon.
A very enjoyable night on Broadway…
Sure he’s dead, but he’s more qualified than Dr. Oz.
As an old-school guy, I follow several old school bloggers (and use RSS to do so). One that I’ve followed for ages is Kevin Drum. He is a left-center political writer who is super data focused. He wrote for Mother Jones for quite a while but has since retired and is just doing it on his own.
As good bloggers do, there are personal tidbits thrown in, so we know about his cats, photography hobby and a long ongoing battle with multiple myeloma.
Today he posted a “Pearls of Wisdom” post. 45 things he believes after 66 years. It’s a very interesting read, but these jumped out at me:
28. The life expectancy of the affluent (top 10%) is about 89. The life expectancy of the poor (bottom 10%) is 77.
Oof, 12 years.
31. To the extent that environment affects children’s development, it’s mostly environment outside the home: playmates, teachers, shop clerks and so forth. Parents have a good deal less influence than they think. Needless to say, most people resist this conclusion strenuously, but consider: do immigrant kids grow up speaking with the accent of their parents or the accent of their friends? It’s always the accent of their friends.
I believe this one, but as a parent it’s a hard one. But this is the one that boggles my mind.
13. One out of seven people have no interior monologue.
I have such a pronounced inner monologue, I can’t imagine not having one.
All morning people were confused if this was real or, well, The Onion.
Holy crap, it’s real. At least I think so? The NY Times and WaPo are both reporting it.
If this is real, they are going to have a lot of fun with it.
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