The “circuit” of conferences, events, parties and social goings on can make you feel like a consummate insider or give you social anxiety. For some of us, a given circuit is an exercise in social overwhelm, and for others it can be highlight of their calendars. It takes all kinds. The “circuit” is a part […]
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Day 1912 and Informing Ourselves
Some 20 years ago, before I knew I’d have medical troubles of any length, my college job was working for a medical ethicist who was a physician with a grant to study informed consent. Now, years later, as I have worked my way through institutional resistance to how I may come to be disabled and […]
As a woo child of the New Age 90’s era of music, I love listening to Enya in the bathtub. Pure Moods and a hippie mother set a tone for bathing for the remainder of my life. Alas in Montana we do not have a bathtub in any of our bathrooms. We have a hot […]
A friend of mine James Pogue published an opinion piece long in the making about a new kind of Democratic. He deeply investigates the subtly misunderstood Representative Marie Gluesenkamp Perez of Washington. I was really moved by his sincere engagement with a new kind of Democrat who is really an old kind of Democrat who […]
As much as I’m trying to salvage the end of my year by taking it slow, I’m still keeping myself plugged in. There is no unplugging in our hyperreality. I’ve accepted this is a part of being human for the time being. I don’t struggle with internet addiction even if understand how it can be […]
As I sat inside our hyperbaric chamber for my 26th sessions of oxygen therapy, my mind was on commitment. I like a routine and a plan and being locked in on my follow through. I don’t recall when I was introduced to the concept of optionality, but it wasn’t something I recall being raised with. […]
I sometimes think my best work is as a reply guy on Twitter. If the future of the Internet is to be made entirely of bots, I shall mourn the creative glory we will all lose. We will all be missing out on the bizarrely specific interplay between post and reply guy. The signal, node, […]
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Day 1636 and Bounce Your Boobies
Somewhere along the way I leaned into my hippie heritage and stopped wearing bras. Don’t fret, I didn’t burn them. Nor do I view it as any sort of political or fashion statement. It was the pain that did me in. Sure, the pandemic’s homebound nature gave me the freedom to let loose. But it […]
On a bit of a whim, Alex bought “on the go” PEMF Infrared Mat from HigherDOSE. This is the year of acquiring mechanical intervention medical equipment for us. Yes as biohackers we trial a lot and some of it is less woo-woo than others. Treatments like hyperbaric chamber oxygen therapy have significantly more clinical data […]
I’m not sure exactly how to characterize Doomer Optimism other than a kind of social club for Internet denizens that wish to retain their optimism in the face of chaos and change. It’s a very human group and I’ve enjoyed their company for years. And as humans tend to do, the social circles that are […]