First full day in San Francisco, 32 years to the day after the one in which i first entered this world, included the following events:

(with Chris and Rob:)

Breakfast: a cappuccino and a chocolate banana scone at Four Barrel.


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Two quick notes:

1. After all the hospital shenanigans described in my last several posts, i finally wound up getting the problematic wisdom tooth removed on June 23, a month ago to the calendar date.  The procedure went off without a hitch, and it feels like everything's healed up nicely so far.  It is still a little sore, and i miss the lost quarter ( Read more... )

Finishing the chronicle of my Memorial Day hospital adventures, i present the final chapter, the last days, the denouement.  Not much happens, but there are lots of pictures! If you'll recall, we left off on Sunday, where i underwent surgery to drain my facial abscesses, became a robot temporarily, and relieved my pain with the stuff that dreams ( Read more... )

Continuing again the chronicle of my Memorial Day weekend hospitalization, i bring you the shocking climax!  As before, this post describes events in the past, and all the pain, swelling, suffering, and general horribleness is, for the moment, behind me, caused though it was by a rogue wisdom tooth i still possess, a fact soon to be rectified.

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Continuing the chronicle of how i wound up in the hospital for all of Memorial Day weekend -- and pausing first to note that i'm happy, healthy, and okay right now, that all this happened in the past, though not too distantly -- recall that Friday night i had strange Vicodin-induced dreams of swallowing a lot, which upon waking i realized were ( Read more... )

We left off on Thursday night, when my pain had been steadily worsening and i decided it was time to start antibiotics.  Thursday night was rough -- while 800 mg of Advil was still sufficient to allow me to function in such limited and basic ways as walking slowly, or carrying on simple conversations using basic vocabulary, it was no longer enough ( Read more... )

So there's this rule that says everyone should go to the hospital at least once in their adult life, right?  And since there's also this rule about wisdom teeth supposing to get more potentially problematic as you get older, I just combined both rules and had myself a Memorial Day Weekend Staycation at UPMC Shadyside.  It certainly was an ( Read more... )

I've been thinking a lot lately about the contrast between art and engineering.  I don't, of course, necessarily think the two are opposed, and i don't mean to cast any value judgments about one over the other, but it's been an interesting dichotomy to consider applying analogically to my current life status and future goals ( Read more... )

I think i've come up with a new (to me) conceptualization of the ordinal ε0. It goes like this:

1. Start by imagining 0.
2. Then, repeatedly:
   
   
   1. Imagine an indexed family of successor functions Sα, one for each element you've imagined so far, and
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Kempy xsavvyx suggested a great idea for a cocktail blog post, which i've just gotten around to posting at barspoon: n-bottle bars.  (Is it useful or desirable to post here when i post there?  I'm never sure, but i thought i'd mention it this time because it's a special sort of post -- not just the usual rambling about some drink with a mediocre photo.. ( Read more... )