24 March 2009 3:01 am. Up. Not that I want to be, but I am. I have to give a lecture at 6:30 am to a bunch of surgical residents.…

I was in my files looking for a paper on proper scoring rules when this photo popped out of an envelope: This is, I think, 1977, when I was 13.…

Most newspapers rate movies on the star system. Four to five stars are printed, and from none to all of them are colored in. Supposedly, the more stars colored, the…

These plaques were placed outside the doors of a toilet in a train station on the outskirts of Taipei. Even with my lack of Chinese, I managed to go to…

The RSS content feed still has an extra space in it somewhere. I have checked many, many files, used a plug-in that automatically cycles through files to remove heading and…

Joy noticed that my older version of Wordpress was once again hacked to insert a list of drug names into the theme header.php file. So, I upgraded. When I did,…