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21st Century Caligula

You may remember that the Roman Emperor Gaius Caesar Augustus Germanicus aka Caligula had a four-year reign from AD 37 to AD 41. It ended […]

Puppies and Kittens

In the TV horror genre series Z-Nation, one of the protagonists announces the approach of marauding hordes of zombies with the proclamation, “Puppies and Kittens.” […]

Building Blocks

Nature builds living things from building blocks. The basic blueprints of life are written in four chemical basis – their letters are A-G-T-C. Triads of […]

Innuendo

I’ve been a bit distracted this week what with getting the Roomba vacuum set up and cleaning up the place. And then there is the […]

Terms of Service

You buy a new computer program, maybe TurboTax or a game, and you install it on your PC or laptop. Before it installs, you see […]

Deaths of Despair

I’m an old Internal Medicine and Geriatrics doc; don’t have much experience with suicide. One of my patients during residency committed suicide after my residency […]

Let’s Get Ready to Roomba!

It’s a battle cry worthy of a Madison Square Garden Pugilistic face-off. The new Roomba arrived yesterday. I cut the packing tape from the box, […]

Touch

When I worked in the health insurance business end of medicine, I picked up some of the jargon. An interaction with a medical colleague or […]

Teaching Dogs to Cook

Dreaming is a very idiosyncratic activity; I am sure you know. The dreams that I remember are those rooted in various neuroses – performance anxiety, […]

More Snail Porn

Dinner tonight was another wonderful meal of escargot following Anthony Bourdain’s recipe. I made bruschetta earlier in afternoon, and Susan chopped a French baguette into […]