March 2023 - Musings

This Week in COVID

This will be the last of my weekly COVID updates unless the SARS-CoV-2 virus spawns another mutant strain that causes another wave of severe illness. […]

Bugs!

It’s an iconic, one-word line from the 1997 movie Starship Troopers based on Robert Heinlein’s novel of the same name. These bugs are just crawdads. […]

Scallop Porn

This is a favorite meal here at our house. I prepare two giant scallops over Susan’s basmati rice, and I grill six oysters on the […]

Dinner and a Movie

What movie? Why the next installment in the tale of Jardani Jovanovich, loving husband of murdered wife Helen, of course. It’s John Wick 4 (JW4). […]

Tabletops

There is a style of group analysis often called a tabletop exercise. Such exercises posit a particular problem for which the participants must design a […]

Shrimp Pasta Porn

This evening’s dinner was created from leftovers; perhaps yours was as well. I sauteed leftover blue oyster mushrooms in EVOO and butter, then added leftover […]

Equal Opportunity

We all want a fair shot – women, people of color, LGBTQ folks, individuals of all creeds or none. The truth is that white, male, […]

A.I.

On the way to the grocery store today, I listened to a fragment of an NPR podcast about Artificial Intelligence (AI). Later in the afternoon, […]

Drunken

It’s an adjective with ambiguous connotations. There is Drunken Chicken which I have heard is tasty. And Drunken Boxing which was popularized in the movies […]

This Week in COVID

Here’s Dr. Klotman’s weekly COVID update from Baylor College of Medicine (my medical Alma Mater). This is Week 157 of the smoldering COVID Apocalypse, and […]