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By David Tuller, DrPH When I write about functional neurological disorder (FND) or functional neurological symptoms, I sometimes get feedback from Zachary Grin, a physical therapist in New York. As an FND specialist, he disagrees with...
So a few days ago when I was messing around with different ways of playing audio files on my laptop, I learnt that jellyfin can run on localhost. Now this, this is an awesome realisation, because now I can run a jellyfin server and...
But what if the hero doesn’t want to slay the monster? What if the monster should be left alone because killing it would bring more shame upon the hero than glory? This strangely resonates. One might say this is going too far but perhaps...
The Var River below the high village of Touët in France. This is going to continue the series of posts that began with The Inundated Delta, which was a response to Dave Snowden’s thoughtful position of the Art of Hosting in the context...
2024 fantasy mystery. A high-ranking Imperial officer has been murdered, in a particularly grotesque way. But why was he even staying at a house belonging to one of the richest families in the Empire? And what does this have to do with...
I never knew what was so great about the ‘great icosahedron’. Now I do. Take a regular icosahedron whose vertices have coordinates in the field ℚ[√5], which consists of numbers a + b√5 with a and b rational. Apply the nontrivial element...
In April, the sun started rising early enough so that I started walking or running near dawn. Each time I returned, there were people gathered underneath the same cluster of eucalyptus trees in the park and I didn’t ask why. I mean, I...
Well, it’s time for that annual blog post. I’ve been in Japan for three years now. In short, I love living here, and I’m continuing to embrace living in my own unique way. §New Opportunities Actually, just recently I had my first proper...
Whiz Comics #2 Date: February 1940 Publisher: Fawcett Publications Cover Price: 10¢ 2013 Price Range: $8,000 - $176,000 Stats: 64 color pages plus ads Writers: Bill Parker and ? Artists: C.C. Beck and ? Notable Notes: 1st appearances of...
I’m starting to read “WordPress Plugin Development Cookbook – Third Edition”. The first example does nothing other than make a do nothing plugin visible in the admin page, but the second example already allowed for some fun. I’m happy...
I Read Games reviews are me reading games when I have nothing better to do, like read a module or write or play a game. I don’t seriously believe that I can judge a game without playing it, usually a lot, so I don’t take these very...
Today's links AI and a world without migrants: It's solipsism all the way down. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Manuscript rabbits; "What Will Come After"; Pastejacking; Terrorism phrenology; Vaccine waivers...