That was an intentionally innocuous title. So the last post was nice and sentimental about starting school. I meant everything I said, but it is true that that post is not an entirely accurate reflection of what Wednesday September 4th was like for me. This one will be slightly darker. It will also involve explicit […]
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How to delete Adobe Acrobat MS Word Add-in for Mac desktop apps
Just because I lost two hours to this yesterday and it’s hard to find this information online* hopefully this will pop up in the search engines. Search in finder for the file linkCreation.dotm and then delete it. Reopen MS Word and the problem should be gone. This works on MacOS Mojave; I haven’t tested elsewhere. […]
Of Nouns and Pain
I am way overdue for an update and there are multiple posts to be made. Today’s topic is in the header. First: no tumour marker news. The cancer centre at Jewish General was a mad house yesterday* and the blood tech somehow forgot to do a test for thyroglobulin. It’ll likely be another two weeks […]
Hypersensitivity Phenomenology, or Touch-and Learn with Hand-Foot Syndrome
So I appear to have the “hand” part of hand-foot syndrome. It’s a relatively mild case, as hand-foot syndrome can be so bad that it’s painful to touch anything with your hands or impossible to walk. In my case, it’s just in the hands. I’ve got the tight skin, tingling and burning, and extreme sensitivity […]
Advertising makes the internet worse; here’s what that means
I remember standing in Microsoft Research New England, talking with a few brilliant mathematicians and computer scientists. Twitter had just started including ads in their feed, and there was much grumbling and surprise. I responded that Twitter only had a few choices–fewer, given that they were giving away their service for “free.” A quick look […]
An allegory about this website getting hacked on Friday night
I grew up in a house in a first ring suburb of Minneapolis. The plot of land was clearly designed by an architect who was not from the area: an unpaved driveway went down a hill to a detached garage. In the winter, the driveway was slippery and it was easy for cars to get […]
Here we go!
After over a two week wait, my drugs are finally here. So this is what that looks like: Next to my Lenvima in the picture above is a large container of loperamide (Immodium) that in my mind swells to the size of a barrel, and an anti-nausea drug. I have not been writing about the […]