I kept myself totally invisible on the web for years – lots of people do this. I took lengths to make myself un-Google-able. I used proxy names, kept multiple email accounts, never mentioned myself. It was all very Locke and Demosthenes, really, but i took a lot of energy. So what changed? Well, for one [...]
How To Have Asthma 4: Coping
How To Have Asthma 3: Shackles
This post deals with the affordances that sometimes must be made to deal with asthma, and a number of things that sufferers can view as shackles. I’ll start off, however, with defining what I mean by the term actionable event. When I was fairly young (I’m talking between six and nine, here) I have sharp [...]
How To Have Asthma 2: The System
How To Have Asthma
I likely won’t be able to fit everthing I have to say in this post, so be aware, there may be a cliffhanger. For those of you who aren’t so clear on what this is about, here’s a fairly stock definition of asthma: Asthma [original article] is a predisposition to chronic inflammation of the lungs [...]
Exposure
The Law Of Diminishing Returns
Health Care
Canadian Olympians were told recenly they get to be vaccinated or they get to stay home from the games. The official medical officer for the Canadian Olympic team said, if the games are requiring this, then atheletes should be given priority and vaccinated first. Health Canada says, you’re still Canadian citizens, you get no special [...]
Music
I’ve got two videos to share today. One of them I’m sure I’ve shared before, the other I’m certain is totally unique. As I said to someone while discussing the differences between these two videos; Music is my absolute core. Seeing someone so in love with the process of music itself is just… Stark and [...]



Life at the Scale of the Internet
Somehow my store now has CBC Newsworld running all the time now, instead of music. As such I’ve been exposed to a lot of news lately – on the one hand it means I’m a bit better informed than usual, and on the other, it exposes me to three hours of balloon boy coverage, which [...]