[This is the next installment in what appears to be a series of ongoing posts about my experiences with ears, hearing aids, and hearing in general. If you missed the earlier bits, feel free to backtrack to Part 2 (on hearing aids); there's a link there to the first part.]
While preparing to write this post, [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Science & Medicine'
Ear Job (3): Tinnitus
November 18th, 2008 · 3 Comments
Tags: Hearing · Looking Backward · Science & Medicine
Aging Gracefully, and Otherwise
November 15th, 2008 · 8 Comments
At least in the drafts I’ve done so far, the work-in-progress, Grail, uses a rotating point of view from mostly elderly characters. Because I’m not elderly yet myself (though I will be if I don’t work on it faster!), and knock on wood still fairly healthy, it’s tricky to tell the stories from inside the [...]
Tags: Everyday Life · Grail · Ruminations · Science & Medicine
Bart Seinstein
November 13th, 2008 · 8 Comments
Today’s going to be one of those days, I can feel it already, with a dozen smallish separate workloads (worklets?) piled like rubble against the non-existent door of my office at the day job…
A major embarrassment of my life as a pop-culture geek, TV watcher, animation fan, admirer of anarchic humor, etc. etc., is that [...]
Tags: Cartoons · Celebrities · Science & Medicine · Television · The Online World
Software I’d Like to See: Fotōpic
October 25th, 2008 · 2 Comments
It makes no difference that I’ve been a computer programmer for nearly 30 years now. There are computer programmers and there are computer programmers. If your assignments (actual or potential) don’t require you to use a given technology, chances are you’ll never learn that technology. Meanwhile, the world passes you by in the form of [...]
Tags: GPS · Merry-Go-Round · Programming, Web Design, Databases · Science & Medicine · Writing
A Bout of Gout
September 24th, 2008 · 4 Comments
From Richard Selzer’s Mortal Lessons: Notes on the Art of Surgery, quoting Lady Mary Wortley, via Hugh Walpole:
People wish their enemies dead — but I do not; I say, give them gout, give them the stone.
From “When in Gout,” by Allison Williams, Time Out New York, April 16-22, 2008:
You would know if you had [...]
Tags: Everyday Life · Looking Backward · Science & Medicine · The Missus
Art, Meet Life. Life, This Is Art.
September 22nd, 2008 · 2 Comments
You may remember my 10(ish)-year-old story “The Bug,” which I posted here a few weeks ago. In it, the protagonist — home at work with a fever, some kind of bug anyhow — stumbles upon a very strange cable-TV channel. Its name is The Dead Channel; all its programming has to do, somehow, with death. [...]
Tags: Science & Medicine · Short Fiction
The World Has Not Ended, But the Day Is Still Young
September 10th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Another brief, YouTube-salvaged entry today to work on a review for the Book Book site…
Libba Bray (link to her site over there on the right, under the “Je Ne Sais Quoi…” category) is a funny YA author, and an all too infrequent blogger. In her most recent post, she mentions being a physics freak and [...]
Tags: Everyday Life · In the News · Music · Science & Medicine
Gene-Mapping Your Work
August 31st, 2008 · 8 Comments
Everybody, writers included, likes a list. (As soon as someone starts a sentence with the words, “There are N kinds of [people, whatever] in this world…,” he’s started to construct a list — even if N is only 2.) It’s one of the signs that among other things we are, humans are mathematical creatures. Even [...]
Tags: Science & Medicine · Style and Craft · Writing
Death of a Jacket
August 6th, 2008 · 5 Comments
There’s so much news every day. Who can keep up with it all…?
For example, I’m a couple-three months behind the curve on this:
One of the central works in the exhibition “Design and the Elastic Mind” at the Museum of Modern Art in New York (until 12 May), Victimless Leather, a small jacket made up of [...]
Tags: Art & Photography · Science & Medicine
Thinking Too Hard About Energy Conservation
June 24th, 2008 · No Comments
“There is a lot of friction and movement in that general area.”
[From Slate]
Tags: Science & Medicine
