Perhaps absent a pandemic, I would have stayed in Portland. The city has amazing food and a decent partner dance scene. But I think it far more likely that I would have left earlier than I did. In the end, Portland is as much a city as I ever want to live in longterm. Nothing …
Category Archives: Frustrated Musings
Orders of Magnitude
As a full disclaimer, I’m terrible at arithmetic. Particularly if I think someone is analyzing my speed at manipulating numbers in my head. I think part of it is because I’ve had more than the average training in mathematics, and I think this is somehow supposed to make me a computer in the original sense …
Unsupported Conclusions
Lately I feel as though I’m drowning in a sea of unsupported conclusions whenever I read the news. Today’s winner is this article from the New York Times, which includes the statement “Americans eat many more vegetables when meals are prepared for them in restaurants than when they cook for themselves”. I’m not going to …