Adventures in Whole-Food, Plant-Based Eating
In three years of high school, Chatsworth High class of 1974, I took five Advanced Placement classes and did well in all of them. But I only took three of the AP tests. Passing the test could be worth college credits. I didn’t want too many of those, because I...
At one level of description, everything that happens is extremely unlikely. So many other things could have happened, but didn’t. At another level, because it happened, everything seems to have been inevitable. I have seen several versions of a line of reasoning that goes something like this: the conditions required...
Writers on nutrition, like medical doctors in general, tend to express themselves with a great deal of certainty. Since there are so many areas of disagreement and so much marketing noise, this just confuses the lay public and undermines trust in doctors and medical research. Virtually all such research is...
I’m not a party guy. I generally avoid loud, crowded gatherings. Between Covid19 and just getting older, I expect I have mostly graduated from graduations and aged out of birthday parties. I don’t like funerals, but I feel honored to participate in a celebration of life for a skydiver friend....
There is reason to believe that most dollars spent on advertising are wasted. Even so, if you can do the advertising inexpensively or free, it helps you succeed in whatever market you are in. It is 1977. I take a shot at playing no limit lowball poker at a card...
A book by an unknown author became very popular in 1974, the year I graduated high school and traveled all over the United States on Greyhound buses. It is still in print in 2022, and clearly one of the great publishing successes ever. You have probably read this book, a...
My friend Vern and my cousin Jerry were very different people, but they had one thing in common. They both survived heart attacks and did not change their way of eating. They both died of second heart attacks. I have living friends who have survived heart attacks and have stents...
It is late 2019. I work in a small office in Arcadia, California. A small, varying group of us often go out to lunch together at nearby restaurants. No one was worried about Covid19 yet, and our lunch tradition was well-established. I liked it, because I liked all the meals...
This site is like a series of letters to the world at large, stopped up with corks into bottles, and set adrift in the ocean from my little desert island. I don’t really expect anyone to read them, and would find a thoughtful answer astonishing, albeit gratifying. There is no...
In my software development career, I often repeated a few maxims, including: Always have a backup. If it doesn’t have to work correctly, I can make it really fast. Every problem in computer science can be solved by adding a level of indirection, and Don’t fight the framework. Like all...
