Thursday, February 01, 2024

Working on Sunday

My dishwasher hasn't been working well lately. A busy repairman said he was fine to come by on a Sunday to look at it. Usually I try to take it easy on Sundays and avoid work. He had a bit of a point that it was him doing the work

Friday, January 12, 2024

survivors bias and nervous breakdown

I grew up believing that nervous breakdown was very rare, and being on the verge of a nervous breakdown was somewhat common. Years later I wonder if nervous breakdown was more frequent than I believed.

Tuesday, January 02, 2024

The Russian front

There was an interview on CTV News a couple of days ago. The talking head felt that if Russia won in Ukraine, then this was just the first phase in an eventual Russian invasion of Western Europe. The Ukrainian supporter theory was that the West should thus bring greatest effort to the Ukraine conflict. I thought about this a bit and what the West perhaps should do at this point at the end of 2023 and into the beginning of 2024

Thursday, December 28, 2023

themes for 2024

I didn't set out to write an end of 2023, New Year resolutions for 2024 post. It just kind of came to me early on Christmas morning.

Saturday, December 23, 2023

returning to work after being retired

Lately out and about I've noticed older workers in the stores and restaurants. I wonder if they are previously retired and now have to return to the workforce in their sixties for financial reasons

Friday, December 15, 2023

decomposing a cube into a tetrahedron

starting with a close to square kleenex box I created a tetrahedron by successively removing corners, vertices in geometry terms, to come to a tetrahedron

I'm experimenting with posting content on Twitter, with a link from here. Will see how it goes.