The parade of my emotions is more interesting for its order than its raiment

& just so are my resolutions obviated....

The present is a prism that continually refracts the past

Happiness has no resolve

Light and shadow; line and curve.... #sixwords

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Astonishing!

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Is your doctor's religion relevant?

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The miracle spray-on glass that stops the bugs

Dancing double helix sings my song #sixwords

Soft soothing solace in silent shadows... #sixwords

Got some calories! Got some serotonin! #sixwords

Six words to a trending topic :-) #sixwords

Starve and everything becomes brain food #sixwords

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What is the wisdom of hunger?

Footprints in grey snow / flickering shadows absent / deny I am here #haiku

Clarity. Consistency. Comity. Consideration. Concentration. Completion. #sixwords

Soup. Too early, too late: mistimed. #sixwords

"as if paranoia were a way of life, not merely a set of reasonable precautions but a religion"

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Book of odds
www.bookofodds.com

One is more than twice as likely to die from a vending machine accident than a shark attack :-)

"For sale. Baby Shoes. Never worn." Hemingway. #sixwords

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Authors@Google: Clay Shirky

"Publishing is for acting"

Competence: "the habitual and judicious use of communication, knowledge, technical skills, clinical reasoning, emotions, values, and reflection in daily practice for the benefit of the individuals and communities being served."

#sixword Don't tell, show. Telling is showing.

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Why Change Is So Hard: Self-Control Is Exhaustible

"Self-control is exhaustible" Amen.

Interesting!
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Water Footprints by Country

Cognitive surplus, deflation, architecting capability

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"What do you think it is?"
I am arrested in fatigue; it seems self-evident: parsing, what else could it be? Ok. That I can answer = something fairly innocuous and so inconsequential.
I am to be educated? Fatigue is a thick glutinous barrier....

RP Logic vis a vis necessity

Barring Adam and Eve – and perhaps her 13 daughters – Genghis Khan is the biologically most successful individual in recorded history: 1 out of every 200 people alive today is a descendant. I read too, that he was illiterate and uncultured and that his empire was born of rage and no grand vision.

 

He altered the course of human events.

 

This is human life: accident, luck, chance.

 

We do not think statistically. We are not rational; we are people. If 10% of all the people who had ever lived are alive today and that proportion will increase as time passes it means that we have been and are a successful species. Logic then is not necessary to survival.

 

It seems survival only needs experimentation.

 

RP Commitments

The irregularity with which I update this blog implies that either this blog is not important or I have difficulty meeting my commitments.

 

Like life, the truth is neither as stark nor as simple: this blog is important but it is not my first priority and I do have difficulty meeting my commitments to myself but not to others. This blog is written for others, but the readers are an undefined mass. I feel no personal responsibility towards them because I have assured no individual that I will update this blog daily.

 

I do not know how many have read this blog or have done so more than once. I have been dropping stones into the abyss waiting to hear them hit bottom.

 

Futile actions have utility on more than one dimension and so are not necessarily futile. It all depends on your point of view.

 

"Maturation forms the spine to creativity."

In celebration of becoming: a paean to aspiration

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Prayer as medicine: how much have we learned?

RP Resolutions

Image via CrunchBase

I have no new resolutions to offer. Old ones will have to suffice: balance, good habits and small wins.

Two recommendations I'd like to offer: Human Knowledge 2000 by Brian Holtz and the Wikipedia. They are both memes and may they propagate far and wide.

I've suddenly realised that Michael Porter's teaching on strategy is essentially an argument favouring commitment: to commit to one thing is to say "No" to everything else. This is like evolution being about relationship.

The brain operates on massive parallel processing; so does society. We just need freer, more open real-time communication.

This story does not have a beginning, a middle and an end….

Ramadhan Mubarak!

There is a point at which fatigue becomes hallucinogenic; neurochemistry is given to fickle breakdowns....

...effacing, I am captured, captivated by the ephemeral gossamer....

Failure resilient

To observe the letter & abuse the spirit is an appalling shade of hypocrisy....

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An Ode to Joy
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Again... - I think....

In celebration of emotional continence!

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Department of Health. Abolition of the four-hour waiting standard in Accident and Emergency. Letter from the Secretary of State to the President of the College of Emergency Medicine. 23 June 2010

Delimit

129,864,880

Calibration

Sentiment or feeling? What? No distinction?...

"For those who reflect on their responses to me I am useful and for those who do not, I find them useful."

moral licensing

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Could one reasonably go about with a sc infusion of dextrose as a matter of convenience?

So why would hyponatremia be 6x more common in women than men?

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Bandwidth

Immersion

Attention is a prime - indivisible...

Neutropenia is the psychosociopathic villian of today's tale....

Toward an information uncertainty principle....

How much living in a life?

Interesting reading: GP Earnings

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To ends; or to means; the righteous are shrouded in means.... Righteous?

"...if you can fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth..."

The essential problem with exercise is that it is boring

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"limits to the diversity of purpose"

YAGNI is JIT

If I had 1 year left to live.... I've no idea what to put at the end of that.

90% preparation...

Consequences

Veisalgia

What is a reasonable conversation?

"Intelligence" is the 3576th most spoken English word...

Preference articulation: conversation: particulars, exceptions...

So I'm not insomniac?
International Classification of Sleep Disorders
Delayed sleep phase syndrome
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YMMV

I learnt tonight that little girls can get drunk on aftershave [90% ethanol]

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World building and people growing....

If Algernon lived would he have suffered a reversal too...?

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Redesign

Permissions

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Deja vu, Jamais vu, Ecstasy

Equals

Reify: to consider the abstract as concrete; or to objectify a subject. There seems a disconnect here....

Image via WikipediaToday reinforced that chest auscultation is crap: GSW to right upper chest, which by definition has a pneumothorax: sounded ok on auscultation.

This shape for this life; this pattern for that. Threads, molds, mixed metaphors....

"A story has no beginning or end; arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead."

- Graham Greene, The End of the Affair

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New head of global surgical society aims to keep Africa on the cutting edge

Polymath

What are you willing to be hostage to?

http://ping.fm/SeVCd Journal Watch Emergency Medicine March 6, 2009 Benefits of Urgent Evaluation and Treatment for TIA and Minor Stroke

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Today, I think I would like to be like all those people who sleep EVERY day - when it's dark out....