Below are some notes I took during a town hall organized by Kristen Gonzalez, on the topic of a proposal for a casino in Midtown East (38th to 41st St, between First Ave and FDR).
Read more…Predictions for 2024
2 minute readHere’s a bunch of predictions for next year, along with rough probabilities. All dollar values inflation-adjusted for start of 2024.
Read more…Per a KFF report, the US government spent less than 1.3% of Medicare expenses on overhead in 2021 – the remaining 98.
Read more…Debugging stories: the inconsistent database
3 minute readRecently at work I ran across a bug which I thought was kind of interesting, so I figured I’d write it up.
Read more…Setting this blog up on Github Pages
6 minute readAs a birthday present to myself this year, I finally decided to bite the bullet and quit my Twitter addiction. I signed up for Mastodon, which seems nice so far (you can find me here).
Read more…Catching Us Up to 2018
4 minute readWell, it’s been a year since my last blogpost, which caught us up to 2017. Let’s bring us up to speed again, shall we?
Read more…Catching Us Up to 2017
5 minute readIt’s been a long time since my last real update in July 2014. What’s happened since then? Here’s the highlights, month by month.
Read more…And We're Back!
One minute readThe blog has been down for a ~long~ time, as you may have noticed. Most of my personal sites have fallen into various states of disrepair, and I migrated things over to a new server, which took everything down permanently until I found the time to restore things.
Read more…Our Summer Family Trip to Europe - Prelude
4 minute readOur family flew to Europe this summer for a little over two weeks of vacation time. We ended up visiting Paris and three cities in Italy, for roughly three-four days apiece.
Read more…As part of what is hopefully my last term of my undergraduate education, I’m taking a political philosophy course. As part of the general outline of the course, our professor introduced the broad overarching conflict that we’d be studying in several works, one that he phrased as Individual Rights versus Community.
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