be prepared to negotiate convincingly when you need an ambulance, otherwise (cue the Soup Nazi voice) - "NO AMBULANCE FOR YOU!"
At the Roman Coliseum...
My posterous is followed by a small number, but I have it linked to the larger audience on Facebook, and I think my comment about that article about mental illness requires a short follow-up. I did not mean to imply skepticism about the diagnostic legitimacy of mental illness, or the very real pain and suffering that comes with it - I've experienced it both first-hand and in loved ones. And I know many people have benefited enormously from these drugs. But I think this is a point of view and research supporting that point of view that is under represented in both the discussion by practitioners in that field, and in the popular literature, which is why I passed it along.
This is a disheartening, scary and painful thing to read. But it raises questions about the pharmacological approach to the treatment of psychiatric conditions favored by our society, and the attendant rapid growth, that we have to answer - and worse, will probably have to answer for...
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/jun/23/epidemic-mental-illness-why/?pagination=falseVery interesting article about the pleasure, and frustration, of learning to program. It includes a few quotes and references to the same about math (and draws an analogy between the two), and finds some overlap via Project Euler, which I've found enormously fun and compelling, having worked my way through 115 of the problems.
...some of these hit home.
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