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Milton chooses civil disobedience

February 26, 2025

It was snowing like crap in Jackson Hole. My entire identity as a Ford Transit Trail was at risk as the white fluffy was piling up and making me look like a marshmallow. The overlords, Paula and Scott, had wimped out and decided not to drive to Park City in the middle of the snowstorm … More Milton chooses civil disobedience

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Gap Year, Week 50

December 26, 2024

Infinity is our fate, whether we realize it or not. … More Gap Year, Week 50

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Gap Year – Week 44

November 17, 2024

Don’t know exactly what’s going to happen? Good. A little scared? Good. Does the possibility of failure exceed single digits? Even better. … More Gap Year – Week 44

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Gap Year -> Week Eleven

March 18, 2024

Welcome or welcome back to my travels between respectability and susceptibility. Less than three months ago I was an employed clinical geneticist. Now I’m the retiree ordering a cappuccino in the forenoon. This month my plans have been to focus on nonfiction, including medicine, but I have not been especially efficient. We took a week … More Gap Year -> Week Eleven

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Eliminate the impossible

“How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?”

The Sign of the Four, ch. 6 (1890)
Sherlock Holmes in The Sign of the Four (Doubleday p. 111)

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“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”

“If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.”

 

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