I am in #vancouver! I will be here for a couple of months. Any recommendations for good Chinese noodle places (literally any kind of noodle, from any part of China) or hikes or both?
I'm going on a 3-month vacation to Canada with my partner, who needs a biologic to, you know, stay alive. Despite everything I know about how fucked up the US insurance system is, I am still gobsmacked at how cruel they are in their attempts to block his 90-day supply. They gave him a one-week window to fill his prescription with a "vacation override" -- and every day they cancel the pharmacy orders, using various bullshit excuses. It's day 5 and he's still trying to get his prescription filled.
From the Time Flies and Paperclips Are Old Dept: My nephew applied for college in November. Today, I needed some paperclips. The box contained one long strand of connected paperclips that he had knitted together when he was about eight.
I think LLMs may wind up being remembered the same way we remember 19th century Spiritualism. A bunch of scientists and rich people bought into Spiritualism, too -- until they didn't.
Today I'm making shortbread with a layer of caramel and a layer of chocolate on top. Usually that's called "millionaire's shortbread" but I'm really not in the mood to celebrate millionaires or billionaires. So I'm calling it Ultra Tasty Fuck Yeah Shortbread, which is accurate and evidence-based.
OK friends who bake -- I have a question. What if I made a lemon bar recipe but I used oranges instead of lemons? Would it be good? Too sweet? Would I need to add a little lemon juice anyway?
What happens when a mall dies? In my latest newsletter, I visit two of San Francisco's moribund shopping spaces -- the former Twitter building, and the former Westfield mall. What I find is very liminal.
