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We moved to Cleveland at the beginning of June. Actually, that’s an exaggeration: Grace and almost all the furniture have moved to Cleveland, and I came back to New … Continue reading »

Boing Boing has a pointer to a profile of Ricky Jay in the June issue of Smithsonian magazine. I first heard substantially about Ricky Jay in a New Yorker profile of … Continue reading »

It’ll be “that’s Doctor Gracie to you!” from now on. Graduation exercises for SUNY Downstate were held this past Monday at Carnegie Hall. The walk across the stage … Continue reading »

Last week, we had the last of the wedding receptions that we had spread out over six months. This was primarily for East Coast family and family friends who … Continue reading »

Some notes on the JFK AirTrain and JetBlue from the past week: The JFK AirTrain project came online earlier this year after many, many delays, including a fatal accident during testing. … Continue reading »

Over the past few years, I’ve gotten sporatic mailings from a former employer, EarthWeb (now Dice.com, with the EarthWeb web sites now owned by an entirely different entity) concerning my … Continue reading »

Slate has a photographic tour and discussion about Manhattan apartment buildings through history. The main points are that the majority of recently built buildings aren’t particularly interesting — just … Continue reading »

Grace matched at The Cleveland Clinic for the four-year anesthesiology program. She starts in June. I’ll join her after unwinding the things that have to be unwound here, probably towards … Continue reading »

The banner is from this site, courtesy of a link from BoingBoing.net. New Yorkers had black ribbons after 9/11, but somehow this token had morphed into red-white-and-blue ribbons by … Continue reading »

ScienceBlog has a post up about a new, non-invasive test for cirrhosis. It’s basically a blood test, something that measures the ratio/quantities of blood sugars as fibrosis changes to … Continue reading »