too hard to stir

fresh from ben goldacre's inspiring lessons, i've been trying to digest this. it is an intellectual exercise in futility. was it for this the clay grew tall?

diplopia

a totally unintended effect mind you.

i keep looking and turning away and looking again

and it still looks in focus and in double.

bad science - ben goldacre (2008)

this should be subtitled statistics and ebm for the dummy. i'm feeling enormously empowered after reading it. bring on the numbers! i want to say. deal me the studies! see me go beyond the abstract! watch me critique the m & m!

incidentally, here is the synopsis of a meta-analysis that gladdens the heart. chocophiles worldwide are finally vindicated.

emancipation 2

it feels naked. i feel blind.

but the best feeling is not to feel the frames on my nose and behind my ears.

wheeeee!

emancipation

four decades of eyeglasses later i am on monovision contact lenses. that's contact lenses for people who require correction for distance and for reading, so, as he explains it, one eye looks into the distance and the other eye reads.

what i suddenly realize is, those dinky frames have been shielding me from a whole bunch of crow's feet, that's what.

=_=

just had one of those weekends that you need a weekend to recover from. these days it's becoming easier to get one of those.

letting go is hard to do

the sign says, annual used books sale! and i find myself turning into the car park, quite against my every better resolution. there is magic in the air, i'm telling you. the sight! the smell! the smiles! the hustle and the bustle! the bags! the boxes! the tables! 

i've crossed the electronic barrier but my heart's with them paper books now. 

ablutions update

the skies alas they open.

ablutions 3

chance of rain today: 30%.

short of that time with hurricane Irene i haven't taken such an active personal interest in the weather forecast in months. 

jer 29:11

the leaves are turning red!

this is the longest we have been in any place in twelve years. 

i think this year, if we are here for autumn i shall plant tulip bulbs.