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Dearly departing

The untimely demise of my clinical future Continue reading →

Didn’t go to Yale for an Mrs degree

Yale PA program’s non-response to sexism Continue reading →

Unbinaried at Yale — looking back

I got much more than a degree from Yale Continue reading →

Yale PA didactic year silent curriculum

Messages from my Yale PA education that I must unlearn Continue reading →

Yale PA didactic year impressions

How does it live up to my expectations of excellence? Continue reading →

Avoiding NeoPixel glitches

Having problems with NeoPixels? So was I. Continue reading →

Gluteal equality

Truly, I have arrived. Continue reading →

Unbinaried at Yale — week 2

Wherein my gender and my medical education begin to equilibrate Continue reading →

Unbinaried at Yale — week 1

Wherein my gender adventures collide with my medical education Continue reading →

Congratulations, it’s a…

My gender changed, but it’s unclear what it changed to. How apt. Continue reading →

Let there be workshop lights

Mounting my fluorescent workbench lights. Continue reading →

Masterful Discourse

Five frustrating ways in which smart people impede social progress. Take note, past self. Continue reading →

Electronics at the Yale School of Public Health

In spring of 2016, I led an Electronics Workshop at the Yale School of Public Health. It was wonderful! Continue reading →

Using SAS University Edition in batch mode

I hate SAS slightly less now that I can run it from the command line. What? Continue reading →

Blogging with GitBook

Continued adventures in creating a workable blogging toolchain. Continue reading →

Pull-up resistor calculator

Handy tool for calculating values for pull-up resistors. Continue reading →

Shunt voltage reference bias resistor calculator

Handy tool for calculating value of bias resistor for a shunt voltage reference. Continue reading →

Dude, you’re wearing a skirt

You may have noticed I am wearing a skirt. Continue reading →

2013 iMac USB audio “fixed”

I avoid a choice between kernel panics and gaming in silence, using a small amount of money. Continue reading →

Freedom of non-religion

Opting out of god in US naturalization oath of allegiance. Continue reading →

United skirts of America

Adventures in immigration and gender-non-conformity. Continue reading →

Syncing data between two macs

Wherein I bang my head against two computers simultaneously. Continue reading →

Custom Bordered UIButtonBarItems

I cleverly use math to draw custom bordered items in iOS toolbar. Continue reading →

Introspection privilege

When I am the benevolent dictator for life, everyone will have mental healthcare. Until then, I’d rather not judge those who don’t. Continue reading →

Decision-making in organ donation

An overview of how organ donation in the US works, and how transplantation decisions are made. Continue reading →

Why Jinja and Hyde don’t go together

One of many attempts at having a blogging workflow that works. Continue reading →

Northeastern CPS academic calendar explained

Are you baffled by the Northeastern University academic calendar? Me too! Continue reading →

Post-baccalaureate classes in Boston

Pros and cons of various post-baccalaureate offerings, aimed at pre-health students. Continue reading →

Once more, a train pulled into the station;

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September 2009 Boston Harbor sail

Photos from 2009 sail in Boston harbor. Continue reading →

Charles River on New Year’s Eve 2008

While others celebrated a new year, I explored forlorn corners of Boston. Continue reading →

In one smooth motion, she swiveled her hips

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Her eyes darted over my right shoulder.

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She kneaded,

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Apple picking, October 2008

My friends took me apple-picking, but I went people-watching. Continue reading →

Niagara Falls

It may be sunny at Niagara Falls, but it sure isn’t dry. Continue reading →

“Don’t eat that!”, she stopped me,

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You’re being all flirty.

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Cyrus IMAP dies with “User defined signal 1” on Leopard Server

Once in a while, the only right thing to do is to always run a critical server process under gdb. Continue reading →

Erin in San Jose, summer 2006

When in San Jose, remember to fondle the cherries. Continue reading →

On the Blue Hills boardwalk

Photos from a springtime visit to a tranquil bog. Continue reading →

Colorful fall in Lyme, CT

Delightful colors from a fall trip to Lyme, CT. Continue reading →

Boston 4th of July fireworks

An annual colorsplosion in skies above Boston. Continue reading →

“Initiative is hot”,

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Brrr, thought the goose

This is why I miss the Mediterranean weather. Continue reading →

Lake house weekend

Photos from a weekend getaway in Connecticut. Continue reading →

A brief detour to Woods Hole

Meandering around Woods Hole, Leah and I discovered things strange and lovely. Continue reading →

I paused, then decided.

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Converting an STL vector iterator to a raw pointer

This is why I have an entire talk on things I hate about STL. Continue reading →

Smooth animation in your Dock icon

How to draw a custom animated overlay on an application Dock icon in OS X. Continue reading →

Make your certificates readable by the web server user

This message brought to you by hours I wasted debugging an cryptic Apache-SSL error. Continue reading →

Mailman fails to deliver mail after a restart on Mac OS X 10.3 Server

I don’t always use Mailman. But when I do, I make sure that its lock file is cleared on reboot. Continue reading →

How to create a multihomed certificate with OpenSSL

Multihomed SSL certificates are just barely more useful than painful. Continue reading →

A comparison of QuickTime and CoreGraphics image scaling

I try to get decent scaled images from CoreGraphics, and resort to using QuickTime APIs instead. Continue reading →

Data sharing on Mac OS

Sharing data between processes in OS X has many rabbit holes. You are welcome. Continue reading →

My love/hate relationship with STL

Slides about my most and least favorites parts of the C++ Standard Template Library. Continue reading →

C++ and STL presentations

A series of talks about C++ and its Standard Template Library. Continue reading →

Space aliens ate my HFS headers

My file system eats itself, and I fix it with a hex editor. Continue reading →

Hierarchical distributed repositories in CVS

Before distributed version control was a thing, I got a Master’s degree by badly bolting it onto CVS. Continue reading →

Disk First Aid Doubler

Rewind to the 90s, then fast-forward through the startup disk check on Mac OS 9. Continue reading →

DockStrip

MacHack 2000 winning entry: Add dock magnification effect to Mac OS 9 Control Strip. Continue reading →

asciiMac

MacHack 1998 winning entry: Turn your entire screen into ASCII art live. Continue reading →
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