1. What’s the most tech-illiterate thing you’ve seen a person do?
My mom, bless her heart, doesn’t use or understand email. Which, in the year 2020, is kind of difficult to share things with her. She still sends letters by mail and will send packages and envelopes full of little things from my past. It’s cute but a mom with no email is difficult to send things like recipes and gardening stuff she would be interested. And oddly it is just email. She reads her kindle and plays a few video games on her phone and is quite good about texting – clear down to photo sharing and using gifs and emojis. But email intimidates her for some reason.
2. What places would you never travel to because they’re too dangerous?
Probably Bolivia or one of those revolutionary South American nations. I had this book years ago, “Traveling to the World’s Most Dangerous Places” a travel book on how to negotiate risky, revolutionary, and third world countries. Much easier to travel those places from the safety of your couch.
3. What’s the best pet name you’ve ever heard?
I always to name a puppy of a large breed dog, like a rottweiler, “Gonk.”
4. What’s the craziest conspiracy theory you have heard?
I read this book about Nixon and Watergate and the author’s premise was that the break-in was not about the Democrats as much as what they may have had in opposition research, namely information about Nixon’s involvement in Cuba and Chile and the Kennedy assassination. I didn’t buy the story but it was a good story indeed.
5. What’s your favorite time of the day to have coffee?
7:00 am or so, on the couch with the New York Times crossword puzzle.
1) Not use Google docs. Microsoft sucks and not in a conspiracy chip everyone way.
2) Minneapolis right now.
3) Our dog’s name is fairly inspired and we did not name him, the women prisoners whop trained him did. His name is Mr. Man.
4) The Clinton assassination conspiracy is as far fetched as they come.
5) 7:30 a.m. outside if weather allows.
1) one of the anesthesiologists I shadowed had no idea how to document the patient encounter in the new hospital system. He was only a bit over a year from retiring. So he hired a scribe for $40K to do all his charting for him. His colleagues jus5 looked at the floor and shook their heads.
2) Tijuana, Me I I was the most violent city in the world in 2018. I’m good and perfectly ok not having ever gone there.
3) Friend if mine years ago had a beautiful jet black lab named Shadow. It’s was the perfect name.
4) The current Bill Gates is going to microchip everyone is pretty damn good. I mean he’s already super rich why would he give shit what the losers of the world are up to?
5) 7:30-8:00am after waking up on my days off from clinic.