Wasteland Wrap-up #21

Cold weather, scientific and technological modernity, a witches' brew of radioactive samples, the looming end of the semester...

This has been a fairly tedious week, on account of a bad combination of the end of the semester and coming down with a cold. The cold has been very mild for the most part, but it has made sleeping a more difficult activity than it ought to be (which of course wrecks havoc on the next day), and I lost my voice entirely on Wednesday, forcing me to cancel classes and record lectures at home, rasping into a microphone. It also does not help that it has suddenly and dramatically gotten cold and dark on the East Coast.

Lyndon feels pretty similar to how I do in this weather.

The healthcare CEO murder response has been interesting to observe. There’s just so much going on in both the (often joyous) “popular” responses and the contrast with the “official” responses. I admit that I doubt it augers anything good on either side of that divide.

I did manage to get a post up this week on Doomsday Machines, about the health system in Oregon Road ‘83, and the kind of thinking that I’ve been putting into “system design” in general for this “simulation game”: “How to get sick and die in the post-apocalypse.” I had written much of this up a few weeks back but the amount of work had conspired against me polishing it up, but I was pleased to finally get it out the door. And maybe I’m relating to it just a little more than I do when I drafted it originally, what with this cold…