I'm doing what I can to ensure they win O:)

Get brain-fog from eating an excessive amount of simple carbohydrates? Try donating whole blood (thereby causing new blood to be created that will be closer to default levels of blood-sugar, insulin, etc...).

Ping - did this ever happen? I'm looking for good examples of anki decks for book summaries before I start creating my own.

I have 2 pairs, they're alright but not as awesome as I had hoped from the rave reviews.

I've thought about it, but I feel sick enough just from waiting too long between meals that I'm sort of scared to.

related, ex-officio briefs are awesome.

I'm hoping the second batch of those Wool and Prince shirts are cheaper. Then I just need to find socks to have a whole outfit that doesn't need constant laundering.

Relatedly, for sources of light that aren't your screen, get orange-tinted glasses. Also, of course, melatonin.

This looks like it might solve several food problems I've been having. (Not wanting to interrupt work to get food, being hungry but not wanting any particular food, and needing to eat every 2-3 hours to keep my blood sugar under control. That last one is mainly a problem because eating in the middle of class or a meeting looks weird, and I could probably get away with a drink more easily.) I might try something like it this summer, probably while eating normal food once or twice a day to reduce the risk.

This sounds like an excellent idea. I'm going to take the liberty of discussing my own name and I hope to get some opinions.

My surname, 'Armak', is a misspeling of Ermak, sometimes written Yermak. I have no love lost for this name. Its main effect on my life is that when I introduce myself, people respond with "Daniel What?". And people who see it written in Hebrew always pronounce it wrong (because Hebrew normally has no written vowels, it's very bad at transliteration of foreign names). It would be an ordinary name in Russia or Ukraine, but I'm unlikely to even visit those countries.

So I want to choose a common name that is "at home" in Hebrew and English and, preferably, Russian. Something short and simple that can be pronounced by speakers of pretty much any language, in case I associate with Chinese in the future, or something similarly unexpected.

But I'm very much afraid of bureaucratic hassle. It's easy to change a name, but records with the old name will follow me all my life. And I'm afraid that many organizations deal poorly with people who try to prove that their name changed and they should have access to their accounts or records opened under their old names.

On the other hand, most Western women and a few men change their names when they marry (and sometimes when they divorce). And this presumably doesn't create big difficulties, because it's socially expected. So maybe the infrastructure for name-changing already exists and my fears are unfounded.

Has this been quantified? Like surveying people who changed their legal names (other than when marrying or divorcing) after a few years.

Disclaimer: I haven't been serious enough to invest the time to research this myself.

How many people come to this? I'll be in town for the weekend (Infosec Southwest), so might be able to stop by.