I rode the bus in this morning and having finished my book last night I found myself with nothing to do. So like any self-respecting geek I hauled out the laptop and wrote this on the bus. Few things can identify you as a geek as quickly as typing on a laptop on a bus, but I guess I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m ok with that, given the fact that I write on this blog is sort of an easy tell that I might have geeky tendencies.<\/p>\n
There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a good article on The Register<\/a> that talks about how a global flu pandemic is almost as sure as sneezes are wet, the question is just when it will happen. The author makes a pretty good case, given the bird or avian flu is already around, it will only take a very small mutation to make that one a very big problem. So you may wonder why I bring that up right at this moment as I bounce along on public transit? Well, it because I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m sneezing my frickin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 head off due to my allergies at the moment and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m probably making the person next to me nervous. I just forgot to take some allergy medicine, but for all they know I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m patient zero for the next global killer virus. There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s no point trying tell them that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m probably harmless. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hard to be convincing arguing that point when your head can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t seem to stop whipping front and back from the punishing sequential chain sneezing. In fact it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hard just making eye contact at that point.<\/p>\n Ok, so I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m exaggerating slightly, but still I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m sitting here sniffling mightily to keep the snot at bay and its darned inconvenient, unattractive, and annoying. But at least with the laptop people know I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m just a nerd with allergies, and not the guy who escaped from quarantine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I rode the bus in this morning and having finished my book last night I found myself with nothing to do. So like any self-respecting geek I hauled out the laptop and wrote this on the bus. Few things can … Continue reading