fragments, findings, and field notes
notebook
4 fragments saved before they could disappear.
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commonplace
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
H.P. Lovecraft — The Call of Cthulhu
… notebook
brain dump
I had a red pepper in my hand, threw it one of those fragile bags, and made my way to the self-checkout machine. Surely there'd be one of those four or five digit numerical codes on there for me to plugin. Wrong. I tapped the look up by product screen. The only pepper I could find was of the jalapeno variety. What's a man to do? I could have tapped the help button and waited for assistance, instead I purchased a jalapeno pepper hoping that it cost less than the red pepper. Is it stealing? Am I going to grocery store jail? All I wanted was a red pepper.
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open tabs
The Myrtle Beach Bitch
In 1943, two GIs stationed at a South Carolina air base had met so many gay servicemen on other Southern bases that they decided to start a newsletter for their new friends. Because they were stationed at the Myrtle Beach Bombing Range, they named their newsletter the Myrtle Beach Bitch. Campy, patriotic, and naive, these young pioneers had no idea they had put together one of the first gay papers in the United States. They also weren’t prepared for the high price they’d have to pay for their innocent project.
https://www.facingsouth.org/1988/10/myrtle-beach-bitch
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nurse’s station
Treatment for Tobacco Use in Primary Care
Despite the abundance of evidence-based methods for treating tobacco use, research indicates that nearly half of the patients who visited a healthcare provider in the past year were not advised to quit smoking, and the majority of those who attempted to quit were not offered evidence-based cessation treatment.