"A Flaw Not Only in Him": Rereading Thomas Pynchon

Art/Official Insemination: Social Reproduction in the Novels of Thomas Pynchon

Not-only-a-title

"I think the use of the term 'quality of life' in the title of the journal Quality of Life Research' has contributed to the confusion about the measures described within the journal. Health status measures are often referred to as quality of life measures when they are actually measuring quality of health not quality of life. There are very important differences between the two and when those d...

Analyzing the Pynchon Gate Protocol

I analyzed the Pynchon Gate Protocol, a pseudonymous mail reply handling protocol introduced by Sassaman, Coen, and Mathewson, and in particular BitTorrent’s suitability for it’s purpose within that protocol. After an unfulfilling attempt at using PRISM, I wrote a BitTorrent simulator and used that to verify the feasibility of an attack delaying the distribution of the mail and possibly removin...

Redefining HIM leadership: toward an HIM leadership framework: a commentary on HIM leadership.

Leadership is one of the most examined human behavioral phenomena. While leadership appears easy to see, it remains difficult to define. Despite the abundance of leadership theories and widely known experts, there are no generally accepted definitions of leadership. The challenge of redefining health information management (HIM) leadership is compounded by the ongoing changes in HIM and the cri...

Rereading Ludwig Boltzmann

Ludwig Boltzmann is one of the first physicists who brought probability and statistical considerations into physics. Particularly famous is his statistical explanation of the second law of thermodynamics. However, Boltzmann’s ideas on the relationship between the thermodynamical properties of macroscopic bodies and their microscopic mechanical constitution, and the role of probability in this r...