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27.2.2025 21:30Comment on Halfway to a keg of blood by George HotellingI gave blood yesterday for the first time since July, having paused for a few months pre- and post-kidney donation. I've donated twenty units of blood since I wrote this blog post five years ago. That's four units per year, right on track with my original forecast. I'm up to 73 units with the Red Cross and 83 total. Ten years to go at this pace! This is a nice way to mark the passage of time. I hope my good health persists.
27.2.2025 21:05Comment on Halfway to a keg of blood by SamA remarkable and beautiful story. As someone who knows your mom(and is a mom herself), I understand her apprehension. However, she and your dad have planted the seeds of tsedakah and gimilut chasadim in you-so really this is their fault! :) What an amazing act of kindness you have done. Kol Hakavod.
16.1.2025 16:06Comment on Notes on a Non-Directed Kidney Donation by Michelle Drucker Friedmanno matter the path the donor has chosen to come into this decision and inspiration behind it or any other reasons etc. thank you to all who took the courage, to try and to go through to donate in making a difference and helping recipients out there.
11.1.2025 21:35Comment on Notes on a Non-Directed Kidney Donation by dwarkjiEverything about these reflections and the decision to donate is very thoughtful and very you! Also definitely better than a Ted Talk.
Sam, I love your spirit and you. My favorite part was when you were drugged up after donating your kidney you were celebrating with strangers in the hospital with fist bumps. Glad you are okay and helped save multiple lives.
10.1.2025 14:26Comment on Notes on a Non-Directed Kidney Donation by Anthony Deptula[…] I knew it I was six weeks recovered, working at full output and once more hauling two kids on the back of my giant bike. Easy […]
1.1.2025 18:01Comment on The cargo bike changed my life by Notes on a Non-Directed Kidney Donation – samfirke.com“Do you have any questions?” the surgeon asked. After a year of learning all I could about kidney donation, I did not. Following a quick debate over who would shave my abdomen – the surgical team, eager to start, waved off a nurse – it was finally happening. On October 30th my left kidney was […]
1.1.2025 18:01Notes on a Non-Directed Kidney DonationLove that you did this, Sam! So great!
24.10.2024 03:13Comment on Conifers along Miller Ave at Mack School by Cody WalkerIn 2021 I helped win a grant from the Washtenaw County Conservation District for planting native trees at Mack School (where my kids attend Ann Arbor Open). We planted the trees in 2022. Some didn’t survive, but the ones that did are looking decent. Here is a row of eastern white pines (pinus strobus) we […]
24.10.2024 01:15Conifers along Miller Ave at Mack SchoolI got my first Yuba Spicy Curry bike in 2017 and have been riding one ever since. It is the long-tail bike seen in many of the photos of Things I’ve carried on a cargo bike and The biggest thing I’ll ever tote on a bike. This year both of my weathered passenger seat cushions […]
7.9.2024 00:30DIY Upholstered Seat Cushion for Yuba Spicy Curry Cargo BikeIn reply to <a href="https://samfirke.com/2020/02/03/watch-repair-metal-spring-bar-tore-channel-in-casio-g-shock-end-piece/#comment-38028">Sam</a>. Nothing sticking out. I’ve dabbed it with WD40 and poked at it with a dental probe, but no luck. I thought a dentist friend might not think it’s too crazy an idea to try “grinding” it down. Looks like it would require a drill or grinder diameter under 0.8 mm and going down about 0.7 mm. I’d try using epoxy to make up any oversize issues. No rush, so a fun challenge! Thanks for the reply!
6.9.2024 18:53Comment on Watch repair: metal spring bar tore a channel in a Casio G-Shock end piece by FrankIn reply to <a href="https://samfirke.com/2020/02/03/watch-repair-metal-spring-bar-tore-channel-in-casio-g-shock-end-piece/#comment-37988">Frank</a>. Is there anything sticking out that a pair of small pliers could grab onto? Maybe someone at a local makerspace or who works on electronics would have an idea. Otherwise drilling and restoring sounds like a good bet.
6.9.2024 16:55Comment on Watch repair: metal spring bar tore a channel in a Casio G-Shock end piece by SamI finished reading The Future and for some reason I kept going, even past the second-to-last page at the back describing the book’s fonts … after which was a final page with a cryptic note. I wonder if anyone reading the book on Kindle or audiobook finds it? I was surprised at myself that I’d […]
28.8.2024 01:00The secret ending of Naomi Alderman’s The FutureThis post is a spiritual successor to LLMs are good coders, useless writers. After getting steadily worse for years, the experience of searching the web just hit a new all-time low. I clicked on the top non-ad search result and encountered the worst word-salad nonsense I’ve ever seen. It was too perfect not to share. […]
5.7.2024 11:30The SEO garbage search result that sent me over the edgeI first met this adorable creature in Ann Arbor in April 2022. It was painted on a post at Packard & Arch at the tiny Forsythe Park. It offered good (albeit saucy) advice: I’m glad I photographed it because it was soon gone. A week later the creature appeared a few blocks south, on the […]
3.7.2024 01:45A three-eyed creature haunts the streets of Ann ArborIn the last month I took a family vacation to the Great Smoky Mountains and read two novels about logging: Ron Rash’s Serena and Annie Proulx’s massive Barkskins. Here are some resulting thoughts about trees, creatures, and the people who inhabit their world. The natural world in America is nothing like what it was We […]
30.4.2024 01:45Relating to natural life todayThis chili is easy to make, healthy, and my kids all like it, so I cook it frequently in the colder months. It’s also vegan and gluten-free. The recipe evolved over the years (from a mediocre starting point) and I typically just cook it from memory. But a couple of people have asked for this […]
24.12.2023 14:00Easy Vegan Chili with TVPMy writer friends say Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT and Bard are overhyped and useless. Software developer friends say they’re a valuable tool, so much so that some pay out-of-pocket for ChatGPT Plus. They’re both correct: the writing they spew is pointless at best, pernicious at worst. … and coding with them has become […]
22.12.2023 11:50LLMs are good coders, useless writersAnother installment in what I’m realizing is a series of book-update blog posts. In November 2021 I wrote half of a novel. In another six months I’d finished the rough draft. Then in November 2022, I resolved to edit it so that someone could read it. Then I said I would get it done by […]
3.12.2023 22:00Finish The Book, Sam⬆️
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