# 20240107 ☕️ Sunday Morning Coffee Notes Three `random notes` from my Obsidian vault, today's `music` selection from MailTape, and a `photo` from the past week from my phone. --- ## 📸 "Faces: Amused" ![[Faces-Amused.png|512]] #photo #faces Most of the images I use in _Coffee Notes_ are from my iPhone, where I pick something from the last week. This one being the first of the year (and, tbh, not having much to work with this week), I am highlighting one of a series. I have this set of scanned family photos from the late 1960s/early 70s that are color-faded, with some loss of detail, and the photographer is unknown (but suspected). Quite a few are of a particular child taken in overexposure, so that much of the detail is washed away. In several, what is left of the face is mostly just eyes and mouth and a hint of nose. Like the Cheshire cat in _Alice in Wonderland_, the last to fade is the smile. I was struck by these images and created a series of them. Even with just these simple, faded elements, much can be transmitted. This one is called "Amused", which fits as good as any. --- ## ![[Open random note.png]] Three notes from the Random Note core plugin. This is how I am dipping my toe into [Obsidian Publish](https://publish.obsidian.md) by adding at least 3 notes per week from my library of 6900+ notes. --- ## 🎲 [[q-MMJ NAS Sx|National Academy of Medicine on Medicinal Cannabis]] (2019) #MMJ The National Academy of Medicine released a [review](https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/24625/the-health-effects-of-cannabis-and-cannabinoids-the-current-state) of the clinical data -- as of around 2016 -- about the impact of cannabis and cannabinoids on various medical conditions. They found, for example, that there was "conclusive evidence" of effectiveness in chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting, and "substantial evidence" of effectiveness for multiple-sclerosis-related spasticity and for chronic pain in adults. This note summarizes those findings.🧪🌱 --- ## 🎲 [[q-MDH-LtGovCommission|Maryland Commission on Behavioral Health]] (2019) This Commission was established by Gov. Hogan, and was a 3-year effort to identify and implement changes to the mental health and substance use disorder landscape in #Maryland. I was on the Finance Subcommittee in 2019, resigning in 2020 due to the potential conflict of interest after becoming medical director for Optum, a vendor contracted by the Dept of Health to manage BH services for Medicaid and uninsured state citizens. These are some notes from that first year of operation.🧠 --- ## 🎲 [[q-20230815|Research Article Management]] (2023) #memex This last note is a daily note, which includes any markdown files that I added/edited that day, as well as any new pdfs I created that day. I have been chipping away at my paper files, either throwing them out or shredding them, and scanning some of them into full-text pdf files. I have talked about my [[20230813 ☕️ Sunday Morning Coffee Notes#📸 "Memex Bell Time"|plan before]], detailed my [[20230917 ☕️ Sunday Morning Coffee Notes#UPDATE on the Memex Bell Project|ScanSnap set up]], and discussed [[20231119 ☕️ Sunday Morning Coffee Notes#🎲 20210728-3M21-001 First Page of a Notebook - 3M21 (2021)|naming conventions]] for my notes. For the scanned journal articles (some are digital downloads), I have a pretty standard routine of name them as follows: ``` JournalNameYYYY.author.Title (or summary keywords) Thus: RadRes1976.Henle-Leeper.Interaction of hyperthermia and radiation in CHO cells-Recovery kinetics.pdf Nature19780817.Li-Hahn.Ethanol-induced tolerance to heat and to adriamycin.pdf ``` - **JournalName**: I tend to go with the shortest unambiguous abbreviation. So, `RadRes` is Radiation Research. I also use CamelCase without spaces. - **Publication Year**: at minimum, I will use a 4-digit year appended to the journal name. Lately, I have been going further and including the month of the issue (eg, 202401) or even the full date for journals that come out weekly, such as Nature or JAMA. A period is used to demarcate the pub date from the first author. - **Author**: Generally, I stick to last name of first author, though I sometimes will add one or two other authors, separated by a dash, if I think it might help me find something easier in the future. - **Title/keywords**: finally, a period separates the author(s) from the subject of the article. It might be the full title or just key words. Again, enough to tell something about the article by the file title. Since these are fully-OCR'd pdfs, other keywords are found simply by using the Mac's Finder, as it does index full pdf's. What I have not done yet is include all my pdfs in the #Obsidian vault folder. I would like to do this, as then Obsidian would index the full pdfs, but this would also expand the size of my Obsidian folder in a massive way. I have been thinking about using Zotero to manage all the pdfs and have a more functional bibliographic reference system. I have done this before with Papyrus, RefMan, and EndNote, but have not kept up the necessary behaviors. Some day, maybe. --- ## ![[logo.mailtape.png|64]] #542 - [Diogo Strausz](https://www.mailta.pe/542/diogo-strausz/) #mailtape After a December lull, Mailtape has a new compilation this morning from Diogo Strausz ([bandcamp](https://diogostrausz.bandcamp.com/)), a Brazilian artist/producer. My speed for today is much more along the Bangkok tune than the boogie in the second piece. --- [[20231231 ☕️ Sunday Morning Coffee Notes|Prior]] <> [[20240121 ☕️ Sunday Morning Coffee Notes|Next]] [[20230625 Thinking about ☕️ Sunday Morning Coffee Notes|About coffee notes]] [[Home#Contact|Contact me]]