Hello World

by Doug Muir on January 4, 2024

Or, as the kids say these days, get gud noob.

Douglas Muir here, aka Doug M. Long time commenter, now given the keys. Native New Yorker, trained as a lawyer, work in development — USAID, UNDP, yadda yadda. Married to a German, so living in rural northern Bavaria.  Four kids aged high school / uni, and a dog. The work has taken us to live in a bunch of different places, from Kosovo to Tajikistan, and has taken me short-term to a bunch more, from Rwanda to the Solomon Islands.

Interests include history, development, energy, space, astronomy, demographics, the political economy of development, parasite biology, EU expansion, and American football.  _Alien_ is a perfect movie, magpies are elegant and admirable, the Johnny Cash cover of “Hurt” is the greatest piece of popular music the century has yet produced, nuclear power would be just fine if it wasn’t so damn expensive, Vermont is overrated, fight me.

The dog is a black Lab. 

More in a bit.


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Ingrid 01.04.24 at 10:25 am

I think you’re the first here to write their own introduction, Doug! Perhaps it’s good even for Old Ladies like CT to innovate from time to time :)

Parasite biology? That was one I had not seen coming. What specifically?

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Doug Muir 01.04.24 at 7:00 pm

“Parasite biology? That was one I had not seen coming. What specifically?”

All of them, because bedtime stories. No, really.

Mm, I should do a post on that.

Doug M.

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Suzanne 01.06.24 at 3:27 am

Your post should have been illustrated with a picture of your dog. This omission should be remedied in future. You and/or family members could be in it too, we’ll just overlook that.

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Tom D 01.07.24 at 3:47 pm

Vermonter here. As I sit enjoying my Vermont roasted coffee, watching the snow accumulate in the field and woods out back, remembering the eagles my wife and I saw when kayaking this past fall, having finished my pancakes with real Vermont maple syrup and last night having enjoyed a can of international award winning Vermont IPA, as the turkeys stroll past and the deer munch at the browse line, sure…Vermont is overrated. In fact, people should definitely NOT want to live here. Don’t Jersey Vermont!

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Deni 01.11.24 at 5:30 pm

Hello Mister Muir, it’s wonderful to read you again !
Yours was the first blog I followed, back when you were in Romania (and you only had two small children – the fact that they are now in university seems both reasonable and mildly shocking). I have been checking HTTD maybe once a year in the last decade and thought every time “Well, he must have better things to do in the real life”.

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