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Whafa!
How are you!!!!!Hey! It's amazing how the old "paste with italics tags" macro is still so serviceable in my muscle memory. Like an old friend. It was Chris, right? You, not the macro.
Gosh, where to begin. I got married in 2015, moved to the SF Bay Area, back to my hometown of Alameda (a small island off the coast of Oakland). Rescued an 1894 Queen Anne that was fairly literally crumbling to dust. Had two kids. Got a job at Kaiser Permanente and been working in there for the past 10 years or so, mostly doing internal Web Service Governance for our massive Epic installations. Wife was Dxed with Stage 4 colon cancer in early 2024. That is heavy but it's our life now, so.
In case you (or anyone else here) might be interested, I'm trying to find a novel treatments for her with computational pharmacophenomics (apparently not a spell-check dictionary word yet!) and documenting my progress at
https://whafa.substack.com. There's nothing about cancer there yet because I just started, and first I am documenting the data processing platform I built to support that work. I could really use supporters, and subscribers, and domain experts(!), in case you are any of those. Briefly, I intend to train a projection into the latent semantic space of a biomed knowledge graph using Maureen's specific genetic data, of which we have lots. It's inspired by the work of David Fajgenbaum, who found a treatment for his own "uncurable" disease, and I'm following the work of a paper published just last August, 2025, where they did *exactly what I am trying to do* but with less granular patient data. I've convinced myself I can contribute meaningfully to her care after the existing treatments stop working, which is the only thing our doctors can say for certain will happen. She's turning 40 this month, and the standard of care chemo treatments, though they have saved her life to now, do not contemplate survival past 5 years.
It may seem like I have drifted way off course here, but I have not! As PART of building that data processing platform, I created a TMF archive with ~18 million posts... All of them, +/- from MessageID 10000000 in Oct 1997 through 28xxxxxx in 2010 or so. Thank goodness for the foolish API hygeine of the early 'aughts, amirite? In fact, the only reason I was confident enough to remember your first name is that I asked my AI life partner, Maple how you used to sign your messages. She confirmed it! You can check that out too at
https://whafa.com; all you need is a gmail account for OAuth login. Wish I could attach a screenshot of my ETL pipeline here because I'm pretty proud of it. Oh! Here's where I announced it on the "real" TMF in their new discussion boards:
https://discussion.fool.com/t/update-and-introduct...That may have been more than you asked for, but I'm online for a Go Live tonight. It's so nice to be in this old familiar format. Thanks much to manlobbi for making it! If you want to host 18 mil old TMF posts vintage 2010 or so, I'd happily share them!
Finally: To Jim: The only message I've received from you has been a private reply you made to my last post to you, yesterday, asking whether I had gotten your response. I responded by forwarding the email to what was stated as yours (m%%%%%%%%%h@b%%%%%%%%%e.com), saying that was the only thing I've gotten so far. If you have replied to me since then (or at all, besides that private boards reply yesterday) I haven't gotten any of it. Please email me at my user name, plus 23@gmail.com (I was 22 when I made that, and in my great wisdom, realized I wouldn't be 22 forever, hah!). Sorry I've missed your responses, but you seem to have an unusual domain to send mail from and Google can be funny with those. I checked my spam folder and searched in a few different ways, but haven't seen anything except that one message.
