For Russia’s new rich, $4,500 fake tree is Christmas must-have
Who knew?
I am researching GPS units. Interesting fact — Leica makes them. Does Hasselblad? Nope.
“I, Robot” to be Raped, Deadprogrammer Upset
Oh, goody. They are going to rape another sci-fi classic.
Of course they could have taken Harlan Ellison’s screenplay. But noooooooooooooooo.
They are going to take some crappy unrelated screenplay and add some some “I, robot” elements to it.
A (pa)JAMA Story
An article from JAMA:
Police Detainment of a Patient Following Treatment With Radioactive Iodine
“We recently treated a 34-year-old man for Graves disease with 20 mCi of iodine 131. Twenty-four hours after treatment, his radioactive iodine uptake was 63%. Three weeks after treatment, he returned to our clinic complaining that he had been strip-searched twice at Manhattan subway stations. Police had identified him as emitting radiation and had detained him for further questioning ….”
When I used to be a pre-med, I worked as a doorman/porter in a Manhattan building. I asked all the doctors who lived there to give me their old medical mags. Unfortunately most of them either threw them out or had them delivered to their office. But one very nice retired doctor supplied me with her old medical journals. I loved reading them. Too bad that JAMA is very expensive ($165 per year), and even now I can’t really justify getting it. I especially enjoyed the cartoons. :)
Also, one doctor who lived there died, and his relatives threw out all of his old medical books. I dragged all of them home, and now they reside on my bookshelves.
Workin’ from home today.
The view from my home office. You can see the ugly ass Kruschev-style building. I live in one just like it. In the evening you’d be able to see the ugly naked guy, but I’ll spare you the horror.
Little closer
What’s outside?
Gadgetory Matters or Wannna Wanna Wanna
Ok, what do I wanna?
A nice GPS unit. I want to do some geocaching and I want to record coordinates of places where I catch the biggest fish. Which reminds me, I also need some nice nautical maps. Any advice?
A pen scanner like the c-pen (not sure which one to get)
A custom surf rod and a custom fluking rod.
A La Marzocco coffe machine.
A tablet PC.
Yeah, I still remember about that pen computing post I promised. I still have not started it, but I will write it.
I have finally seen the Acer tablet, and I’ve got to tell you that it rocked. The feen of the pen is great, so is the sensitivity. The software enhances your writing so that text looks like something written with a quill pen (I think it automatically flares the letters). Handwriting recognitions seemed to be very decent. I only had a few minutes mano a machino, but I have a good feeling about Tablet PC.
Book Matters
You know, how come livejournal posts have a “Music:” field but no “Reading:” field? That’s just unfair.
What am I reading now? Two books. “Bad Boy Ballmer: The Man Who Rules Microsoft ” and “The Book on the Bookshelf” (thanks
I’ve just finished “Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure” and “Barbarians Led by Bill Gates: Microsoft from the Inside ” (thanks
“Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire” , “Pour Your Heart into It : How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time” and “Proudly Serving My Corporate Masters: What I Learned in Ten Years As a Microsoft Programmer” are on their way. Mmmmmm.
You know what, I have not even read that much science fiction lately. And I haven’t read anything in Russian lately.
One exception though. The last book in Russian that I’ve read was «ÐšÐ«Ð¡Ð¬» by Tatyana Tolstaya. Ha, it’s translated as “The Slynx“. On preorder. Gotta get it.
Checked today what’s new in NESFA press – they republish good old science fiction. “Dimensions of Sheckley:The Short Novels of Robert Sheckley”. Still no Kuttner anthology. Too bad.
Where’s a librarian when you need one?
There is a book that I can’t find for a long time. I’ve seen its author on one of the late night shows many years ago.
The dude specializes in hand training. He trains surgeons, pianists and athletes. He showed some really neat tricks – like doing a horizontal wave with just the tips of his fingers. He was hawking a book that he wrote. And I’d like to have that book. But I don’t remember what it was called and keyword searches don’t bring anything.
Full to the
Livejournal presents a unique look into the mind of a doctor from Alabama. Crap, crap, crap, crap. Why did I have to read that?
I think, that I now believe what he wrote in his user info.
Studly Matters
Brooklyn College officials like to put their full titles into the from field of the email. For instance, I used to get emails from “Alice Newcomb-Doyle, Public Relations” [..@brooklyn.cuny.edu] because I am on some email list. Well, now the name has changed into something funny – “Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Stud,” [..@brooklyn.cuny.edu]. I guess there is a character limit.
This is doubly funny, because before checking email I was playing with a stud finder device that I recently purchased from Radio Shack.