I recently wrote at The Differential about a conversation I once had with an alumnus of the lab I worked in during college, who was, at the time, a young, hotshot neurologist who was involved with the treatment of many high profile patients, Christopher Reeve easily the best known among them. Now, he’s just an older, hotter-shotter version of that in a different city.
The Washington Post recently featured him and a few patients of his in their HD podcast.
Heading out to LA early tomorrow morning to work at a lab at USC for the week and become a genius in all things molecular biology, relatively speaking. Probably won’t be doing much posting until I’m back, unless I’m really bored there, in which case I won’t not be doing much posting until I’m back.
Toodles.
I’ve got 2GB of RAM up in this biatch, and Safari, with one open tab, is currently using up 1.03GB of it. Why you gotta make me hate you, Safari? All I want to do is love you. I thought we were BFF, but I might have to have another Firefox phase here pretty soon.
It’s that time of the week again when I tell you that another of my Differential posts is up and you go there and read it and fun is had by all and then you chuckle sweetly to yourself and reflect on life. But, you only chuckle in between severe shivering episodes and/or periods of hypothermic shock.
Invoxication now has a weblog to call its very own. There are also some site updates and a sneak preview of the shiny new album art. See everything here.
Time for another round of the Cancer Research Blog Carnival. The fifth edition will be up on the Bayblab blog one week from today. Get your submissions in soon!
Me: “You’re grumpy and being mean to me.”
Abbie: “I’m not grumpy!”
and
Abbie: “I never break pinky swears! I only break promises!”
I’m talking about the overall presentation here, not necessarily the content, which I wasn’t paying too much attention to. This is such a great way to present a whole lot of multimedia in the same space all at one time. Wish I’d thought of it.
I got a parking ticket yesterday for parking “too close to a stop sign.” Thanks, Officer, for the constructive, precise feedback on my parking shortcomings. I’ll try to park farther away next time. It’s nice that they have yellow sidewalk markings to tell people how close is too close and how far is far enough, but they really should make them heated too since they’re a little hard to see with 2-4 inches of snow covering them (and growing). Also, it would be nice if anywhere in Hyde Park had any yellow paint remaining in the first place. You know, wouldn’t want to be “too close” again.
I’ll add that to the list of no-no’s, which includes “don’t do that” and “I don’t know whether what you did is illegal or not—I’ve done it a million times myself, including like 30 seconds ago—but just pay up and I’ll be on my way.”
Fittingly, the officer was with the Dept. of Revenue. (Aren’t they all?) At least Graham won this battle of “who can give all of their money away to the Chicago Police Department first.”
I’ve been a fan of Raul Midón for about two years now, ever since I bought his State of Mind that was released in mid-2005. It was arguably the album that made him big, and the fact that it featured Jason Mraz couldn’t have hurt. These days, he’s fairly well-known, even doing shows alongside Mraz himself. I think he’s a fantastic musician, one of the most talented and diverse songwriters I’ve come across, and while not the best vocalist ever, someone with a distinctive voice and sound.
I just learned about five minutes ago that he’s blind. Boy, if the above isn’t the best compliment I could possibly give to the guy, I don’t know what is. That he can do all that stuff without the luxury of sight impresses the hell out of me even more than he already had.
Here he is debuting two songs on his most recent album last March at TED.
Every year, Jason Kottke lists the cities he’s been to during the previous year. 2007 was a good year for Abbie and me:
Málaga, Spain
Marbella, Spain
Ronda, Spain
Tarifa, Spain
Cádiz, Spain
Seville, Spain
Granada, Spain
Gibraltar, UK
Park City, UT
Huntsville, UT
Minneapolis, MN
Somerville, MA
Boston, MA
Cambridge, MA
Rumney, NH
Urbana-Champaign, IL
West/Non-West Palm Beach, FL
Another of my posts went up last week at Medscape’s group medical student weblog, The Differential. Click here to read about some of the things I want to accomplish in life.
Dr. Shubin is at it again. He has a guest post up on Pharyngula today discussing his thoughts on his visit with Stephen Colbert.
Let’s see: landmark discovery…book deal…Colbert Report…guest on Pharyngula… I think the only logical thing left to do would be to have him guest-post on this weblog.
Doctor David recently posted about a scary case recently that presented, if ever so briefly, an interesting ethical issue involving two sibling patients, one of whom was donating bone marrow to the other. There was trouble:
We had to continue, because her brother (the recipient) had already received what would otherwise be lethal doses of chemotherapy, and would surely die without getting bone marrow from her. So, with a choice of risk to one patient versus certain death of the other, the choice was easy.
For me, that choice doesn’t necessarily seem so easy at first glance. We’re talking about a perfectly healthy sister and her clinging-to-life (at least relatively-speaking) brother here. It’s an interesting interplay of primum non nocere—first, do no harm—with the struggle to heal the patient himself. Any living donor procedure presents such an issue, but this one is especially heavy.
