Last month we hit perfect weather on our 2nd visit to Salt Lake. It was still beautiful green from spring rains and not nasty summer hot yet. Helen did a grand rounds presentation and I hiked around the streets and hills. This is looking up to the school and hospital campus: And this is…
We are into the travel season. Last month we visited the Carillion clinic in Roanoke VA. It is a pretty town nestled in the Appalachia ‘mountains’, next to the Blue Ridge Parkway: A few years ago the area physicians and hospital merged into a Mayo clinic like model, and are now looking for an epileptologist. …
As a classic tech-geek early adapter, I felt pretty proud I was able to restrain myself from buying an iPhone for 2 years. I rewarded myself for that restraint by ordering an iPad 5 minutes after it became available online. This is Helen demoing it at a dinner party: I took it with me on…
In snowfall. And I hear the Syracuse basketball team is hoping to work its way to Number 1 also. We started slow in snow this year, but have caught up to average snowfall, about 100 inches. Not as much as last year (180 inches!), but it is enough to put Syracuse back in its normal…
The green eyed monster made another appearance, on his way back from the M* states (MT, MN, MI) to NJ. This is Zach making sure his nose is not too close to the monster. For fear of it passing gas, you want to keep the offending orifice at least an arms length away: Unfortunately,…
Repeat after me … Twenty Ten, not Two Thousand and Ten. Fewer syllables. According to my calculations, given the number of years left in this century, times the growing number of English speakers, times PI**42, we collectively save enough energy in auditory output to slow the rate of thermodynamic entropic decay and we delay the…