tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-234727512011-12-14T22:03:34.313-05:00Occasional ramblings by an anesthesiologist/mother (and sometimes her husband).dr. nichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16105395433638027298noreply@blogger.comBlogger3401100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23472751.post-58688114229742264352011-09-11T09:02:00.002-04:002011-09-11T09:04:26.268-04:00

Note: this post, reposted each year at this time, is here as a part of the 2996 Project, a tribute to all the victims of September 11th. Please visit this link for more stories.Everyone remembers where they were that fateful morning. I was still living with my parents. ES1, then my fiance, had come over as soon as the news broke, so that we could be together. That afternoon, there was in my

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Note: this post, reposted each year at this time, is here as a part of the 2996 Project, a tribute to all the victims of September 11th. Please visit this link for more stories.Everyone remembers where they were that fateful morning. I was still living with my parents. ES1, then my fiance, had come over as soon as the news broke, so that we could be together. That afternoon, there was in my

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Note: this post, reposted each year at this time, is here as a part of the 2996 Project, a tribute to all the victims of September 11th. Please visit this link for more stories.Everyone remembers where they were that fateful morning. I was still living with my parents. ES1, then my fiance, had come over as soon as the news broke, so that we could be together. That afternoon, there was in my

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Mark Twain, quoting Benjamin Disraeli, famously said that "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." They were only partially right. Science doesn't lie, people do. Statistics do not lie; people's analyses do.The chief problem occurs when people try to say that statistics are saying something they're not. Sometimes this is intentional. Other times, people are so set

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The State Senate of Texas just passed a law banning school districts from giving minimum grades to failing students.In the district in which I teach, the minimum grade allowable is 50, while the passing grade is 65. What is the result?1) The student who does 49% of the work is given the same grade as the student who does 0.03% (yes, I have had that happen).2) A student who manages to get an 80

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"I have a radio show. We're really the black Howard Stern. We go at everybody. There was a situation with Miley Cyrus, and I just want to say, I apologize for what I said. I didn't mean it maliciously. You know I'm a comedian. You know my heart."This is the apology offered by Jamie Foxx for his comments about Miley Cyrus. To most people, that will be considered enough, and nothing more will be

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Well, it's been fun ladies and gents. I've had a blast participating again in the BufBloPoFo. I really enjoyed reading what everyone else had to say. I can't wait for next year.

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So last year around this time P posted this. It was about he upcoming GI Joe movie. Not much has changed about our position. I'm am nervous but cautiously optimisitic about the treatment that a classic from my childhood will get. Other than the photo that P posted, there are a few other things that encourage me. Arnold Vosloo is playing Zartan. Brendan Fraser is also in it.Every movie with

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My advice for parents:Don't jump for every single cry the baby makes. Babies need to learn to calm themselves. We didn't respond until Alyssa cried for at least 30sec to 1 min and now she sleeps all night long. Make discipline a priority and don't back down. If you threaten a punishment and then don't follow through, then your child learns that there aren't consequences to their

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So in this pic, I am in the OR. That's why I'm in my scrubs/hat. I've got my mask on because they had started opening the equipment for the surgery and I needed it to be stable. The picture's a little fuzzy because I took it with the iPhone.I'm on call and I can't really post more.

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Who inspires me?I think I'm going to talk about the physician who inspired me to go into medicine.Her name is Asha Kumar, MD. She is an ophthalmologist who specializes in corneas/corneal transplants. She also does general practice ophthalmology, which is how I met her. I first saw her as a patient when I was about 5 or 6 years old. She was the first female doctor I ever met. She has a

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The key to friendship with such a wonderful nation as Soviet Canuckistan Canada is understanding. Understanding requires knowledge.I present, therefore, everything you never needed to know aboot Canada.Here's a shout-out to the team of How I Met Your Mother, who have just about the greatest attention to detail of any show on television. For more examples, see here, here, here, and here.

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"If you had a million dollars, besides buying John Merrick’s remains for your husband, what would you do?"That was the question posed to me by Mike. Yep folks, I had the honor of being talked about by the BufBloPoFo09 organizer.So here's what I'd do: - pay off the house and start looking for a bigger one - new car for the husband - start a college fund for Alyssa - give some to a family member

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Today I'm supposed to talk about Silly Rabbit... . This is the blog that is below mine on the sidebar at Royal Toybox and according to Mike I'm supposed to:Alright, enough of this lazy stuff, time to get those creative juices flowing. Take a look to the right over there and you’ll see a list of the “BufBloPoFo 09 Participants”. It’s pretty, isn’t it?!? Look at them all! Okay, now find

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So today I get to pick the topic. So I'm going to talk about what I've been doing the last few days.I was on call on Wed. I got to work at 6:30am like usual. I worked first in the dental clinic (doing sedations) then the OR, then OB, then back to the OR. I did get to eat lunch and dinner (dinner was around 5pm). I got home at 4:45 am yesterday. I slept until 8:30 and got up for the phone

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Today i'm talking about my first apartment. It was located in the Raintree Island apartment complex. It was 875 square feet, had two bedrooms, one bath, a smallish kitchen (we could put a table in it and still work), a living room and a balcony. We lived there for a little over a year. The smaller of the two bedrooms was affectionately known as the junk room and was essentially filled with

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Who would play me in a movie: no clue. Someone once told me that I looked like Jennifer Love Hewitt but I don't think I want her playing me in a film. I wouldn't mind if Reese Witherspoon played me.Who would play Mike: Not really sure why I think this, but Hugh Jackman comes to mind.Sorry for the short post today, trying to fit it in before my call today.

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Today I'm supposed to brag about something.I'm bragging about my new car. I am the proud owner of a purple {Dark Crimson}GMC Acadia . It's the middle model with a few add ons. I have the back up camera and remote start added. It seats seven (and can actually hold seven adults). My 6 ft tall husband can comfortable sit in the third row (which is actually more spacious than the second row in

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So today I'm supposed to teach something. So how about something I do every day and can do pretty much half asleep.Talk to the patient, see if they tell you that there's one spot where they always take blood from or if there's a spot where everyone tries and misses.Put the tourniquet up and look for a promising vein.Take the tourniquet down.Prep your equipment - tape and dressing are open and in

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Today's topic is to talk about your dream meal: the food, venue, people, etc.I think my dream meal would be my traditional family holiday dinner (from when I was little) - pasta with meat sauce (not ground beef, the kind with sausage, meatballs, spareribs, etc), cousin Mary's hot pork, followed by turkey, stuffing, potatoes, Donna's rice, salad, veggies, homemade cranberry jelly and way too many

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It's that time of year again. For the second straight year I will be participating in BufBloPoFo. The first topic: three big things in my life right now.1. Alyssa Joy: the biggest new thing in my life is seven months old and is sitting next to me on the couch. She was born on August 5 and is the happiest baby on earth (according to me). She's almost always smiling and laughing. We've

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One of the things I always like about the Bills is that we didn't put up with prima donna clowns.Until now, apparently.

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Here is the official website:www.rememberingbeverly.comI will have more on this later when I have had time to compile some more info.

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Over the last few days I have been seeing quite a bit on Aunt Bev, known to most of the nation as Beverly Eckert. ES1 just found this blog, by an author who has been working with her. There are a number of very good articles on her there. I encourage everyone to follow the link and learn more about her.

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My wife & I are currently in a state of shock.A few weeks ago, at the funeral of my mentor, we ran into Aunt Bev, the aunt of my best friend. Every year, during the 2996 project, I repost my post remembering her husband who was murdered on 9/11 while she was on the phone with him.She was there with the family of the first student who, a few years ago, received the scholarship in her husband's

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When I first attended an open house at Canisius High School, my father walked along grumbling. He was not amused at the prospect of having a family member enter a Catholic institution for the first time since 1536. In the end, he was grudgingly convinced. We later came to realize the Jesuits were truly a breed unto themselves. Perhaps the one with the most striking personality was a math

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- It's very frustrating to be paged back into the hospital when you've just pulled into your driveway after a 13 hr day.- It's even more frustrating to drive in for an emergency that gets delayed by almost 2 hrs.- It's frustrating to be called in for a case, do all the set-up and then have the case cancelled. - It's frustrating for the pager to go off right as I've turned off the light and gone

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I took the same quiz that ES1 took, and here is my result:I took the 43 Things Personality Quiz and found out I'm aCreative Self-Knowing Health Nut It should be noted that both of us were told that there were 0 others like us, of the 22,780 people who had taken the quiz. I could have told them that.

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This is the list of the top 100 grossing movies of all time. Bold what you've seen, strike out movies you never ever want to see and italicizing ones you'd like to see.Titanic (1997) The Dark Knight (2008)Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)Shrek 2 (2004)E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)Spiderman

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I took the 43 Things Personality Quiz and found out I'm aRomantic Extroverted De-Clutterer

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This is not a scam or urban legend.Hannah Garman is 5 years old. Her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer while she was pregnant with Hannah. She died when Hannah was three. Now Hannah has been diagnosed with an incurable and fatal brain tumor. All Hannah wants for Christmas are cards. We sent one.For more details see this post on Smart Girl Politics and this article from Hannah's

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I find this Mountain Dew commercial incredibly annoying:Yes, I know it's a joke. My problem, however, is that there are far too many people who confuse correlation and causation. If that were true, we would conclude that carrying a lighter causes lung cancer. We would conclude that wrinkled skin causes drowning. We would also conclude that Erin Brokovitch was not a complete fraud - oh wait, a

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Last year, while ES1 & I were writing our Christmas cards, we realized that it would be the last year we would be buying such cards from a store. We realized that anyone who had children, but failed to put them on their Christmas cards, was liable to have their citizenship of the 21st Century revoked.Tonight, we decided we would take the pictures of Alyssa for our cards. Since Alyssa has two

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An article here on Pajamas Media details the extent of the murderous destruction that was planned by Ayers and his colleagues. Once again, the only reason that the deadliest terrorist attack on US soil prior to Oklahoma City was averted was that a few of the scumbags planning it did the universe a favor and blew themselves up.Here, this video shows what these rat bastard commies were really

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Health insurance is a hot topic these days. There are large numbers of Americans who are without health insurance of any kind. We always hear about the large numbers who can't afford health insurance, the single mothers, the young children. What no one ever talks about are the numbers of those who are uninsured by choice. Most of them are in their 20s and 30s. They have jobs and if they

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It amazes me how many in this country are ignorant of basic economics.I can understand it amongst college students. College students are heavy on idealism and emotion, while still being fairly short on actual knowledge. Experimenting with socialism is to be expected from those types of people.One would think, however, that after some basic economics education, they would know better. Instead,

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Now, I know that the plural of anecdote is not data and that these are just three random people. I'm still frightened by their ignorance about their own candidate's policies. Are there that many uninformed voters out there?

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I have already spoken about my first experience with what a large swath of academia has degenerated into. Basically what really annoyed me about the whole situation was that I realized that one could spend an entire career there without accomplishing anything real. I couldn't stand sitting around being judged by a bunch of smug intellectual lightweights who are physically incapable of

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The other day, I received my usual email from Williams-Sonoma, advertising new stuff.This one had the headline New Ebelskiver Filled-Pancake Pan.Now, I will leave aside, for the moment the fact that it's made of cast-aluminum and therefore is not capable of retaining nearly enough heat to properly cook them, and that such a pan should really be made of cast-iron, the cookware of the gods.I will

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As of now anonymous comments are disabled on this blog. Read this to see why.

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Yesterday, I posted a question asking whether Gwen Iffil could be fair in this debate, given her upcoming book. After watching this debate I am pleased to say, yes she can. I don't apologize for asking the question and I am thrilled with the answer.

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A rare political post from me - I generally leave them to Peter.There is a vice-presidential debate tomorrow. It is being moderated by Gwen Ifill. In theory, a moderator of a debate is supposed to be a neutral party. But I am questioning her ability to do so. She has a book coming out - being published by Random House. The title is "The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama" .

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...when you see someone on television carrying a sticky bun and a glass of milk and it makes you want to vomit.

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I have a bit of a pet peeve about people attempting to sound clever without the intelligence to pull it off. This is most common in politics. There are many who think that if it sounds witty, it counts as an argument. A good rule of thumb is that what you want people to do will fit on a bumper sticker (support this person or proposition, defeat this person or proposition), but no intelligent

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Your result for The Nerd? Geek? or Dork? Test...Modern, Cool Nerd74 % Nerd, 74% Geek, 30% Dork For The Record:A Nerd is someone who is passionate about learning/being smart/academia.A Geek is someone who is passionate about some particular area or subject, often an obscure or difficult one.A Dork is someone who has difficulty with common social expectations/interactions.You scored better

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So earlier this week I had Peter download the Vivaldi Gloria as conducted by Robert Shaw with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra so I could use it for practicing (we're singing it in November as the finale of Ars Nova musicians Viva Vivaldi series for this year). I added the files to my computer and was selecting them to put them on the iPhone and I saw one of the track titles was listed as follows:

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Note: this post, reposted each year at this time, is here as a part of the 2996 Project, a tribute to all the victims of September 11th. Please visit this link for more stories.Everyone remembers where they were that fateful morning. I was still living with my parents. ES1, then my fiance, had come over as soon as the news broke, so that we could be together. That afternoon, there was in my

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Yesterday, Alyssa was one month old. It's amazing how much she's changed in that little time. She's gained almost 2 pounds, grown out of a ton a clothes, spent more time awake. Yesterday, she actually held her bottle with both hands while drinking from it. We've been transitioning her to formula and it seems to be going well after a week. She had some days of really serious fussiness - hours

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Pshaw!This is really important:Your result for How good of a Calvinball player are you?...Your Grade= A++ Amazing Calvinball knowledge and strategy!100% Game_Knowledge and 87% Game_Skill! Amazing. You are part of the 2.1% of the population that landed in this category.* You are an expert at the game and its history, and you did incredibly well when it came to playing Calvinball

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Your result for The Harry Potter Husband Test...Mrs. LongbottomYour perfect HP man is Neville Longbottom. You like the nice guy. You don't need the best looking guy, or the most talented, or the most popular, or the most powerful. You want a guy who'll be there when you need him, who knows how to stick through the hard times, who isn't afraid to do what needs to be done, and who stands

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I have a great amount of respect for the Special Olympics. They do great work.Unfortunately, they are currently being run by a dumbass.The new movie, Tropic Thunder, is a satire on the movie industry as a whole, and especially about how it uses certain groups. From the bit about Robert Downey Jr.'s character undergoing surgery to become "black," to Ben Stiller's character having come off of a

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It has been said that one should never trust a person without a sense of humor. Types of humor vary, of course. I can't watch Casablanca, for example, without laughing. Family Guy, however, no longer brings out more than the occasional chuckle. Will Ferrel's work, also, only appeals to me in certain moods. One of the most time honored forms of humor, of course, is parody. Well done parody is

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How tire tracks get on a fence?

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I had to post a link to this excellent post over at MDOD.The opening says it all:"Stop clogging my computer with stories about measles outbreaks. This is not news. This is hairy armpit dip shit granola f**kers dragging their snotty-nosed unvaccinated spawn into Whole Foods and interacting with other pseudo-intellectual numb-nuts who thought it would be cool to raise their little Moonbeam "vaccine

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ES1 & I have now spent a week with our new iPhone 3Gs. They have gotten quite a workout since then, but we have barely scratched the surface of their capabilities.There is no secret about the fact that we have both wanted iPhones for quite a while. We were not quite as bad as Lesa King. As co-host of Your Mac Life she has been obsessing about the idea of an iPhone for quite some time. For at

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I have recently become addicted to the English Fail Blog. After seeing a sign while driving past Canalfest yesterday, I snapped a photo and submitted it.Here is the post.

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One more day until ES1 & I go get our iPhones.Apple is currently switching .Mac to MobileMe. It's not up yet for me, but I can be patient.iTunes 7.7 is out, with support for the App Store. I've already downloaded 13 free apps that I can't wait to try:And, to top it all off, Missing Sync just crashed again while I was trying to do a hotsync.Tomorrow cannot come fast enough.

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Today is the day to celebrate all that we have and all that it took to gain it.Today is the day to remind the historically clueless: You can organize mass protests against them in major cities and in the capitol without fear of anything but counter-protests. To claim, therefore, that our current government is "repressive" just makes you look like an idiot. Similarly, to think that the

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After spending waaaaaay too much time perusing I Can Has Cheezburger and it's canine variant, I have submitted the following picture of Molly:I'm not sure what criteria is used to determine which pictures make it to the main page. I will keep checking.Also a great timewaster: English Fail.

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Back when I was in high school, I loved my old calendar program, Claris Organizer. Since it was abandonware, however, I knew I was going to need a replacement. The entire Claris name had been abandoned by Apple. ClarisWorks became (or changed back into) AppleWorks. FileMaker Pro got its own company. Claris Home Page and the others were abandoned.I discovered, happily, that Palm's free Palm

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America has lost a truly great man.Tim Russert was truly loved by people on both sides of the aisle. His technique of bringing out old quotes and asking people to explain or defend them was legendary. He was tough. He was fair. You knew what his politics were, but you also knew that he kept an open mind and respected others' opinions.I only ever saw him cut off a guest once. At the end of an

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Here is an article at the New York Times discussing how peculiarly American true free speech is.What they ignore, however, is that the moment one bans "offensive" speech, anyone can shut anyone else down by saying that they were "offended." As ES1 points out, one of the particularly "offensive" lines in Mark Steyn's article was a direct quote from a Norwegian Imam. That is one of the most

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IWantOneResistance is Futile

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I am currently watching the streaming webcast of this morning's Stevenote at WWDC. ES1 already gave me one spoiler about the iPhone. I'll forgive her, however. She's cute and she's carrying my child.Anyone else who tries to contact me will very rapidly find themselves on the business end of whatever I can reach without having to get up. Probably the hyperactive currently asleep on my

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Reading this post over at Teeny Manolo got me thinking.We do organic for some things. For example, the only decent cornmeal we could find at Wegmans is the organic type. I generally only like organic, however, for basic ingredients.For some reason, the prepared type organic things, especially granola bars and such, taste much more artificial than the non-organic type. Instead of tasting like

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Here's the latest in the Danish cartoon flap.Pakistan's ambassador has responded to the bombing of the Danish embassy. He has done so, predictably, by blaming Danes for inciting the violence.There are two types of people who are incapable of controlling themselves. The first is small children, who have not yet learned self control. This category should not apply to anyone over the age of 6,

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ES1 has always said that she eventually wants to have a sporty car for the summer. She could never, however, decide what type she was interested in.Our new neighbor across the street just left with his friends. Judging by their (eerily similar) attire, they are going clubbing. His friend arrived in a cherry red porsche convertible. When he pulled up, the vehicle made this sound:ES1 has now

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I tend to have little patience with most in this nation who claim that free speech is threatened. False claims generally happens in one of two ways.The first way is those who claim that their speech is threatened because people in the government listen to it. To that, I must ask this: since they have not the legal authority to do anything to you because of your speech, how are you threatened?

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I just stumbled across this article over at WBEN.com.Apparently, the North Park Library is being temporarily closed because they found lead paint. This lead paint is only found near windows which are encased in plastic.For those who don't know, lead is only harmful when ingested (or impaled into you at high velocity). If you don't eat it, it won't hurt you.So, they're worried that people will

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So we finally bought a Wii. It only took us about 5 weeks of active searching to find one in stock someplace where it wasn't bundled with so many games that the price more than doubled. Its bundled with one additional game (Super Smash Bros) that we are going to exchange for a different game once it arrives. What we're looking for now is some suggestions for a game we'll both like to play.

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It's always disconcerting when you see the fall of someone you looked up to. When someone who should be an expert demonstrates profound cluelessness, it shakes you a bit.In this case, I speak of Ted Allen.Ted, the food guru of Queer Eye, now often a judge on Iron Chef America, has eaten at some of the finest restaurants the nation has to offer. He knows what good food is.Or so I thought.Twice

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I will not deny that in my current position, I owe a lot to the work done by my union. There is a good deal of myopia, however, in unions in general which has been brought to the forefront by two recent stories - one local, one national.SEIU, to name one union, used to run a series of commercials in which they talked about all the quality services that one receives from their members. The

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I have previously expressed misgivings about the prospects of the upcoming G.I. Joe flick.If, however, this:is any indication, it could be seriously cool.Full article here.

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The last generation which would actually get this punchline.

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To understand the Spitzer drama, one needs to understand the condition in which New York State finds itself.New York State has been hemorrhaging people for many years now. Long amongst the highest in the nation, a few years ago we surpassed Connecticut to be the highest taxed state in the union. A combination of confiscatory taxes and byzantine regulations have served to drive a large number of

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I made it, all 14 days of blogging. Don't keep expecting me to have daily posts, it was exhausting to do this with my work schedule. So last year at this time I wrote a post on vaccines . I really don't have much to add on this issue. Unfortunately, Flea, whom I linked in the article no longer blogs. More unfortunately, people still don't vaccinate their children. In Maryland, people had

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So the writer's strike is over. Thank God. I'm not a huge reality show fan. I'll watch American Idol (mostly because there's nothing else on) and sometimes Dancing with the Stars but thats it. I'm looking forward to a number of shows coming back. Here's the list of what I'll be watching as they return to TV:How I Met Your MotherTwo and a Half MenCSI: MiamiNavy: NCISHouse, MDCSINumbersAnd in

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So this time I'm supposed be writing a new about me blurb.I, Dr Nic, am a die hard Star Wars and Star Trek fan, who sings for three hours every week. I am addicted to Reese's Peanut Butter cups (especially the egg shaped ones at Easter). I have a hyperactive beagle and a husband who is a geek (and I love him for it). Even though I'm a girl, I can sing lower than some men (including my HS

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1. What is your favorite word? What is your least favorite word? My favorite word is morcellator. My least favorite word is hate.2. What turns you on creatively, spiritually or emotionally? What turns you off? Passion turns me on, apathy turns me off.3. What sound or noise do you love? What sound or noise do you hate? I love the sound of anything deep frying in oil. I hate to sound of

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As I'm progressing in my pregnancy, I'm starting to think about things we're going to share with our child.Yesterday, as we were sorting our DVDs, I realized we had a serious question to discuss. How old should our child be before we introduce Star Wars, and in what order to we show the films?Part of me feels that release order is better, otherwise you lose the impacts of things like the

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If I've said it once, I've said it 1000 times:Until soybeans grow mammary glands, there is no such thing as soy milk.Edited 9:23 PM for clarity

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A 2-bit petty thug, who made his fame by going after companies that had broken no law and blackmailing them by threatening to leak info and crash their stock prices, thereby driving business out of a state the desperately needs it, all the while making himself out to be an upstanding person, has been caught breaking the law himself.There are a few local bullies under investigation as well who may

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Anyone who talks to me knows how much I like living in Buffalo. I often joke it would take nothing short of a nuclear detonation to get us to move out of the area. One of the things I like about being in Buffalo are the large number of things we have to do around here in the summer (not that I have the time to do most of them).First off, pretty much every weekend from June through September

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So today I'm supposed to talk about what music I listen to. Right now, most of what I listen to is country music. I'm partial to Big & Rich, Gretchen Wilson, Sugarland, Trace Adkins, Kenny Chesney and Toby Keith. I do listen to a bit of other music - Barenaked Ladies, They Might Be Giants, Great Big Sea, Fergie, Black Eyed Peas, etc, but mostly country.The first 10 songs to come up on shuffle

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What thing do I have in my purse/wallet/hobo bag on a stick that no one else does? A pocketknife shaped like a crucifix. I got it at a show at Shea's once for participating. It's a joke, but it's still buried in the purse. I have a wrist band from the ER when I was seen after I fell at work. Two pagers, because one just isn't enough.What's been in there the longest without me using it?A

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Tonight I went to dinner at Sole restaurant. I was there for a dinner and lecture. The topic of the lecture was about WMD and mass casualty emergencies. The lecture was pretty good. But I have to say the food was absolutely wonderful. I have now added that to my list of restaurants I need to go to dinner at for real. The attending who ordered appears to have ordered one of everything on the

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So today's topic was to talk about things people do wrong. Inspired by todays weather, I would like to remind people of some issues regarding snow and ice on cars.1. Don't just clean off the patch of windshield that you look out of. That's just plain dumb and really unsafe. I'm always frightened when I see someone driving with a little spot cleared off his windshield. They can't see out of

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So I was feeling stumped by today's suggested topic and thought I'd branch out on my own. I stumbled across this blog post via Manolo for the Big Girl! . It was a story about a woman, who came up with a the best comeback ever, when face with incredible rudeness. The woman, who blogs at Dancing Down the Moon talked about what happened to her while standing in line in a cafe at a bookstore.A

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It's day three of the BufBloPoFo08 and the topic was to talk about things that went well today.- I started at a new rotation site that I really like and even though I was only there once before for a total of a month, people remembered me and and seemed happy to see me.- There was no machine to swipe for scrubs so I didn't need to beg someone to get me a pair.- I was still in the omnicell to get

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Day 2 of BufBloPoFo08. The best gift I ever received has to be one I got two Christmases ago from the husband. If you're about my age, you might actually remember the video he bought me. It was a Jim Henson Christmas special from 1986 called The Christmas Toy . It told the story of Rugby the lion and his quest to become the Christmas Toy for the second year in a row. It actually spun off a

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Today marks the start of BufBloPoFo08. It was started by a friend of mine from college who blogs over at Royal Toybox . I am straying from the suggested first topic because I've talked about why I started blogging before. Today Peter and I did something I secretly hoped we'd never have to do. We registered with a new parish. I had been a member of my old parish, St. Rose of Lima, for my

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Here are the answers to the Movie Quiz:1. Jaws - guessed correctly by ecwoodburn2. The Godfather - guessed by hbbtrbbtbcnbt3. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan4. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade5. Rocky IV - guessed by hbbtrbbtbcnbt6. The King and I7. A Mighty Wind8. Monsters, Inc9. Clue - guessed by hbbtrbbtbcnbt10. Army of DarknessGood guesses though. When I was compiling the initial list

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Stolen from HobbitRibbitBaconbit .Here are the rules: Pick 10 favorite movies and find their pages on the IMDB, post the keywords and make people guess the movie.1. Gore/North Atlantic/Suspense/Policemen/Female Nudity2. Mafia Melodrama/Shot in the Throat/Profanity/Corleone Italy/Bloody Violence3. Bittersweet/Shakespearean Quote/Dead Woman in Uniform/Blood/Person on Fire4. Fictional Country/

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Two quick additions:1) My mother-in-law does actually have a digital camera. She simply prefers her film camera.2) ES1 had an excellent point regarding the issue of people paying for quality: Anyone remember Laserdisc?

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With the withdrawal of Toshiba from the race, it seems that the battle between HD-DVD and Blu-Ray is finally over. During the struggle, many compared it to the battle between VHS & Betamax. The comparison, however, falls apart on a number of levels. There have been many discussions of the technical aspects. What has been lost, however, is the human element.The short story of Betamax is that a

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In honor of Uno, I re-post a link to our pictures of Molly.We'll have more to say about it later.

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"Roy Scheider, a stage actor with a background in the classics who became one of the leading figures in the American film renaissance of the 1970s, died on Sunday afternoon in Little Rock, Ark. He was 75 and lived in Sag Harbor, N.Y."Read more in the NY times (free registration may be required). As many of you know, Jaws is my all-time favorite movie and sparked a lifelong love of sharks.

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As a rule, I generally don't blog about work related issues. This, however, I couldn't leave alone.Today, one of my students, while grabbing his coat to go home, declared in a loud voice for all to hear:"Yo, when life gives me lemons I make beef stew!"

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Tom Lehrer once said that he had dedicated his life to what had since become a rather successful project, namely the attempt to prolong adolescence beyond all previous limits. That was in 1959.Since then, eternal adolescence is all around us. Adolescence is basically categorized by wanting privileges without responsibilities. In California, for example, there is an entire city that thinks you

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I was a bit apprehensive when I saw the title of last night's brand new episode of Good Eats, entitled "The Wing & I."On the one hand, after all, this is Alton Brown we're talking about. His skill at getting to the essence and true soul of foods is legendary.On the other hand, few foods are so universally verpfuscht.First off, let me reiterate: There is no such thing as Buffalo Wings. If you

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