Category: Fun
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Do You Cough Hygienically?
I ran across this at Neatorama. You know, there’s nothing I won’t do for the cause of good hygeine, and after all my goal is medical education: Hit Play or go to Link [Google Video] | Coughsafe website
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Donald Duck, RIP
This is my 100th post. How fitting that it’s something completely silly! I found this in last week’s British Medical Journal (Sorry – no link. It requires login anyway). I thought it was a joke at first but soon realized that it’s not. Donald Duck Donald Duck trained in medicine after a brief foray into…
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The Maltese Malcon, part IV
OK, I think my obsession with the The Maltese Falcon has run its course now. I finished the book up last night. What a great novel! Hammett’s characters are very much 3-dimensional beings. Sam Spade is an extraordinarily complex character: good yet bad; greedy yet generous; always cagey; always smart; always looking out for himself.…
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More Maltese Falcon
I’m not calling this part 4 yet, but if you’ve looked at my sidebar you’ll see that watching three movie versions has commpelled me to re-read the book. It’s great. Full book report to follow in a few days. And I’ll write about something to do with arthritis one day soon, promise.
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I’m so unique!
HowManyOfMe.com There are: 0 people with my name in the U.S.A. How many have your name? That’s for my real name. I get the same results for my nom de plume. I wonder what it means …
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The Maltese Falcon, part III
Satan Met a Lady was surprisingly good. The plot is still noticeably The Maltese Falcon, but it’s undergone major changes. Joel Cairo is now an Englishman, Gutman is now a woman, and Wilmer is now a cat-loving nephew. The names have all been changed of course, and this includes the falcon itself – it’s now…
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My Political Compass
Link here. Economic Left/Right: -2.63 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.00 I’m not sure I buy it. I think I’m further to the economic right than this though the libertarian/authoritarian axis is probably about right. Of course, trying to express complex political viewpoints on even two axes is vastly undersimplifying …
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Republican Goblins
From today’s Boston Globe. Romney is the current Mass. governor, Healey the Republican candidate to be the next governor. Deval Patrick is the Democratic candidate; he was of course a defense lawyer.
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Interesting ICD-9 codes
I’m working in the ER right now, and while I was trying to find an ICD-9 diagnostic code for a patient, I came across the following code that I’d never seen before: E845.8: Accident Involving Spacecraft Injuring Groundcrew, Employee I wonder how often that one’s been used?
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The Maltese Falcon, part II
I just got through watching the 1931 Maltese Falcon that I referred to yesteray. (Yes it is the middle of the day – I’m working from home and decided to take a break. I am so working!) It’s OK, but is clearly not the film the 1941 movie is. The acting is not as strong…
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