Absit invidia |
I made some colcannon the other day. It was delicious. I saved some for you.I love me some mashed potatoes, and I love me my greens.Mixing the two seemed like a great idea; lo, the Irish were all over...
Posted by on Sat, 21 Jun 2008 13:22:00 GMT |
Ascian ad caput |
They called me about an 80 year-old man, axe versus head. Surgery saved him and now he'll never walk or talk again; at his age he will waste away, die of pneumonia or sepsis within the year. Family wa...
Posted by on Sat, 01 Mar 2008 10:44:00 GMT |
Ecce aranea |
You catch me in the cath lab. I am supervising a spine reduction. An ordinary, onerous task, so while we talk I barely notice the strands settling about my chest, waist and limbs until too late, the w...
Posted by on Sat, 01 Mar 2008 10:44:00 GMT |
Ascian ad caput |
They called me about a 22 year-old man, axe versus head. Surgery saved him but he'll never walk or talk again; at his age, he will waste away and live for years. Before we got to him, he was a model. ...
Posted by on Sat, 01 Mar 2008 10:43:00 GMT |
Lazarus argentatus |
They take the blue man out on a stretcher, stiff in cyanotic repose until the paramedics shake him. He sits bolt upright, startled, confused, indignant. 'Lazarus?' I ask. 'Argyria. Happens every fu...
Posted by on Sat, 01 Mar 2008 10:42:00 GMT |
Sarcoma, or sockoma |
Dismay, then relief, storm so violently across your face that I must ask.'What's wrong? What happened?'Chagrined: 'I felt this lump on my leg. Thought it might be leg cancer. It was just my sock.'We l...
Posted by on Sat, 01 Mar 2008 10:29:00 GMT |
Cetera desunt |
It is just after she leaves that the thought occurs to him. He stands at the door, watching her walk away; she never looks back, will never look back. This incongruity strikes him as odd, given her d...
Posted by on Tue, 26 Feb 2008 20:07:00 GMT |
Non sum pisces, Pt II |
I hate you, David Foster Wallace.You hated Andre Agassi for all the reasons I loved him: the insouciant excellence, the thuggish brutality of his game. Perhaps toward the end, when his failing body pr...
Posted by on Tue, 26 Feb 2008 14:04:00 GMT |
Ad fundum |
This is a noisy place. The new Radiohead album playing at an inoffensive level in the background; an acne-scarred teen declares loudly into his cell phone that he is near CPK, yeah. I have some rele...
Posted by on Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:19:00 GMT |
Salve veritate |
So this is the big 'secret.'Not a great use of my time, but if one has to implement a first-order, high-pass Butterworth filter with normalized cutoff frequency 100/512Hz, why not have some fun with i...
Posted by on Thu, 24 Jan 2008 19:28:00 GMT |
