I love my iPhone. I really do. There is, however, one thing I don’t like about it, a characteristic that (or so I’ve learned) the iPhone shares with many other “smart” phones, and that’s its annoying tendency to interfere with poorly shielded electronic devices. The phenomenon, known as radiofrequency interference, manifests itself as hysterical bursts […]
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Mid-week death crud open thread
I just can’t shake it. Try as I might to get rid of it, it just continues to grip my body like a tick that just won’t let go. I’m talking about the death crud, which I had thought originally to be a nasty cold but is now looking more and more like the flu. […]
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There, that’s better
Sadly, unlike his namesake, Orac is not immune to human foibles and human vulnerabilities. In particular he’s not immune whatever virus is going around at the moment. The damned thing felled my wife for over a week. I thought that I had avoided it, but apparently not. Now I’m starting to feel the unmistakable signs […]
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Happy St. Patrick’s Day in Chicago
Thursday through Sunday, I happened to be in Chicago for the Society of Surgical Oncology annual meeting. Leave it to surgeons to schedule a meeting the weekend before St. Patrick’s Day in Chicago. In Chicago. That means the drinking in the city started Friday after business hours and continued all the way through Sunday–and that […]
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I’m baaack. Well, thanks to free WiFi at Panera’s, I was never really truly away. Thanks to Comcast, I was away longer than usual. In any case, although between waiting for Internet access, running errands, and doing some snowblowing last night, I didn’t have time to do the usual epic substantive posts that I’m known […]
