Month: September 2005

The Man

I don’t know when it happened, but somewhere I became “the man”. I had always tried to maintain some vicarious association with the hedonistic days of my teenagehood (OK, so those of you who knew me then are busy laughing right now….) but this seems to have finally failed.

I went off to med school, and (despite the drunken excesses associated with that) somewhere along the line my youthfullness slipped, to the point yesterday where I was in a shop and a little kid was running around, and his mother looked at me, then turned to the kid and said “Look out for the man”.

Gutting.

The Man

I don’t know when it happened, but somewhere I became “the man”. I had always tried to maintain some vicarious association with the hedonistic days of my teenagehood (OK, so those of you who knew me then are busy laughing right now….) but this seems to have finally failed.

I went off to med school, and (despite the drunken excesses associated with that) somewhere along the line my youthfullness slipped, to the point yesterday where I was in a shop and a little kid was running around, and his mother looked at me, then turned to the kid and said “Look out for the man”.

Gutting

The spread

Well I’m definitely getting into exam mode. This means that I am not able to concentrate for more than 5 minutes at a time, I am not leaving the house all day, and I am eating relatively horrendously. If only I were one of those people who could procrastinate by going to the gym…

As it is I can already feel the exam period fattening up starting. Ick.

The spread

Well I’m definitely getting into exam mode. This means that I am not able to concentrate for more than 5 minutes at a time, I am not leaving the house all day, and I am eating relatively horrendously. If only I were one of those people who could procrastinate by going to the gym…

As it is I can already feel the exam period fattening up starting. Ick.

Good News

News just came in that Simone got onto the advanced surgical training program. Yay. Of course this does mean that whatever else happens, I am going to be married to a surgeon….

Now we just have to wait and see where she gets posted to next year, and hope that it’s vaguely close to Logan where I will be all year.

Good news

News just came in that Simone got onto the advanced surgical training program. Yay. Of course this does mean that whatever else happens, I am going to be married to a surgeon….

Now we just have to wait and see where she gets posted to next year, and hope that it’s vaguely close to Logan where I will be all year.

For Carl

While I was looking aroud the net for an image of the Voyager plaque I ran across Carl Sagan’s web site. Now Carl is something of a personal hero for me. He was a very famous cosmologist and science communicator, and wrote one of my favorite books Contact, which was eventually turned into a movie starring Jodie Foster. He also stared in and produced the immensely popular international hit science show Cosmos. Unfortunately he died just before the movie was made.

Binary

I have been poking around trying to find a good picture of the engraved gold plaque that was placed on the side of the Pioneer and Voyager space probes, which shows, among other things, the rough position of earth in relation to 14 pulsars (stars which pulse at a regular rate).

Eventually I found both a meduim sized and a large image of the plaque, but being finally able to see the image meant that I then had to figure out how to read binary so that I could make some sense of it.

Binary

I have been poking around trying to find a good picture of the engraved gold plaque that was placed on the side of the Pioneer and Voyager space probes, which shows, among other things, the rough position of earth in relation to 14 pulsars (stars which pulse at a regular rate).

Eventually I found both a meduim sized and a large image of the plaque, but being finally able to see the image meant that I then had to figure out how to read binary so that I could make some sense of it.

For carl

While I was looking aroud the net for an image of the Voyager plaque I ran across Carl Sagan’s web site. Now Carl is something of a personal hero for me. He was a very famous cosmologist and science communicator, and wrote one of my favorite books Contact, which was eventually turned into a movie starring Jodie Foster. He also stared in and produced the immensely popular international hit science show Cosmos. Unfortunately he died just before the movie was made.