So I’m going through some receipts that have been languishing on my desk, awaiting entry into either Quicken or the trash can, when I ran across this gem:
Apparently some vendors in Mexico celebrated leap year already! And people thought the daylight savings time bruhaha would be a fiasco…
I primarily use ecto on my Mac(s) to compose blog entries. I’m not writing about the program (though it’s best strength IMO is its customizability when you want to get under-the-hood of the markup code) per se, but one thing that always surprises me when I fire it up, thinking of a new topic to […]
Appropriately themed with Sir William Osler, this week’s Grand Rounds is hosted by Dr. Samuel Blackman at Blog, MD. My post being mentioned aside, I really love it when the host–as is with this week’s edition–comments a bit on the article and the author from their perspective. It’s nice to have a context before […]
Due to the brain trusts at Kaplan, we have a week off because the left hand didn’t know what the right hand was doing. We were supposed to be getting physio lectures this week, but the incoming prof didn’t know we had already covered that material with someone else. So, in the interest of fairness […]
Mother Nature’s calling card is symmetry. Even Father Physics can’t fool Mother Nature (remember the old “Parkay” margarine commercials? Ok, I’m dating myself…), because entropy and chaos/fractal theory still render patterns of inexplicable symmetrical complexity. Music is no exception. The symmetrical time signatures of 4/4 (most things), 2/4 (polkas, marches), and […]
Grand Rounds goes overseas at ScienceRoll, (pre-rounds) run by a Hungarian medical student. I’ve communicated with Bertalan by email before, and he is truly trying to make a robust science-centric blog, not just a medical one. One of my posts from last week got included, but I’m in much bigger company. Go read!
Ok, we’ve turned totally Mexican now. Mom, if you’re reading this, turn away.
When people think of Mexican food and what accompanies it, the first thing that pops into peoples’ heads is tortillas. For the most part that’s true, for those dishes that it goes with, but for far more versatility, Mexicans go for […]
GruntDoc Hosts Grand Rounds for the 4th time since its inception–a new record! (pre-rounds) Yes, this went up yesterday, but as usual, I’m late to the party.
Also, the nursing blogfest, Change of Shift, is up at Emergiblog where it all began.
This community medicine rotation was a little different than the previous ones. For the first time, I actually felt I might have something to offer. Having completed my pre-clinical coursework, prepping for Step I, I felt equipped to at least handle some basic office-based cases–not on my own, but certainly with some basic […]
Only this time I’m in Chapala, Jalisco. That city, and the neighboring city, Ajijic (pronounced “ah-hee-HEEK”), might be familiar to some because there are a huge number of retirees from the US and Canada that have decided to spend their twilight years in this area of eternal spring. For the first time in […]