Drug companies will no longer ply physicians with emblazoned pens, clocks, tchotckes, etc. Whatever. They still hire Big 10 cheerleaders as drug reps and buy lunches for doctor's office staff that cost more than our current rent payments.
The coffee mug set from the makers of Actos, one each in the shape of a stomach, pancreas, and liver, kidney, etc (see the character line up here), was what inspired us to become doctors. Kidding.
While waiting for the flight back from Christmas "vacation," we searched the ATL airport for a River Street Sweets store we are 98% certain used to be at Concourse B. Can anyone else corroborate that? And what happened to that franchise? Savannah is the best thing about Georgia, and these are the only souvenir worth bringing back--all the other knick-knack shops in that airport should get on the bandwagon.
All we really wanted for Christmas came without ribbons or tags, but we're missing her right now (girls' night out's not so fun for us), so might as well brag about the stuff Santa brought in packages, boxes, and bags, particularly the little digital camera with its hoodie carrying case that will really spruce this website up with honest-to-god graphics.
A friend at work is trying to pick a name for her baby. We suggest any answer to the question, What do you call a guy with no arms and no legs? Matt, Russell, etc. Curt & Rod, if twins.
Just the other day, NYTimes was reporting falling demand for prostitution, and now this: 20% of teens say they've posted nude pics/videos of themselves online. Maybe there is too much competition for the pros?
The Slutcracker! From the website:
The Slutcracker is an original, over-the-top, “adults only” parody of E.T.A. Hoffman's classic holiday story, The Nutcracker. The story follows Clara, a virginal 20-something whose boyfriend Fritz becomes jealous of a special “toy” she receives for Christmas from an eccentric relative. Guided by a cast of new and intriguing friends, Clara embarks on a fantastic journey into her own sexual awakening that will leave the audience titillated, inspired, and amused.
Every store on earth just became an Amazon.com outlet: You go shopping, you click photos with iPhone, Amazon's bots match what is in front of you to what they have in stock, and you can decide to purchase from Amazon.com or the store right there. Instant price check on aisle 9!
Slide from Engage with Grace.
Can you answer those questions? Does someone else name you in their answers? Maybe life and death is worth 2 minutes of both your time while everyone is gathered together this holiday season.
Once upon a time, death was a binary thing; a man walked to work alive, but then he fell off a building and he was dead. A woman bled to death in child birth. A grandfather clutched his chest, took his pulse, and collapsed, dead. Modern medical science took this simple dichotomy and added a hundred and one shades of gray between breathing, laughing, crying, working, sweating life and cold, stiff death.
A wise doctor is fond of saying that the biggest shortcoming of American medicine is the failure to discern the difference between could and should, so you are largely on your own. "We could try chemo," the doctor will say. "We could stent that artery." "We could put in a feeding tube and help you breathe with a tube and a machine when you need it." No one will say, "Should we?" unless you do, and no one will know how to answer for you unless you talk about it with them now.
For their Super Peek-A-Boo posts hack.
via Beautiful Beta.
Not the first graduate of the Best Medical School to be better suited to some career other than being a doctor (and not likely the last, either), he did a decent job writing for ER back in the day. Mainly, though, we were surprised to hear he was ill, let alone dead.
Rumor has it Will.i.am was planning a new release, "It's a New Day," to follow-up on his viral hit, "Yes We Can." So far, DipDive is disappointing.
Our thirst for wine knowledge continues. Highly recommended: Dr. Vino's wine blog. Passes muster, but nothing exciting: The Pour (yet another NYTimes-branded blog). And we're looking at WineAccess--maybe even their monthly plan--for real-world experience with some new wines.
The news-websites we watch on a daily basis are essentially HTML-ified newspapers with slide shows and videos tucked in and around the news copy. This site actually makes an effort to be multi-media and may have the chops to replace the e-newspaper in our daily browsing. May.
