Unbelievably, where I work we don’t have electronic medical records, so we face what this picture (click to embiggenate) depicts – all the time. I mean seriously, this is 2011 … right? We have these things called computers … right? Hat-tip to David Bradley for the image.
Last night I was watching an episode of Big Bang theory. At the start Sheldon was talking about teleportation, saying the problem is that the original person would be destroyed, then recreated at the destination. Sure, thought I, but that’s not the implication that has occurred to me when I’ve thought about this before. Yes,...
There are a few things I’ve read today that I really don’t get – in different ways. One is sciencey-cool, one is magic, and the last is cruel and stupid and upsetting. I might start with the latter, so at least there’s something light-hearted to finish the post. But first, here’s something about perplexity...
Oh hai. Lolshrink can not has fork. Lolshrink was hungry and did want to has lunch (leftoverz from beautiful roast sheep cooked by teh queen yesterzday). I is not dogz though, so needed cutleryz. But where teh fork are teh forkz? Not long back we could haz new cutleryz – yah: including forkz. Hole droor wuz...
Magic. Ghosts. Spirits. These are things that pop up in fairy tales and in children’s stories and tv shows & films. Sometimes even they’re debunked – for example in Scooby Doo (though I personally have never liked it) it’s always some guy with a mask and a clever contraption and some flashy chemistry –...
