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I mentioned that I’m experimenting with the whole podcasting craze for work. If you want to listen to what I’ve got going so far, you can either click the new podcast feed link over there on the right, or use this link here:

New F∃tures

So yeah. Podcasting. The whole personal radio show thing… I think it’s a neat idea, in most cases. Sturgeon’s Law applies, of course, especially to anything I happen to produce.

Anyway, the reason I bring it up is that we’re looking at doing internal podcasts of some of the medical lectures here. Which means I get to experiment and geek out a bit, learning how things are done. Which means that you get to benefit from my mistakes, if you’re trying to do the same thing.
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Collosal “Huh?”

Ok. Automatic translations of foreign languages still have a long way to go before they can handle online comics.

On the other hand, there’s something kind of cool about the phrase “Nintendo Co. is the invincible fist in underwater!”

I can go ANYWHERE!

You Are A: Monkey!

monkeyMonkeys are intelligent and agile, well-adapted for jungle life as they swing happily from tree to tree. As a monkey, you are a social animal who eats a wide range of food, is quick to learn new things and loves to climb. A monkey’s tiny primate features are irresistable, as is his gregarious personality!

You were almost a: Puppy or a Bear Cub
You are least like a: Duckling or a ChipmunkDiscover What Cute Animal You Are!

Possibly marketable idea…

Caffeinated Jell-o!

Someone asked, pre-meeting at work, if they should make another pot of coffee. The reply, “There’s always room for more coffee.” triggered the obvious slogan linkage.
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Halloween thinking

One of our friends has already begun planning his Halloween party. Obviously, it’s not even October yet, but I guess it never hurts to be prepared. So we’ve been doing some pre-Halloween costume contemplation at the House of Q.

This is what we’ve come up with:

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And just in case you want one of your very own, I’ve got it set up on CafePress. Click on the shirt to go to the store, or follow this link if you can’t see the PNG file…

Hoped-for crossover…

Today is the retirement symposium for a doc that we’ve done a lot of work for. It’s also, for those of you who’ve somehow missed it, Talk Like A Pirate Day.

I somehow doubt those two things will combine in an interesting fashion, but I can always hope. Especially since several of the educational lectures are being videotaped.
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Two typos a spellcheck will not catch

AKA “Why Proofreaders Will Never Be Obsolete”

American Boar of Dermatology.

Deportment of Surgery.

Cranberry Wine v. 2.0

So we’ve got a new fermenter full of cranberry wine doing the whole primary fermentation thing. Hopefully it’ll turn out as good as the last batch…

Sunday evening I started the whole washing/sorting/crushing routine, using the big winepress to flatten the cranberries, half a bag at a time.

This was an incredibly slow process.
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Magic Smoke

Oh sure, lots of people will say that electricity is the flow of a current through a conductive medium, but it’s all just a hoax. Ask someone who really knows what’s going on and they’ll tell you about the magic smoke.
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