April 29 2009
I met Anthony Waller at the lake in Sunset Park where he was spending the morning sailing his Valkyrie RC sailboat. –She’s called “The Angie.”
Here he is working about as hard as he was willing to on a beautiful morning like today.
The boat will sail in almost no wind and can handle rough weather [...]
April 23 2009
Geoffrey Hart, M.D. has developed a way of sedating children for hospital or dental procedures, by attaching a nitrous-oxide bottle to a game headset.
PediSedate is a medical device consisting of a colorful, toy-like headset that connects to a game component such as the Nintendo Game Boy system or a portable CD player.
Once the child [...]
April 19 2009
I stopped by Walgreen’s to pick up my prescriptions and came across something that I think is a mite strange. —A DNA paternity test for home use.
MSNBC:
Unlike genetic tests for health conditions, tests that use DNA to determine paternity are fairly simple to provide and fairly easy to interpret, said Watson. They’re subject to limited [...]
April 14 2009
I went to the park and spotted this guy exercising? Or it could be he’s practicing his super hero pose. Or maybe learning to surf.
Some poses are best left to super models.
April 8 2009
One of the sites I visit with some regularity, and highly recommend, is The Wild Wild East Dailies. A blog written by David Everitt-Carlson about his life and thoughts on living in Ho Chi Minh City –Saigon to us old fogies.
For me at least, he brings the city and in turn the country and [...]