Booked

There are a few occasions in life when you can actually feel individual neurons dying. One of these occasions, as I discovered, is traffic school. Especially 8 hours of traffic school spread out over 2 nights in four-hour classes from 6-10pm during your vacation. The class taught me, among other things, that if people actually followed the rules of the road, automotive travel would be about as efficient as going to work in a horse-drawn carriage.

Hey oooh

I've been posting a lot of music videos recently--not sure why, may have something to do with the fact that my TV here in Milwaukee only gets like 2 channels clearly, so I get my TV fix by watching stuff on YouTube. Anyway, the Red Hot Chilli Peppers have a new song out called "Snow" which is pretty good...check it...

Discovering the fishies

So, I just came back from the annual holiday party at work. Now, I usually avoid things like holiday parties, for no real reason other than social ineptness. But, I figure, it is a bunch of medicine geeks and, in that setting, I'm actually pretty hip. Anyway, my real motivation was that it was held at Discovery World, a museum/aquarium in Milwaukee. I was excited at the prospect of checking out the aquarium, in particular, and I figured the science wing would have some cool things to check out too.

So I get to the party, do a little meeting and greeting, and then head over to the aquarium as soon as I am able. The aquarium was sort of small at first glance, but I thought what they lack in space they may make up in quality.

As I walk to the first exhibit, I can feel the adrenaline flowing, it's game time, my neurons firing in anticipation of all the exotic fish-related trivia tantalizingly dangling before me like a worm on a hook. And then I'm there and I look into the tank and I see...

Brown trout. Perch. Groupers. Yes, the same fish that are featured on dinner plates across the country were on display, swimming around the tank with a certain smugness that comes from knowing that they, at least, were not going to end up on your dinner plate. In fact, much of the display, featuring fish of the Great Lakes, could have easily been called instead, "It's what's for dinner." I half expected the little displays that provided information about the fish to say something like, "brown trout is best served with a lemon sauce and french fries."

What more can I say? They're trying to make downtown Milwaukee more of a cultural attraction and it clearly needs more work. Thank God Chicago is so close...

Jammin

I'm postcall, in that crazy haze induced by caffeine and sleep deprivation. My fellow residents seem to look forward to my postcall days, apparently I'm a lot funnier when I haven't slept...

Before I drop off to sleep, I thought I'd post one of my favorite songs these days, "Crazy" as done by Gnarls Barkley, my head just bobs in that Punjabi style that you all wish you could do. I mean, you all just lucky I only head bob, cause it's danger in the living room when the rest of me gets going. Luckily, my roommate is at work late or he'd be wondering what's going on up in here...

Anyway, here are some crazy videos...

Arabs saving Jews during the Holocaust

Fascinating article about Robert Satloff, an American Jew, who chronicled the lives of Arabs who saved the lives of Jews during the Holocaust...

Ellison controversy

This is ridiculous...



Jon Stewart has a nice rejoinder...