Spent the day helping out with the acceptance testing on two of the new CT scanners at the new hospital, and then 10 minutes getting thoroughly soaked by the rain on the walk back to my office. After walking through the second ankle deep pool of water, I gave up trying to stay dry.
When I walked out to go home 15 minutes later, the sun was out.
Go figure.
Getting really busy soon
The new hospital tower is getting ready to open. The Siemens people have been busy installing some of the new equipment that’s going in there. Now it’s time to start doing the acceptance testing on the new stuff.
All together, there are about 21 units being installed in the new hospital building. Some of it is existing equipment that’s being moved over, but the bulk of it is new. All of it has to be tested by the end of the year, and that’s all on top of the 25 or so of our already existing systems that I have left to test. At least with the new stuff I don’t have to worry about availability.
I need to clone myself like the Chinese guy did in that AARP commercial.
My what big eyes you have
Note to self: Schedule eye exams for first thing in the morning from now on. Walking out in the morning daylight is much easier than having dilated eyeballs seared out of your skull by the bright noon day sun.
Routine eye exam time. No significant changes in prescription since the last time, although I am noticing that it’s a lot more work to focus on nearby things. Either I’m just getting really lazy or my eyeballs are starting to get old. Not ready for bifocals just yet though. Perfectly healthy near-sighted eyes.
This is the prescription I came out of my eye appointment with.
| Eye | Spherical | Cylindrical | Axis |
|---|---|---|---|
| Right | -8.25 | -3.75 | 180 |
| Left | -9.25 | -3.75 | 180 |
The right eye seems to have improved over the years, since I remember a time not so long ago when both eyes were near -9.75. I still have to wait for the one room at my eye doctor’s office with the equipment that can handle my prescription though.
Language humour
The European Commission has just announced an agreement
whereby English will be the official language of the European
Union rather than German, which was the other possibility.As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that
English spelling had some room for improvement and has
accepted a 5- year phase-in plan that would become known as
‘Euro-English’.In the first year, ‘s’ will replace the soft ‘c’. Sertainly, this will
make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard ‘c’ will be
dropped in favour of ‘k’.. This should klear up konfusion,
and keyboards kan have one less letter.There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year
when the troublesome ‘ph’ will be replaced with ‘f’.
This will make words like fotograf 20% shorter.In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be
expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes
are possible.Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters
which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling.Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent ‘e’ in
the languag is disgrasful and it should go away.By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as
replasing ‘th’ with ‘z’ and ‘w’ with ‘v’.During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary ‘o’ kan be dropd from vords
kontaining ‘ou’ and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl
riten styl.Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it
ezi tu understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil
finali kum tru.Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in
ze forst plas.If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl
RAM good
Fedora 8 Test 3 runs much better with at least 512MB of RAM out of the box. It’s an absolute slug with anything less. Methinks Fedora’s starting to bloat a little.