Author: Eugene

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Blognic ’07

I thought I’d head on over to Wannamaker park early so the dogs could check out the new dog park there. They definitely had a good time, especially once they discovered the muddy pit passing for a pond. I’m not sure if it’s supposed to be there or not, or if it’s supposed to be more full than it was, but the dogs were enjoying it as much as they could. At least there was a hose available to wash them off a bit.

Muddy dog park

Then it was off to find where we were ‘blognic’ing this year. I found Vera and Patrick, and then we eventually found Heather and everybody else. There were about 12 that showed up, along with a half dozen or so kids. I think we all had a pretty good time hanging out, and it was a great day for it too.

Heather‘s daughter managed to capture everybody’s attention at one point or another

Proof that Heather does have different shirts other than the black Home Ec 101 shirt.

Vera just had to check out the sports scores

What photographer can resist food photography?

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Sea turtle release

It turned out to be a very nice day for Edisto to head back to the ocean.

By the time I got to the beach, there was already quite the crowd assembled and waiting for Edisto’s arrival.

Assembled crowd

After a bit of a wait, Edisto finally arrived and was taken out of the pickup truck.

Edisto arrives!

It took about 6 guys to haul Edisto out of the truck and deposit him gently onto the beach. I think the large crowd may have spooked him a little because he just kind of stayed there on the beach for a while. They had to pick him up about 3 more times and carry him closer to the water. The device attached to Edisto’s back is a GPS tracking device that will be used to track his movements while he’s out at sea.

Edisto with a GPS tracker

With a little bit of encouragement, he started moving on his own toward the edge of the water.

Edisto making his way to the water

When Edisto finally made it into the water, the crowd sent him off with a great big cheer.

Edisto heading into the ocean

Today’s release was a pretty cool event. There are still a few more turtles recuperating at the Aquarium’s Sea Turtle Hospital so if you missed this one, there will be others coming up. They can always use donations so if you can, help them out a little.

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More radio transitions

This morning instead of hearing boppy 80s tunes on the radio, I was jarred awake by country music on my regular radio station, 96.9. The station’s website redirects over to 95SX too. It seems that like 96 Wave, 96.9 has also undergone a radical format change without much in the way of warning (at least none I noticed). At least 96 Wave seems to have switched back to the original format though.
Not a format change I’m liking, so I guess it’s time to switch the radio at home to 100.5. It’s something I’ve been meaning to do anyway.

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Marathoning for the critters

One of my dog park friends has been training to run a marathon for the last few weeks now, and is putting her training efforts towards raising funds for the new JASPCA shelter.
To showcase their training and fund raising efforts, Kathleen and her training buddy started up the Road to Richmond site (they’re planning on doing the Richmond Marathon on Nov 10).
If you want to help them raise a bunch of money for a much needed new animal shelter, check out their site and make a donation. Or donate directly to the JASPCA. Either way, it will go to a very worthy cause.

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Studies imported into PACS

Our PACS group gets a lot of patient studies on CDs to be imported into the PACS archive. The other day I was asked if it was possible to split out the study and image counts for these imported studies to get an idea of the imported study volume relative to the total.
Fortunately it turned out to be a relatively easy query since all imported studies use the same prefix for the accession number. After experimenting with a few SQL queries, I managed to come up with data to make this graph showing the fraction of imported studies and images relative to the total volume.
Imported Fraction
It’s been climbing pretty steadily (something that definitely has not gone unnoticed by the person who does the importing), but is still a pretty small fraction of the total volume.
This will be good stuff to put into my paper.