10 years ago, if someone had told me I’d be doing what I’m doing whre I am, I’d have thought they were crazy. Me, leave Canada? Work in the US? Never! Not a chance!
But here I am, 6 years after moving down south and almost 9 years since leaving home (almost 4200 km/2600 miles away as the Mapquest crow flies), and I’m still here. 6 years ago yesterday, we packed up our meager little apartment in Detroit and flew out to New York. Bought a car from a friend of my brother-in-law and drove down to Charleston SC. And here I’ve been, ever since.
6 years…whodathunkit.
Passing of a medical physics pioneer
From the MedPhys mailing list comes sad news of John Cameron‘s passing on March 16. He was a well respected elder of the medical physics community as a researcher and educator. I only had the opportunity to meet him once and although I was a bit star-struck (like someone meeting one of their idols) he was very pleasant to talk to.
There are a lot of people who will miss him and his contributions.
Radio show bloopers
Heard on a local morning radio show during a discussion about smoke-free amusement parks.
Host 1: I drive by Westvaco every day and that chokes me up more than anything else!
Host 2: Aren’t they one of our sponsors?
Host 1: Oh, crap.
Another Star Trek series bites the dust
Word has it that Star Trek: Enterprise is being cancelled, with the final episode airing May 13th.
This is too bad. I was just starting to enjoy it too after the writers finally wrapped up that messy ugly Delta quadrant story arc that took up the first two and a half seasons. Why don’t the Star Trek writers ever learn that time travel never works and just makes for ugly stories.
If you want to help save the show, go visit EnterpriseFans.com, EnterpriseProject.org or SaveEnterprise.com and see how you can help.
Just can’t find anything good on TV anymore. With all the so-called ‘reality show’ crap on the air now there’s just nothing worth watching anymore. It’s a good thing I have the Babylon 5 DVDs to watch. I’ll have to start working on the Stargate: SG1 and Farscape series now. Stock up before all the good TV gets drowned out by the crap.
Found on Slashdot.org.
Get the stuff for the thing to give to the guy
I don’t know what it is, but lately the wife has developed a knack for being incredibly vague whenever she asks me about something. She’ll ask me things like
- “Where’s the thing?”
- “Did you do the thing for that guy?”
- “Did you send that stuff?”
and other equally vague questions. It’s really amazing how vague she can be sometimes. Usually I’m left with a totally clueless look on my face and waving my hands trying to prompt her for more information about just what it is I’m supposed to do or know.
Maybe all this med school stuff has filled up her brain and she doesn’t have room for everything else anymore.