Category: Miscellaneous babble

The IMABUG Mark IV. I think I like the sound of that.
Get your own cyborg name.
Found at Tangible Thoughts.

In addition to learning all the various bits and pieces that make the body work, my wife has been learning all sorts of nifty tricks that you can do with your appendages.
Things like if you hold your index, ring and little fingers flat against something, it’s impossible to move just the very tip of your middle finger. You can move it from the second joint, but not the very tip. Try it.
Or various spots that open up when you move into certain positions so you can hear things better.
And how to dislocate your shoulder, or mine as she was thinking of doing last night. How to put it back in is next week’s lecture. Good thing for me she decided not to try it out on me. I can just see it now, me wandering around with a limp arm waiting until she learns how to pop my arm back into place.
I’m starting to have second thoughts about this medicine thing she’s doing. Maybe they need to put a warning statement on this gross anatomy course.

Dampeoples switched his weblog over to WordPress recently and has started posting some really cool pictures to his weblog. He’s got more cool looking stuff in hiw photo gallery.
While I’m on the topic, over at karenika.com, she’s started a nifty project collecting pictures from each state in the US. There are some really cool pictures in there and she’s taking submissions.
Lots of cool stuff to be seen around the country that you just won’t find in travel books and magazines.

Got a package in the mail yesterday. Wasn’t anything terribly unusual, just one of those promo sized things of deodorant.

What was unusual was who it was addressed to. It was addressed to one of my Hooligan aliases, which as far as I know has never been associated with my snail mail address.

When I first saw the package, I thought “Cool, something from my friends!”. But then when I opened it, I was rather disappointed to find that it was just a promotion for a brand of deodorant.

Perhaps my friends are trying to tell me something. I don’t think I smell that bad, do I?

So my wife started her summer Gross Anatomy class yesterday. They hit the ground running pretty fast, so she’s spending a lot of time studying.
In the process, I’ve become her anatomy model. So while she’s studying, every now and then she’ll call me over and use me to check something out that she’s just learned. So I have to stop what I’m doing, get up, and sometimes contort myself into several pretzel like shapes so she can see what she’s been reading about.
Fortunately I’m only good for surface anatomy. For the rest of it she’ll have to stick with the cadaver.