A new Orthoscan mini C-arm arrived at the hospital last week, so while I was doing the acceptance testing on it today I used it to get a shot of my Galaxy S II.
The big grey blob in the middle is the battery and the vertical stripe in the battery I’m guessing is the NFC antenna. The square just below the top would be the camera. The square to the left of that just below the top is the front facing camera. On the right side is the headphone jack. The rectangular thing at the bottom to the right of the USB/HDMI connector is the speaker I think.
The Answer to the Great Question
“All right,” said Deep Thought. “The Answer to the Great Question …”
“Yes…!”
“Of Life, the Universe and Everything…” said Deep Thought.
“Yes…!”
“Is…” said Deep Thought, and paused.
“Yes…!”
“Is…”
“Yes…!!!…?”
“Forty-two,” said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm.
– Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
New starts and fresh beginnings
2011 was an interesting year, in that Chinese proverb/curse sense of the word. Hopefully 2012 will be less “interesting”.
I see new things in store for 2012 and it looks to be a busy one.
Probably the biggest event in store for 2012 will be getting past my qualifier. Once I make it past that, it should be a reasonably clear road to finishing my PhD. My original intention to do work, classes and research at the same time turned out to be somewhat overly optimistic, especially this past year where I didn’t get much in the way of research done at all. Hopefully I’ll be able to make faster progress starting in the new year, because quite honestly I’m starting to get tired of the whole school and research thing and will be very glad to get it over with.
Also looking forward to finally getting rid of this dud of a cell phone and upgrading to something with that will be a little more fun to use.
More simplicity is the goal for 2012.
Drying up ponds
It’s going to take a lot of rain to fill the ponds in my neighbourhood back up. They’re down well over a meter from where they normally should be.
Sanctioned discrimination
A thought that’s been rattling around in my head lately.
It seems to me that pretty much anybody who objects to gay people and gay marriage does so on the basis of religion. Whether the claim is that it erodes the institution of marriage, or that it’s immoral, or whatever the objection, there’s almost always some religious doctrine that it’s based on.
So where do all these laws against gay marriage fit in when you consider the principle of separation of church and state as written in the First Amendment?