Batton down the hatches

This is hillarious. That should be all I have to say about that.
But because it’s so funny, here’s a clip:

The other day, my 6-year-old son suffered a bout of pants turbulence the likes of which I’d never encountered. It was so violent and so noxious that I wondered aloud whether he needed medical attention. But the boy did not share my concern. To him, it was all a joke. He gleefully sailed from one room of the house to the next, his spinnaker filled with that ill wind, leaving in his wake watery eyes and peeling wallpaper. Seriously, if our co-pay weren’t so high, I’d have taken him to the doctor.

12 a.m. or 12 p.m.?

Here’s an interesting thought for the day.
Do you use 12 a.m. or 12 p.m.?
I personally try to always use noon or midnight.
But then another question is, if you use midnight, which day does it refer to?
If I say I’m leaving at midnight on Feb. 24, do you meet me around 11:55 on Feb. 24 or Feb. 25. Is it the end of the day I mention or the start of the day I mention?

E-Medicine

Joe Barton

, chair of the Energy and Commerce Committee is working to create a new national health records database.

The system would allow medical records to be stored electronically and transferred from doctor to doctor or hospital to hospital for efficiency and cost reductions.

But Dr. Deborah C. Peel with Patient Privacy Rights is concerned that too many people will have access to a patient’s records without their knowledge or consent.

I think both are very important. I want the doctors who need access, to have every bit of information they need, but if I had a medical condition that did not concern them, I’d prefer to keep those issues private as well.

I wonder what the future of medicine will look like.

Should a psychologist be able to see that I have an STD or an addiction? Should my dentist be able to see that I visit a shrink?

Of course security around the system is important as well. You don’t want some teenage boy to be able to hack into the system through Google.

Firewalls and encryption must be a top priority as well.

But where do you draw the lines and how do you allow limited access?

Hopefully Congress will find the answers before the bill passes.

Bowling as honorable as golf

Eric over at the Daily Funnel, has an interesting post on .
He talks with a bowling coach who says golf and bowling were very honorable in the beginning, but due to a few decisions, both attract different crowds.

Minshew also knows a great deal about the mechanics, physics, biology and philosophy behind bowling, and she writes, which makes her perfect for the Funnel Method. If that sentence seems ridiculous, that’s partly bowling’s own fault. Minshew believes that bowling and golf were equally honorable fifty years ago, but that while golf chose to be elite and expensive, bowling chose to be universal and cheap. Bowling provided house shoes, house balls and bumper lanes. As a result, bowling is often thought of as the working-class semi-sport, and golf brings in billions of dollars in television, advertising and in useless office knick-knacks.

I wonder if similar things can be found in religion and denominations and other areas of life.
When you think of users, I often think of artsy and high-end graphic users with extra money to spend on proprietaryry system.
But in reality, I can do the exact same things on my PC.
In fact, Apple has recently switched to using the chips that PC’s have relied on for years, claiming now the chips can do more in their machines.