Surgeon/writer Atul Gawande wrote a great piece over the summer for The New Yorker, which I’ve had bookmarked for a while and just now got around to reading. It’s a study in contrasts of healthcare spending in McAllen, TX and it’s demographical sister city El Paso. As Gawande notes, Medicare spending was “fifteen thousand dollars [...]
October, 2009
one surgeon’s $0.02 on the state of American healthcare
Wednesday, October 28th, 2009children’s illustration, real professional like
Wednesday, October 28th, 2009A few months ago Lauren and I had the pleasure of doing a joint arts & crafts project for a couple of more than deserving (and heart-meltingly adorable) little girls, Rhema and Lilly. It was a coloring book and by request we created a story about two sister heroines who, with the assistance of a [...]
bingBRO
Wednesday, October 28th, 2009What? I like to craft ridiculous things.
The rules are simple- venture to the nearest collegiate town with your bingBRO card and some stickers or a marker, people watch in a public setting, first one to get bingBRO gets a free drink from each of the other players. I recommend Natty Ice, but any fine, American [...]
i’m going to get a tattoo and it’s going to say “cite your sources”
Tuesday, October 27th, 2009I was passing a dry spell earlier in the day reading some older pieces on global climate change (mid ‘09) by Atlantic correspondent James Fallow. One of the things I love about The Atlantic, and their contributors for that matter, is the measured tone, the self-awareness, and the even-handedness of their articles. To boot, the [...]
banana ice cream
Tuesday, October 27th, 2009One of these days, I’ll bring the real camera back out and do away with the cruddy iPhone pictures – but today is not that day.
Last night I took a stab at a modification of this ice cream recipe I found over the weekend. The base is banana, coconut milk, and egg yolk. I had [...]