well, you know, it seems a little silly. For a professional, learning and improving are not confined to January. I try to do a lessons learned after every class, and work on continuous improvement. After all, I can always do things better. Plus, when you reach a certain age, as I have, you have to do some lifestyle modifications if you have any vanity whatsoever. The less said about that the better. After all, other people’s diets are about as interesting as other people’s golf games.
Be that as it may, though, I have some projects that this semester is the time to get off the ground;
The colchicine paper
The asphyxia paper
The airgun death paper
Analysis of the Physiology data
Writing a grant for the new teaching materials for physiology
Presenting the teaching work I’ve done at either AMEE or AAMC. AMEE this year is in Glasgow. That would be worth a trip.
Personally, there are also some projects I’ve had hanging fire including:
Excavating the basement
Excavating the spare room
Putting a model railroad in a coffee table
Archiving my library
Which also need to get done. But it’s going to be all right.
It IS Friday, and so is time once again, now and forever, Amen, for SAPPY CAT BLOGGING! Today’s cats are the cats of the One of A Kind Shelter at 1699 W. Market St. in Akron. Not only do they have scads of kittys all over the store, and they sell pet supplies. The also run a spay/neuter clinic to try to get to the heart of animal overpopulation. Spaying and neutering programs in the long run reduce the euthanasia rate up to 70%-which is better all the way around.
It is interesting what posts get the most traffic over the year. I don’t know why a fluff piece about Isaac Newton gets so much traffic, nor why there is so much interest in Elliot Ness from people in Spain. The Arms and Armour of Graz post garnered a lot of German Spam, which I couldn’t read.
Top 10 Search Terms in 2009
Wren
Honey bee
Peregrine falcon
Bumblebee
Eliot Ness
Milkweed
Isaac Newton
Elliot Ness
Bumble Bee
Can of Worms
The sun must set to rise
The light will leave your eyes again
Then breaking like morning’s dawn
Does summer feel the winter come
The hardest part of life
Is to live while you’re alive my friend
So sing an unwritten song
Or repent for the deeds you left undone
This is Here
This is Now
It’s the moment that we live for
And we just can’t live without
It’s all clear to me now
We’ve already started dying
And our time is running out
Oh, Right Now
Time is ours to steal
She’s a secret to reveal my friend
And when your children have all grown
You’ll wait by the window
And wish them all back home
Walk a little further off the beaten path
And we’ll drive on even if we get there last
Our backs against the wall
And we will lunge and bite
And we’ll rage, rage, rage
against the dying of the light
Via LEX an obituary of a remarkable man. I first learned of Haughland by reading Between Silk and Cyanide, by Leo Marks, a story of code making and the S.O:E. I commend the book to you all. There are 116 copies on Amazon as I write this. I’m always amazed by how brave people can be, and I wonder how long we will be lucky enough to have such people around.
When flowers doze upon their lonely beds
And oaken sentries nod their noble heads
And piney cushions snug the cuddled fawns
And dewy gems bejewel the dreaming lawns,
I sit and wait in patience born of pain
For some sweet sonnet to ignite my brain.
And as Aurora lifts her rosey veil
My muse approaches – haggard, had and pale.
Fetid, fingered, rancid, rank and frowzy,
No wonder all my poetry is lousy.
Peace on Earth, goodwill to Men. A new covenant. And here is Eileen Ivers and her group doing “Do You Hear What I Hear” from An Nallaig, An Irish Christmas: 06 – Do You Hear What I Hear
One of the good things about blogs is the opportunity for really intelligent people to make themselves heard. One of the bad things about blogging is the blow to one’s ego when really intelligent people say things that you think but in a much more thorough and articulate manner. Blunt Object does it again with his post process-people.
Ignoring the process leads to focus on short-term goals. It doesn’t matter HOW you obtain the laudable result, the only thing that matters is the result itself. Indeed, that opens you up to a whole big lot of unintended consequences. See?
Power is transient. If you want processes to keep your political antagonists/enemies/rivals/whatnot from ramming their agendas down your throat, it would be wise not to circumvent processes that keep you from doing the exact same thing.
“Μολὼν λαβέ” – Leonidas
“Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.” --Robert Heinlein
“We're all worm bait waiting to happen. It's what you do while you wait that matters.”--Kinky Friedman
“Myself - I can just say. Who are the militia? If it is my home, my body, my freedom being threatened, then frankly, the militia is ME. The power of my weapon is not, at that moment in time, within the order of my life as it is lived at that moment, with the Government. It is where it should be always be, God willing, in my hands, trained and ready to defend and protect.”--Brigid B.
Process, Not Outcome
One of the good things about blogs is the opportunity for really intelligent people to make themselves heard. One of the bad things about blogging is the blow to one’s ego when really intelligent people say things that you think but in a much more thorough and articulate manner. Blunt Object does it again with his post process-people.
Ignoring the process leads to focus on short-term goals. It doesn’t matter HOW you obtain the laudable result, the only thing that matters is the result itself. Indeed, that opens you up to a whole big lot of unintended consequences.
See?
Power is transient. If you want processes to keep your political antagonists/enemies/rivals/whatnot from ramming their agendas down your throat, it would be wise not to circumvent processes that keep you from doing the exact same thing.