As life dawdles along at a pace mostly set by forces out of one's control, we attempt to blog again. We'll kick things off with the usual quote from the QDB.
In our anal retentive manner here goes :
So this doctor goes to the bank and when asked to sign a cheque reaches into his pocket and pulls out a rectal thermometer. He begins to attempt a signature when he realises his error and mutters, "Damn! Some asshole's got my pen."
That one done with, a random saunter through the campus in the intolerable heat of this afternoon found yours truly in front of a Littmann stall. The makers of probably the world's best stethoscopes are offering a small discount to buy more such acoustically enhanced devices. Turns out that there's a new one in the market. An electronic one. With noise cancelling. Like the Bose headphones I've spent half my adolescent life drooling over. Noise cancelling stethoscopes had to be the last straw till further perusal of the brochure revealed that one can record up to 6 tracks of heart sounds. Then they can be beamed across using IR or some such sperm immolating radiation to a computer. Then the sounds are converted into a phonocardiogram and played back at half speed or double or just analysed by the software. Of course volume controls are present as are soft ear pieces and the trademark Littmann diaphragm. Just when I was thinking that they couldn't do much more...
Read it all.
That's just about all we have time for but before we go here's the parting quote.
Since the invention of the Internet, the rotation of the earth has been primarily fueled by the spinning of English teachers in their graves.
Adios and kudos to technology.
In our anal retentive manner here goes :
So this doctor goes to the bank and when asked to sign a cheque reaches into his pocket and pulls out a rectal thermometer. He begins to attempt a signature when he realises his error and mutters, "Damn! Some asshole's got my pen."
That one done with, a random saunter through the campus in the intolerable heat of this afternoon found yours truly in front of a Littmann stall. The makers of probably the world's best stethoscopes are offering a small discount to buy more such acoustically enhanced devices. Turns out that there's a new one in the market. An electronic one. With noise cancelling. Like the Bose headphones I've spent half my adolescent life drooling over. Noise cancelling stethoscopes had to be the last straw till further perusal of the brochure revealed that one can record up to 6 tracks of heart sounds. Then they can be beamed across using IR or some such sperm immolating radiation to a computer. Then the sounds are converted into a phonocardiogram and played back at half speed or double or just analysed by the software. Of course volume controls are present as are soft ear pieces and the trademark Littmann diaphragm. Just when I was thinking that they couldn't do much more...
Read it all.
That's just about all we have time for but before we go here's the parting quote.
Since the invention of the Internet, the rotation of the earth has been primarily fueled by the spinning of English teachers in their graves.
Adios and kudos to technology.
