My white coat ceremony was last week. For those of you not in the know, the purpose of the white coat ceremony is to officially indoctrinate incoming medical students into the profession ( Read more... )

Since the creation of this blog, I've been very careful about what and how I posted. I had coworkers reading it, and generally didn't feel that the minutiae of my day to day corporate life could be revealed - or, if they were revealed, that they'd be interesting ( Read more... )

Outcome: Successful. Intoxication induced. Embarrassment avoided. Contacts made, contacts reinforced.

Didn't -just- stand in the corner like an antisocial wallflower.

Hey all - if you're looking for me in the next (roughly) two weeks, you won't find me. I'll be far, far aweh.

Today's my last day before voluntary unemployment. It'll be my first time in a decade that I'm not employed full time.

How very, very odd.

PS - anyone who wants to play lots of Diablo II in the last half of July, drop me a line ;)

I am a firewall god. I can convince appliances to do things they were never meant to do. You probably don't want to ask for details unless you really care about the innards of iptables on a linux platform.

... Making the world safe from spammers, malware, and rootkits, one machine at a time.

People are always talking about how great the hydrogen economy will be, but it's inefficient to transport hydrogen, and current manufacturing techniques often make more pollution than they save (e.g. making hydrogen from methane rather than electrolysis ( Read more... )

Wife: I have to go get beautiful ( Read more... )

Brief summary of events: Several family members ill at once. Was not expecting to start my doctoring career on my own family and before actually starting med school.

Out of contact until further notice. Dealing with multiple stacked family emergencies.