I got a form e-mail from the Surgeon General:
"Dear Health Care Professionals and Relief Personnel ( Read more... )

Tonight's email from the University: "I have just received word that Louisiana has cancelled its request to have New Jersey send a medical team. At this time, we will not be sending our staff and faculty ( Read more... )

The news as of noon on Labor Day: I'm not being deployed on Tuesday. Maybe Wednesday. Maybe not.

I'm not surprized to find out that plans for the UMDNJ team going to help out in the Gulf are still a bit up in the air. The folks who are arranging things are not sure of our destination (although they think it's Baton Rouge), our departure time (Tuesday morning if we're getting bussed down, but if they can fly us we might have until Wednesday to ( Read more... )

Thus far, it's been a weekend of travel -- I've been to Sodom, visited Minerva and Brigit, hunted a lake monster, then went to the Hague and Amsterdam -- stopping to Perth in between! And all on a motorcycle!

Well, sort of.
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Let's say you had a weekend to ride around, starting from NJ, and wanted to visit great places in microbiology history -- preferably places that share a name with a disease. So you might go to Lyme, CT (from which Lyme disease gets its name) or Coxsackie, NY (coxsackie virus), or the hotel in Philadelphia where the American Legion was having its ( Read more... )

I direct your attention to that other "LJ", Linux Journal. Specifically, the September 2005 issue. Maybe you're at a newsstand, and can only see the masthead. Well, look right there, above the name of the periodical itself. The featured article is "Convert Radio Shows to Podcasts, Automatically." Buy the magazine and turn to page 48 -- for an ( Read more... )

Ah, the tangled path of free association.

A friend's post about Dan Savage's column led me to discover the recently coined term "santorum," which has been named the "Most Outrageous New Word of 2004" by the American Dialect Society. Browsing through the ADA's site, I noted that they passed out several awards in January 2000: word of the year, ( Read more... )

Some mail today from the NJ Academy of Family Physicians ( Read more... )