Of course you’ve got to be REALLY mad, because this is the big one. YUP, you can learn to build your own WMD! Here are the details from the Washington Post "How to Build a Nuclear Bomb" Just take the one year course at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Serivce and you’re all set to … Read more
Stay tuned, but I think I’ve detected the beginnings of peach fuzz on my lower and upper lips. You have to start somewhere.
This was forwarded to me by my friend Jeanne Marie Gagnon. I was a big Abbott and Costello fan and this is a take-off on their most famous sketch "Whose on First"? I can almost hear them doing this! COSTELLO CALLS TO BUY A COMPUTER FROM ABBOTT ABBOTT: Super Duper computer store. Can I help … Read more
Actually, Joe got back Friday night. He flew into Westchester County airport from Dulles, in a 25 seat commuter prop plane (United), along with one of his classmates, F.J. Ellis. And he was not impressed with the flight. It was windy, the plane was buffeted all over the sky, and half the people on board … Read more
Today is the 30th day after my discharge. My progress in getting over the general tiredness seems to have hit a plateau in the last four or five days with no noticeable improvement. I did have my first drink in a long while Saturday night at a small birthday party gathering. A glass of champagne … Read more
Here is an amusing article tht AOL news picked up on – AOL Money & Finance: WSJ.com – The Manwagon Or as the article describes it, "This melding of speed and sippy cups…"
The Journal had a great editorial yesterday on the progress that has been made in treating cancer in the last few years.
Unfortunately the Journal website is subscriber only, so putting the link up won’t allow anyone to read the article. And they have not posted it on their opinion site (opinionjournal.com), which is free.
However I have copied large excerpts from the editorial, "for your private use only" and if you hit the link just below, you can read them.
Saw Dr. Kewalramani this morning. Got there for 10:30 appointment a couple of minutes early, and was actually done by about 11:20, which is some sort of record. Everything continues to go well, with only my hemaglobin slightly blow normal range (it is 11.2 and normal is 12-14). I will start next week on Rituxin, … Read more
Dr. Kewalramani appointment tomorrow. We’ll see what the bloodwork shows. I am feeling better week to week, but still far from 100%. I actually managed to put together the exercise bench (Sunday night) which I thought was a bargain and then discovered needed assembly. Tom Faranda’s Folly: 14 days post hospitalization Very proud of myself, … Read more
This from today’s NY Times.Stem Cells May Be Key to Cancer – New York Times Here are the first three paragraphs: "One day, perhaps in the distant future, stem cells may help repair diseased tissues. But there is a far more pressing reason to study them: stem cells are the source of at least some, … Read more