March 2009
5 posts
“One of the things he told me was that wait long enough and people will surprise...”
– Randy Pausch, in “The Last Lecture”; at the time I didn’t realize it, but this requires at least as much guts as kindness.
Medical recordkeeping
A bit sore from what is now becoming my annual [sic] Td vaccine (FYI, normally it’s once every decade). My records always seem to be with some previous doctor, not me. This must be at least the second redundant dose since arriving in the US. So I decided to start manually entering this information in Google Health. That can’t be worse than the good old “paper PHRs”...
Is the tide turning?
According to this segment (from ca. 8’30”) on the Brian Lehrer show this morning, Ireland recently decided to relax it’s requirements for citizenship: you can apply if you great-grand-parents were Irish.
Reasons mentioned by the guest or callers why Irish-Americans apply: (i) sentimentality, (ii) work opportunities, (iii) fear of being a US passport holder after 9/11, (iv)...
Belated discovery of what is, apparently, a recent...
Tumbling along
Let’s try this Tumblr thing. I don’t know if I should be concerned, but most of my random thoughts that might be worth writing down rarely fit in 130 characters or less.