The future of medicine

Let us suppose that you have been charged with the task of encouraging the youth of America to consider a future as a health care professional. What would be the obvious method to attract their attention?

That's right, an enormous rapping groundhog.



Here's the background.

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Further breaking news! It seems that there are folks who are under the impression that when the background singers are chanting "Go G-Hog," they are in fact chanting "Go Jihad." While it seems likely that these folks are not serious, the idea that someone could think that this video is some sort of subliminal message makes it even more amusing.

Yay!

There's a new Lucky Luke film coming out!

See the trailer.

This Week in Pod Has Lost Track of the Time

I think I shall have to abandon all hope of turning into a feature that I do regularly, and just keep on chugging it out when I can.

Luckily, I've slowed down the process of ripping CDs to match the slowdown in posting about it.

There are two reasons for this: First, I've been busy. Second, I've been noticing that my hard drive has been filling up. Because my hard drive has been filling up, I'm going to have to start making a lot more choices about what to remove then I have been.

First, I will probably have to get rid of the video that has filled up a few loose gigs. As my iPod is one of those video deelies, I've been taking the opportunities to download the free video content that iTunes has to offer. Most of these things I have yet too actually watch, but they are filling up about twelve gigabytes, so I suppose they ought to be jettisoned to make way for other things. For the curious these videos include:

1. The pilot episode of The Starter Wife. This is another in the current hip genre of shows about how interesting it is to see horrifically rich white assholes being made vaguely uncomfortable.
   
2. A Sesame Street Special about muppets with asthma. As someone who grew up as an asthmatic child, I do appreciate the attempt at informing the youth of the nation that if your classmate has fallen over and is unable to breathe, it is perhaps unkind to start tickling them. Unfortunately, I have yet to actually watch a moment of this. I think that in the back of my mind, I am saving it on my iPod for the moment when I suddenly collapse in front of a schoolyard, I can show the traumatized schoolchildren the episode while I dig through my manbag for my inhaler.
   
3. The first episode of Curl Girls. This is a reality show about a bunch of lesbians who like to surf. It is conceptually impervious to snark.
   
4. The first episode of Scott Baio is 45 ... and Single. Oh, let's just face it, if you put something up on iTunes for free, I'm going to download it.
   
5. The 15 minute short film which was meant to be a prequel to a film now in current release, but which seems to have attracted attention not for the merits of the short film itself, but rather the moment in it where a currently popular starlet takes her pants off. (I'm being rather circumspect, to foil the Google-bots) I have yet to see the actual film that this is a prequel to, so I think I cannot comment on the short as an independent work.

And we go forward:

Most Played Song:

The Pernice Brothers - "Somerville"

I pick ten tracks at random:

The Boomtown Rats - "Go Man Go"
Sinead Lohan - "Disillusioned"
The Gufs - "Give Back Yourself"
The Waifs - "Circles"
Steve Earle - "Nothing but a Child"
Kurt Wiell - "No 13: Mattes! Mattes!"
The Police - "Peanuts (live)"
Vic Chesnutt - "Girl's Say"
Yo-Yo Ma - "Franck: Sonata in A for Violin & Piano"
John Lennon - "Cold Turkey"

Hey! I got the Yo-Yo Ma the last time I did the random shuffle. That's weird.

For hard drive space (and my own sanity) I do have to delete the occasional album. This week I deleted:

Tiny Tim - Live in Chicago with the New Duncan Imperials

I had completely forgotten that I owned this CD:

"anything by The Cranberries" - I have two of them! I might have gambled that I had the CD with "Linger" on it, but I have two! Oh boy!

The last thing that I ripped:

Diamanda Galas and John Paul Jones - The Sporting Life

Enjoy a truly strange ad from Thailand

Not only am I an architect!

But I can play an awesome cowbell!

and if all else fails...

The Simple Dollar has advice on "Dealing With Professional Burnout Without Quitting Your Job"

It has nine bullets.

Number eight summed up is "Get your resume together so you can quit."

Number nine summed up is "What the hell, Quit!"

I suppose this means I have to throw some sort of internet keg party