Anatomy and Art

I am so touched.  My friend Jasmine threw me a going away party last weekend to send me off properly to Texas for the 2nd half of my semester. She decided to give the party a medical theme, and also a limb theme, in homage to the work I am doing here in Chicago, and will be doing in Texas very soon.  Many of the friends that I have made in Chicago came out, and several of them dressed in lab coats or a few of them in full on medical attire.  I don’t know the last time I’ve ever had so much effort made on my behalf like that.  I am truly flattered.

And I am happy to share a photograph of my favorite visual moment of the evening.  Martin arrived in nearly full on OR regalia.  Sometime after his arrival, the game Operation came out.  They’ve changed the game a bit since we were all kids, so the directions were pulled out and a moment was taken to assess the situation.  So I walked up to see Martin, all dressed the part, holding the direction pamphlet just like we used to hold the gross anatomy lab manual, and about three or four people waiting around the “patient” for the surgeon to give instructions.  Oh, and it doesn’t hurt the moment at all that Jasmine is still wearing her extra googly eyes from earlier silliness along with her lab coat and stethoscope.

Add to that an assortment of doll parts, extra eyes (styrofoam balls) hanging from the chandelier, Play-doh set out for people to play around and do some sculpting, and a version of the old pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey game that featured Van Gogh’s famous self portrait from after he cut his ear alongside an assortment of magazine cut out ears for pinning.

I am truly impressed.  What a great send off 🙂

I spent a lot of time in the clinic today and couldn’t stop looking at the pain chart and thinking of this remaking posted over at Hyperbole and a Half…

http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/02/boyfriend-doesnt-have-ebola-probably.html

Brilliant!

Lately I’ve been going through project research proposals and I’ve begun looking through the IRB website for the proper forms to fill out to make the case that I’m not unduly harming anyone with my research. So when I saw this tonight, it really made me smile 🙂

You know those little crash report boxes that pop up whenever an application crashes?  Well, Garrett Murray has taken on responding to those crashes as a theme in his blog Maniacal Rage.

Some of these are pretty funny.
(clicking on images will make them easier to read)

If you would like to read more of Garrett’s CS4 crash reports, click here.