Nuclear Fire

This is my LifeStream.
Tread softly on my dreams.

Fight Club

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Pathology →


Pathology Movie Poster

“To the Dead!”

The movie sets itself up like a high school conflict drama. That in itself isn’t that odd as I always felt that medical school was very much like being back in high school,…

Medicine is a lot more ambivalent and undramatic -- and also richer and more interesting -- than "Hopkins" shows the viewer or wants to admit. →

If you want a nuanced portrait of 21st-century medicine — a world dominated by disease prevention, modest improvements in treatment and engineering fixes for making the health-care system safer —…

PicLens →


If you use flickr, get PicLens.

It’s free, so just get it and go to flickr.  Don’t ask questions.  Just go.

Broken Angels →


broken angels

by Richard K. Morgan

Engrossing scifi-war novel.

The sophomore novel by RKM is every it as good as his first stellar story.  The slight change in genre from detective to war helps…

Killing Electronic Trees →


I got a business related email today with the following signature:

Dale Eisenheart BS, RT(R),CT,CV,MR

Not only is that way too many characters after a name, but I only know what one of them…

the Brooder: I had done something to make him upset, so he was sulking under the downtown playground. So much emotion. Just like his parents.
the Brooder: I had done something to make him upset, so he was sulking under the downtown playground. So much emotion. Just like his parents.
I like Blue’s Clues
I like Blue’s Clues

Altered Carbon →


Altered Carbon

by Richard K. Morgan

An excellently written scifi-detective novel.

The prose is perfectly descriptive without trying too hard as can often happen with those trying to make their…

Quantum Solace →


As always:

What a crazy, busy, month it’s been!

We moved, finished another year of residency and survived the 500 year flood.

We didn’t have a lot of time last year to find a place to live. …

Contrast: 500 year flood 2008
Contrast: 500 year flood 2008

“Sorry. I’m the Doctor; I’m very clever.”

—Doctor Who 2005, Season 4, Episode 12 Midnight
Interview with Tim Russert’s Doctor