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"I think our daughter’s made-up language ‘pantusois’ is actually the proto-language..."

Sat, 26 May 2012 20:01:30 -0400

““I think our daughter’s made-up language ‘pantusois’ is actually the proto-language of Basque.””

- @joshuaschwimmer

Central Park Americana Lens, DC Film, No Flash, Taken with...

Sat, 26 May 2012 10:05:28 -0400

Central Park

Americana Lens, DC Film, No Flash, Taken with Hipstamatic

jayparkinsonmd: It’s a little wonky, but here is the state of...

Thu, 24 May 2012 13:05:49 -0400

jayparkinsonmd:

It’s a little wonky, but here is the state of primary care in America. From the WSJ.

Dr. Hammond’s practice roughly broke even last year, with a profit of $29,261. The practice distributes its profit as bonuses to staff. Dr. Hammond says the practice operates on such a thin cash cushion that if a doctor or one of Westminster’s two physician assistants were gone for more than two months, it wouldn’t be able to make its payroll. Also, the clinic hasn’t been able to pay off around $86,000 in long-term debt, though it didn’t borrow to pay for its recent upgrades, including around $100,000 it spent to install the electronic medical records. “Any day, the bottom can drop out,” he says. “We could be bankrupt next month.”

Last year, the clinic took in $2,115,101 in total revenue and barely inched into the black. In 2010, the practice lost money.

"A first for me: yesterday I sat down next to a patient of mine on the bus. We double-taked, laughed,..."

Wed, 23 May 2012 10:44:01 -0400

“A first for me: yesterday I sat down next to a patient of mine on the bus. We double-taked, laughed, & I snipped off his hospital wristband.”

- @joshuaschwimmer

Robert F. Kennedy Bridge (2) Roboto Glitter Lens, BlacKeys B+W...

Tue, 22 May 2012 18:26:36 -0400

Robert F. Kennedy Bridge (2)

Roboto Glitter Lens, BlacKeys B+W Film, No Flash, Taken with Hipstamatic

Robert F. Kennedy Bridge, NYC Americana Lens, DC Film, No Flash,...

Tue, 22 May 2012 18:11:37 -0400

Robert F. Kennedy Bridge, NYC

Americana Lens, DC Film, No Flash, Taken with Hipstamatic

"The best advice often sounds totally obvious."

Tue, 22 May 2012 17:01:00 -0400

“The best advice often sounds totally obvious.”

- @joshuaschwimmer

Currently reading Design Is a Job.

Tue, 22 May 2012 14:19:40 -0400

Currently reading Design Is a Job.

Surreal shadows from the #solareclipse ekai, instagr.am

Mon, 21 May 2012 18:06:16 -0400

Surreal shadows from the #solareclipse
ekai, instagr.am

Sushipedia completes the “reference” folder. (Taken...

Mon, 21 May 2012 09:10:21 -0400

Sushipedia completes the “reference” folder. (Taken with instagram)

Ukrainian Institute Buckhorst H1 Lens, Float Film, No Flash,...

Sun, 20 May 2012 09:30:11 -0400

Ukrainian Institute

Buckhorst H1 Lens, Float Film, No Flash, Taken with Hipstamatic

5th Avenue, Dusk Helga Viking Lens, Blanko Freedom13 Film, No...

Sat, 19 May 2012 20:36:13 -0400

5th Avenue, Dusk

Helga Viking Lens, Blanko Freedom13 Film, No Flash, Taken with Hipstamatic

Two Hundred Years of Surgery

Sat, 19 May 2012 12:13:02 -0400

Two Hundred Years of Surgery:

It would take a little while for surgeons to discover that the use of anesthesia allowed them time to be meticulous. Despite the advantages of anesthesia, Liston, like many other surgeons, proceeded in his usual lightning-quick and bloody way. Spectators in the operating-theater gallery would still get out their pocket watches to time him. The butler’s operation, for instance, took an astonishing 25 seconds from incision to wound closure. (Liston operated so fast that he once accidentally amputated an assistant’s fingers along with a patient’s leg, according to Hollingham. The patient and the assistant both died of sepsis, and a spectator reportedly died of shock, resulting in the only known procedure with a 300% mortality.)

4 - 5 cups a day? That’s all? No problem.

Sat, 19 May 2012 11:00:24 -0400

4 - 5 cups a day? That’s all? No problem.

Empathy

Thu, 17 May 2012 13:53:31 -0400

Empathy:

Understanding that people don’t buy things because of their demographics — nobody buys something because they’re a 25-30 year old white male with a college degree — but rather, because they go about living their life and some situation arises in which they need to solve a problem… and so they “hire” a product to do the job. This is a big “ah ha” to many folks when they first hear it; but when you really boil it down, the true power of this is in giving people in business a frame with which to exercise empathy. In fact, both Akio Morita of Sony and Steve Jobs were famous for never commissioning market research — instead, they’d just walk around the world watching what people did. They’d put themselves in the shoes of their customers.

Depleting your iPhone’s battery midday is one measure of...

Thu, 17 May 2012 13:08:33 -0400

Depleting your iPhone’s battery midday is one measure of productivity, I guess. (Taken with instagram)

The World Aeropress Championship

Tue, 15 May 2012 08:41:53 -0400

Marco Arment:

The AeroPress recipe (really) at the World AeroPress Championship (yes, really) that took home the Gold AeroPress (these are all real things) this year is remarkably simple.

The World Aeropress Championship Blog:

Charlene’s Method

wet the filter thoroughly

put it on the Aeropress filter

18.30 grams of coffee, grind coarsely

use the normal, non-inverted method

85°C, 250 grams water

about 40 grams of blooming water ( +/- 30 sec)

then poor the rest of the water and press, not pressing all the way

then serve. simple!

"Physicians are specifically trained to look for problems. The purpose of diagnosis is to identify..."

Mon, 14 May 2012 13:48:54 -0400

“Physicians are specifically trained to look for problems. The purpose of diagnosis is to identify what is wrong with a patient’s health. As a consequence, we spend a lot of time thinking and talking about what is ill, incorrect, out of order, defective. Our worldview can shift so that we overlook what is healthy, robust, flourishing, hopeful.”

- Informal Curriculum: Lesson 5.

Ukrainian institute Adler 9009 Lens, Kodot XGrizzled Film, No...

Fri, 11 May 2012 19:47:05 -0400

Ukrainian institute

Adler 9009 Lens, Kodot XGrizzled Film, No Flash, Taken with Hipstamatic

That head-tilt thing when you spot something puzzling? That thing that’s so universal that...

Fri, 11 May 2012 08:03:51 -0400

That head-tilt thing when you spot something puzzling? That thing that’s so universal that both humans and dogs do it? I love that.