FB: Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[repete]

LAB,
In all these years of reading d3, you are the one exception to the players-shouldn't post-rule. I've truly enjoyed your level-headed and insightul remarks. Best of luck to you and your wife -- and in a few years she'll be able to buy you a huge Tivo to make up for the current inconvenience. Thanks for sharing your thoughts, 9.

ROR,
Enlist . . . and then it's ``Rest well, America.''

[D O.C.]

Just read the journal of Jim Cella from the Concordia website.
Nicely done.

[Kilted Rat]

Kilted- as a Med school student, what do you think of the new doctor shows, Grey's Anatomy or House.  My wife is about to start P.A. school this summer and is completely addicted to them so I lose my TV on Tuesday and Sunday nights.  But, they actually are pretty good shows.

LAB,

First, congrats to your wife! PA school is very difficult to get in to... arguably harder than med school in many places (Twin Cities being one of those places). Best of luck to her in her pursuits!

I've only seen Grey's a few times, it's a pretty decent show and accurate as far as I can tell. We used Netter's anatomy book so I'm a bit biased against that one from the start.

House is an entertaining show, but trying to learn much about medicine from it is like trying to learn how to deer hunt by attending a Blue Collar Comedy tour show. He always has the oddball cases that are mentioned in school only because they pop up on boards, most clinicians have never seen them and don't know anyone who has short of a national expert in a field. It never ceases to amaze me when he accurately diagnoses a pathology in a patient that has a 1 in 10,000,000 incidence in the general population.... he's good I guess.

My personal favorite is ER. It is the most realistic (aside from planes crashing right outside the ER) of the medical shows on TV. My favorite part of the show is to try to pick up the mistakes the new residents make before the attending physicians correct them (like looking at a chest Xray backward).


Basically, they are good shows but their primary purpose is to entertain, not to educate. If they wanted to educate, they'd be on PBS. They're pretty accurate for the most part and relatively true to life. They're fun to watch once you have a bit of knowledge to see if you can pick out the clues and come up with the diagnosis and treatment before they say it.


Just my 2 cents.

[Johnnie Red]

ROR, be thankful you are not getting the emails with the videos of Paris Hilton. I suppose that if we are going to get the novelty wrestling up to Collegeville next fall, we could also invite Paris and square her off against RedHotBennie in a beauty pageant. As Dusty would say, developing....

[SJU92#57]

Cobbernation...please don't make us johnnies cringe like that....please refrain from suggesting that Jimmy will take over for John....wouldn't be good for the program. Top canidates would be Gary Fasching or Mike Grant. Thank you and have a nice day

[DuffMan]

MR,
My lab looks exactly like they show on TV.

[Kilted Rat]

If you put a bit of water and some dry ice in an eppendorf tube and close the cap quickly and throw if under someone's chair, as the dry ice melts and releases CO₂, it will create a lot of pressure (relatively speaking compared to the small tube) and the top will pop open rather loudly scaring the crap out of fellow chem/bio dorks.

Eppendorf tubes look like this:

[SUMMIT!!!!!]

Wow, the military must really be hard up.  I just got this email:

Interested in scholarships to pay for college?
     It's not too late to get a ROTC scholarship.
     The deadline is approaching - Request For More Information - there's no 
     obligation!

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Air Force ROTC has scholarships that cover up to 100% of your college tuition.

I'm thinking about it...

my tax dollars teaching you to fly?  Only if I get a video of you handling the simulator

[DuffMan]

KR,
Yes, that is quite fun.  We used to experiment with different types of tubes to see what would provide the biggest bang.  Also fun, dry ice in a test tube, then a cork.  You can shoot the cork quite a ways.  And a glove filled with some dry ice and water is always fun, too.

[tafkaw]

Wow, you guys are dorks.

[DuffMan]

Shouldn't you be finger-painting or something?

[tafkaw]

It's silent-reading time.  We might cut out some paper snowflakes later though. 

[Tezbaseball]

Wow, you guys are dorks.

Not dorks their geeks....lol

[DuffMan]

Who asked you, townie?

[desertcat1]

not yet he is just a wanta be townie for now

go cats