Today's run started at the beach and was a little warm at 75 degrees or so. Great day to be at the beach! Sorry, everywhere else!
Spike ,'Same Time, Same Place'
Natter 65: Speed Limit Enforced by Aircraft
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Congrats, bon, you crazy running lady!
Youch, 75 is warm for that stuff. Congrats!
Ahrg. Fucked up a nail. Can't do anything about it tonight, but will have to redo it. Today keeps giving.
bon, congrats on the half!
I have felt like shit all day. Fever for most of the day.Ugh.
Yay pneumatic tubes! Gone with the wind: Tubes are whisking samples across hospital
Every day, 7,000 times a day, Stanford Hospital staff turn to pneumatic tubes, cutting-edge technology in the 19th century, for a transport network that the Internet and all the latest Silicon Valley wizardry can’t match: A tubular system to transport a lab sample across the medical center in the blink of an eye.
In four miles of tubing laced behind walls from basement to rooftop, the pneumatic tube system shuttles foot-long containers carrying everything from blood to medication. In a hospital the size of Stanford, where a quarter-mile’s distance might separate a tissue specimen from its destination lab, making good time means better medicine.
“Approximately 70 percent of the information on a patient’s chart is lab data,” said David Myrick, quality coordinator for the hospital’s clinical labs. “We conduct about 8 million tests a year, serving thousands of patients. We are going full blast, 24-7, at the highest level of testing. The tube system is part of a complex chain of events that ultimately give doctors the essential lab results they need to make decisions about our patients.”
I LOVE pneumatic tubes. So cool.
Bacon-Chicken-Narwhal
What is that, a recipe?
I've long wished for pneumatic tubes in my office.
450th Simpsons episode? Jesus.
Was any of the football on NBC? And if so, did they run late at all?