Look closely and you can see a baby poking its head up out of the grass, a little ways beyond Mother Grouse and to her left.
Saturday, June 18, 2005
Students, stay out of Starbucks!
Just for fun and edification, here's an interesting little economics lesson on the opportunity cost of drinking too much Starbucks coffee during college or grad school. It would also apply, of course, to ordering take-out pizza or Chinese instead of eating dinner in the dining hall. I was going to say that it applies to beer, too, but I guess the calculator in the article wouldn't work right, since making your own beer at home probably isn't an option.
Thursday, June 16, 2005
Pug Report?
Hey, Caleb, I told my Lexis friends about your Pug in Distress. A couple of them own pugs (one named Violet, two others named Betsey and something or other) and they want to know what happened next. Did she find a home?
Monday, June 13, 2005
Laura got a job!
Everyone should know that Laura is Wendt Inn's newest housekeeper. The lifers don't like me too much, but Anna, Lucy and I have a blast.
HAHAHA!
HAHAHA!
Sunday, June 12, 2005
New cat video
Hi everyone, sorry I haven't been posting on the blog, but I will be from now on. After seeing that last cat video, I was inspired to find more and I found a few, here they are. http://allowe.cillix.nl/Humor/video/StupidCat.mpeg
http://www.funny-city.com/videos/videos/funny_cats.wmv
http://www.funny-city.com/videos/videos/sleepy_kitty.wmv
http://addict3d.org/index.php?page=viewarticle&type=news&ID=5338
The first two are the best ones.
http://www.funny-city.com/videos/videos/funny_cats.wmv
http://www.funny-city.com/videos/videos/sleepy_kitty.wmv
http://addict3d.org/index.php?page=viewarticle&type=news&ID=5338
The first two are the best ones.
A new way to Get the Kitty!
Somebody should show this video clip to Panda. However, as Ann Althouse commented, we are bad people if we laugh.
It's also the lack of rain.
So the pastures grow slowly and the rotation speed slows down and the grass goes to seed and is a) less palatable, b)less nutritious, and c) taller and more difficult for the cows to eat. The sweet stuff is all below the layer of reproductive shoots.
Don't count your milk before it is lactated.
Don't count your milk before it is lactated.
It's not the humanity...
it's the heat. Cows have dropped 8 lbs./cow/day. Bye-bye everyday pickup until the heat quits or more cows come on. I've got 6 due in the next week, so I hope it won't be long.
The weird and the unfortunate...
With a little luck, this will be the first of many interesting veterinary cases I get to talk about. What I'm pretty sure is a german long-haired pointer presented last week with pancreatitis. During the ultrasound, which I assisted, the doctor noticed a strange artifact in the dog's bladder, which looked like a hollow circle with two 1/2-centimeter horizontal lines below it:
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He inserted a syringe to draw some urine, and tapped at the artifact with the needle, which moved freely in response. He injected some fluid into the hollow circle, which appeared on the ultrasound to burst, but may have just lost its circular shape. The current theory is that a catheter, previously inserted in another hospital, was somehow pulled up into the bladder. If the circle did in fact burst, it might be a foley catheter, which has a small balloon attached to it. It may have been a normal catheter, and was just curled up in the bladder. The two horizontal lines are both parts of the same catheter, and form a connection that can't be seen by the ultrasound. The pancreatitis is being treated, and once the dog is healthier it will be able to be anesthetized and will probably get its bladder scoped.
I'm gonna try to get copies of the actual ultrasound pictures, which I'm sure the doctor has on his computer and would be happy to share. Detailed images of one of the horizontal lines shows thick outer walls and a more hollow center, definitely suggesting a catheter. That's the only theory the doctors have, that I know of, even though the Cornell hospital (where the dog last was) denies it could have happened. I'll keep you posted.
By the way, anyone want to adopt an overweight female pug, who might undergo a tracheotomy? Her owner couldn't handle the breathing problems, which made the weight problem worse (couldn't excercise) and vice versa, so she opted for euthanasia instead of surgery. Dr. Ross took pity on it, and now we have a hospital pug looking for adoption. The tracheotomy might not be necessary if a hardcore diet and regular, non-stressing excercise work. I'd be lying if I said I hadn't thought about adopting it myself.
___(_)___
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He inserted a syringe to draw some urine, and tapped at the artifact with the needle, which moved freely in response. He injected some fluid into the hollow circle, which appeared on the ultrasound to burst, but may have just lost its circular shape. The current theory is that a catheter, previously inserted in another hospital, was somehow pulled up into the bladder. If the circle did in fact burst, it might be a foley catheter, which has a small balloon attached to it. It may have been a normal catheter, and was just curled up in the bladder. The two horizontal lines are both parts of the same catheter, and form a connection that can't be seen by the ultrasound. The pancreatitis is being treated, and once the dog is healthier it will be able to be anesthetized and will probably get its bladder scoped.
I'm gonna try to get copies of the actual ultrasound pictures, which I'm sure the doctor has on his computer and would be happy to share. Detailed images of one of the horizontal lines shows thick outer walls and a more hollow center, definitely suggesting a catheter. That's the only theory the doctors have, that I know of, even though the Cornell hospital (where the dog last was) denies it could have happened. I'll keep you posted.
By the way, anyone want to adopt an overweight female pug, who might undergo a tracheotomy? Her owner couldn't handle the breathing problems, which made the weight problem worse (couldn't excercise) and vice versa, so she opted for euthanasia instead of surgery. Dr. Ross took pity on it, and now we have a hospital pug looking for adoption. The tracheotomy might not be necessary if a hardcore diet and regular, non-stressing excercise work. I'd be lying if I said I hadn't thought about adopting it myself.
Dave Roberts, the classiest guy around...
Exerpts from an interview in Thursday's Cleveland Plain Dealer:
Quote:
DMW: As Mueller came to the plate, how did the check-in go at first with coach Lynn Jones?
DR: [Third base coach] Dale Sveum initially flashed the bunt sign for Bill, assuming we'd sacrifice. Terry hadn't sent it. I told coach Jones, "No, no, no, I'm going to steal." [Jones] got the bunt sign taken off and said, "OK, you're on your own."
DMW: As you know now, though, you barely beat it. Rivera was cat- quick to the plate, Jorge Posada made a terrific throw, and Derek Jeter applied the slap-tag a fraction of a second after your hands touched the bag.
DR: I didn't realize how close it was until I watched the video. Their time from pitcher to catcher to second was as fast as we had seen them for any pitch all year.
DMW: Eight months later, has the historical significance of the steal, which teammates have cited as the key to the title run, sunk in?
DR: It's only begun to hit me. There are so many Red Sox fans all over, and they recognize me and offer congratulations. For us to rewrite history the way we did, and for me to contribute to the team that finally won another championship for the Red Sox, is awesome. I wish everyone who put on a uniform could play for the Red Sox at some point, because the fans are so passionate.
DMW: Yet the Red Sox traded you to the Padres in the off-season. Why?
DR: I wanted the chance to play every day, and I wasn't going to get it with the Red Sox. I'm grateful to [General Manager] Theo Epstein for finding a place where I could.
Quote:
DMW: As Mueller came to the plate, how did the check-in go at first with coach Lynn Jones?
DR: [Third base coach] Dale Sveum initially flashed the bunt sign for Bill, assuming we'd sacrifice. Terry hadn't sent it. I told coach Jones, "No, no, no, I'm going to steal." [Jones] got the bunt sign taken off and said, "OK, you're on your own."
DMW: As you know now, though, you barely beat it. Rivera was cat- quick to the plate, Jorge Posada made a terrific throw, and Derek Jeter applied the slap-tag a fraction of a second after your hands touched the bag.
DR: I didn't realize how close it was until I watched the video. Their time from pitcher to catcher to second was as fast as we had seen them for any pitch all year.
DMW: Eight months later, has the historical significance of the steal, which teammates have cited as the key to the title run, sunk in?
DR: It's only begun to hit me. There are so many Red Sox fans all over, and they recognize me and offer congratulations. For us to rewrite history the way we did, and for me to contribute to the team that finally won another championship for the Red Sox, is awesome. I wish everyone who put on a uniform could play for the Red Sox at some point, because the fans are so passionate.
DMW: Yet the Red Sox traded you to the Padres in the off-season. Why?
DR: I wanted the chance to play every day, and I wasn't going to get it with the Red Sox. I'm grateful to [General Manager] Theo Epstein for finding a place where I could.
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