Another Nedroid!

I love this guy's stuff.  It always makes me happy!  Go to his site and read the backlogs--it's easily worth an afternoon of your time.

Three mostly unrelated things

1:  I don't recall whether or not I shared this on the blog (and couldn't see after a cursory search), but I set a goal in January to read 100 books this year.  It has been a perfect year to attempt this with long bus rides during my last semester of school and a pretty laid back summer.  We'll see how fall goes...

So the good new is that today I finished book number 50--that's right, halfway through my challenge, and there are still three more weeks before the year is half over.  I'm ahead of schedule, which is probably a good thing.  I calculated a pace of two books per week to meet my goal, and that will be harder to keep up once medical school starts.  More med school in a moment.  Book 50 was a good one: Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians.  You can see my review here (this goes to my goodreads profile, you'll need to scroll down once you get there).

2:  Thanks for all of your thoughts about the song of the moment.  I'm glad that those who commented are in favor of it ('cept you, Kel. I have my eye on you and your different music tastes...).  I think I'm going to try to get it back up by next Wednesday.  I appreciate the RSS issue being brought up.  I'm thinking of leaving the player at the top of the blog like before (optional, as always), but need a good way to let those who read the blog through Google Reader or other feed readers to know when the song has changed and what it is.  My proposed solution: indicate the current song of the moment at the end of each post that I put up.  Those who care to hear it can then visit the blog to listen, and won't need to bother checking in vain if it hasn't been updated.  Thoughts?

3:  Way back in item number one, I promised more med school stuff.  Here it is.  I'm wanting to chronicle the medical school experience, and want to do it with a blog.  However, because of patient confidentiality issues I probably either need a privacy barrier or to blog anonymously.  I like having my blog public.  I also don't think I would be able to maintain a personal blog and a medical school blog--I don't want to spread myself too thin.  But maybe if I compromise and just do one post per week on each?  Dunno.  Once again, I request your thoughts.  What would you like to see?  We'll probably revisit this topic later after I have cogitated more on it.

Music Question

Well, Google changed the way their webhosting works--instead of Google pages, they have developed Google sites.  Still easy to make a webpage for oneself, but I haven't been able to find a way to host some of my files there like I had done before.  This is relevant because this was how I provided the song of the moment on my blog (before the redesign).  It stopped working with the Google transition, and so there has been no song of the moment for some time now.

So here's the question: does anyone care?  Is that a feature that anyone enjoyed (or would have if it had been updated more frequently)?  I have a couple of ideas brewing for how to re-institute it (Dropbox or gDocs being the two biggies), though it wouldn't look any different than before.  Would any particular change(s) make it better / more user-friendly / cooler / more used?

Leave me your thoughts in the comments.  I may even bring it back if no-one ever used it, as I enjoy spreading a little music love (even if it's just to myself).

Best Soap Ever!

Saw this on one of the blogs that I follow.  How could I not love it?  It's soap that looks like a culture plate!  Too cool!

(h/t to Gizmodo, one of my favorite tech blogs)

A couple of funny videos

Now that it's May, it's time for another post!  Specifically one of a couple of videos that have made me laugh quite a bit lately.

This one was shown to me by my little bro.  "That's it, hehe!"



This one comes from a buddy at work named Steve ("How 'bout 'Steve-zee'?").  I just love it.  Please enjoy.

Something from the bucket list

So there is something that I have been wanting to do for a long time, and tonight I finally bit the bullet and did it.  Yup, I shaved my head completely bald.  Bic'd (Bicced / Bicked?) it.  My hair grows fast enough that it should be back to normal by the time that we head to Ohio.  Anything on your own bucket lists you'd like to share?

Anywho--here's where we started:

Whoops.  I mean here is where we started:

Here's halfway through the first buzz with the clippers (my potential stopping point for next time?), and channeling my warrior spirit in the second:

And here it is all finished:

Time for a change

So it's been a while since my last post, and I'm thinking that it might at least be partly due the fact that I haven't changed what my blog looks like in the entire time that I've had it.  So--I wanna change it, but I'm not exactly sure how I want to change it, what it should look like, etc.  Please feel free to suggest things.  And maybe I'll end up posting more (I probably will, but just needed a little more time which has finally arrived with a bit of a lull this week in my classes).