Sunday, October 24, 2004

On Our Way Back We stopped at a rest area on the Parkway to get some coffee. When we came out there was a woman screaming for help saying that she couldn't wake her husband in the back of her car. He'd been throwing up and had laid down because he wasn't feeling well. Apparently, she'd been unable to wake him for about 10 minutes. We called for an ambulance and my brother-in-law found a paramedic who just happened to be in the fast food restaurant. He started CPR until the ambulance came. I don't think the guy made it. He seemed to have been dead for a while before the woman tried to wake him. I don't think I ever felt so helpless watching the EMT's work on him with his wife screaming and pleading all the while. I didn't know what to say or do for her. It just makes you think. File under Stuff That Don't Fit Anywhere Else. 4:23:02 PM

	Tuesday, October 19, 2004

My New Look I was getting tired of the old design, especially the color. I decided to go in the opposite direction and brighten up the look of this weblog. I think that the next step will be to change the name. I haven't been happy with The Thoughts of Hondonius Aurelius for a while now. It just goes to show you that you shouldn't pick your blog's name after drinking too many pints of ale. I'm also thinking of moving this blog to a different service, maybe TypePad, when my Radio Userland subscription is up in December. Now, off to another Yankee vs. Red Sox cliffhanger. File under Stuff That Don't Fit Anywhere Else. 8:23:13 PM

	Monday, October 11, 2004

Playing Catch Up I haven't had any time to post or even to keep up with the blogs that I usually read. My wife just had gall bladder surgery which was complicated by the fact that she does not tolerate anesthesia very well. In fact, when she had our son by c-section her breathing and her heart stopped. That's why we went to New York Presbyterian for this surgery and got a top notch anesthesist. She's been in a lot of pain recently because she can't take the usually post-op pain killers either. But, she's getting better day by day and will be her old self in no time. I also want to send a get well to Lauren who I see just had some surgery of her own. File under Stuff That Don't Fit Anywhere Else. 11:19:59 PM

	Sunday, September 05, 2004

Progression "There is no steady unretracing progress in this life; we do not advance through fixed gradations, and at the last one pause: -- through infancy's unconscious spell, boyhood's thoughtless faith, adolescence' doubt, (the common doom), then scepticism, then disbelief, resting at last in manhood's pondering repose of If." -- Herman Melville, Moby Dick File under Stuff That Don't Fit Anywhere Else. 5:50:22 PM

	Thursday, September 02, 2004

A Feeble Attempt In a feeble and shamless attempt to have this weblog banned at Panera, I offer the following from the Scotsman: IT’S a scientific fact: human brains are programmed for orgasms - with or without the actual sex act. Perhaps nobody listening to football commentators will be surprised by the news, claimed to have been proven by one of the lecturers at this week’s Orkney International Science Festival. Dr Robert Lomas - a solid-state physicist and an internationally known author on religious symbolism - says that evolution has allowed humans to develop the sex-free orgasm. "It’s the same reward mechanism that encourages us to share our DNA," said Dr Lomas. "But it can be achieved without the physical act of copulation." Only humans have this power to induce mental ecstasy, and it’s a complex set of responses that can be achieved by learned behavioural patterns or triggered by hyper-arousal during peak experiences, he says. "At times of hyper-arousal, our brains are designed to freeload on the behavioural reward that encourages us to reproduce," he said. "And that is another name for orgasm." File under SEX SEX SEX SEX SEX Stuff That Don't Fit Anywhere Else. 7:23:23 PM

	Saturday, August 28, 2004

Garden State of Mind My wife and I checked out Zach Braff's brilliant film Garden State tonight. If it's playing near you, go out and see it. It's going to be a tough act to follow for him. Don't expect to hear any Springsteen or see any scenes filmed at the Jersey Shore though. Not one scene in the Paramus Park mall either, though there is a funny reference to an unbuilt mall. Well worth the price of admission. File under Stuff That Don't Fit Anywhere Else. 12:30:50 AM

	Tuesday, August 24, 2004

More Bang For The Buck I'll bet that Frank J. can't wait to get his hands on one of these:    File under Once You've Got Them By The Balls Their Hearts and Minds Will Follow Stuff That Don't Fit Anywhere Else. 9:10:01 PM