Age of Empires

Kitchen, Fly, and Ivan

vs.

Maurice, Napoleon, and Isabella

Not many humans playing this time, mostly computers playing Hard. Isabella resigned after about 70 minutes game time. Fly resigned and went to bed after an hour or two. I defeated Maurice about 10 minutes later and went to bed. In the morning, I see that Ivan defeated Napoleon in our absence. I was still in it and moved up a level.

Who does Madelyn look like?

It looks like the same expression to me (with 30 years difference in available photographic technology).

Remembering the Old Timers

I was looking through the photos and thinking that these couches are like old friends. Do you remember them fondly?

First baby, first couch.


This was one tough couch that survived the 60's and then crossed the plains.

Second baby, couch in disguise.

Second couch, and a wonderful coat.


I think that we even paid money for this couch.

This is the 70's, can you tell?


In the future, when TV remotes were invented, this couch would suck them down into its big, inaccessible hollow spaces.

Third couch and a bunch of kids.

Past its prime, but still hanging in there.

Daylight Saving Time 2007 (Y2K7)

Congress has decided that we should all get up an hour early tomorrow. I kind of wonder who is making money from this little experiment. The one thing that I have noticed so far is that the summer gasoline prices are coming about three weeks early. And it is just an experiment: the Energy Policy Act said that they would evaluate the "energy savings" and possibly change it back.

We have spent a few months planning and preparing for this computer software change. Every system and application seems to have a different way of computing wall clock time. Windows, Exchange, Java... Kronos, Exchange, PowerChart... All this work patching and upgrading systems and on Monday everyone else (hopefully) will say, "What's the big deal, nothing happened!"

But even yesterday, vendors were giving us notice that their software is not ready. The GE PACS software has their own copy of Java that needs to be patched on workstations. I think that GE was already trying to tell us about this one, but the critical applications that are closest to actual patient care are supported by Clinical Engineering, not IST.

I've recently learned a few things about time zones and Java... but who is Olson?