Yes, Cell Phones are Bad for Hospital Equipment, Too

Dur­ing Ange­la’s stay in the Labor and Deliv­ery ward at St. Mary’s, we were required to turn off our cell phones at the doors to that par­tic­u­lar area of the third floor. Based on my pre­vi­ous edu­ca­tion in that cell phones real­ly can inter­rupt air­plane nav­i­ga­tion equip­ment, I did so with­out com­plaint. Well, it appears… Con­tin­ue read­ing Yes, Cell Phones are Bad for Hos­pi­tal Equip­ment, Too

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Fixed The Washer, What’s Next?

With­in less than three weeks of our daugh­ter being born, our oth­er­wise reli­able front-load­­ing wash­ing machine start­ed hav­ing some prob­lems. The wash­er would­n’t spin the clothes – leav­ing us to hand-wring out large piles of slop­ping wet laun­dry. How­ev­er, with some inves­ti­ga­tion and help, the wash­er I was able to fix the wash­er myself (as… Con­tin­ue read­ing Fixed The Wash­er, What’s Next?

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War on White

I noticed some­thing after this after­noon’s Apple “The Beat Goes On” event in S.F.: as of today, Apple no longer makes a white iPod. The icon of fash­ion­able tech­nol­o­gy for near­ly the past six years is dead. Per­son­al­ly, I always liked what Apple had done with white, but I sup­pose alu­minum is the new white.

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