Paras, have you ever seen anyone use the "isolated forearm" technique when administering a general anesthetic? According to the BBC (which I was listening to on the radio last night) it's a simple method for determining if a patient has "woken" after supposedly being put under and then administered a muscle relaxant. 1 in 600 patients will awaken during surgery and it is usually unkown to the doctors. Patients usually suffer from post-traumatic stress in these situations as they can feel every incision being performed but are unable to move. Apparently the Isolated Forearm technique works like this: you administer all your anesthetics and everything to prepare the patient for surgery, but before you administer the muscle relaxant that essentially paralyzes the patient (obviously necessary because you don't want the patient twitching or moving and fucking up your cuts), you put a torniquet on their forearm which hinders the muscle relaxant from fully taking effect on the fingers. The doctor then simply asks the patient to move their fingers if they can hear him/her. For such a simple process, doctors (in england anyway) almost never use the technique, thinking (incorrectly) that monitoring heart rate will allow them to tell if a patient has come awake. Apparently machines that test brain activity are equally fallible. A torniquet trumps them all.

This is all according to the BBC anyhow. I make no claims to the truth of these statements myself. I just thought maybe you'd be interested in this technique if you had never encountered it before. I certainly thought it was interesting.

Let it never be said that I will not at least acknowledge views that differ from my own.

VegetariansAreEvil.com:

Vegetarian children often fill up on just sweets

Children hate being vegetarians. They are forced into this sickly state by evil parents who are more concerned with the well-being of animals and fish than the health of their own children and even grandchildren. Many vegetarian children have simply had meat and sometimes even fish removed from their diets. They don't always eat more vegetables than non-vegetarian children, but they do eat significantly more sweets. Very often, these sweets are packaged to appeal to idiot vegetarian parents who think that granola coated in chocolate is somehow healthier than a Snickers bar.

When vegetarians bring their children over for dinner, you can see this for yourself, the way the children are a bit solemn when the other children happily eat their portion of meat, but then they hungrily sit and lick their lips and can hardly wait for the desserts, in which they overindulge and eat far more cakes and sweets than any of the other children.

See this for yourself when you dine with vegetarian friends and their stunted, malnourished offspring.

and by "here" some poetry, i mean "hear" some poetry...

E.D. Blodgett at Hulbert's tonight! At 7pm! Come here some poetry!

Par the awesomeness of that video just made my head assplode! (hmm... maybe using that word a little too much)

Tony vs. Paul:

Yes, we really did jump all those times.

Hockey @ Westbrook. Today @ 1:00.

Happy Birthday, Leo. (Is that belated now?)

Also, You have to burn the rope.

Happy Birthday Leo!!!!

Happy Birthday Leo!!!