Hey Guys and Gals!

Want to contribute to a good cause and watch me vainly try and grow facial hair?

Well you can by donating to Movember under my name. Or you can donate by cash or cheque and I'll just fill out the form.

My Movember page

Thanks,
Albert

THAT explains this oh so well... I was bored and wandering through Flickr today when I came across the following:





At the time I was looking at those three, the photographer hadn't added any tags, and I am living in a pop culture void, so this Rally to Restore Sanity was completely off my radar. ... and therefore a protest with those ^ signs in DC made little sense to me. I mean, it makes perfect sense, it's about time people actually said something about the nonsense coming from the tea party, but to have that many people organised enough to make signs that say "this is a sign", well... that takes a bigger force than I could think of...


Seriously, this is a lot of people.



Apparently Where's Waldo was being played at the same time... there were multiple Waldos in the crowd, from the photos...

Good grief, Par. $5000 for two tests? Let me guess, there are also yearly membership dues to be paid, aren't there?

What a racket.

Glad to hear the tests are designed to let you all pass, though. I mean, what with med school being so intensely rigorous, it's nice to know there's an academic break at the end of the road, even if it's a financial drain.

Advance apologies to all vegetarians and sensitive viewers...

I visit a website called Cake Wrecks that is essentially a blog that, well, shows off cake-wrecks. Like train wrecks, but all cakey. Bakery disasters of epic proportions like poorly executed icing adventures, mistranslated inscriptions, edible photo paper, and then just really awful looking cakes.

They have this whole series of baby shower themed cakes. ... like these. The really godawful one is sandwiched in the middle, just so you're forewarned.







I don't understand the fascination with babies and pregnant bellies as cakes. ... or meatloaf. ugh. meatloaf baby. Onions brown in the oven, too, so those eyes are gonna be creepy.

Yes, the exam is finished, hopefully successfully (results available in a mere 2 months!)

Also, it is the Medical Council of Canada which charges $2000 for a test; a test which the overwhelming majority of Canadian graduates pass (in no small part because Canadian universities spend a good deal of time preparing us for such an exam).

Moreover, the test covers general medicine but can only be taken at least one year after the beginning of residency, when many residents training to become specialists are at least 1 year and more likely 2-3 years away from their last experiences managing deliveries and dealing with children and they will never have to do either of those things again.

Who says the system makes sense?

Now, just one more $3000 test left in May. Woo!

Don't worry Albert. I'm sure most women aren't looking for a man who's as reliable as their dishwasher either. ;) They're just dumb pie charts, after all. ... and I also don't think you're supposed to combine different pies and charts like that.

Though, I was amazed at the number of leather jacket references. Not all leather jacket-wearers are scumbags. I have a fair amount of evidence to support that.

I don't think those chart are super accurate or are they?...

I usually if the weather permits wear a leather jacket and drive a small car, what is that suppose to mean?

I thought someone here might enjoy this

So, uh, judging by the, uh, bathing beauty you posted, Par, I'm guessing one of three things has happened within the last three days:

a) You survived your $2000 test with your sense of humour still intact

2) Zantac has taken over your life (ack, please no!)

iii) You have escaped to the beach and are attempting a new life that somehow involves cross-dressing men in surprisingly nice-looking pink one-piece bathing suits.


Here's hoping it was the first one. ... by the way, who charges $2000 for a test? Were you applying to join the ol' boy's club? ;)