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Well, I’m on call, so I’m just chillin’ and catching up on some charting… and reading… some interesting tidbits:

• The Oakville Waterfront Festival is this weekend. May be tough to go with my newborn little son… so maybe next year.
• A little story illustrating the point that functional disorders are diagnoses of exclusion.
• A urine test for appendicitis? Would be useful! (via WhiteCoat)
• Steve Novella reviews the history of chiropractic – wow, it’s really just woo, isn’t it?
  

  In the past 100 years, there has been very little research conducted into the basic principles of straight chiropractic. There is no research that indicates the existence of innate intelligence or that such a force plays any role in health and disease. Further, the evidence strongly suggests that chiropractic subluxations are a figment of the chiropractic imagination. And it also seems that spinal manipulation is not capable of realigning the vertebra of the spine.

• And a legal analysis of the recent HIV non-disclosure criminal cases & the public health implications. Waiting for the next article… I don’t necessarily agree with the author but it’s interesting reading.
• And this just disgusts me: Supreme Court declares strip search of 13-year old unconstitutional. You need a Supreme Court to tell you strip searching a 13-year old girl based on a classmate’s accusation that she has IBUPROFEN, without calling her parents, or police, is a bad idea? I’m shocked, but not surprised… sadly…

I finally forced myself to go back to doing some Lindy Hop. I sooo miss dancing more often — especially Lindy. It’s such a charming and fun dance… and best of all my fiancee came out with me!

I knew about Hammer Hoppers even before moving to Hamilton, but only managed to sneak out to one of their lessons a few months ago. I was in the middle of a brutal rotation at the time so I couldn’t make it out to the Wednesday night lessons consistently… but now I’m on Family Medicine, which is certainly busy but the schedule is at least predictable.

So… yay! Lindy! New session just started this past Wednesday but if you’re interested I’m sure you can still join in the fun. If you’re wondering what it’s all about… come out to the Pepper Jack Cafe this Monday (July 9) night for some live music and dancing!

The Evil Dead Musical, that’s what — my fiancee and I went to see it this weekend. What a riot!! Blood and gore and just a fun night all around. It helps if you’ve seen the Evil Dead movies — I saw only Army of Darkness, and got enough of the jokes to laugh along with everyone else when Ash finally utters such classics as “Good. Bad. I’m the one with the gun.”

Eerily enough, the producer of the show knows both my fiancee and her brother (they went to high school together). Small world…

Check out the official site, they have a bunch of clips from the show. It’s on for another 6 weeks (at least, they may get extended again…)

Brad Templeton has a short blog post about the growing size and power of DNA profiling. It’s a little scary to think we may be heading for a world not unlike Gattaca…

Canada, in contrast to the US, tends to have much stronger privacy legislation. Unfortunately, it is still woefully inadequate. Along those lines, there’s a talk right here in Hamilton at the Art Gallery entitled “Privacy Under Attack?”. It’s at 6pm on Thursday, March 22nd. I’ll try and be there… maybe I’ll see some of you out there.

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I guess I should’ve posted about this before, but if you’re reading this now and have nothing to do, come out to Daffydil 2007. I have nothing to do with the show but it’s from my old med school and since I’m in Toronto anyway dealing with wedding stuff, I thought it’d be fun to go… maybe I’ll see some of you there!

Michael Geist, a law professor from Ottawa U who writes about a lot of Canadian copyright legislation, etc, is coming to Toronto! He’s speaking at Hart House on March 30th. I’ll be there, it should be very interesting! Check out his website for links to radio shows etc. that he’s appeared on.

Hi everyone!

I’m back from Cancun, where I spent a nice toasty 10 days chilling on the beach. I never remember to take many pics but what I do have is in the gallery… Enjoy!

Also wanted to wish everyone a happy new year. Having a bit of a bash tomorrow (I guess today.. look at the time!) to celebrate. Drop by if you like; we’ll probably be out to dinner at least until 9-9:30ish though so come afterwards. :)

Happy Holidays!

Hey look, some interesting stuff is going on this weekend in Toronto. And best of all, it’s free. I may go to a bunch of Jazz events here, at Yonge & St. Clair this weekend. Well, if I don’t go camping.

My bro and I will probably do a little camping trip either this weekend or next… out near Ottawa. He’s waiting to hear back from some friends of his as to which weekend is better. I hope it’s next weekend. :)