http://science.nasa.gov/Realtime/jtrack/3d/JTrack3D.html
A 3D tracker of satellites orbiting the earth. Noice.
October 2006
Monthly Archive
Good news! As far as heart, aorta et al goes, I’m reasonably healthy. And now I have the coolest 3D images to boot! I write about technology each and every day, but you really start to understand how truly wonderful it can be when you look at its medical applications. The specialist said that they can create 3D models that allow them to operate remotely. At the risk of sounding like I’m some old timer, when I was operated on Xray was pretty much it. Ultrasound too, but it was all pretty new and expensive. The images they can get these days are insane.
Anyway, Doc says my aorta looks good. I have a bicuspid aortic valve in my heart - it has two flaps instead of three - which has some calcification on it. In all probability, it will need to be replaced at some stage and I’ll have to go onto blood thinners. But for the moment it’s all good! Yeeha!
I already have an appointment for another echo next year - just to keep an eye on everything. So I’m going to forget about it all until then.
I will try to scan the awesome heart pics tho…was almost worth my 700 bucks!
I’m completely lovin the fact that Channel 10 ditched some crap reality TV show about a chick who’s desperate to get married and replaced it with Futurama reruns. Nice one guys! It’s highly ironic that Futurama was a show ahead of its time and its potential has really only just been realised. Shame it came too late. I’ve already seen most episodes at least thrice.
The Simpson’s on the other hand, has years and years of back catalogue. Which is why this site is so awesome:
http://www.snpp.com/lists.html
Brilliant.
Why? Because they cut off the final five minutes of TV drama, Greys Anatomy, on Monday night. It was a season finale so there was a lotta stuff going down, and they messed it up!
Grrr. Not. Happy. Jan.
And networks wonder why people are turning to torrents like there’s no tomorrow.
Looks like I’m off on Monday to a taping of an Australian Idol eviction show. Woohoo! I’m really hoping I’m there to see Ricky get the chop….he’s so overdue imo.
Speaking of Australian Idol, if you get a chance to see an artist by the name of Kate Miller-Heidke, please, please do so. She’s brilliant; simply amazing voice, plus she’s very funny. She’s written a hilarious song about Idol. I saw her on the Broad tour (another thing that I meant to post about and didn’t…me bad…it was awesome…made me realise how talented Aussie gals are…but I digress).
Some links:
http://www.myspace.com/katemillerheidke
http://www.katemillerheidke.com
Check out the lyrics section…I don’t think she’s released the Idol song yet…she just performs it live I think.
With the exception of a bicuspid aortic valve (which should be tricuspid), the ultrasound guy says I have the heart of a 20 year old! Woohooin. This bodes very well. All things going to plan, I’ll have my last doctor appointment tomozza, during which the cardiologist will tell me that all the other tests look good and he doesn’t want to see me for another 10 years.
For the past 10 days we’ve been living in the mountains, fishing in crystal clear mountain streams, getting up and going to bed early, away from all things tech related. Bliss. I’m not that fond of the city, to tell the truth. For starters, I can smell the smog here, whereas country air smells of pine needles and eucalypts and lovely things. For another, I don’t wake up at 4am each day with asthma. And it’s quiet. No people. I love that.
Remember when the internet was shiny and new and you could find genuinely cool stuff on it? Then it got all corporatised and boring and full of marketing gumph. Well, the lovely thing about the internet right now is that, for a brief moment in time, it’s a little bit like those early days. It won’t stay that way, I’m guesssing - poor old YouTube is already copping a beating in the press for its lack of revenue stream. But man, it’s a lovely ride.
Bugger social networking and the like. I really don’t care what some angsty teenager ate for breakfast. (And I’m sure they don’t care much for what I have to say either.) But check out this simply awesome piece of footage of Ike and Tina Turner.
I was actually trying to find footage of Nutbush City Limits - which I did, and it too was awesome. But this one is just a gem. It’s very early footage (1965) from a movie called The Big T.N.T Show.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ddvzkfe_CiU
