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February 04, 2004
Seminal nuclear family issues and more....
Long day into night with no posts. My heat quit last night and I nearly shivered to death and didn't sleep much. Finally got repair people here, which set me back half a day, and an evening engagement kept me out until late. I am proud to state that I have a new nickname -- "Another Bill"! Read that teasing, cryptic puzzler (along with a collection of some very fine posts) at today's (well, it's still "today") CARNIVAL OF THE VANITIES. Now I know why they call it a carnival.... Check out this stereotype-smasher.
1. BBC still counting SPERM! Just days after the exploding sperm whale report, the BBC is now reporting that mice are now producing monkey sperm, and that human sperm may not be far away. Come what may? My generic mouse (standard Microsoft variety) is not emitting anything yet. 2. Life extended before birth! Twin human babies produced by 12-year-old embryos have just been born. If these embryos were people all along, it is too insolent to ask whether they'll have the right to vote in 8 years? 3. Your body as a nuclear-free zone? This report (found at winds of change) gave me a warm, glowing feeling. The exam included a stress test with injection of a radioactive isotope -- most likely technetium or thallium -- which helps illuminate the heart muscle during exercise. The doctor told him he passed.While I am glad to know that radioactivity is being detected, I am reminded of the case of a relative who received Strontium as late-term prostate cancer therapy. The stuff worked quite well (best result the radiologists had seen) but he reached a point where they refused to give him any more. My relative asked them why not, saying that because he was dying he would gladly sign a waiver of all liability. What he failed to understand (and what had to be explained to him as delicately as possible) was that the liability was not the sort that could be waived. He was given an official sheet which explained that his urine and his feces were now radioactive waste, that even after he died embalmers and coroners would be at risk of contamination by working on him! No more Strontium for him! Ha ha ha! (There are federal dosage guidelines, but I have no idea how to interpret them....) Now the poor man is in the ground. Patient radioactivity, of course, is not a new issue. -- certainly nothing to be impatient about. (I wonder whether the cemetery is in violation of applicable federal laws.....) posted by Eric on 02.04.04 at 05:14 PM
Comments
Thanks for the linklovin' eric, glad you enjoyed your visit at DQ. I aim to please ;). Seriously, I didn't realise it was a stereotype... I just let whatever's in my head leak out all over my blog. You have a rather nice place here yourself :). goldie · February 5, 2004 02:32 AM That was an extremely interesting discussion of gynosexual men being turned on by gynosexual women -- and, therefore, of androsexual women being turned on by androsexual men. That's exactly how I see it. Steven Malcolm Anderson · February 5, 2004 10:01 AM |
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"No more Strontium for him! Ha ha ha! (There are federal dosage guidelines, but I have no idea how to interpret them....)"
Don't bother to try. You will likely go blind and become more of an outcast than an economist at cocktail parties. I have worked for years with health physicists and as a result have developed a strange twitch anytime I am in their presence.