this week’s quote is about taking a little time for yourself every now and then:
cartman: butters, you gotta learn to chill. live goes by pretty fast. if you don’t stop and look around once in a while, and do whatever you want all the time, you could miss it.
butters: yeah, well, i guess that’s kinda true.
several years ago, i uploaded an x-ray of my skull to wikipedia.
today i was contacted about it:
I’m puzzled by the skull X-ray, I don’t clearly recognise the fracture at first sight... might be useful to use an arrow to indicate the fracture(s).
turns out somebody used the image on wikipedia’s facial trauma article, and now people were wondering why they couldn’t see the supposed injury.
my response:
I’m the user of this skull, so to speak, and my skull wasn’t fractured when the X-ray was taken. I was just being checked for paranasal sinus problems. Maybe that’s why you couldn’t recognize the fracture ;)
during my time in thailand, i was able to tick off several items on my virtual "i’ve always wanted to ..."-list.
number four is a big one: i’ve always wanted to learn scuba diving.
that’s right - i am now an open water diver. :)
i still have to do some working, packing, communicating and sleeping, but instead i’m sitting here, posting a picture of my preparations for tomorrow:
oh well...
i drove by a piece of roadkill today. it was so messed up, its original form was unrecognizable.
the first kangaroo i saw in australia was roadkill. when i think of it, i still remember the distinctive smell of death which came from the decomposing animal - like it was yesterday.
when entomologists want to know whether a hard-to-find species of beetle - e.g. the stag beetle lucanus cervus (de: hirschkäfer) - is still present in an area, it’s common practice to look for run-over individuals.
"welcome home!" to simon, who spent the last year as a volunteer teacher in a little village in kenya’s hinterland.
i think that this kind of commitment deserves a great deal of respect!
his friends and family organized a surprise party and made him a banner. :)
