Chris Dymek: Bloggin’ It

Check out this crazy video from a camera showing a number of drug cartel members breaking out of prison.  Apparently the guards couldn’t be bothered to stop the jail break.

While I settle in to married life, I’ll resume posting articles of an interesting nature (to me, at least).  Here’s one I just read today.

A NY Times article out today argues for the use of “rationing” in health care.  The author argues that any system we work in today already rations, purely on an “ability-to-pay” basis, and recommends re-evaluating whether that makes sense in a world of expensive treatments that may provide limited “value”.

The Sunday night drive home from Philly is often a dull affair.  Tired, worn out, and dreading the start of another week, I drive the 52 miles.

In order to make it more interesting, I’ve been prone to racing my own “Canonball Run” against the clock, trying to get home as quickly as possible.  This past Sunday I’ve posted by best time, 60 minutes, a mark that I’d come close to hitting but usually missed by 1 to 4 minutes.

Why the big deal?  Well, from Google Maps the route should take about 90 minutes.  Only about half the trip is on highway, and the speed limit there is 55 miles per hour for all but four miles.

Expanding on my previous post, Sunday’s NY Times had an article about the reconstruction efforts in New Orleans and Louisiana in general and how the stimulus spent by the government to rebuild has had a major effect on the area, supporting jobs and demand.

Gov. Jindal, of course, trying to kowtow to an out-of-touch crowd trying to look after their own special interests, rejects any such help.

Nice to know the citizens of Louisiana are being served so well.

CB and I were working some wedding-related topics this weekend when she brought up that the wedding was only four months away.  Four months! Bah! Plenty of time.

Then she said 16 weeks (it’s actually 17), and the panic set in.

It’s amazing how quickly time flies.

Overhyping your product in direct to consumer advertisments may result in a primetime “We screwed up” campaign.

For your reading pleasure, someone called and catalogued all the 867-5309 numbers out there.

I’ve been trying the contacts (really, just “contact”, since I only need one for my left eye), and here’s the rundown.

Thursday (doctor visit) -worn

Friday - worn

Saturday - worn them with lots of frustration getting them in

Sunday - not worn

Monday - not worn; gave up

Tuesday - not worn; gave up

Wednesday - not worn

Thursday - not worn until doctor’s visit to check up on progress

Honestly, I love them once they’re in, but what a pain trying to get that little piece of plastic in my eye.

The standings are now in for the Big East, and what becomes immediately obvious to me is this.  Had Rutgers had a swing of FOUR points in the Cincinnati game, Rutgers would be going to the Orange Bowl, not the Papajohns.com bowl.

The NY Times has now made TimesPeople an irritating overlay of their website, further restricting my view of what I actually go the NY Times website to do - read articles.  Seriously, the website is becoming more and more like TV, where windows and scrollbars float and spin all around, reducing the actual viewable screen real-estate down to nothing.

Think about it - One skinny column of text, with another equally sized column of miscellaenous crap I may or may not be interested along the side, a whole slew of additional “stuff” at the bottom, and now another bar across the top that floats there all the time?  What happened to getting the content I actually WANT?