Another Crappy Blog... by Jason Winters

Saturday, April 29, 2006

Miss Vickies Cleavage?

This is a Miss Vickies potato chips bag. Look at it closely. Notice the lace with the bow in the middle directly above the word "JALAPENO"? Now to me, that looks like the lace along the top of a woman's blouse. And if that's a woman blouse... then doesn't the "V" in Vickies look suspiciously like cleavage? I've presented this idea to several people and everyone thinks I'm just obsessing about breasts.
So what do you think? Is the "V" cleavage or not?

UPDATE!!
Fellow blogger, Hairy Carrot, informed me that the Land O Lakes Indian girl has a very sagging set of breasts herself. Apparently those aren't her knees sticking out from under her dress. Using some surgical skills I picked up from Dr.90201, I was able to do a little augementing of my own. (cutting her knees out and setting then over the box of butter she's holding) See the before and after pictures below.

Before:
After:

Saturday, April 22, 2006

Design Competition Winner!

I won a medical device design competition in my Problem Based Learning graduate class. The challenge was to design and build a wearable device to minimize essential tremor. Essential tremor is a neurological disease that causes uncontrollable shaking of the head and hands. Anyway, after a lot of late nights of drilling and sawing, I finished my prototype last week and gave the presentation yesterday. The judges liked my design the best. I got this snazzy certificate and $150. You can see me wearing the gizmo in this picture. It uses viscous dampers to suppress the tremor. Check out my "projects page" for a better explanation and the PDF of the presentation.

Tuesday, April 11, 2006

Glenoid fossa, Subscapularis, Coracoid process...

Tomorrow is my final anatomy exam. For some reason, my graduate program requires us to dissect cadavers along with learning the names of every wrinkle of every organ in the human body. The novelty of cutting up dead people wore off about 5 minutes after I started this class. It meets a few times a week and lasts four hours each time . My attention span, on the other hand, lasts about 30 seconds. Combine that with the fact that it starts at 8 am and you can see why I'm happy that it's almost over. Actually, it's the exams that I hate most. There has to be a better way... All we do is memorize 500 latin names that all sound the same and forget them as soon as the exam is over. I was hoping that this class would at least make me sound smarter when I talking about the human body. No such luck. I still call an arm, an arm, and a toe, a toe.
It wasn't all bad though. There were plenty of unique experiences this semester. Like when I held someones heart in my hands or when I accidentally broke the cadavers arm (and all her fingers too). There are several, more gruesome stories I could share but I don't think everyone wants to hear that.
There were 5 bodies for our class to work on. The one body smelled so bad that even the professor refused to do anything with it. He affectionately become known as "Stinkey". Most of the other bodies were quite overweight which made it a group effort to flip them over. Luckily I spent most of my time on the cadaver of a very, very old women. She didn't have much muscle on her, but then again she didn't have much fat either.
Anyway, back to studying!

Tuesday, April 04, 2006

Chomp!

Toilet paper and fireworks filled the air last night as we (the Florida Gators) won our first NCAA basketball championship. After the win last night, people poured into the streets to celebrate. I only live a couple blocks from all the action so I joined in. The police were there too, riding their horses through the crowd but they let the party burn itself out naturally. I took the oppurtunity to do a cart-wheel across a normally busy University Avenue. No one got killed and no cars were set on fire so I guess it all worked out just fine. Go Gators!

Sunday, April 02, 2006

My new nephew, Kenny!


I'm an uncle now! My sister gave birth to her first child last week. I haven't had the oppurtinity to meet the little guy yet since my sister lives in PA. Maybe I will in about a few weeks when I have some time between semesters.

Mobile blogging?

Bear with me while I figure out how to do this mobile blogging thing. BTW, this is the street I live on. I snapped this picture with my phone on the way back from class. I'm somewhat impressed with the quality of my camera phone.

Saturday, April 01, 2006

Picobay attempt #78

I finally decided to make myself a decent website. I've had this domain name since 1995 and this is the closest I've come to something reputable. I don't expect to treat this as a traditional blog (my life isn't interesting enough to post that much stuff), but I like the ease with which I can update this baby. That's probably the reason I never updated my previous attempts.... firing up an outdated version of FrontPage, trying to make it do something it wasn't designed for and then FTPing the whole mess to the server.

At the moment my templates are still "under construction" so bear with all the dead links.