Shatner Eggs
Leg Wound 3
With Congress out of session in August and everybody flung to the far corners of the country to drop in on the voters, there hasn't been much for me to blog about. But in the last week, things have definitely picked up. D.C. is back in action and so am I.
My leg wound still festers.
In a related story tonight, I found the scab off my leg wound -- the original scab. That's the second time I lost and found it.
I got asked if I needed help twice, and that annoyed me. I also prepared a photo essay on strollers. So there is a lot to look forward to in this new Fall season.
Figure 1: This thing seems to be taking forever to heal.
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Figure 3: The weeping bloody part perplexes me, since I don't remember injuring it again.
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Leg Wound 2
The leg wound is healing. It still doesn't look pretty, but it's not much trouble. People are always asking me about it. It gets me a lot of sympathy. It hasn't really had any adverse effects on me though. It hasn't interfered with my social or occupational functioning.
I'm listening to Johnny Cash. I like his new song "
God's Gonna Cut You Down." It was on my ipod yesterday while I was running and by doubling the beat, I could exactly keep pace with it at 9 miles per hour. But not for long. So I guess the lyric "You can run on for a long time," while inspiring to hear when I'm running, isn't precisely true.
You can run on for a long time,
Run on for a long time,
Run on for a long time,
Sooner, or later, God'll cut you down.
Sooner, or later, God'll cut you down.
Go and tell that long tongue liar,
Go and tell that midnight rider,
Tell the rambler, the gambler, the back biter,
Tell 'em that God's gonna cut 'em down.
Tell 'em that God's gonna cut 'em down.
Well my goodness gracious,
Let me tell you the news.
My head's been wet with the midnight dew.
I've been down on bended knee,
Talkin' to the man from Galiee.
He spoke to me in a voice so sweet,
I thought I heard the shuffle of angels' feet.
He called my name and my heart stood still,
When He said "John go do my will."
Go and tell that long tongue liar,
Go and tell that midnight rider,
Tell the rambler, the gambler, the back biter,
Tell 'em that God's gonna cut 'em down.
Tell 'em that God's gonna cut 'em down.
You can run on for a long time,
Run on for a long time,
Run on for a long time,
Sooner, or later, God'll cut you down.
Sooner, or later, God'll cut you down.
You may throw your rock, hide your hand,
Workin' in the dark against your fellow man.
But as sure as God made black and white,
What's done in the dark,
Will be brought to the light.
You can run on for a long time,
Run on for a long time,
Run on for a long time,
Sooner, or later, God'll cut you down.
Sooner, or later, God'll cut you down.
Go and tell that long tongue liar,
Go and tell that midnight rider,
Tell the rambler, the gambler, the back biter,
Tell 'em that God's gonna cut you down,
Tell 'em that God's gonna cut you down,
Tell 'em that God's gonna cut you down.
I also think it's an impressive feat to come back from the grave and make an awesome record. I feel like not a lot of people are talking about how odd that is. I think Johnny Cash, Tupac, and Bob Marley should make a record together now. It would be like a "Back From the Dead" tour.
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Mystery Wound 12
Today is Day 52 after my mole removal surgery. The removal left more of a scar than I thought it would, at least so far anyway, but I guess all in all the wound healing process has been going well.
Figure 1: Day 52. This left more of a scar than I thought.
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Leg Wound
What was in
Gross Up 2?
You either know by now, or you don't know. If you routinely use the "Enlarge Photo" link, then you know the answer to the Gross Up. Unfortunately, I have noticed that many visitors, even the most frequent visitors among you, do not regularly follow the "Enlarge Photo" link.
That is unfortunate because you can get a lot of entertainment by following the "Enlarge Photo" links. Sometimes there's a whole different picture there just waiting for you to click the "Enlarge Photo" link that is underneath every single photo in every single post. Often, nearly always, the captions under the enlarged photos are different than the ones in the actual post, and who knows, the captions may even contain cryptic but important messages that might be useful in future games and activities. In any case, it's probably a good idea for all Thinksimians to at least have a working knowledge of what's in the "Enlarge Photo" captions. You never know when that might be useful to you.
Figure 1: This is the leg wound featured last week in Gross Up 2.
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Hurt Foot
Back in September or October of 2005 I broke my toe.
I was playing "Flying Diaper Dog" and I crashed into an ottoman. In that game, I hold the baby up like Superman and I fly him all over the place fighting imaginary crime. Usually we do alright, but in this case, the enemy prevailed.
Figure 2: This is my hurt toe bandaged up using the buddy splint method.
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Figure 3: This is a chicken carcass down on the kitchen floor.
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Figure 4: This is my sore toe next to a chicken carcass, for comparison.
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Wounded Engineer 5
Day 6: The sutures are out.
Figure 1: It doesn't look like there will be much of a scar at all.
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Wounded Engineer 4
This is Day 5 after the wound was sustained. Data for Day 4 was lost due to a dead battery.
This is the last day for the sutures. The next time you see this cut, it'll be held together all on its own.
Figure 1: This is a running suture. A running suture doesn't have knots on each stitch. It's one continuous thread of suture material from beginning to end. Some of these sutures are completely embedded at this point.
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Wounded Engineer 3
The wound is healing. I think this guy is going to be OK. The skin may mend itself, but that basketball game is lost forever.
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Wounded Engineer 2
The wound continues to heal. Good thing, too, because who would do all the satellite circuit testing otherwise?
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Wounded Engineer
Our friend the aerospace engineer from the Los Angeles area has sustained a serious injury. He was trying to get a rebound from a guy who can dunk and he got an elbow in his eye. He went down hard and everyone was yelling: "[aerospace engineer whose name has been altered so nobody Google's him and sees his name on this site and thinks he's some kind of weird freak because of that]! [aerospace engineer whose name has been altered so nobody Google's him and sees his name on this site and thinks he's some kind of weird freak because of that]! Are you OK? Dude, that is not good. You need to get stitches, [aerospace engineer whose name has been altered so nobody Google's him and sees his name on this site and thinks he's some kind of weird freak because of that]."
Our poor friend didn't even get to take his foul shot because he was bleading all over everything.
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Mystery Wound 11
The Steri-Strips are off. They came off at about 7:30 pm 12 July 2006. As far as the contest goes, it's sort of too close to call and I think we have a three-way tie. Well, unless the prize is expensive, in that case I will "randomly" choose the lucky winner from among the correct entries received from aerospace engineers living in the Los Angeles metropolitan area.
The wound itself is looking good. Too good, as a matter of fact. It looks so good it's sort of boring, so I developed (actually refined, since I used a similar process once before) a process I call "Zombification" which is designed to make relatively non-disgusting wound images look like disgusting wound pictures again.
The proprietary Zombification process whose mathematical description is a closely guarded secret is now fully automated and reproducible. The automation of the Zombification process allows for different images to be Zombified in a systematic way, providing for detailed comparison and analysis.
Figure 1: This is the standard view of the wound taken after the Steri-Strips came off.
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Figure 2: This is a close-up of the left side of the wound.
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Figure 3: This is a view of the right side of the wound.
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Figure 4: This is the Zombified view. Note the generally Zombie-like appearance of the skin and the amplified redness.
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Figure 5: For comparison, this is a picture of the wound right before the sutures came out. I applied the proprietary Zombification process to this image to give you a frame of reference for what the process does to an image.
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Figure 6: Zombification of the wound when the bandage first came off.
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Mystery Wound 10
The
Steri-Strips really put a damper on my attempts to document the wound healing process. They're not going to be on much longer, though. How much longer do you suppose? Make a guess and send in your answer using the contact form to your right. I will "randomly" choose a winner from among the entries which most closely predict the date and time that the Steri-Strips will come off. That lucky winner will be eligible to receive a fantastic prize or prizes, possibly even one of the popular www.thinksimian.com T-shirts emblazoned with images as seen on this site.
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