Categories rant

HPV

By Patrick Calder
February 7, 2007

I saw an article a couple weeks ago, about the ‘new’ HPV vaccine. And there was a blurb in the very last paragraph that really bothered me. But it felt like just that: a little incendiary bit with little actual factual support designed to inflame the passions and inflate the Continue Reading

Categories health

Death and Dying and Really Good Drugs

By Patrick Calder
January 26, 2007

I’ve been thinking the last few days about hospitals and doctors and mortality and all that. It kind of freaked me out, and surprised me when I realized last night that in my core family of 4 people, 3 of us had unrelated life-threatening conditions in the last six months. Continue Reading

Categories photo

Little Bits

By Patrick Calder
January 13, 2007

Something just occurred to me. I took some pictures over to CVS to be developed, at 8×10 inches. Their kiosk, when you choose 8×10, gives you a blow up of your photo showing a proportional box where you can define the area of the image you wish to print. It’s Continue Reading

Categories photo

My Year in Photos

By Patrick Calder
January 1, 2007

I was thinking a couple weeks ago that my year had seemed pretty empty. That nothing much had happened. But for some reason, while thinking this, I started looking through my photo archives. And ya know, the pictures kind of contradicted what I was thinking. I didn’t win an election Continue Reading

Categories news

I’m off…

By Patrick Calder
December 22, 2006

I am off in about an hour and a half, to spend Christmas with my family. (Am I worried about people knowing my apartment will be vacant? No. I have the attack cat.) So I’m flying home at the last minute to be with the family. Very Norman Rockwell. You Continue Reading

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