Cone 11 (Forced Air) Number 1

Posted on November 2, 2007 by John

I’ll be re-posting some “timeless favorites” from the old blog. Here’s the 1st podcast I did about pottery from Nov. 11th, 2004:

Clayart has a thread about radio, and I have been watching the explosion of podcasting content recently. I enjoy listening to these things while I work and thought potters would be a natural audience. So I decided to give it a go myself.

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Futura Bold is the band featured in the background.

Here’s their Creative Common’s licensed music–
Here’s their website–

You gotta love that name.
Big thanks for allowing other’s to use their music.

No, I will not be quitting my day job!

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Messier Sky Tours- SEDs as Podcast

Posted on November 1, 2007 by John

Like looking at deep sky objects in your scope, but can’t remember a thing about them? Tired of holding a flashlight in your teeth and fumbling with astronomical books?

I want my scope time to be better-

So I took some of the information that SEDS (Students for the Exploration and Development of Space) publishes, ran it through spokentext.net and put the mp3 files up here as podcasts. Load em’ up and listen at your scope.

(Warning: These are, for the most part, unabridged. There are some tedious bits. If I took the time to edit, this would never get done! It does keep me at the eye piece longer!)

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Overview of Patient Provider Asynchronous Communication

Posted on October 29, 2007 by John

The following is a paper I did for my first OHSU class, Introduction to Biomedical Informatics with Dr Hersh. I turned out pretty well, and I go back to it every now and then to grab a nice citation… so I’m putting it up for all to see.

Nothing much original here, just a good overview of the situation in 2006.

Abstract:

Reviewing 10 recent, highly cited papers, as well as other works, we note the issues surrounding asynchronous patient physician communication. While healthcare has dealt with this sort of communication in the past, new modes of asynchronous communication (the Internet) offer advantages.
Patients gain access to information, are empowered, and have alternative ways of expression and understanding that have not been available in the past. Clinicians have the opportunity to communicate more clearly, efficiently, and with greater convenience. All this is tempered by security, fiscal issues,
changes in workload, and possible loss of communication. While it is still too early to tell about the efficacy of this type of communication in general,(28) it is not too early to put begin to elucidate its issues and start to build that which has a promising future.

Asynchronous Patient Physician Communication pdf

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Updated to WordPress 2.3

Posted on October 20, 2007 by John

Not automatic, but nothing went wrong so I’m OK with it.

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25,000 Years and Still Improving

Posted on October 18, 2007 by John

Folks over at eatmecrunchy.com have a bowl that keeps your breakfast cereal dry  It features a shelf that separates most of the cereal from the milk.

It is amazing to me just when you think things could go any further, someone finds a way to push it into the new.  Ceramics has been around for 25,000 years and someone comes up with a new way to do a ceramic bowl.

Not sure how well it cleans up, ‘tho.

thx boingboing

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