Posting this from my new iPhone, and have to say that I am pretty impressed!
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Month: June 2007
I was thinking how much things have changed in the last 10 years. We now live in an increasingly connected society, at least from a technological point of view. Yet, at the same time, there are things that haven’t changed at all. We still have the middle east crisis. We’re still fighting hunger and poverty, and we’re still in search of a new source of energy!
10 years ago:
- I was trying to get in a good college.
- My primary computer was a desktop PC running Windows 95. The processor was 66Mhz Pentium.
- I was experimenting with Linux in a big way.
- I did not have an Internet connection at home.
- I used to dial in to a few BBS’ across the world.
- I was excited about being able to finally have a cable TV connection at home.
- I was a computer “whiz-kid”.
- I couldn’t cook to save my life.
- I wanted to grow up to be an engineer working for the Indian Government.
- I never thought I would move to a distant country.
Now, things that have remained unchanged:
- The Simpsons is still the longest running prime-time animated series.
- Human cloning is still banned.
- Tony Blair is still the Prime Minister of Britain (although he’s retiring on June 27th).
- India’s President is still from the minorities.
- Toyota Prius is still quite a buzzword.
- The middle east is still strife-torn.
- The space race is still on, albeit between the West and the rest of the world.
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It wasn’t a cancer !
I got rid of my leg cast yesterday. The good news is that the lesion was not malignant. Even though the cast is gone, I still have about half of my sutures still remaining, and am avoiding putting force on the incision area, which means no driving for yet another week.
Now, I got a chance to look at my toe for the very first time post-surgery, and I almost had an upset stomach. Basically, I was wrong when I mentioned that the incision was only 2cm long. It was actually about 2 inches in length, in the shape of a curve that extended from one end of the toe to the other. As you can see in the illustration, the surgeon removed the circular lesion by making a rectangular incision, but also made 2 additional cuts at the opposite ends to help sew up the incision. A straight line cut would not have held steady. According to him, it was one of the most difficult plastic surgery operations on the bottom part of the big toe, simply because of the lack of available skin and flesh. The incision is called a “Hurricane incision“, with the eye of the hurricane in the center. In his words, the post-surgery toe “looked like it was a gunshot wound”.
I am wearing what they call a “post-op shoe”, which is basically a well-padded protected slipper. Working from home has been a good, albeit boring experience so far. The good thing is that I saved a whole lot of money on gas by switching to telecommuting 😉
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2007/06/the_high_frontier_redux.html
I’ll post my comments later.
First the iPod Shuffle, and now a Macbook! Granted, that the shuffle was a raffle prize at work, it still was my first official Apple possession. For the longest time, I imagined myself never ever buying a Mac simply because to me it never appeared as a serious development platform. Having grown up with DOS and then the ever evolving Windows platform, adopting an OS that still used Objective C for most app development just didn’t seem interesting to me.
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Plastic Surgery
This past Friday, I had to undergo an hour long plastic surgery procedure to get rid of a lesion that had formed at the bottom of my left big toe. According to the surgeon, there’s a
“one in a million” chance of it being malignant, but I am still awaiting the biopsy report.
The lesion was circular, but the surgeon mentioned that he would have to take out a square chunk of tissue, followed by performing plastic surgery to compensate for the lost tissue. The incision was a 2cm square and took more than 23 stitches to cover up! I was pretty nervous during the entire ordeal as I had never had surgery before, but I have to say that it wasn’t that bad, except for the excruciating pain once the local anesthesia wore off in the middle of the night.
I have a cast on my leg for the next 2 weeks. Of course, this means that I would be unable to drive to work, or anywhere else, for that matter. Thanks to my superiors at work, I would be able to telecommute/work from home until then.
Amazing how a harmless looking wound turned out to be something so serious….