Well, my results came in from last week’s MRI. And Dr. Sutton was, “pleased to tell you that your MRI was read as normal.” Which, those of you who are careful readers will have noted, is nearly, but not quite, the same as saying that it was normal. Dr. Sutton is passing me of to Dr. Richard Legge. Dr. Legge is a neuro-ophthalmologist of the first rank (or not, how could I know?). This whole experience has brough me a lot closer to Brad and his wide world of medical mysteries. Also counted among the things that I don’t know is whether neuro-ophthalmologist is actually hyphenated, because the hyphen just happened to appear at the end of a line in my letter… Or did it?
Remember these guys?
Mom just sent me this picture. It was taken a few months ago, and since many of you had seen my dad and brothers when they were younger, I thought a little update would be in order. Andrew is on the left, then dad, Aaron and me (the one with the funny hair). It took along time to take this photo, because it was hard to get Aaron, Andrew and I to all squint at the same time. I had to crop the picture because none of us are wearing pants.
Stealing more from Brad
I liked the way Brad’s site displayed the number of posts in each category. Now I have stolen that too. pretty soon all of his base will belong to me…
Here’s the line: (?php list_cats(0, ”, ‘name’, ‘asc’, ”,1,0,1,1,1,1,0,”,”,”,”,”) ?)
Sort of makes you wonder what all of that stuff does.
Too much multimedia
These Geeky posts are in the Meta category so that they don’t appear on the main page, but so that I have a spot to look back and see what changes I’ve made in case I ever need to undo them or duplicate them.
I had to add a plugin to WordPress to get the movie to showup on the MRI post. But it’s a fairly comprehensive plugin, and it also changed links to songs (.mp3) to “click to listen” buttons. That’s not what I wanted –at least not to the links to songs that were already on the site. I changed the file anarchy_media_player.php in the Anarchy Media plugin by changing the tag that it searches for to do the replacement from an anchor (A) tag to an (A3) tag which doesn’t exit in html. I’m assuming here that an actual (a3) tag would become a “play me” link, but I have not tested it.
iBay, UBay, we all Bay for eBay
So, at the auction last week, in addition to 26 printers (are you guys sure you don’t need one?) I also bought 3 toner cartridges solely to resell on eBay. I’ve never done that before, but they were not very expensive in any sort of absolute terms although they did, at the time, cost as much as 2 laser printers. I listed them on eBay Saturday night, and so far they haven’t generated any bids. There is one guy who is watching them, but I don’t know what his intentions are.
I didn’t know how I was going to package them, but last Sunday when we were at Walmarts our friend Randy, who works there, threw a box at us from over the aisle, and it was exactly the right size for the toner cartridge. If we had better writers for this show I would have shouted something like “missed” until he had thrown over as many as I needed, but we just went over and asked him for some more.
Getting inside my head
As some of you know, my eyes have been bothering me since I had an eye infection in July. I’ve been to an eye doctor a few times and he (after trying a few things that didn’t work) had me get an MRI. He actually got me in to get it really quickly. The bad part was that my appointment was at 6:45 in the morning. I asked the technician to take my picture. He didn’t act like that was weird, but it was early.
The MRI was really easy. You just have to lie still and not have a metal plate embedded in your skull. It’s really loud, but not an entirely unpleasantly loud. They give you headphones to wear and literally pipe in (no magnets in the MRI) music, but you can only hear the music in between scans. At the end of the of the scanning I used the old line, “My wife is a preschool teacher, can I have X?” where X is anything up to their first born child. In this case X was, “a copy of the image you made”. He asked if a copy on CD would be okay and I said sure.
On the CD were 18 scans (we can’t decide if that is likely to be all of the scans) and a program to manipulate them. We can rotate my head in 3D and also make those red/blue 3D pictures. Anyone have a pair of 3D glasses? The eye doctor said that the MRI would let him know whether I needed to see a Neurological Opthomologist or and Ear, Nose and Throat guy. I’m not sure which one to hope for.
P.S. You can manipulate the first image by right clicking on it.