Dr Fragen in the operating room

Andy Fragen

  • A bad day?

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    I was told once by one of my neurosurgical attendings that when he was having a bad day; someone else was having a worse one. Sometimes we bring things on ourselves. I guess this [neurosurgeon][1] was having a real bad day. [1]:http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=1706543

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  • So you really want to take ER call?

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    [Surgeon held over patient’s death][1] from the BBC. So let me get this straight. Some guy stabs himself in the chest and later dies and they want to blame the surgeon? What, was he *supposed* to leave the knife sticking out of the guy? Been there, done that. You always worry that when you pull…

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  • Snowboardin' aftermath

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    We all had a great time in Utah. The weather was beautiful. Jonathan managed to do pretty well on a board. The real aftermath is we’re all real sore.

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  • Snowboardin'

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    Off to [Park City][1] for the weekend to do some snowboarding with my son. It should be lots of fun my brother, Alan, got all the sibs and their respective kids together. Thanks Alan. [1]:http://www.thecanyons.com/

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  • Squib rendering, part 2

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    In the `homepage_controller.rb` there is a private definition `publish_changes` that contains the pages that are rendered if the entry is newly posted or updated. The part relating to rendering archive pages is as follows. publish( “archive_page”, { :year => entry.when_published.year, :month => entry.when_published.month, :day => entry.when_published.day } ) Because it passes all three parameters to…

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  • Converting the Clipboard

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    [Steve][1] talks about un-styling of the text on the clipboard for pasting into other apps. As he rightly points out some apps support this natively. For the rest, here’s a simple shell script that I’ve saved as a background app via [Platypus][2]. #!/bin/sh pbpaste | pbcopy After copying text I just run this background app…

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