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Litfl_shoes

They will be perfect for the evening entertainments at the UCEM Conference in Waiting Room Medicine 2011 in Molvania.

I know you're jealous...

Get yours here. Or if you're a lady, you might like these.

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Sun, 28 Nov 2010 19:47:16 -0800 The Greatest Place on Earth http://precordialthump.posterous.com/the-greatest-place-on-earth http://precordialthump.posterous.com/the-greatest-place-on-earth New Zealand, of course.

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Wed, 28 Apr 2010 02:49:17 -0700 Another Miss of the Century http://precordialthump.posterous.com/another-miss-of-the-century http://precordialthump.posterous.com/another-miss-of-the-century I used to think this was the worst missed goal in football (soccer) history:

Until I saw this:

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Tue, 02 Jun 2009 02:41:00 -0700 Toxic effects in Sri Lanka? http://precordialthump.posterous.com/toxic-effects-in-sri-lanka http://precordialthump.posterous.com/toxic-effects-in-sri-lanka

Bish_and_chris

Could these strange morphological effects have resulted from prolonged eating, living, and breathing toxicology Sri Lankan style?

That's Dr Bish (@trainthetrainer) on the left, and yours truly on the right.

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Wed, 06 May 2009 07:44:53 -0700 Peace Anthem For Palestine http://precordialthump.posterous.com/peace-anthem-for-palestine http://precordialthump.posterous.com/peace-anthem-for-palestine

Tim Minchin is getting serious air play in the precordialthump household right now. His elegant solution to the ongoing crisis in the Middle East is an idea worth spreading...

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Mon, 04 May 2009 09:47:27 -0700 The Devil Drives... http://precordialthump.posterous.com/the-devil-drives http://precordialthump.posterous.com/the-devil-drives
'The Devil Drives" is a posterous blog will feature musings, ramblings, and things that tickle my fancy that aren't medical enough to include on 'Life in the Fast Lane' and are too long to tweet (I'm @precordialthump).

Richard Francis Burton, 1863:

“Starting in a hollowed log of wood — some thousand miles up a river, with an infinitesimal prospect of returning! I ask myself “Why?” and the only echo is “damned fool! … the devil drives!”

This quotation captures the sense of intellectual adventure and hungry curiosity I have about the things that interest me. “The Devil Drives” is a fantastic book by Fawn Brodie about the life of Sir Richard Francis Burton. Burton was incredibly talented - linguist, soldier, explorer, anthropologist, translator, swordsman, writer, scholar, poet, and amateur physician - and had the most fascinating of lives. Mainstream Victorian society understandably considered him both dangerous and shocking. He was ahead of his time.

The quotation has stayed with me from the first time I read it - what drives Burton to do these incredible things?… he retorts “how the hell would I know?” in a manner that hints at his own underlying diabolical nature…

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