We have all done it.  We have all cussed out those who are doing it.  And yet that doesn't stop us from doing it ourselves, once again, the next time. We rubberneck . There is a perverse attraction in observing wrecks.  For whatever the reason, we all want to see what happened.  Perhaps we have delusions of being helpful (because, yeah, by the time we actually get there, they have been just waiting for us and our special talents, right?), perhaps we are curious, or may...

I survived. In fact, it wasn't that bad.  Of course, I am lucky enough to start on a pretty light service.  Oh, and I haven't had call yet.  You know, that time when you are the first line call for a full half of the surgical patients in the hospital.  That's Thursday. Nope, not too bad at all.  I ran around the floors, a truly confused animal.  Part chicken-with-its-head-cut-off and part deer-in-the-headlights, I was both aimless and frozen with fear.  B...

Maybe I'm tired.  Maybe I'm just in a bad mood.  Either way, I have to ask the following: What the hell is the deal with people who feel the need to forum bump every damn article they write? Are you just so damn impatient you can't wait the minute or two it takes for the forum database to update and your article to show up?  I have never forum bumped one of my own articles, yet when I head to the forums I find every single one there, even if they have zero replies. ...

My most recent album review, Free by OSI, was also published over at Blogcritics.org , where I am a writer.  I found out today though, that it was picked up and has been posted in the Music Reviews section of Cleveland.com . Needless to say, I was surprised to see it, but pleasantly so. It is fun to see your writing get recognized and published at other sites. You can see the review (and others) here .

My amazingly talented wife is singing in Carnegie Hall at this very moment. She is up there with some members of the choral group she is a part of.  She was able to attend a Broadway show last night, went jogging this morning in Central Park, and looks like she will be able to go sailing tomorrow.  Hopefully she is having a great time.  We figured this was a once in a lifetime experience, so we were glad she was able to go.  So it is just me and the kids.  And we ...

I had such grand designs.  At least one article a day, finally catching up on article ideas I have had for a while now, regular participation here at JU.  But fate conspired against me.  I awoke last week, the day after I had taken my final board exam (at least during medical school, plenty still to come in residency) and my muse had wandered off. No where to be found, I have been searching high and low for that elusive little devil.  Oh, ideas have come, but when I ac...

Anyone trashing the classic synth-rock tune from the 80's will be swiftly e-kicked in the teeth.  Europe rocks (yes, rocks, not rocked-they are still alive and kicking), "The Final Countdown" is one of the greatest cheese-fests of all time, and anyone who disagrees can bite me. Now that I have made the rules of the game clear, let's start playing. What game?  I don't know, but I feel like blogging about something this fine Friday evening.  It is nearing midnight, I will hope...

30 hour call is a fascinating thing (fortunately it wasn't quite a full 30!).  It does weird things to your head.  I walk into the unit in the morning, talk to the nurses who are approaching the end of their 12 hour shift.  They leave and a new batch comes on.  You then spend the next 12 hours working with them.  That is not an insignificant amount of time.  But then they go home. And you are still there.  Wearing the same scrubs you had on 15 hours ago....

-Writing so Dis Con Nec Ted. . . A great song, by the way.  Understated, incredibly thunderous bass, and almost uncomfortably restrained vocals, it is one of my Rychian favorites. -Back from Houston.  What an incredible experience.  It was life altering.  Okay, so I am full of crap.  It was awful.  Not in a really bad sort of awful way, just in a "I spent $1000, plus $500 in airfare, $160 in hotel and $35 for a car just so I could take this idiotic test?"...

Is anybody else having problems with JU RSS feeds not updating? I am using BlogNavigator for my RSS feeds and it is picking up other feeds just fine. However, it doesn't have any JU articles more recent than 3/17/2006. Using the RSS aggregator in Maxthon gives the same results, no updates since March 17th.

This shouldn't really come as a surprise, but I enjoy blogging.  I enjoy writing blogs and I really enjoy reading the blogs of others.  When I have the time, I enjoy surfing random blogs using such services as Blog Explosion or BlogMad .  I also avail myself of the traffic generating features of those services as well, but to be quite honest, that matters less to me than it used to. For those unfamiliar with those services, you surf the blogs of people who have signed up and...

I sometimes find these little net goodies amusing.  I enjoyed this one: > WARNING BlueDev is radioactive. Wear protective clothing at all times. Username: From Go-Quiz.com

*Note: Le me start off by saying this is not intended as a "suck-up" article.  I hope it doesn't appear that way, it is simply a comment on an observation I recently made and thought others who blog here may find interesting. I am sure that we have all heard about how the auto-syndication of JoeUser is a benefit to us, the bloggers.  But I wonder if we really appreciate just how much that syndication throughout the community actually accomplishes.  I know I didn't until r...

Far too often I sit down to compose a blog entry and then. . . Nothing. Just nothing.  My mind cramps, then freezes, then just goes to sleep.  It always seems that my best ideas come at the worst time to try to actually write them down.  But today I think I may have solved that.  I went for a walk.  Yep, a walk.  With a pen and a notebook in my pocket. It was amazing.  Suddenly I had extra blood feeding my brain cells.  Suddenly they could functi...

So, I am longing to blog. JoeUser will certainly be my main blog (just too many great people here for me to leave), but I have set up a Blogger one to use in times when JU is, er, indisposed. Hope to see you all here soon. Congrats to Stardock on the overwhelming (literally it appears) success of the game!