May 19, 2005

• I'm sitting here at my real office (not the one in Chicago, where I go
  so that I can run from meeting to meeting instead of getting work
  done), taking a break as I transition from one analytic project to the
  next.  This morning we were figuring out how to use echo
  cardiogram measures of strain in heart muscles to diagnose early stages
  of hypertension, diabetes, etc.  This afternoon is "death by
  temperature":  studying the relationship between ambient
  temp/humidity and daily death rates in the 109 largest US cities. 
  Great stuff, huh?

  I'm enjoying the new computer my son helped me pick out, as well as the
  new displays.  Originally I thought I would try to get a big
  monitor for the new Mac, but then I discovered the value of dual
  displays.  I don't watch DVDs, so there would be little benefit in
  having one of those superexpensive DVD displays that Apple is famous
  for.  Instead, for less than $600 I have dual 1280x1024 displays,
  which are great for programming.  (I like the 17s better than the
  19s because they take up less room.)  Not only that, but the
  Windows workstation goes in the analog inputs, the Apple in the
  digitals.  The primary Apple window is on the left, primary Win on
  the right.  A press of the button on the front of the monitor
  switches between the two systems, so I can either have the primary of
  each or have duals for Win or Apple as needed.  I don't use the
  word "sweet" - but you know what I mean.

  And as I sit here, I think of my son, sitting in front of his dual
  displays, typing away, too.  Like son, like father, I guess.

  • 2:20 pm
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