I have in my 8 year old Subaru Forester a quarter million dollar device, one of
only 5 initial production versions of a state of the art electrosurgical
generator.
In the early 90s I drove away from my R&D programmer job at LA (Cedars-Sinai)
with a quarter million dollar video-rate (512 x 512 monochrome :-)
capable disk drive array in the back of my Ford Escort during
the LA Rodney King riots. I saw smoke from work, and dealt with the
exodus traffic. I was taking it to Orange County to get repaired.
The generator currently in my car will be used on a live porcine surgical model tomorrow.
I have the cross-compilation environment on a laptop so I may be compiling code to run
on a medical device being used on a pig, live.
Hifuckinlarious.
Supposedly a pigday costs $10K. That is expensive meat.
Needless to say, the location is confidential. They don't have big
pink "Vivisection" neon signs out front.
My cat just showed up. I spent over an hour this morning with him, purring
at him, etc, since I was up early (daylight savings etc). This gave me comfort
all day.
He's an obligate carnivore, whereas I seem to need carbs with my meat.
Mostly he sustains on kibble, poundcat that he is;
never any human food, by his choice (he's been offered multiply); and fresh
self-harvested rodentia arthropodia and birds, occasionally. He knows to take them to the
downsstairs shower, where they can't get away and are easy to pick up and
hose off for me.
Anyway, tomorrow will be interesting.
