I know some of you who read this page have heard of the Win An MRI contest that Lockport Memorial Hospital was entering.
The contest was sponsored by Siemens who wanted to promote their MRI by giving one away to a hospital that really needed one but probably couldn’t afford it. Their idea was to have each hospital submit a short video telling why they should be given one. Then people could watch the video online and vote for the hospital they thought should win. Continue Reading…
I decided I wanted to get a new MP3 player recently. I’d sort of been wanting one for a while and hadn’t really seen anything I really liked.
I love the iPod (any of them) from a hardware standpoint. (Except for their proprietary connectors, but they’re not alone with that.) They’re beautiful machines. But Apple continues to insist on using them as a marketing platform to promote (force you to use) iTunes. The default way to load songs on them is iTunes, the only way to buy music online for them is iTunes, they force you to use the same computer or it wipes the player clean, nasty DRM, etc. Continue Reading…
We are back from our trip to Minnesota. We had a great time and extended the trip a couple of days.
We didn’t try to make the whole trip home in one leg, so we went as far as the Indiana-Ohio border and found a hotel room there. We decided to stop in Cleveland on the second leg of the trip and visit the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Bobbi had never been there. I have been there twice, yet had never really seen it as well as I wanted to either. Both times there had been as part of the FIRST Robotics regional competitions we went to. There were team socials at the Hall, but never enough time to see it all at a leisurely pace. Continue Reading…