http://www.shakethatcat.com/mt/ pardon me, but there's a bear in your hot tub. en-us bkootsey@gmail.com 2012-01-27T18:56:13-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.shakethatcat.com/mt/archives/000092.php ...thou arch-heretic in pronunciation; thou pitch-pipe of affected emphasis; thou carpenter, mortising the awkward joints of jarring sentences; thou squeaking dissonance of cadence; thou pimp of gender... Scottish poet Robert Burns, in a 1791 letter to a critic, well worth... 92@http://www.shakethatcat.com/mt/ 2012-01-27T18:56:13-05:00 http://www.shakethatcat.com/mt/archives/000091.php President Bill Clinton, in an interview in the January 2012 Esquire "One of the real dilemmas we have in our country and around the world is that what works in politics is organization and conflict. That is, drawing the sharp... 91@http://www.shakethatcat.com/mt/ Blue and Red 2012-01-20T07:47:51-05:00 http://www.shakethatcat.com/mt/archives/000090.php If I set aside a Twinkie today, it will likely still be edible in 43 years. Had my father set aside a Twinkie in 1968 when I was born, it would likely still be edible today. Had my grandfather set... 90@http://www.shakethatcat.com/mt/ 2012-01-19T10:15:01-05:00 http://www.shakethatcat.com/mt/archives/000089.php "It's safe to say that no one has ever done a sequence like this in any other film. At least not with a pig." Jim Henson, in a memo to his staff, regarding shooting the water ballet "Piggy pool" sequence... 89@http://www.shakethatcat.com/mt/ 2011-08-24T10:20:39-05:00 http://www.shakethatcat.com/mt/archives/000088.php "We sell a bucket of popcorn for about $6. Our cost in that $6 bucket of popcorn is about 15 cents or 20 cents. So if that cost doubles, it doesn't really hurt me that much." David Ownby, chief financial... 88@http://www.shakethatcat.com/mt/ 2011-03-24T12:54:42-05:00 http://www.shakethatcat.com/mt/archives/000087.php Above: a typical breakfast of curried vegetables, bread, and rasbari "How's the food?" is a question I've been asked a couple of times, and the answer, in a word, is "excellent." Business hours at the hospital are 8:30 a.m.... 87@http://www.shakethatcat.com/mt/ 2009-07-10T07:18:19-05:00 http://www.shakethatcat.com/mt/archives/000086.php [This post concerns primarily the nerdly arts, so feel free to skip it if that's not something you're interested in.] So it's taken a little while to figure out how best to put me to use, and that is... 86@http://www.shakethatcat.com/mt/ 2009-06-24T09:13:19-05:00 http://www.shakethatcat.com/mt/archives/000084.php Above: children of Sukumbasi, Nepal. More photos @ flickr Sunday is usually hectic, but what with the strikes late last week, this Sunday was even busier than usual: 400 patients seen in the outpatient clinic, instead of the 300... 84@http://www.shakethatcat.com/mt/ 2009-06-16T04:59:50-05:00 http://www.shakethatcat.com/mt/archives/000083.php (Above, Dr. Paudel, orthopedic surgeon (L), and pants surgeon (R)) Today has been a slow day at the hospital, most likely due to the strikes (bandh) taking place in Janakpur and other smaller towns that closed the roads to... 83@http://www.shakethatcat.com/mt/ 2009-06-11T11:13:36-05:00 http://www.shakethatcat.com/mt/archives/000082.php Is that "zzzzzzzzz" I hear (meaning it's inside the netting and circling) or is it "zzzt, zzzt, zzzt" (meaning it's outside the netting and repeatedly banging its head against the insecticide-treated netting trying to get in)? If I spin... 82@http://www.shakethatcat.com/mt/ 2009-06-09T08:25:51-05:00 http://www.shakethatcat.com/mt/archives/000081.php The physicians here have to be some of the most patient people I've ever met. Yesterday (Sunday) was my first full working day at the clinic, and I was shadowing a different physician (Dr. L) as he saw general... 81@http://www.shakethatcat.com/mt/ 2009-06-08T06:53:30-05:00 http://www.shakethatcat.com/mt/archives/000080.php Friday is a half-day at the hospital, with regular business winding up at about noon. As I don't have an official schedule yet, I spent the morning shadowing Dr. Paudel, an orthopedic surgeon who was seeing general patients, 20... 80@http://www.shakethatcat.com/mt/ 2009-06-05T04:17:05-05:00 http://www.shakethatcat.com/mt/archives/000079.php Kathmandu, at least this corner of it (Jawalakhel) is very quiet at night, particularly compared to my corner of Ghent with its roaring impressing-someone mufflers and backing-up beeping of the midnight Starbucks delivery truck. Doing exactly what you're not... 79@http://www.shakethatcat.com/mt/ 2009-06-03T22:25:15-05:00 http://www.shakethatcat.com/mt/archives/000078.php "We have voted, and decided that Parker is going to travel with you in your backpack for the summer. Sorry, you have been outvoted, 2 to 1." I've spent the last two days with my brother and sister-in-law in... 78@http://www.shakethatcat.com/mt/ 2009-06-01T01:58:30-05:00 http://www.shakethatcat.com/mt/archives/000077.php It's going to be a long few years if, any time the Obama administration makes a change from Bush administration policies, Karl Rove's moldering corpse is exhumed to provide "balance." Take, for example, "Obama Puts His Own Spin on... 77@http://www.shakethatcat.com/mt/ Imperial Presidency 2009-03-10T18:01:27-05:00