Found this sign plastered around SF General Hospital. Yes, these are the people that actually know how shitty the system is, because they care for your needs when you crash your car, have your cardiac arrest, or get beaten in a mugging (or anything). The for profit healthcare insurance and hospital industry is an international disgrace. If you can vote professionals hope you do the right thing.
Now, anyone know how I can send our trauma and surgery bills to Whitman's home?
Just amazing. It reminds me that I saw some really cool, different things whilst I was in India last year, like my work colleague's wedding. What a fun, raucous, uplifting celebration it was! And with absolutely no booze in sight; hence the 'different' aspect.
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I was thinking about a new web service on the weekend, and I did a bit of reading of airlines' sites as a result. I pick on United here but what I found was universally astonishing. Emphases in bold are mine, and I provide the full paragraph text as context however.
Now as I read this, it's actually not permissible for me to even write or link to http://www.united.com/page/article/0,6867,1003,00.html?jumpLink=/terms in this post on my tiny little web-based collection of thoughts here, but what it prompted me thinking was how therefore, can Google, Bing, Yahoo, and every other search engine do the same without contravening these ridiculous terms? And they do, believe me...it'd be quite pointless without that. So, what gives?
Feel free to help me answer that in the comments, or on Twitter if you can.
http://vimeo.com/groups/teamcocovids/videos/13845135Conan seems to think this is all very funny, but then that was his job. At the time, anyway. Kaplan takes it in stride well. And he really knows bread. :)
