Jun 11
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I was doing an image search for a diabetes handout at work the other day when I came across this beauty.
The photographer has quite cleverly knitted a pancreas-shaped pouch to carry all of her diabetes paraphernalia around in. Clever because:
- Anyone who can knit is clever in my book
- The bits and pieces all together perform the function that the pancreas should be doing in the first place.
- It also shows a particularly good sense of humour. Like one commenter said: “You just have to use humour in life sometimes, don’t you??”
If you or anyone you know has diabetes you might be interested in visiting Diabetes WA or have a look around for your local diabetes support group.
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Tagged with: funny • health • photos
Oct 24
Daylight savings time is coming up this weekend in WA. Once it is over, we get to vote in a referendum (again).
Slashdot ran a story today about the end of DST in the northern hemisphere. Here a few of the more insighful comments.
I grew up in AZ – moved to a state that does daylight savings a couple years ago. I hate it. I never felt any lack for not having it or thought, “Gee, I wished we messed with the clocks twice a year.” – stoolpigeon
make everyone talk in UTC. That should do it. – frank_adrian
Russia has a dozen time zones and fares just fine – as does China, with only one. This business of claiming that ‘light’ is a problem needing a solution is the only issue here…- djupedal
So, scrap daylight savings time and replace it with a system of several thousand time zones, each updated daily based on the predicted “high noon” for that particular day at that particular location. If the prediction ends up being off by a few microseconds on a particular day, just change the time to correct it right then and there! Sure, wristwatches will become orders of magnitude more complex, but it’s the only way to have a truly sane and accurate system of time measurement. And after all, isn’t that what we all really want here? – eln
If people want/need to get up earlier or later to take advantage of the daylight then JUST GET UP EARLIER OR LATER! There is no good reason to change the clock backward and forward. Lots of places don’t do it and they don’t have any problems. – slashname3
Tagged with: fool • health • politics
Sep 18
After our latest [interesting election][1], Western Australia has a minority government for the first time in who knows how long. Among other interesting developments, I [read today][3] that our local member, Dr [Graham][2] [Jacobs][4] has been appointed our first Minister for Mental Health. Kudos to [Mr Barnett][5] firstly for creating the ministry in the first place, and secondly for his wise choice in Minister.
[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Australian_state_election,_2008
[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Jacobs
[3]: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/09/18/2368257.htm
[4]: http://www.grahamjacobs.com.au/
[5]: http://www.mp.wa.gov.au/colinbarnett/
Tagged with: esperance • health • mental health • politics
Aug 06
The Australian Minister for Aging released figures last week showing that [Marriage Increases Life Expectancy][1]. Good news. Now I just need to exercise more and [get my HDLs up][2].
[1]: http://www.health.gov.au/internet/ministers/publishing.nsf/Content/mr-yr08-je-je135.htm?OpenDocument
[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-density_lipoprotein
Tagged with: family • health • marriage
May 16
This photo came to me on [my pharmacy mailing list][1] the other day. Apparently it is a real mural on the ceiling of a smoker’s lounge in some new hotel.
That would surely make more of an impact than any of the latest anti-smoking ads on TV!
[1]: http://auspharmlist.net.au
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