Saturday, October 31, 2009

Tonka nostalgia

Wow, this takes me back. I think this Green Giant truck was my first. I also had this cement mixer, and this camper, and the beach buggy, and the tiny Tonka pick-up, and a Ny-lint pickup and trailer, and a couple of hydraulic dump trucks, and a bright yellow road grader :)

Friday, October 16, 2009

Enough already

Can we software folks take an oath that we're not going to build radiation treatment systems that fry patients?
2008
The Gamma Knife
2000
incidents at the National Cancer Institute in Panama
1980s
the infamous Therac-25.