Drunken Pumpkin

A team of Canadian surgeons got a shock when the patient they were operating on began shedding dark greenish-black blood, the Lancet reports.

In this case, the unusual colour of the 42-year-old’s blood was down to the migraine medication he was taking.

The man’s leg surgery went ahead successfully and his blood returned to normal once he eased off the drug.

Full article available on BBC.co.UK

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you!

430 B.C.

I don’t know who that Simon Slavin chap is that Jeff quoted yesterday, but I’d be surprised if he isn’t on a list from Homeland Security. For that matter I’m kind of shocked that I’m not on a Homeland Security list. Although, I am apparently not, since they let me leave the country and come back. Maybe they can’t sort out who I am either. When I looked up Simon I found a psychologist, sociologist, and some guy that builds robots. They might all be the same guy, but I couldn’t really tell.

My concern about my own state in relation to Security is probably all in my head. I tend to think of things as being a little more important than they really are. I’ll grant that Jeff and I have said some things that may be construed as seditious, mainly Jeff, but I also tend to assume that someone that cares about these kind of things is reading this page. So far, that hasn’t been the case. Either that or they are just biding their time to have a quiet word in a small room somewhere. Who knows.

Speaking of my insecurity, we have at least three different stat trackers on the site. Jeff and I are constantly trying to figure out just what it is our visitors are looking for when they come here. So far, no luck. Our traffic really seems to come at random. Apart from that colorectal surgeon thing; I think nearly everyone hits that post at least once. I really don’t get that at all. Maybe we should stick to jokes about the colon. Or we could expand to the semicolon. Or perhaps lay off the bad puns.

Anyway, we have all of these things to see who was looking at what in order to give out more of the kind of things that people want to see. In fact, we have even asked quite bluntly what it is you want from your visit to Drunken Pumpkin, but we never get any responses. And then our numbers will make some wild fluctuation and I have to stay in bed for three days with the covers over my head. It’s really very sad.

But lately the numbers have been moving back in an upward direction, and that’s a really nice thing. So, I’m going to let that ride for right now. Especially since I have no idea why it’s happening.

Tune in tomorrow for more paranoia and grief from a occasional fire-eater and a data analyst.