OK, I have a bottle of wine in me, and I spent the better part of my day hacking away at a report that annoys the micturation out of me, but Monica and I just watched Children Of Men and it it quite possible the best film I have seen in a decade. We are keeping this one for a few more days; we need to watch it again tomorrow.
July 2007 Archives
For when "astronomical", "colossal", "enormous", "gigantic", "herculean", "immense", "mammoth", "massive", "monstrous", "monumental", "titanic", "tremendous", and "vast" won't quite cut it, and you want to sound like a boob.
Merriam-Webster has blessed "GINORMOUS." Be sure to use it in your school writing projects, kids.
I just finished reading Atul Gawande's "Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance." The publicity I had heard surrounding it led me to believe that, while this book was specifically about surgery and the way surgeons improve, it might be a worthy treatise on the art of improvement in general. While I didn't find its insights quite that universal there are a few points worthy of reflection. I hasten to point out that, though it wasn't quite what I was expecting, its a good read in its own right, both for the case studies of people in the medical profession who have made strides in improving the outcome of patients to the insiders view of a number of the financial and ethical issues facing modern western medicine. Well worth a weekends effort.
