You know what I realized this evening... if you think about what we all want in a user interface for an OS, it is exactly what Linux/Mac/Windows are headed towards. The problem isn't hardware, it is software at this point. Up until 2000 we could always blame processing power for our GUI not meeting our expectations. But now, all the operating systems are making headway towards what we expect in a GUI. MAC and Linux are taking the the path of having very limited hardware support to achieve some marginal result with their computers. The problem is that we are either limited to buying MACs , or we are forced to buy specific hardware that is Linux compatible.
I have to admit though that I have been a big Windows critic (though I have a Windows box and Linux box running side by side on my desktop), but I have partially come around. I downloaded WMP 11 this evening and it made me realize that Windows does in fact listen to what we are saying... they are just restricted by the laws of society in that they have to make a product that is appealing to everyone while simultaneously being compliant with all the copyright laws that are out there. I thought I had a pretty smokin system overall... I am one of those build a computer yourself guys who updates components as needed. Still, I was thinking that true transparency would be nice. There is a kind of transparency that is available with linux, but it is not true hardware acceleration... not in the way that I would want it. I think that the home desktop is headed in the direction that Cray station have for almost a decade now. They have a primary processor surrounded by 8 subprocessors which are dedicated for more specialized tasks. I think that we are going in the right direction with deallocating graphics manipulation to the GPU rather than trying to specialize the CPU for doing these kind of things. I have to admit that MAC has a hands up on this avenue, but they are able to do it because they control the hardware that goes into their computer. Windows is forced to be compatible with every joe-schmoe hardware that comes around. If Aero and glass actually come to fruition, I will be definitely shell out the extra money to purchase a high end system, if it means that I will be able to fully appreciate the OS. Alright, I am drunk, so I am going to bed now....

Well, it is another day in the life of Soup. It was another slow day here in the nuc med department, which means that I had a bit of time to study. They don't really expect much from me yet, which is good since I don't have much to give.
I really wish my life was more exciting so that I would have cool things to write about in my blog. I shall leave you on that note.

I finally got around to scheduling my Step 3 exam, which I have been putting off for a month now. The motivation to study for it is pretty low at this point. I was originally going to take it at the beginning of June, but I didn't really have much time to study for it in May which caused me to postpone it. Unfortunately, I already wasted $150 on Kaplan q-bank for May and didn't get around to using it for the most part. I guess I should order it again, but it really hurts to pay for that kind of thing twice.
At any rate, I went out on the town last night. I was actually surprised at the brisk night life in Columbus. I can imagine that it will get a lot more crazy once the undergrads come back in Aug, though I am not sure if that is a good thing or bad thing. Well, I should get back to reading since I don't know jack about nuc med and the attending that I am working with right now loves to ask questions.

So, I am in Columbus Ohio now, and I just went through my first day of radiology. I am actually on Nuc Med right now which is a pretty slow service.
At any rate, I have this lady friend who I have been talking to for a couple of months. I am not exactly sure what a lady friend is, which is why I think that is the most appropriate title to give her. She thinks that I am mean and annoying, which I guess is a fair assessment of me. Did I mention that I didn't tell her that I was moving to Ohio until two weeks prior to moving.... some might say "that's pretty mean," to those people, I would like to reference the previous statement.
Alright, it is time to go to bed. Until next time.

There is this program that I have been working on which is supposed to interpret MRI images. More specifically, it will try to isolate out the different parts in an image as being a part of various structures. The first step is to get the program to identify what is body wall; once that is done, you can assume anything inside the body wall is part of some internal organ or structure. This is considerably more complicated a task than I initally anticipated. After a year and a half and two complete rewrite, I finally have an algorithm which can do the first part of the task reasonably well, which is to identify the body wall. I would put up a sample image, but blogger doesn't seem to want to let me upload. Oh well... back to work