Ship guy
Here’s Samuel Cunard, the guy who started the Cunard Line all those years ago. That ship in the background . . . isn’t our ship. We were docked behind that one. Oh, well. Great Art courtesy of the exclusive iPhone-cam, taken in Halifax, Nova Scotia during last year’s east coast cruise, and part of my famous Statue, Cruise, and Vacation series.
Nice bow tie, too. Not to mention some pretty awesome sideburns.
Good day today. We had LRN4’s Thursday doctor visit today. She’s in pretty good shape, although her blood levels had finally gotten low enough that she needed a shot of neupogen and a unit of hemoglobin. But that’s okay – the doctor looked it up and it had been three weeks since she was last pumped up. Not bad at all.
And speaking of three weeks, that’s how far away we are from our departure date! Assuming everything goes well! Which we hope it does, of course. We’re really getting excited to leave.
Let’s see – what are LRN4’s new, exciting symptoms these days? Well, the numbness in her feet seems to be moving around a bit. It started out pretty much in her toes. Then it gradually made its way to her heels and then up past her ankles over a period of several weeks. Now it seems to have retreated back to her toes a lot of the time, although this evening it was back to her heels. Her feet have continued to swell up a lot and it appears that the swelling is at least correlated with the moving around of the numbness, if not the cause. She also reports in the last few days that there’s a strange feeling in her legs that is associated with weakness and possible difficulty balancing. But it’s kind of vague. I don’t think the doctor quite knows what to do about that one. He thought her low red cell count might be at least a contributing factor, which I believe was a strong motivator for today’s transfusion. LRN4 doesn’t seem to think it did the trick, though.
Conclusion: cancer is weird.
Made some real progress on the iOS app today. I really need to finish this thing up so I can get back to the medical forensics business, and soon! We’re swiftly running out of time to work on that one, just as I’m swiftly running out of time to get the iOS app on the market. Work, self, work!
Anyway, I got a key feature working, mostly. Just have a couple of bugs to chase down and I think I’m there. There are still several key features remaining to be added, but things are becoming easier.
There lots of buzz today on the internets about the [amazon asin=B00DR0PDNE&text=Google Chromecast]. I must say I was pretty impressed with what I read as well (although I did just read a much less flattering review here), and Google announced an SDK is or will shortly be available for developers to pile on. It could turn into a very attractive device for a very attractive price. In fact, at that price point, I can imagine people buying it just to play around with it. I can also imagine hardware/software hackers taking a very close look at the device and coming up with some interesting things. There ought to be some fun to be had there.
How I wish Apple would release an SDK for the [amazon asin=B007I5JT4S&text=Apple TV]! My more astute Loyal Readers will recall their original plans for the iPhone, which pointedly did not include independent developer access to the device. What a mistake that was and would have remained if they had left things that way. I’m pretty positive iPhone sales would have been only a small fraction of what they ended up being, and I even have my doubts that Android would have come along. So why can’t Apple figure that out and unleash the Apple TV on developers? I think a large percentage of the apps would have ended up being games, but think of the gaming possibilities! In fact, Apple seems to have finally figured out they have an opportunity there. They’ve just begun to allow game developers to push iPhone game screens to the Apple TV, but without allowing those games to run natively on the device. Big lost opportunity as far as I’m concerned. Granted, I don’t think it would ever be as big as the iPhone and iPad have been, but I think it could have been much bigger than it is currently. I think a lot of people would buy what would essentially be a $100 Apple gaming console. And if game prices were held down to the levels we see on the iPhone, I think it would be a huge hit.
And it’s late, so I’ll leave my Loyal Readers with this shocking food violence news: chicken wing theft!
See you tomorrow.
July 26th, 2013 at 3:38 pm
I’m impressed that you remember where you took all the Great Art. I didn’t remember where we had seen Cunard. I bet Mark could compete with him in a sideburn contest!