This short documentary flew across my feed today about Max Headroom. If you were alive in the 80’s you likely remember the character from videos, commercials or his own short-lived series.
Space Feather Productions takes deep dive into the fictional AI character Max Headroom (played by actor Matt Frewer) who came to cable fame in the mid-1980s.
For your viewing pleasure, I present a little bit of awesome from one of the greatest comedies ever, ¡Three Amigos!. This movie has it all…it’s a musical, comedy, action and love story all wrapped up by an all-star cast. Line-for-line, one of the most quotable films produced!
It’s been a long time coming, but Canon just released the beta version of their newest software, allowing your computer to see a Canon EOS camera to be natively recognized as a webcam device. This was possible before, but required extra video capture cards and degraded quality over HDMI. I have been a big fan of Canon cameras for a very long time but always lamented on why they didn’t use the built-in USB port to directly connect to a USB port on your camera. Harris Heller does a great job explaining the newest features in this Youtube Video
I love listening to (and reading) Alan Watts. His unique perspective on the Universe and humanity’s role as part of this thing we call “life” has altered my views on several subjects…from the meta to the mundane. Here is a recent recording of one of his lectures…I hope you’re ready 🙂
You can learn more about Alan Watts at the Alan Watts Organization and Alan Watts on Wikipedia.
So, my battle with my liver has landed me in the hospital once again. I went yesterday to get some routine blood tests and they came back with a dangerously low Hemoglobin Count of 6.3. The normal range for males is 13.5 – 17.5. Because the liver carries out over 500 functions in the body, when it’s not working as designed, it can lead to many other illnesses. One common symptom is anemia, which I have, which basically translates to less oxygen in my blood.
How do they fix it? Blood transfusion. Since this rollercoaster ride began back in September of 2019, I’ve probably been given 15 or more pints of hemoglobin-rich blood to immediately give my system a boost.
So I’m back again…still determined to beat this thing, and hoping that healthy donor liver becomes available sooner rather than later. I was told l would likely wait 1-4 months before the right organ becomes available and we’re just passing into month 3 since I was officially put on the national donor list. Unfortunately a partial transplant from a living donor is not an option in my case, but thank you to the several family and friends that have offered…that’s truly amazing.
Advent Hospital in Orlando is one of the top liver transplant hospitals in the world, and I am lucky to live only a few miles away. My team of doctors, nurses and techs are caring, knowledgable and treat me like a member of their family, so I try my best to keep them entertained (my current leading complaint I tell them that I specifically requested an oceanside view) 🙂
The hospital itself is relatively empty, no visitors due to Covid-19 and they have all of the Covid patients quarantined in a different building. I never ever thought I’d be dealing with liver disease, compounded by a worldwide pandemic. The Universe keeps throwing curveballs at me.
But when life throws you curveballs, you gotta make some curveball-ade!
– Diggz
P.S. Thank you all for your continued support of kind words and gifts of home-cooked meals and my special team of family and friends who check in on me multiple times a day. I feel truly blessed knowing so many people care, which is one reason I try to post updates like this one. You can also help by making a tax-deductible donation at http://donate.diggz.org.
One of the first Radiolab episodes I ever listened to from 2007 features Diana Deutsch, a professor specializing in the Psychology of Music, who could extract song out even the most monotonous of drones. (Think Ben Stein in Ferris Bueller. Bueller.)
I remembered this when I was tasked to create a unique ringtone for Tropo’s Phono WebRTC client. Few actually know that I borrowed the ringtone for Phono directly from this Radiolab episode.
It’s an age old question with some startling results…. do we really see blue? This episode of #RadioLab deep-dives into the concept of colors.
http://www.wnycstudios.org/story/211119-colors/
