Conan Birding Central Park

This is hilarious!

No Excuses

VideoMD

Learned about this website tonight, VideoMD.com. I think it's a really good idea to use short videos to give health information to patients, and this is a starting point. Take a look and let me know what you think.

Shout out to Jay for passing along this info!

Another awesome find!

FORA.tv

I was looking up a person at UCSF because I missed a recent talk she gave on 'Bias and Drug Trials' and found the entire lecture at FORA.tv, such a great website to stumble upon!

Here's the down low:

FORA.tv helps intelligent, engaged audiences get smart. Our users find, enjoy, and share videos about the people, issues, and ideas changing the world.

We gather the web's largest collection of unmediated video drawn from live events, lectures, and debates going on all the time at the world's top universities, think tanks and conferences. We present this provocative, big-idea content for anyone to watch, interact with, and share --when, where, and how they want.

With our community of savvy users and an extensive, growing library of smart videos, FORA.tv is at the forefront of the ongoing integration - and transformation – of the traditional media, TV, cable, and online industries from mass-market to high-quality, high-value content.

FORA.tv was founded in 2005 and is funded by a select group of investors including William R. Hearst III and Adobe Ventures.

Excellent wisdom

Best quote: "I loved everything, life was a firehydrant"

2 questions that will paralyze you and drive you crazy :
1. What is THE passion?
2. What's the ultimate thing that you're going to do with you life, what mark are you going to make, what's the horizon?

Look at your values, your opportunities and work with the passions you have today. This makes it into an issue of just choosing between all right answers.

Love it. Watch the full 4-minute video by Randy Komisar on Academic Earth

TED: Ideas worth spreading

www.TED.com
Inspired talks by the world's leading thinkers and doers

This website is amazing, I just watched the following 3 videos and all were original, powerful, and insightful. Let me know of other cool websites I should bookmark and be following regularly!

John Wooden on the difference between Winning and Success can be found here

Ken Robinson says Schools Kill Creativity can be found here

Elizabeth Gilbert on Nurturing Creativity can be found here

3 Totally Unrelated Notes

1. This Simpsons clip about St. Patrick's Day is awesome. My mom used to sing that song to me when I was little!

2. Learn something every day: In medical/legal speak CMO means Comfort Measures Only. As I learned from this NYT blog This is differs from DNR/DNIs in that CMO means "stop doing tests, stop giving antibiotics, and start giving enough intravenous narcotics that she wouldn’t have to live in pain."

3. Information Therapy -a new area of medicine and health care that helps patients sort through medical information, be better informed and hopefully help them to feel better. Harvard Pilgrim has an awesome Interactive Conversation feature about low pack pain that I think is really cutting-edge and awesome. Found this in a WSJ article that talks about some cool stuff Kaiser is doing to help all of us understand our health, see how it changes overtime and generally be healthier because of it!

Update:
4. Kyrgyzstan is the one country in Central Asia that I could not name. It's official languages are Kyrgyz and Russian and the majority of the population is Muslim and it's supposedly an incredibly beautiful place!

Martin Luther King's I Have A Dream

45 years ago to the day.

Surfing Tubes jingle

Here's a west coast version of Jingle Bells, performed by me and the Absters.
Let me know what you think!

Shaver Lake Horseback Riding

In July I drove out to Shaver Lake and met up with my family for a weekend. It was my first time seeing them since starting my job in San Francisco, and we had a great time. I went on a run with my dad, we kayaked in the lake, and here you can watch a video made about our horseback riding trip!

PureMendocino

Here is a fun video of an unofficial UCSF Decision Services trip to the 2007 Pure Mendocino county organic food and wine festival event. All proceeds supported the Mendocino County Cancer Resource Center.

Enjoy!