Life on the Edge

Another joy of the fellowship interview season has been crashing at a variety of hotels, which brings about the inevitable process of figuring out all the quirks and idiosyncrasies of an unfamiliar shower. 

Here's the actual shower knob

from my latest hotel stopover:

Clean. Simple. Intuitive.

It lulls you into the belief that

the water temperature control will be like this:

In reality, it's like this:

Near-lethal shower knob, I solute you! Because life's too short to settle for boring predictable water temperatures.

Science strikes again

As part of the interview season for fellowship programs, I've been seeing a lot of the St Louis airport for the past few months. In that time, they've finished a tile mosaic mural near the main terminal.

It's very nice.

I think.

Maybe.

Except that every time I see it, all I can think is

"Herpes virus corneal infection."

So in other words, Bonnie wins again.

Science ruins pretty things, indeed.