There are two channels I watch every day. The one with the most immediate impact on my life is The Weather Channel. The other channel is CNN Headlines, which contains events that will affect me in a more indirect fashion. Finally, there is one show I watch week after week. Sometimes I sit on the edge of my seat, and sometimes by the end of the show, I'm off my seat and on the rug in front of the T.V. Other emergency physicians may nitpick some of the medical aspects of the show, but there's no question that the human drama of the show E.R. is right on the money.
Nothing puts the petty problems of day to day living in perspective like seeing the light of a galaxy that was sent out way 4 million years ago. Here's a recent photo from the Hubble Space telescope:
For some good astronomy links visit Sky and Telescope Magazine.
Here's Lindsay in front of my Acura Integra GSR
Sometimes, late at night, after coming home from an evening shift at work, I sit in a big easy chair in the corner of the family room and read my Baha'i prayer book. The rest of the house is asleep, and the lights are turned low. The effect is very spiritual. Here's my drawing of the view.
