camobunny, killer of blogs and ideas

1. dead blog

a blog i read died. i think i may have killed it.

no, it's not your blog.

2. dead idea

i was on a blind date. oh my gosh, i've been on a blind date. let's not go there. anyway, he was in biomedical engineering, and was working on several projects. he was pretty successful, career-wise, and so i assume the funding he had was substantial. substantial.

one of his projects had to do with kids. since i am a paediatrician, he told me a little bit about that one.

so see, there's this thing that kids get done by specialists in the o.r., under a microscope. he wanted to design this device that would allow a pediatrician to do it in the office, thus saving the patient, the family, and the physician time, trouble, and money.

i thought he was kidding. allow me to explain further. this procedure is done on toddlers. inside one of the orifices of their heads.

so i says to this guy, i says, "are you kidding? toddlers don't hold still for you to muck around in there! that's why you take them to the o.r. you gotta knock 'em out!"

his face fell. he wasn't kidding.

i think i killed a million-dollar project, right there, in the seven seconds it took me to say that.

the moral of the story?

don't set up the camobunny on blind dates.

muhahahahahahaha!