Had to run back home to get something to eat and get ready to pick up my mom at SFO. Perfect timing! The baby stepped on the umbilical cord in time for the doctor to see on the chart, forcing her to admit Grace for induced labor…
More monitoring…
She doesn’t appear nervous at all…. And yes, she gets her own direct line in the hospital…. Since cell phones are not allowed, this is her only way to communicate with the outside world for now.
As of 5PM today, Grace was admitted into Labor and Delivery when we went for a cervical exam. Based a fetal monitoring chart, the doctor decided her amniotic fluid was too low for baby to move around.
More news will be updated when I am more connected to the Internet… Expected delivery time is early tomorrow morning or tomorrow night PST.
Shit…. no baby name yet…
This is the chart that was responsible for sending Grace into Labor and Delivery. There was a dip in fetus’ hearth beat, alarming the doctor that the baby may have pressed on the umbilical cord for a short moment.
I guess there’s still some work to be done with Tiger… Or maybe my hardware is getting old and unresponsive? Either way… this is messed up… Menu littered with two layers of text from two different apps…. I have only seen it a couple of times though… But that a couple of times too many. But I’ll take this over virus-ridden Windows any day!
After almost 7 months of waiting, my application to adjust my status from H1-B (temporary worker) to F1 (student) finally got approved. Seven months is considered speedy. In the past, I have heard stories of waiting for a F1 visa for a year and a half. Hopefully I’ll be able to complete the classes I think are useful to me and move on to the next stage of life professionally and personally. We are still struggling whether or not to stay in the United States since our application to immigrate to Canada is still pending.
Before you flame me about how foreign workers are just taking jobs away from Americans, everything I have done has been through legal means. And I pay my taxes just like everyone else though I don’t get to enjoy any of the benefits an American tax payer would. But I ain’t complaining. I am a visitor, and I gladly follow the rules and policies set forth by the policy makers of the land.
Finally, a Republican leadership with a spine and “conscience”. BBC is reporting that Senator Bill Frist is to support the stem cell research bill that was already passed in the House of Representatives.
Maybe there are some good souls in the Republican Party. It’s also interesting to note that Senator Frist was a surgeon himself before trying his luck at politics. So there, Church and State just don’t go well… Science is the way to go.
Heather blogs about her daughter earlier this week about her trip to a conference in CA, away from her daughter.
This is going to be a brief and much needed break from the sleep schedules and food flinging and did I mention that Leta can now etch words in glass from four feet away? The sound she makes, it’s like Björk inhaled helium laced with acid.
WTF. “Like Björk inhaled helium laced with acid”? Great, I can’t wait to meet my own baby…
Another insert from the same entry:
Tomorrow morning I leave for Santa Clara to attend BlogHer Conference where hundreds of women will be gathering to talk of estrogen, progesterone, dilated cervixes, nipple cream, jumbo tampons, the color and consistency of their discharges, ovulation, the size of your penis, whether or not a hand job should include gratuitous rubbing of the balls or is it better just to stick with the up and down, and how many times has your kid walked in on you and your husband and wondered what all that wiggling was about?
See. Told you she’s bold and funny!
Nothing new or particularly innovative. They do look cute though. They are available at, of all places, Home Depot.
via [Gizmodo]
Thanks to our baby registry, we’ve been getting a lot of stuff from friends and family. The one thing that I noticed about infants and toddlers related electronic products is this — they are all pieces of crap with huge battery consumption requirements.
Sure, I can understand why most of them require multiple huge size “D” batteries, but why do manufactures have to make them with such low quality and poor craftsmanship? Does being made in China has anything to do with it? Why is it that low quality products are almost always associated with the notion of “Made in China”? And truly, I have not used anything decent coming out of China as of late.
Speaking of batteries, they are so darn expensive in the U.S.! What’s the deal with that? It’s not like Americans do any better job recycling the batteries. Is it because the manufacturers can charge any amount and get away with it? Or does it cost more to make them FOR the United States market while exact the same batteries are way cheaper elsewhere because they are made locally? I’d love to find some answers on the myth of high battery costs in the U.S.
Within 24 hours of Microsoft launching its mandatory piracy check during Windows update procedure, the process was cracked.
Before pressing ‘Custom’ or ‘Express’ buttons paste this text to the address bar and press enter:
It turns off the trigger for the key check.
What else is new? Bring it on, sucka.
UPDATE: Here is another way to do it.
[Via boingboing]
Found this site, Apple Consultants Network, through MacSlash. I had no idea Apple maintains a site to help promote its certified consultants. It’s a win-win-win situation. Too bad the site isn’t more publicized to the consumers. Well, maybe to pro-sumers and corporate enterprises.
A developer put together a site that compares Virtual Earth and Google Maps, side-by-side. Finally now I can “use” Virtual Earth, or at least part of its features made available on this site.
What’s cool about this site is, as you drag one map and move about, the other map will refresh itself and move after your mouse is released. So this makes it easy to see the differences in the maps. And of course this entry wouldn’t be complete without a screenshot of the missing Apple Campus in Cupertino.
This reminds me of an earlier entry of someone making a Yahoo and Google search engines side by side. It won’t be long until someone comes up with a site that compares all four major mapping services on one page.
Wired is running an article on how Google came about from its two humble founders.
I especially liked this part:
[Sergey] Brin, the Russian-born son of a NASA scientist and a University of Maryland math professor, emigrated to the US with his family at the age of 6. By the time he was a middle schooler, Brin was a recognized math prodigy. He left high school a year early to go to UM. When he graduated, he immediately enrolled at Stanford, where his talents allowed him to goof off. The weather was so good, he told me, that he loaded up on nonacademic classes – sailing, swimming, scuba diving. He focused his intellectual energies on interesting projects rather than actual course work.
I guess in order to make it in the business world, working hard is no longer enough. It’s so competitive nowadays that it’s also essential to be a prodigy in something to win.