Interesting day yesterday. I played around with a few things at home, then off to DC for my first MRI of the study. The hospital staff shuffled me off into the MRI facility inside the hospital, and there wasn’t an appointment for me. No, you’re getting your scan over at the Med School’s facility. (Several buildings away)
But got in, and started working through the paperwork with the staff. One person helped me fill the paperwork because I don’t see and write well.
Then another person comes to ask me the same questions, reading off what’d been filled.
Then a third to ask all again to see if I give any different answers.
Finally they take me back to the prep to go into the tube.
They were going to do the contrast dye on me for the study. I haven’t had it in a few years following concerns about the dye, itself.
Don’t you normally do the dye infusion after the first scan?
Yes, but we like to get the IV put in before we start.
Um. Okay.
Which arm do you want?
Don’t care.
What ensued was twenty minutes of them trying to find a vein that’d work.
Call the CRU to get the vein finder!
Uh, they’re closing. Let me call.
Nah, they’re done for the day.
Wait.
We’re not going to be able to get this done today.
Um. Okay, I guess?
So leave thirty minutes late with a few band aids on my arms, and a promise that they’ll reschedule me for as soon as they can.
The multiple reviews, however, show exactly why I’m not worried about AI invading and taking over the world. The segregation of duties might seem kind of onerous, but they’re there to protect the patients, and the facility. (In this case, the Georgetown Medical School.)
UltraGrok was gonna totally destroy the world, but Rich from corporate ethics didn’t get back from his lunch in time.
Those responsibility segregations do work. So, too, do things like hardware tokens, and timeouts.
While I still want to beat the people who start sentences with, “As an Information Security Professional,” the work they’ve done over the past fifteen years or so has helped a lot.
Newer concepts like “Zero Trust” really rely on the sort of measures users, and especially middle managers find annoying.
As annoying as the fact that there’s no more Dodge Stratus? We’ll never know.
You, know, the sorts of folks who build productive careers in government, in Minnesota.
Sure, they might be incompetent assholes, but they’re good public servants, and they took the jobs because they were promised largesse until they finally die at 75.
Meanwhile, the Democrat Party is getting taken over by really radical forces.
Michael Malice linked this from big corporate media on his Locals site..He was born in the Soviet Union; his parents brought him to the US when he was something like two years old. He’s been to North Korea.
You can prepend Democratic to Socialism, but Socialism is still a step towards the loss of all individual freedom on the way towards the inevitable Communist utopia.
For those of you in the Party of Nathan Bedford Forrest, understand that if you work with these people, I will never vote for you. Or respect you. And I’ll do everything I can to avoid doing business with you.
So, prompt….
What makes me feel unstoppable?
*chuckle* Uh, nothing? My immune system’s war on my nervous system has really taken a toll on me. But even before they figured out what’s wrong with me, I don’t force things. I just leave.