Yesterday, in a bizarre effort to celebrate the end of our conference, my research manager stuck an infoDot on me.  The InfoDot was one topic of discussion at Thursday's event, a 2-dimensional bar code that stores more data than a standard linear bar code and is primarily used to identify surgical instruments.  Since one of the concerns is that it would fall off an implement and into the surgical field, I thought I'd leave it on as a scientific experiment and see how long it lasted.  So far it's been through a 2-mile run and a shower.  Not sure if that is comparable to being autoclaved 2,000 times.  It's also been mistaken for a pen mark, a giant mole, and a screw coming out of my neck á la Frankenstein.

Someone left this card on my windshield when I was at Golden Gate Park a few weeks ago.  Who does that?  Kind of cute, but would have been decidely less so if I saw the person actually placing it there.

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