I think your bitmap just ate my jpeg...

As we know, technology hates me. Teach a class, projector won't work. Computer crashes. Email won't work. Bill Gates spits at me. Just on and on. Caplin's rule #135: Technology will fail you when you need it the most. Case in point-We have xray. We don't have a Radiologist to read them; we are supposed to read them.  A radiology link will be set up later over the internet. However our IT department says that we will wipe out most of Southern Afghanistan's internet with our first chest xray. This, I believe, is a problem. More prisoners will tunnel out of jail. As the guards are cursing in Pashtu at Facebook. Really? A tunnel? No wonder they were out of "Great Escape" DVD's at the Bazaar. Gitmo ain't looking so bad now, is it? "Why is this tunnel so wet? I hear the ocean. Dig, we get to Florida, drive taxi." Anyway back to technology. I burned a cd of the chest xray that I really needed to be read and took it to the Role 3 radiologist to read. I went back and because of political reasons he couldn't do an official read but he would do an unofficial "wet read." So he pops in the DVD and ...nothing. "Read error; you must download a viewer." What's the word I'm looking for? Oh yea, shit. Moment lost. I go back to Larry, our xray dude and he pops it back in the computer and gets the same error messege. I must of pissed off a microchip in a previous life. Now what? I got this guy who may have TB and I have no way to prove or disprove it. Maybe those escaped prisoners need a PA. But wait I just went to a lecture on resources for deployed medical personnel. Wait, I'm a deployed medical personnel. I read the follow up email and there is a way to get a read on xrays if your a ship at sea. Hmmm, Ok I'm in the desert. Deserts have camels. Camels are ships of the dessert. Perfect. The nice man in Dallas sends me the info on converting xrays to jpegs. I am not the guy to do this. Larry, you're on. Of course, because I'm standing in the room we fail miserably. He sends me to the google to find a solution. Really, me? Ok to the internets and beyond...Microsoft paint can convert it by holding down the print page button while convertng the file to a jpeg and attaching to a html based webserver. Ok I have no idea what I just said but what the heck. We try it and we don't have paint. But we click on the file and somehow by hocus pocus, Mark try and focus, it converts to a paint file. Holy smokes! Now we have to email it. Of course that don't work from the xray computer. But, wait I have a large thumb drive in my desk. We can save it to that then transfer it to my computer and email from there. Genus I tells you. And it worked. Another crisis solved, or partially solved. Just part of my day. Who knew that I was computer savvy? Definately not my computer. So it has been emailed from the USS Landlocked. Will wait and see.

The xray in question