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More than you ever wanted to know about Dave...
(under construction)
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This is Dave's field of study...
My field of medicine is orthopedics, which I like because it's straight-forward, pragmatic and effective. Plus we get to use lots of fun power tools while really helping people at the same time. Max Park, Sandra's cousin, is also an ortho resident, which is cool because Max and I both did law before going into medicine. Anyways, to the right is a diagram of the research I do. For a long time, people thought cartilage could not heal and that people who get cartilage injuries are doomed to eventually get arthritis. These days, people have a lot of theories on how to artificially either create cartilage or augment cartilage's healing capability. My research is on the tissue engineering side, where we harvest lots of cartilage producing cells and dump them into injured sites and hope they make new cartilage. Kind of controversial still... |
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This is one of Dave's favorite sports teams...
It was hard to decide between the Detroit Red Wings, the Michigan Wolverines, and the Detroit Lions. But the Red Wings get the nod here because this is such a cool picture of Kirk Maltby (my favorite Red Wing) scoring against the Colorado Avalanche, my least favorite team in all of sports. Maltby's my favorite because although he's not that skilled (he's a third line player), he always plays with lots of heart. So every time he's out there, he makes a difference with his energy and grit. Honorable mention would have gone to Tom Brady and Sam Sword of the Wolverines, and Chris Spielman and the incomparable Barry Sanders of the Detroit Lions. Even though Spielman did used to be an Ohio State Buckeye. |
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This is Dave's favorite recipe...
For those of you who don't know, my BBQ ribs are WORLD FAMOUS. They have that "falling off the bone" tenderness on the inside, and a crispy sweet glaze on the outside. I honestly have not tasted their equal in any restaurant. Here then is the secret recipe...
Take your favorite bbq sauce and mix 1:1 with honey. Baste a rack of baby back ribs and wrap tightly in foil. Slow bake at 300 F for 3 hours. Remove from oven and drain off fat. With meat side up, baste again in honey-bbq mixture, followed by 1/4 cup of brown sugar sprinkled on top. Broil for 5 minutes until sugar glazes and serve. I think this dish will impress even the most demanding of Southern belles! |
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This is Dave's favorite animal...
In 1997, off the Farrallon Islands near San Francisco, a mother orca and her calf were seen swimming idly along when a 10-foot great white shark was noticed trailing behind at a distance. Suddenly, the mother disappeared. As the on-lookers wondered what happened, the mother whale emerged from below, seized the shark in her jaws and proceeded to calmly tear it apart. In minutes, the calf was seen feeding on choice parts of the former great white. Amazingly, this sequence was caught on videotape, and you can see it at www.extremescience.com/GreatWhiteShark.htm.
Orcas. They eat great whites. 'Nuff said. |
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This is my favorite movie...
Ahh, "Rocky". Anyone who knows me has at some time endured my spiel about why this is just a great movie. Widely misunderstood and mocked for its final "Adrian! Adrian!" scene, what people fail to realize is that this is the story of a man who views himself as a failure, and a woman who views herself as worthless. It's really a story of finding some self-respect, as evidenced by the scene before the fight where Rocky admits to himself and Adrian that, although he doesn't have a chance to actually win, he wants at least to last the full 15 rounds to know for the first time that he's not a bum. And sure, he's not the most articulate guy, but come on - you have to be moved that when the bell rings, he spurns all talk of rematch or who won or how much money he's going to get, and instead just starts calling out in his confusion for Adrian. Very pure-hearted I think. Honorable mention to: Midnight Run, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence and Twelve Angry Men.
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Did you know...
...that I am 4-1 in eating contests? Victories include
* a 12 chili dog outing memorialized on the Wall of Shame at the Rockford Corner Bar;
* a 5 Big Mac & 3 Large Fries outing at McDonald's;
* a 57 pieces of sushi eating effort; and
* the downing of a 7x7 burger at In 'N Out (a 2x2 is shown to the right for comparison).
The loss was suffered at the Broken Yolk, where I unsuccessfully tried to take on the Broken Yolk Challenge: a 12 egg omelette filled with chili, onions, mushrooms and about a pound of cheese, plus a heap of home fries and two biscuits each the size of a fist. They had to drive me home from that failed escapade. |
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Secret Shame!
How far would you go to get a nice donut? How about a hot, fresh, glazed donut, fresh off the fryer? Well, when I was in law school these guys in our law fellowship who were from the South kept talking about Krispy Kreme donuts, and how if you got 'em while the "HOT" sign was on, they were so good you could "eat a dozen without thinking about it." I really wanted to go, but there were no Krispy Kremes in the area. That summer I was in San Francisco, and was talking to then Sue Kim (now Sue Kim Ahn), who was from Atlanta. And when talking about Krispy Kreme, she too raved that if you get 'em hot, "you could EAT A DOZEN WITHOUT THINKING ABOUT IT." Well, mad with curiosity, I couldn't take it anymore and woke up at 4am one morning to run over to the school bakery. There, early in the morning, they would bake, among other things, HOT donuts! So although I wasn't in the South, I had hot donuts, along with juice and milk and coffee and all sorts of other pastries (they were very nice). Kind of embarassing how Homer-esque I can be at times...
"What kind of a secret shame is THAT? Why don't you tell everyone what your REAL secret shame is, Dave?" Sandra
"Eeep!" Dave
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