overstated

a weblog by cameron marlow

Health monitoring systems

Robert Cringely’s personal narrative about losing his child is heartbreaking, having realized his son Chase was dead on his lap while he wrote email. The cause of death was determined to be SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome), a disorder that is little understood, or even studied for that matter, due to a lack of medical [...]

Trading baseballs for cigarettes

Oh, Darryl Strawberry, where did it all go wrong? On his umpteeth conviction, a Florida judge finally sentenced him to 18 months in jail. The former all-star was caught “breaking the rules of the drug treatment center by smoking, having sex with a resident and trading baseballs for cigarettes.” Only Robert Downey Jr. could compete [...]