To begin my career as an attending physician, I purchased an iMac Pro (dubbed Odin at the time), to handle the majority of my day-to-day productivity tasks. I bumped up the specifications slightly to make the device more “future proof” and also added two, vertically-oriented monitors to facilitate programming, web…
As part of preparing my new apartment for attending-hood, I modified my previous Hackintosh to be a Windows computer specifically made for gaming.
In preparation for my furniture’s arrival from Boston tomorrow, I decided to continue my “smart apartment” set up by upgrading the stock Honeywell thermostat to an Ecobee3 Lite smart thermostat. I went with this particular model since it’s compatible with Apple’s Homekit and reasonably priced. Fortunately my apartment has a…
The Internet has become the backbone of entertainment, communication, education, business, and security. However, with the rise of social media in the early 2000s, individuals could now take the “high school bullying” phenomenon to a grander scale via cyber bullying. Through comments, direct messages, etc., anyone could say anything for…
I recently upgraded Orion’s storage partition from an old Western Digital Green drive that I had been running for years to a Seagate FireCuda solid state hard drive (SSHD). The primary reason for this upgrade was to have a combination of extra storage space (2 TB) with speed (the SSD…
Better late than never! I have a Windows partition on my workstation for gaming, and I’ve recently rekindled my love of the Final Fantasy series. In my late teens, I played Final Fantasy X, X-2, VII, VIII, and IX on console. I stopped playing because Final Fantasy XI followed a…
Before heading home to Houston, I was able to purchase the ASUS ROG Strix Vega 64 graphics processing unit (GPU). At the time of this writing, this is arguably the most powerful GPU compatible with Mac OS Mojave out of the box. Furthermore, it’ll give an immense boost to gaming…
The hysteria surrounding Apple Watch 4’s single lead electrocardiogram (ECG) feature has simmered down over the last few months, but it was brought to my attention that pacemaker activity can also be detected by the application. Unlike 12-lead ECGs which provide significant amounts of data to localize pathologies to certain…
My old $100 tempered glass desk from Walmart that survived roughly five years between my residency and fellowships finally met its demise a few days ago. Coincidentally, it was the same weekend that I decided to revamp Orion with a Corsair H115i Pro RGB AIO CPU cooler (wonderful for overclocks),…
Ten years ago on this day, I registered my current domain name, rk.md, through the country code top-level domain for Moldova. At that time, this site was running WordPress 2.7 using the original TinyMCE visual editor. I had no idea what it would become throughout my medical training.