No dear, those are star streaks from a long exposure shot. The lens is open long enough to capture the motion of the stars, which is to slight for us dumb, slow humans to pick up on! :D

Nina: Is there room for two? It looks pretty small...

Anyone who wants a tour of my inventory just has to ask... I'll even give demostrations! :D

Aw crap, you got her started again! Lynne dear, here's your cumezykyana thingy, now quit hurting your head. We need those brain cells intact! :D Soon you can have a wiki waki woo too!

No funny comments from me on this one. It would be sacreligious! This is one of the first pictures I remember, and it literally took my breath away. I sat and looked at this picture for over an hour before I could do anything else again. Motts, you've never taken a bad picture (that we know of), but this here is the million dollar shot!

They still do! Ever try walking into a morgue and asking to take a body out on loan? :D

Ah, the Mute's Bridle... Most useful when someone has been very naughty, much too naughty to get a regular ball gag... Will it surprise anyone that I actually have this?

I love you! I haven't seen one of those in years!!!! Ah the 8" days... When it took a special room and a specially trained person just to find the program you needed!

Deat? What's that supposed to mean... Oh, wait, Death? :D Were all the windows broken out like this?

Actually, it looks a lot like a jack we use on one of the tractors out here... I'll have to see if I can find it again to compare... Although, it could be an overly complicated hand clamp for my bedstand too!

Soap dispensers of the world: unite! (Sorry Motts)

I will... Wouldn't the soap all leak out of that? I mean, the bowl to hold the soap is upside down!!!

Well, sometimes we doctors like to sit down on something comfortable whilst giving exams. Nothing wrong with that is there? :D

Slightly less exact, but more poetic, translation:

Once they were floating palaces, but now they are only ghosts.

Aww come one Lynne, we all know that the people who know most about the field are those who don't actually do anything in it! ;) It's like, I work in insurance, so of course MY view of what happens here is wrong because I actually see it.

To Lynne, Marcia, and everyone else in this field: Most of us realize that you are trying your best to do what can be done, and we don't think you're abusive. There are a few whack-jobs who won't believe the truth when it's right in their faces. Like Lynne said, the hell with 'em. They're too stupid to matter... :D

Hehehehe, yeah, same idea, much stronger. A good lightbox will let you get 10,000 lux at roughly 3 feet away (this is about the same amount of light as you would get on a bright spring morning). Of course, most have filtered out the harmful UV rays, which are the ones that give you a tan, so you can spend all day in front of it and still be pale and pasty.

Lynne and Twug: How could you go and not dress up? It adds so much to the show!!! Then again, you haven't lived until you've seen Dr. Sketch prancing around on stage in women's underwear and 6" heels! I played Frank for 2 years in the live portion of the show...

Whoa... Way to heavy! Dr. Sketch perscribes some humor for this picture: I don't think that's the easiest way to sterilize people, is it? :D
Just to throw in, it isn't always just doing a large load of equipment; sometimes large items need to be sterilized too. Having received burns from items out of an autoclave before (my own stupidity), I can't imagine how anyone would think this could be used for torture: no one would survive it! I'd rather be forced to think about sitz baths all day than think about being in a running autoclave!