Matt & Jen Simerson

Someone finally helped me understand why I don’t enjoy watching the news. It’s well worth the read, as is the linked article by Atul Gawande on the high cost of health care, which I linked to previously because I thought it was so excellent.

Last year my step-father-in-law Bill died of Leukemia. Months later, Mitzi, his wife and my mother-in-law, died of colon cancer. What I think many people don’t know is that when medical personal arrive at a home, they have a legal  obligation to administer medical care. In these cases, that likely means attempting to resuscitate them. [...]

Grocery IQ ($0.99) – shopping lists
- organizes by store & aisle, includes a large DB of items, and you can email the list to your SO if they’re going to be stopping by the store. My only wish for this app is that it would sync shopping lists between phones.

The Weather Channel (free) – An [...]

Duck season, wabbit season, and now BLACKBERRY season!