leaky spots and bariatric surgery

Today I learned that even though we sealed the concrete floors where we took up carpet, something is getting through around the edge at the walls. The source could be the 2x4s, it could be the bottom of the wallboard, or it could be the paper on the outside of the wallboard. My money's on the paper, but my directional nose is only good down to increments of about six inches (15 cm), so we'll have to actually go around with some aluminum tape or something so I can play process of elimination.

In other news, medical equipment developers are talking about performing bariatric surgery through people's, um, bodily orifices instead of poking holes in them to reach affected organs. Down toward the bottom of the article it gets into venture capital, and I know this quote probably makes sense if you know more about venture capitalists and ten-year horizons (read the article), but here's the quote of the day:

"A lot of us who didn't invest in this area five years ago are glad we didn't," Wrubel said.