Zack Mahdavi's Blog

A bunch of photos taken throughout medical school in Galveston. Good times!

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Toyota’s troubles continue to worsen. After being ridiculed for the past several weeks as producing “deathtraps”, leaked corporate memos are now beginning to appear.

The New York Times today reported that in 2009, Toyota knew about the unintended acceleration issue. The company saved themselves $100 million by limiting the recall to only the floormats of 2007 Camry’s and ES 350s.

In other words, Toyota looked to help their bottom line by sacrificing their goal to always “do the right thing.” It appears that not only did Toyota cost themselves billions by doing a much larger recall now, they’ve also lost much of the credibility they used to have.

I went out to Denver for a neurosurgery rotation and stayed with Jeff, Turing, and Edie. Maria came along with me on the roadtrip up and back.

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Maria has been hard at work on our wedding website. It has finally gone live. Announcing ZackAndMaria.com, the official wedding website for Zack Mahdavi and Maria Joseph!

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This is video from the engagement puja. If you’re interested in seeing what a hindu engagement party looks like, then I’m sure you’ll find this interesting. The priest is speaking in Sanskrit the entire time, which is now considered a written language only.

If anyone is interested in a full HD copy of this video on a DVD, just let me know.

March 7, 2010

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I’ve been meaning to post this for a while. It’s my all time favorite daily show clip. Enjoy!

I apologize for not posting anything new in over a year. Wordpress decided to start being dumb and wouldn’t accept new entries, and I was too lazy to figure out what the problem was.

Since April 8, 2008, a lot has happened:
- I took the USMLE Step 1 exam in June. One headache finally over!
- Moved from Galveston to Austin in June to start my 3rd and 4th year rotations.
- Put up the first iPhone medical calculator on the App Store: Mediquations

- Proposed to Maria on September 19, 2008! Wedding date is set for January 2, 2010.

- Upgraded to a Nikon D90 after sadly parting ways with my D50. The D90 is a great camera, btw. Highly recommended!
- Obama is our new president! I have high expectations for him, but I am sure he will deliver. He is a very smart, highly educated, pro-science, pro-technology, anti-unnecessary war man. That should make for a winning combination!