The Academic Surgical Congress is one of my favorite annual meetings, and I’m headed there now. I got bored despite the free WiFi at Port Columbus International Airport, and wasted some time on these:

If you’re interested in the content, I’ll be live-tweeting a bit from February 3-5, 2015, over on my Twitter feed using the hashtag #ASC2015.

For the legalities: These images are created by me without the express or implied endorsement or consent of the Association for Academic Surgery, Society of University Surgeons, or the Academic Surgical Congress. The ASC logo was downloaded from http://www.academicsurgicalcongress.us/graphics/framework/LOGO/Logo-FB1200sq.jpg on 2 February 2015, and is used here without express permission; I believe its use here qualifies as Fair Use by using a lower-resolution version of the original, transforming the original by adding content and additional images, advocating for rather than detracting from its original intent, and having minimal commercial impact on the Academic Surgical Congress and its affiliates. The original “double down” image was downloaded from http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Double_down.JPG on 2 February 2015, was released under the CC0/”public domain” license as noted on that page, and was modified by me for this image. The original “full houses in poker” image was originally created by user “17177“, modified by user “Tintazul, and downloaded from http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Full_houses_in_poker.JPG on 2 February 2015 before being modified by me for this image. As noted on that page, it was released under the CC-Attribution-ShareAlike 1.0 Generic License and as such the resulting image is released under the same license, necessarily restricted to appropriate copyright use of the included ASC logo. The “10 of spades” image was downloaded from http://pixabay.com/p-28363/ on 2 February 2015, was released under the CC0/”public domain” license as noted on that page, and was modified by me for this image.