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| Random geek thought |
[Sep. 9th, 2009|12:22 pm] |
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In the original Spiderman origin story Peter Parker creates the web fluid and shooters in high school. If he was always so short of money instead of trying to get on TV why didn't he take that formula to Stark Labs and say "Hi I have a patent on a instant epoxy that hardens in contact with air, is as strong as steel and yet fixable enough that you can swing from it oh and these shooters can make anything form a line to a net.
Please give me a grant, a lab and a big paycheck to create more cool stuff.
Your friendly neighborhood super scientist.
Or just throw it open and see for bides more, Tony or Reed. Of course if he wants to study abroad I'm sure the Latveria institute of technology would be glad to credit his AP classes towards his freshen year and give him a full scholarships.
Anyone else want to join in?
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| The dreaded F* word |
[Aug. 24th, 2009|02:42 pm] |
Let me preface this by saying I'm not talking about "Drooling down your front and talking to your boobs" when I say "hitting on". thats just being creepy
I was reading a friends FaceBook wall. She mentioned being tired of guys treating her like meat and hitting on her. Another friend chimed in with a similar experience about not being able to have any male friends because they all hit on her.
So I got to thinking, Why? I know I'm guilty of this, and so are a lot of men. I have a theory (no its not a dancing demon). Its the dreaded F-Word!
There seems to be a window of opportunity when you meet a woman. if you don't "make a move" within that time frame your in FRIEND land with no hope of any kind of romance. there is nothing more frustrating then hearing the words "I could never go out with you, your too good of a friend".
I don't think its that men are incapable of havening deep friendships with women. I know some of my best friends are very attractive women (and you know who you are ladies). I think its more of we want to make it clear that we don't want to JUST be friends before the window closes for good.
Maybe if there was a road out of friendsville and back to Romance land we wouldn't feel the need to jump strait into hitting on and take our times to be your friend first.
as usual please salt my posts to taste. |
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| Death Panels |
[Aug. 20th, 2009|02:43 pm] |
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Is it just me or does "Death Panels" sound like something a bunch of goths do to decide if they should let someone new hang out with them? |
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| Host Loses Some Sponsors After an Obama Remark |
[Aug. 14th, 2009|09:53 am] |
By BRIAN STELTER
ABOUT a dozen companies have withdrawn their commercials from “Glenn Beck,” the Fox News Channel program, after Glenn Beck, the person, said late last month that President Obama was a racist with a “deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture.”
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| Nikol said its best. |
[Aug. 2nd, 2009|02:41 pm] |
Mabye next time you won't be such a needy duplicitous bitch, Becky.
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| oops, Movits take 2 |
[Jul. 29th, 2009|09:46 am] |
Last time I just posted the interview, here is them performing.
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| Harry Potter |
[Jul. 6th, 2009|08:25 pm] |
So the new potter movie is coming out on Jul 15, 2009 and GASP my roommate hasn't seen any of them past the 2nd movie or read the book. THIS MUST BE fixed. So here is my plan what do people think of havening a BBQ/potter marathon followed by seeing the new movie at the drive in. we can bring cooler, folding chairs, boomboxs. kick it old school :-) im thinking the 18th.
if there is enough interest I'll start a Evite for it. |
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| Day 5 |
[Jun. 25th, 2009|10:30 am] |
Well only had one Piece of gum so far today, and no weird cravings. Well other then still wanting Lucy Liu.
Im trying to push it as long as I can between "hits" of Nicotine. The withdraw has been much milder than I thought it would be.
To any of my friends who smoke and don't think their a addict, try spending a few days without a cigarette and just using the gum. when you start to feel the nicotine enter your blood stream and get the head rush, there should be no doubt in your mind your a junky getting you fix. Very sobering actually. |
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| who says that Scientists don't have a sense of humor |
[Jun. 22nd, 2009|11:33 am] |
New species of phallus-shaped mushroom named after California Academy of Sciences scientist Dr. Robert Drewes calls the naming of Phallus drewesii, discovered on the African island of Sao Tome, a 'wonderful honor'
SAN FRANCISCO (June 15, 2009) - It's two inches long, grows on wood, and is shaped like a phallus. A new species of stinkhorn mushroom, Phallus drewesii, has been discovered on the African island of Sao Tome and graces the upcoming cover of the journal Mycologia. The mushroom is named after Robert Drewes, Curator of Herpetology at the California Academy of Sciences, and is described in the July/August issue by Professor Dennis Desjardin and Brian Perry of San Francisco State University.
Phallus drewesii belongs to a group of mushrooms known as stinkhorns which give off a foul, rotting meat odor. There are 28 other species of Phallus fungi worldwide, but this particular species is notable for its small size, white net-like stem, and brown spore-covered head. It is also the only Phallus species to curve downward instead of upward.
"The mushroom emerges from an egg and elongates over four hours," says Desjardin, who is also a Fellow of the California Academy of Sciences. "Its odor attracts flies who consume the spores and disperse them throughout the forest."
Desjardin and Perry named the new species after Drewes as an acknowledgment of his "inspiration and fortitude to initiate, coordinate and lead multiorganism biotic surveys on Sao Tome and Principe," according to the Mycologia paper.
"It's a wonderful honor and great fun to have this phallus-shaped fungus named after me," says Drewes. "I have been immortalized in the scientific record."
Phallus drewesii is not the first species to bear Drewes' name. A small moss frog native to South Africa (Arthroleptella drewesii) and a blind worm snake from Kenya (Leptotyphlops drewesi) were described in 1994 and 1996, respectively.
Over a span of forty years, Drewes has embarked on 36 expeditions to 19 African countries, where he has focused on the evolutionary relationships, natural history, and biogeography of amphibians and reptiles. Recently, he has turned his attention to Sao Tome and Principe, located in the Gulf of Guinea off Africa's west coast. Although it is a tiny nation - at 370 square miles, only about eight times the size of San Francisco - it hosts a number of plants, fungi, mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians found nowhere else on Earth. Since 2001, Drewes has organized four multidisciplinary expeditions to the islands in an effort to document their biodiversity and gather data for conservation plans. Phallus drewesii was one of 225 fungus species that Desjardin and Perry collected during the 2006 and 2008 expeditions. |
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