Buffy ,'Beneath You'
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Woo-hoo! I can't wait til Friday. Come quicker!
Seriously! This week, all I have to do is play with the software and figure out how it works, and then understand everything there is to know about potassium channels. That's not too much.
Kalshane has a new tag.
I'm in Cincinnati -- SA goes to school in Berea, which is fortunately only 2 hours away.The only deviation from the road permitted by my dad on the trips from our home in Cleveland to his mother's home in panhandle Florida was our traditional stop at Berea College, and then for lunch at a little hole-in-the-wall restaurant (on the same block as The Daniel Boone Tavern IIRC) where we'd get the most amazing butterscotch pie. Some of my favorite childhood toys were gotten at Berea College.
we watched a show that took place at SA"s college last night - about dulcimer makeing. I have decicded all woodworking shows are successful only if my DH yells at them for doing something stupid saftey -wise.
and gronk.
and ptui. booldsugar is not where it should be - back to fitday to see if I can get things back to where they should be when I see the doctor in February.
Great. Now it's Teflon.
More than 50 years after DuPont started producing Teflon near this Ohio River town, federal officials are accusing the company of hiding information suggesting that a chemical used to make the popular stick- and stain-resistant coating might cause cancer, birth defects and other ailments.
Environmental regulators are particularly alarmed because scientists are finding perfluorooctanoic acid, or PFOA, in the blood of people worldwide, and it takes years for the chemical to leave the body. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency reported last week that exposure even to low levels of PFOA could be harmful.
With virtually no government oversight, PFOA has been used since the early 1950s in the manufacture of non-stick cookware, rain-repellent clothing and hundreds of other products. The EPA says at this point there is no reason for consumers to stop using those items. But so many unresolved questions remain about PFOA that the agency is asking an outside panel of experts to assess the risks.
I think I'm going to take up smoking, mainlining bacon grease, and camping out in the Krispy Kreme lobby.
Hasn't that gone around before?
think I'm going to take up smoking, mainlining bacon grease, and camping out in the Krispy Kreme lobby.
Hey, just breathing the air can give you cancer.
So the smoking and bacon grease can be forgotten but not the Krispy Kremes. (I never said I was a saint.)
Things I did this weekend:
How are you?
How are you?
Jealous.
How are you?
Not as good as you.
IOW, jealous. But, at least I'm in good company. (Hi, Lee!!)
Oh, the spiffy. [link]
Before the Industrial Revolution, painters used Yellow Ochres or Orpiment (sulfide of arsenic). Occasionally painters found some Gamboge, a strongly colored secretion from trees that resembles amber. Gamboge was used for glazing before Indian Yellow became available in the middle of the 19th century. To make Indian Yellow, cows were force fed mango leaves and given no water. Their urine was collected in dirt balls and sold as "pigment." The resulting artists' color was a warm transparent glazing yellow. But Indian Yellow was lost somewhere between the decline of cruelty to animals and the rise of manufactured pigments.
And a thousand cows sighed in relief.