You should eat! And not just for ontological reasons.

Don't go the sarameg listerine strip route either. That's totally cheating.

I love Thai duck. Haven't had any as good as this one place in Birmingham, MI, but it's still often pretty good.

I don't think I'e ever had Thai duck before. I need to find a good Thai place up here so I can.

What are people doing this weekend?

WHAT IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE. (My understanding is it's an out-of-control radical faction of the union.) Bob was telling me this morning that the union wants to lower the retirement age to 20.

Can you call an (albeit slim) majority a radical faction?

I think they're ticked about the MTA covering the pension reimbursement instead of the state and losing half of it to taxes. I bet a nickle if the state agrees to pay it they'll vote "yes" on the same contract. (This is just a theory, I'll bounce it off my 'high placed source' later.)

Among those who said they would not like to be scientists, reasons included: "Because you would constantly be depressed and tired and not have time for family",

Does this even make any sense? I am trying to figure out what would give a kid the idea that all scientists are depressed and busy. I understand the part about the classes and the white coats, especially for younger kids, because that is the default costume for "scientist" in cartoons and such.

If you'd asked me at 11, I'd have said that scientists wore big white coats, couldn't wear nail polish, smelled of chemicals and were impatient.

At that age, I knew not all scientists were my mother, but I didn't know where the line was.

I wanted to be a scientist some times when I was a kid. I figured they spent a lot of time in laboratories with things that foamed or went "boom." It sounded fun to me.

Buttons. I thought it was about buttons. My mother got to press the coolest ones.

Then I met the computer and it was all over. I still don't think of Computer Science as Science science, though.

I am trying to figure out what would give a kid the idea that all scientists are depressed and busy.

CSI and shows of that ilk?

Does this even make any sense? I am trying to figure out what would give a kid the idea that all scientists are depressed and busy.

This might be the answer if kids were asked about any professional.

I mean, "kids say the darndest things!" but that doesn't mean they're not going to choose a real job when they grow up, or major in something substantive by the time they get to college. I didn't have any reason to be a lawyer rather than a rock star when I was a teen.

wrod.