Ancient/Archeological DNA
Neato.
Ugh. The sandwich I had for lunch is not sitting well with me. I wish I'd gotten something else.
How did your brain even learn human speech? I'm just so curious.
Wash ,'Objects In Space'
Natter 42, the Universe, and Everything
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, flaming otters, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jessica - Feb 27, 2006 9:27:19 am PST #9875 of 10002
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
Beverly - Feb 27, 2006 9:27:20 am PST #9876 of 10002
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
I love that the article on blonds going extinct had a photo of Six to illustrate "blond".
§ ita § - Feb 27, 2006 9:28:45 am PST #9877 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I love that the article on blonds going extinct had a photo of Six to illustrate "blond".
Talk about yer charismatic megafauna.
Jars - Feb 27, 2006 9:28:50 am PST #9878 of 10002
Ah. Why couldn't they just call it that? For half the article they actually say 'ancient DNA' and the rest of the time it's aDNA. I was feeling very stupid for not knowing what the hell was going on. Although, seeing as how I really should have known that, I still kind of am.
TomW - Feb 27, 2006 9:30:49 am PST #9879 of 10002
"The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be."
Oops, sorry for the crosspost. Should be writing test cases.
Sean K - Feb 27, 2006 9:33:47 am PST #9880 of 10002
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
My sister just spotted Delroy Lindo buying condoms.
For 24 fans.... Over the weekend, I was in line at the service counter at my nearby Gelson's, and President Logan and his wife got in line behind me.
I only said "Mr. President," and nodded to him as I passed him on the way out, and he gave a little snicker.
Jessica - Feb 27, 2006 9:37:09 am PST #9881 of 10002
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
I only said "Mr. President," and nodded to him as I passed him on the way out, and he gave a little snicker.
That's awesome!
Frankenbuddha - Feb 27, 2006 9:50:05 am PST #9882 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I recommend most always pretending you're not a panda.
Given what Homer Simpson found out when he was pretending to be a panda, this is sound advice.
Theodosia - Feb 27, 2006 10:27:42 am PST #9883 of 10002
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
All Your Bamboos Are Belong To Us
Kalshane - Feb 27, 2006 10:59:21 am PST #9884 of 10002
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
Weekend was good, but tiring.
The "prize play" for the swordsmanship group was a lot of fun. The rapier fighting was kind of boring. Lots of the opponents circling each other and changing the position of their weapons, then someone would make an attack and either land their blow, get countered or end up in a grapple. Thankfully there were only a couple of people in the rapier group.
The long sword (which are actually what gamer geeks think of as bastard or hand-and-a-half swords) group was huge, and lots of cool fighting, complete with some grappling, pommel blows and some unarmed strikes in addition to the actual swordplay. There were 3 female prizers. Two of them were rather tentative in their fighting, but the third was a woman who seemed to be in her 40's who looked like she was loving every minute of it and wasn't afraid to give as good as she got or throw down and grapple with men half her age.
There was also a couple of dagger matches, which were lightning quick and hard to follow at times.
The big thing though was everyone seemed to truly love what they were doing and I didn't see any cases of arrogance of poor sportsmanship. I've taken classes offered by the group at the local community college a few times, but after Saturday I'm seriously considering joining the group in earnest, even though it means getting up early on a Saturday to drive an hour into the city for classes.
ION, they're selling "Employee Appreciation Mardi Gras beads" here at work for people to give their co-workers. Does this seem wrong to anyone else?