I need need need to find Pinky and the Brain figures for my brother. I looked up the abstract on the poster he presented yesterday, and other than the fact that a lot of the words and references in it are quite new to me (um, NAcSarGlyValDalloIleThrNvaIleArgProNHE, anyone ? How about angiogenesis or intracerebral xenograft model of glioblastoma?) , I managed to gather that my brother is futzing with tumorific mouse brains. Well, and killing mice. But anyway.
Zoe: Jayne. This is something the Captain has to do for himself. Mal: No! No, it's not!
'War Stories'
Natter 43: I Love My Dead Gay Whale Crosspost.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
sarameg - Apr 03, 2006 7:11:25 am PDT #8162 of 10001
Fred Pete - Apr 03, 2006 7:18:03 am PDT #8163 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.
I know a lot of companies take off Patriot's Day because of the Marathon, due to it being a commuting HELLA NIGHTMARE AND PERIL AND OH NOES.
DC is that way for the Presidential Inauguration. It's a federal holiday, but only in DC and only if the government would otherwise be open. (So if it's, say, a Saturday, we don't get the previous Friday off.)
JZ - Apr 03, 2006 7:30:24 am PDT #8164 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Angiogenesis I've actually heard of, I think, and the intracerebral xenograft thingie I think I can more or less stumble through, but that NASCAR glyval-whatsit -- buh?
However, Pinky and the Brain for your bro.
Allyson - Apr 03, 2006 7:36:41 am PDT #8165 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Happy birthday Mr. Scola!
Scrappy - Apr 03, 2006 7:41:57 am PDT #8166 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Happy birthday, Tom! I hope this is a great year for you. Though I know you sometimes feel your process of change is very slow, I want to say that I have nothing but admiration for your courage and fortitude and that I have definitely seen much personal progress in the time I've known you--and you were a darn cool guy to begin with! Have a fantastic day!
sarameg - Apr 03, 2006 7:44:48 am PDT #8167 of 10001
I'm looking forward to the thunderstorms, but tuesday night's forecast has me making faces. [link]
JZ, thanks! I know the translation (ie, the cocktail party version) is that he's working with a drug that inhibits the type of blood vessels found in a type of cancer tumor, which luckily form readily in mouse brains. But about all I see familiar to that in his abstract is the part about mice brain tumors and killing mice.
beth b - Apr 03, 2006 7:47:59 am PDT #8168 of 10001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
happy birthday Tom Scola
Theodosia - Apr 03, 2006 7:51:02 am PDT #8169 of 10001
'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"
Technically speaking, my company gives us off for Patriot's Day not so much for the Boston Marathon, but because since the race goes around 2/3s of our main building, they can't figure out how to get us all in and out of it what with the race barriers* and all.
- (race barriers in the literal sense, with the snow fencing between the sidewalks and streets)
Sophia Brooks - Apr 03, 2006 7:59:07 am PDT #8170 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Grrr!
My boss at the theatre sent out an email basically blaming me for a lot of communication errors that were not so much errors of me not communicating, but that no one responded to my communications
I think I shot back a response too soon.
Damn snarky anger response
Trudy Booth - Apr 03, 2006 8:08:38 am PDT #8171 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Did you hit "reply all" Sophia?
Because that sounds like it deserves a "reply all".