The tropics, mostly, though Cordyceps is found worldwide.
Wait wait wait. One of the mind-control fungi is Cordyceps? I only know of it because it's got amazing immune-system boosting properties.
Gunn: We open a can of Machiavelli on his ass. Harmony: It's Matchabelli, Einstein, and it doesn't come in a can.
'Soul Purpose'
Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork
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.
Atropa - Sep 08, 2011 10:57:38 pm PDT #25067 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
billytea - Sep 08, 2011 11:29:33 pm PDT #25068 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Wait wait wait. One of the mind-control fungi is Cordyceps? I only know of it because it's got amazing immune-system boosting properties.
Sort of the other way around. Cordyceps is a genus of about 400 different species of parasitic fungus, many of which control their victims' behaviour. The medicinal variety is one of these species, C. sinensis. (Other species have also been researched for possible health benefits.)
Ginger - Sep 09, 2011 1:09:45 am PDT #25069 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I was reading in New Scientist that one method used to control plagues of locusts is to spray them with parasitic, mind-controlling fungus.
Can I get some of that shit and spray it on Rick Perry and Michelle Bachmann?
Wouldn't there have to be a mind to control?
Calli - Sep 09, 2011 1:16:55 am PDT #25070 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Kat, I'm sorry about the vomit and stuff. I'm typing this in the morning (on the east coast, anyway), and I hope everything has eased up by now for you.
Kathy, I have a Fit and I love it. Driving rentals while it sat at the body shop for two weeks really reinforced that. It averages 32-35 mpg with my usual city/highway mix of driving (I drive stick shift, which is usually gets a tad better mileage than automatic, depending on how you use it). While it looks teeny on the outside, it lives up to its name on the inside. I've driven quite comfortably with my own size 2X body in the driver's seat and a 6'2" man riding shotgun. As a gardener, I love that I can easily put down the back seats to carry bags of soil and flats of plants. When we were cleaning out Dad's apartment I managed to cram just about as much in my Fit as my sister did in her Chevy Suburban.
That said, I did get cut off a lot less when renting the Impala. From the outside the Fit looks wee. If I were moving to the Detroit metro area traffic wars or similar I'd look for something larger. (I never rent subcompacts while visiting family up there.)
Jesse - Sep 09, 2011 1:34:43 am PDT #25071 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
My friend has done road trips in her Fit with two adults, at least one baby, and two greyhounds. It really is bigger on the inside.
Hil R. - Sep 09, 2011 2:40:27 am PDT #25072 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Apparently there are enough people planning to drive through the floods to get to the Penn State game tomorrow that the newspapers are recommending which routes will most likely not be under water. [link]
(And I'm not sure where they're planning to go once they get here, since 2,500 football parking spaces are currently flooded.)
Frankenbuddha - Sep 09, 2011 3:56:35 am PDT #25073 of 30001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
The next Republican debate would be just like Thunderdome! Two fungus-puppets enter! One fungus-puppet leaves!
Does one have to leave? Can they both not get out?
Toddson - Sep 09, 2011 4:06:39 am PDT #25074 of 30001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
wait ... haven't they ALL been sprayed with a mind-controlling parasitic fungus? it would explain so much.
Jessica - Sep 09, 2011 4:12:35 am PDT #25075 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I'm pretty sure that if a mind-controlling fungus got ahold of Michele Bachman, it would starve to death.
Frankenbuddha - Sep 09, 2011 4:14:01 am PDT #25076 of 30001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.