Woot! Thanks.
and now I have a new act of kindness in my ledger
Everybody wins!
Except for science writers.
No power in the 'verse can stop me.
River ,'War Stories'
Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet
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.
Lee - Dec 11, 2012 8:36:30 am PST #3956 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Consuela - Dec 11, 2012 8:37:49 am PST #3957 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
The new research about epigenetic effects is seriously blowing my mind: it really does a job on the whole nurture/nature debate.
In other news, have a Hobbit Dwarf cheat-sheet: [link]
§ ita § - Dec 11, 2012 8:49:13 am PST #3958 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I remember listening to a biology lecture series years ago which talked about how epigenetic information ripples down through generations (and how trying to distinguish between genetic and environmental causes to explain biological characteristics is in almost all cases a false dichotomy to begin with).
This is akin to what I had explained to me, but that was a few years ago, and epigenetics seems to move faster than this layman can keep track of. However, if that author said it, it's probably wrong.
Denton has said that one of the Gawker employees (Neetzan something) is employed to write the inflammatory click bait articles, and that way everyone else can go about their more detailed (yet still muckraking, so whatevs) way. I suspect that the author of that article is similar--he's cheap, because they didn't hold out for someone who knows what difference a number being a percentage makes, or who has the patience to read past the first three google hits. They could have gotten away with merely a critical thinker with a basic grounding in, oh, MATH and done better than this evo-psych non-citing bullshitter.
Connie Neil - Dec 11, 2012 8:53:24 am PST #3959 of 30001
brillig
I gave a dollar to a panhandler at the grocery store a couple of weeks ago. I don't normally give anything to them, but it was early in the morning, I had the dollar in my pocket, and for once I got a twinge of "Give it to him" instead of the usual "Oh, gosh, there's another one." I don't know what he did with it, maybe it went to booze and cigarettes, but if it made his life a little easier, I'm good with it.
SuziQ - Dec 11, 2012 9:00:14 am PST #3960 of 30001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
I bought an Air Force guy dinner a few days back. Oh, and I gave my maintenance guy some cookies.
Today sucks eggs. Rotten stinky eggs.
brenda m - Dec 11, 2012 9:01:00 am PST #3961 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Today sucks eggs. Rotten stinky eggs.
Sing it.
P.M. Marc - Dec 11, 2012 9:01:41 am PST #3962 of 30001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I, umm.
Damn. I've got nuthin'!
Lee - Dec 11, 2012 9:06:35 am PST #3963 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Do you have any TJ cookies left, Suzi? Would they help?
eta: and I am sorry about the sucky day, of course.
Consuela - Dec 11, 2012 9:39:18 am PST #3964 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Wow, we have a new co-worker and she seems totally cool and competent! And she likes to go drink beer.
I'm astonished, frankly.
Jesse - Dec 11, 2012 9:48:18 am PST #3965 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Fuucccckkkkkk. I have a thing due by "COB." There's a huge section I need from someone else. A third person is also waiting on it to finish another large section. When has it been promised to us? 4pm. That is not enough time!!