A couple of weeks ago, my friend found an injured bird in the park. She called me, because I'm the guy who likes birds. As it turned out, it was a young yellow-bellied sapsucker (a member of the woodpecker family). It seemed to be able to fly okay, but was unable to use its legs. I took it to the Willowbrook Wildlife Haven to see...
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heatherann007:
Agreed. Bedroom sweat (or closet sweat, or stairwell sweat, or on top of your desk in your office sweat.... oh, sorry) is far from gross. But schlepping around the French Quarter in New Orleans drenched is most definately disgusting.
idjit:
Why aren't we friends yet? You're smart and funny - thanks for being you. 
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theseadog:
That's going to require quite a bit of web surfin' for knowledge for me to understand better. Thanks, you've given me something new to do. 
legionnaire:
Cheers for another Columbia Nobel Prize in medicine. As if Richard Axel's ego needed any more boosting.....
Stress doesn't even begin to describe it. My left eye has been twitching intermittently every day since the middle of June.
I'm being pulled in several different directions.
First of all there's school. I'm graduating in March, meaning I will defend my Ph.D. thesis in January or February, but there's a lot I need to get accomplished by then.
Then there's the girlfriend. It's a...
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I'm being pulled in several different directions.
First of all there's school. I'm graduating in March, meaning I will defend my Ph.D. thesis in January or February, but there's a lot I need to get accomplished by then.
Then there's the girlfriend. It's a...
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uptight:
Perhaps some Countryside Alliance supporters could dump a dead horse on stage for Britney's next TOTP appearance.
heatherann007:
Okay. That particular moth is sort of pretty.
But here in CO, we have a horrible moth season in late summer.
That said, I had a bad experience once. I was an asst. manager at a salon in a mall, and I was taking the garbage out through the back hallway since there was a trash compactor outside the service door. It was a big, metal door, and I pulled it up about a foot. About 20 moths came flying out. I crouched down to get leverage to lift this heavy ass door the whole way up, and as it rolled up, damn near 200 moths came fluttering out. They were in my face, in my hair, up my skirt, latched on to my arms. I screamed and flailed, turning some of them to dust trying to get them off of me. I ran past the Hooters back door, and the cooks cried they laughed so hard. Then they offered me a joint.
It was not good times.
But here in CO, we have a horrible moth season in late summer.
That said, I had a bad experience once. I was an asst. manager at a salon in a mall, and I was taking the garbage out through the back hallway since there was a trash compactor outside the service door. It was a big, metal door, and I pulled it up about a foot. About 20 moths came flying out. I crouched down to get leverage to lift this heavy ass door the whole way up, and as it rolled up, damn near 200 moths came fluttering out. They were in my face, in my hair, up my skirt, latched on to my arms. I screamed and flailed, turning some of them to dust trying to get them off of me. I ran past the Hooters back door, and the cooks cried they laughed so hard. Then they offered me a joint.
It was not good times.
I was always under the impression that if you looked bad in high school (fat or otherwise) you might improve your appearance, but if you looked good in high school, there was nowhere to go but down. I was wrong.
Went to a friend's wedding--more accurately a friend's sister's wedding--yesterday. One of the bridesmaids was a girl I never gave much thought to in high...
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Went to a friend's wedding--more accurately a friend's sister's wedding--yesterday. One of the bridesmaids was a girl I never gave much thought to in high...
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dravenraine:
Your profile pic * drool *
burstandbloom:
weddings suck man
but hot chicks are cool
youre gonna be a neurobiologist
i have a neurological disease
the just label it "Chronic Ataxia"
cause they dont really know what it is
my sis and i both have it
we were born with it
they just said the part of the brain that controls balance and stuff is undeveloped basically
so our motor coordination is bad
reactions slow
crap like that
you know doctors
they told me id never ride a bike
never drive
never play normally
junk like that
i drive
i can ride a bike
i havent played normally in a while though- just getting older you get less active and not walking across school campuses anymore and playing pickup games and stuff has hurt me
made me much shakier when i walk
i gotta join a gym again - i was at the YMCA in cleveland taking Tai Chi and using the bike and stair stepper and stretching and that was good
but
new town
no money
no gym
and i feel it
but hot chicks are cool
youre gonna be a neurobiologist
i have a neurological disease
the just label it "Chronic Ataxia"
cause they dont really know what it is
my sis and i both have it
we were born with it
they just said the part of the brain that controls balance and stuff is undeveloped basically
so our motor coordination is bad
reactions slow
crap like that
you know doctors
they told me id never ride a bike
never drive
never play normally
junk like that
i drive
i can ride a bike
i havent played normally in a while though- just getting older you get less active and not walking across school campuses anymore and playing pickup games and stuff has hurt me
made me much shakier when i walk
i gotta join a gym again - i was at the YMCA in cleveland taking Tai Chi and using the bike and stair stepper and stretching and that was good
but
new town
no money
no gym
and i feel it
Get to know me better.
Did you know:
--The neighborhood I live in in Chicago (Hyde Park) is home to a nesting colony of Monk Parakeets.
--I'm trying to like every kind of food there is and am doing a good job so far. I still need to learn to like grapefruit, but am softening up on cranberries. I had a recent setback when I...
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Did you know:
--The neighborhood I live in in Chicago (Hyde Park) is home to a nesting colony of Monk Parakeets.
--I'm trying to like every kind of food there is and am doing a good job so far. I still need to learn to like grapefruit, but am softening up on cranberries. I had a recent setback when I...
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poison:
OMG best. picture. ever!!!! hahaha I'm pure royalty now 
burstandbloom:
youre looking spiffy in the new profile pic
i just finished reading Stuart Dybeks latest collection
I sailed with Magellan
its sweet
hows the band and all that jazz
i just finished reading Stuart Dybeks latest collection
I sailed with Magellan
its sweet
hows the band and all that jazz
I just got free cotton candy. I should go to sleep 'cause my day is not getting any better.
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figmentation:
ahhh.. I misunderstood. cotton candy which has no personal cost is unsurmountable!
the storm'll clean up soon enough.
yea.
the storm'll clean up soon enough.
yea.
foreverloaded:
hahaha... twat swatters. Good one, man.
ohyeah- and I know about doppelganger, but sometimes, having ovaries, one must try to appear somewhat dumber than in actuality, as to not enrage anyone for being "a fucking know-it-all bitch..." Fucking Twat Swatters. But really I couldn't remember exactly right then and I was needing to ramble.
ohhhhh- and I just noticed what burstandbloom wrote.. "Boys are cooler than girls..." ?? wha?????? Never!
ohyeah- and I know about doppelganger, but sometimes, having ovaries, one must try to appear somewhat dumber than in actuality, as to not enrage anyone for being "a fucking know-it-all bitch..." Fucking Twat Swatters. But really I couldn't remember exactly right then and I was needing to ramble.
ohhhhh- and I just noticed what burstandbloom wrote.. "Boys are cooler than girls..." ?? wha?????? Never!
Well, damn.
I've been very inactive as of late. Mostly I've been working in a location in lab that is far away from my "SG computer," which makes it less and less convenient to pop over for a few posts. This week, I'm back at my normal computer, but I'm busy with things like,
"corrdata(:,n:n+1)=inf;
newfile=load(['c:\ascii\' input('Input IV data file (in single quotes)>')]); %load in...
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I've been very inactive as of late. Mostly I've been working in a location in lab that is far away from my "SG computer," which makes it less and less convenient to pop over for a few posts. This week, I'm back at my normal computer, but I'm busy with things like,
"corrdata(:,n:n+1)=inf;
newfile=load(['c:\ascii\' input('Input IV data file (in single quotes)>')]); %load in...
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evilwillow:
well, in a way, yes, it would be wrong....but. I have to admit I have a longing to see it, as well. 
evilwillow:
holy crap!! I ACCEPT!!
Back from vacation. Getting settled again in the lab and packed up in my apartment, as I will be moving in a week. Actually, I haven't started packing yet, which frightens me.
Vacation was fun. It was nice to spend time with my girlfriend for a change. Might be a while before I get that kind of time to spend with her again.
On the...
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Vacation was fun. It was nice to spend time with my girlfriend for a change. Might be a while before I get that kind of time to spend with her again.
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krabuki:
No worries.. if your a busy bee so be it... just drop a line every now and then so I knows you be alive and all! 
parisambrosia:
what's up with you?
I'm heading out of town for a week. This last month has been a fairly solid block of work. Late hours. Weekends. Rarely a decent night's sleep. Thanks for enduring my bitching.
My boss couldn't understand why I wanted to take a whole week off. I hope I never get like that.
I'll see you guys when I get back.
There's no sleepy emoticon, so...
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My boss couldn't understand why I wanted to take a whole week off. I hope I never get like that.
I'll see you guys when I get back.
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legionnaire:
Check this out - your committee member in the news. Funny.
Oh yeah, we interviewed a guy for a postdoc position in my lab who you probably know, he's just graduating from Peggy Mason's lab. I don't know his name (I actually didn't get to meet him) but figured you did.
Oh yeah, we interviewed a guy for a postdoc position in my lab who you probably know, he's just graduating from Peggy Mason's lab. I don't know his name (I actually didn't get to meet him) but figured you did.
oracle:
ya, bosses suck
It's 5 AM. It's Sunday. It's also Independence Day. Where am I? Lab. In lab again? No, in lab still. I've been here since about 10:30 yesterday. Bad sandwiches and good movies are keeping me awake.
We have a couple of laptops in the lab with DVD players and an LCD projector, so I brought some DVDs in and have been projecting them on...
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We have a couple of laptops in the lab with DVD players and an LCD projector, so I brought some DVDs in and have been projecting them on...
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legionnaire:
Hot damn, I'm sorry to hear that. I definitely, definitely relate to you though. I hope you got some data out that little adventure.
And I was in Chicago for all of 90 minutes yesterday, and got rained on harder than I've ever been just walking from the plane to the bus that took me to the airport terminal.
And I was in Chicago for all of 90 minutes yesterday, and got rained on harder than I've ever been just walking from the plane to the bus that took me to the airport terminal.