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What Book Got You Hooked?
I only dipped from the non-fiction section of the children's library until I was about 8 or 9 (future scientist? really?) Then one day I picked up Alice in Wonderland and didn't put it down until I was finished.
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at 9:35 AM on August 4, 2008
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Speaker for Himself
You can be whoever you want to me here.
Except married, by your standards.
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at 7:30 AM on July 30, 2008
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Dianetics is one of them, ho ho.
It mentions "The Master and Margarita" by Mikhail Bulgakov which I've heard about from a few people and was thinking of reading... is that any good? Intelligible to a non-Russian?
I thought it was excellent, FWIW.
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at 9:24 AM on April 26, 2008
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The end of childhood
Ugh, as a resident of the Upper east side in Manhattan, who is currently half way through my pregnancy, I am terrified of having a girl and having these mothers be the mothers of her peers.
I think we may have to flee before the kid starts walking.
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at 9:20 AM on April 4, 2008
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A slice of true Americana
Oh yeah the Double T in Baltimore is awesome. Although the paragon of Baltimore diners is the Sip & Bite in Canton. Their hot open roast beef sandwich is a thing of beauty.
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at 12:05 PM on March 28, 2008
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So, you thought Cricket was for sissies, aye?
I have successfully converted my all-American, baseball, football and hockey loving husband into a total cricket fan. Including test cricket. Enough so that he had a meltdown during the 2003 World cup when I wanted to turn off the New Zealand-Canada game early because we were killing them.
My tactic? Test cricket = 5 sweet days of drinking beer, 7 hours a day.
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at 7:13 AM on March 20, 2008
Oh, and cricket commentary on the radio is the best commentary EVAR. You gotta respect people that can keep the commentary going in a game that goes so slowly.
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at 7:14 AM on March 20, 2008
I'm well aware that the action is ongoing, ethnometholologist, having spent the formative years of my childhood playing and watching cricket all summer. But while the action of cricket is ongoing, the pace is not. Beyond the tea breaks, there are always pauses while the bowler, if a fast bowler, is walking back to his mark, or stopping to confer with his captain. It's those dead spaces that radio commentators have to fill, and which make them awesome.
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at 8:54 AM on March 20, 2008
so you caught someone out, goompa? The wicket isn't credited to you anyway, it's credited to the bowler.
(bonus point: where were you fielding? testing the fielding positions is my favourite all-day quiz with people learning the game)
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at 2:16 PM on March 20, 2008
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Things Vital to the Honor of Human Life
She felt very young; at the same time unspeakably aged. She sliced like a knife through everything; at the same time was outside, looking on... far out to sea and alone; she always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.
Virginia Woolf - Mrs. Dalloway
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at 9:01 AM on March 10, 2008
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Devil’s Pool and daredevils
Oh hells, I feel queasy just looking at those rock pool pictures. My Imp would have me over the edge in a second.
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at 6:03 AM on March 6, 2008
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HP -1
Aw, man. High school would have sucked so much harder without D&D.
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at 10:30 AM on March 4, 2008
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NIMH in iambic pentameter
It wasn't until my research had been funded by NIMH for a couple of years that I worked out that it was the same NIMH.
/is kind of dumb, probably shouldn't mention that to her funding body.
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at 6:58 PM on March 2, 2008
Oh, duh, and thanks grumblebee, this is awesome.
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at 6:58 PM on March 2, 2008
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Teaching to Testosterone
Most of the high schools in the medium-sized (~100K) town I grew up in (New Zealand) were single-sexed. It just wasn't a big deal. There was plenty of time to interact with the opposite sex outside of school. Then again, we all wore school uniforms as well, and many Americans seem to get into a huge flap about that as well.
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at 11:36 AM on February 29, 2008
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30 day sex (or no sex) challenge
*gets kicked by UbuRoivas's ass; cries*
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at 3:48 PM on February 27, 2008
Yeah, klang, there are certainly diurnal changes in male testosterone levels as well (monthly? I know of no research showing that, although my research is in estrogens) but gonadal steroid hormone changes in men are simply nowhere near as dramatic as they are in women.
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at 8:59 AM on February 28, 2008
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You're just too, too obscure for me... so take me away, I know not where.
Brilliant. I grew up in Dunedin, seeing these bands all of the time. I've stalked Shayne Carter down George Street and the music was the soundtrack of my university years. All these bands made me love music when I was a littleun - when I was 8 or 9, I used to take the radio into the bathroom when I had my nightly bath and listen to student radio until my mother yelled at me to get out of the bath. Ah, memories.
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at 4:41 PM on January 6, 2008
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A . In Time
Ah, fuck.
I'm gonna go re-read A Wrinkle In Time too.
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at 11:30 AM on September 7, 2007
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"Double Muscle" Mutants
The same gene is mutated in Belgian Blue cows, giving the "double muscled" phenotype. I got to see some of these cows in New Zealand (when you're an endocrinologist in a farming country it's all about making more beef, more wool, more milk).
("genetic protein"? Yeah, proteins are coded by genes; it's kind of a redundant phase)
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at 7:23 PM on July 13, 2007
damn you, jamaro!
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at 7:24 PM on July 13, 2007
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dimmer
Ah, I used to occasionally stalk Shayne Carter through the streets of Dunedin.
/creepy fangirl.
While I like what he's doing with the Dimmer project, oh gods how I miss Straitjacket Fits. Their albums were college for me. Also, man can construct a beautiful feedback coda like nobody else.
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at 4:04 AM on June 18, 2007
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Trippy Dogs
I played with a pharoah hound when I was at the WKC show this year. Nice dogs. I used to walk deerhounds, and I totally agree with the motivation aspect of training. They are bastards if they can't be bothered doing what you want them to do.
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at 12:38 PM on February 20, 2007
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It's Our Money, Too
It took me years of living in the USA to get used to the identical looking bills. Different sizes would be a great start.
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at 11:13 AM on February 13, 2007
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at 6:20 PM on January 31, 2007
