It's April 26th.  And it's 33 degrees F and snowing.

And they say global warming(/cooling) doesn't exist...

I woke up at 6:30am this morning feeling sick.  I knew eating apple pie at 1am was a bad idea...  But that's not the point of this post.  The point is that, when I woke up at 6:30am, I had been dreaming about anatomy.  I woke up thinking, "No, that's not a chorioallantoic placenta!!  Those don't occur in chickens!"  I must have been dreaming about ( Read more... )

 Waage, J. K. 1979. Dual function of the damselfly penis: sperm removal and transfer. Science. 203:916-918.

I can just imagine how that conversation went...
"So, what's your research on lately?"
"Damselfly penises."
"..."

My boss just gave me and FYI about the cable tv ( Read more... )

As far as I know everyone is still okay.  I've heard from a few more people I was worried about.  It appears everyone in the office is fine.  They're in a meeting, but all their computers are on.  Chris from bio is fine.  He said he drives under that bridge to come to work.  Not any more...  No idea on the rest of the bio dept, or the ASL dept for ( Read more... )

The 35W bridge between University and Washington in Minneapolis just collapsed into the Mississippi River. Happened between 6 and 6:15pm...tail end of rush hour. 50-some cars in the water. School bus is stuck down on a section of road. Rescue workers all over, including 2 rescue boats. From what I can see on the news pedestrians are helping as ( Read more... )

The scene: Basement of Mendel (the biology department). Emily is sitting in a professor's office, force feeding an ailing turtle food and water with a pipette.

From outside the door
Bridget:  Whoa.
Leah:  What is that??  It's big.
Bridget:  (yelling)  Chris?  There's a rather unusual animal in the elevator!  (goes to fetch Chris) 
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I'm reading the party platforms for the MN Rupublican and Democratic parties.  Yeah, that bored.  Anyway, I just came across this in the "Preserving Civil Rights" section of the Republican platform (which has 25 points):

That the lawful definition of a "Human Being" shall be:  'When the DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) of Mankind is joined.'

What?  ( Read more... )

I just saw that someone posted this comment on this video I have on youtube:

Thank you for this video. It really did give me an idea on how I'll act as a mute during Disability Day on Monday. :)I have no idea how to interpret this.  Is it supposed to be a compliment?  Am I supposed to be pleased that someone knows how to act "mute" now?  Or is it ( Read more... )

Summer classes:  My final verdict on summer classes is that one is nice, but two is not, especially if one is writing intensive.  Between working full time, having schoolwork for two classes, and it being summer, I'm going insane.  I don't know how people who go back to school while still working do it.  They certainly have my respect now (as well ( Read more... )