Also, the suburbs of Maryland scare me, not because I'm a NoVa snob but because they are so strange. What an odd mix of forest and city and rich and not so rich.
I love the C&O though, and would willing venture into Maryland just for that.
I have no need for pizza, though. I have Five Guys burgers.
you've hit on it exactly! the bizarre mix. the only place i really like in maryland is this place where an old and abandoned amusement park rests next to a shopping center. it's called the enchanted forest and there are still weird signs/statues up, ethereally promoting it. but that's where the luster of maryland ENDS.
i don't know what the C&O is but i'll investigate!!
Five Guys - we have one of those in my hometown. i support your patronage wholeheartedly.
I know that place! It's quite close to where my uncle lives, and actually near the C&O as well. That's the old canal line that runs next the Potomac, right through MD into Virginia. Some president or other wanted travel by canal to be the cross country route of choice.
hakjsdhg this is the best science i've read all day.
here is what the membrane is supposed to look like with all its pumps and heterogenous lipid distribution, including lipid RAFTS that i daydream of floating on one day when i'm shrunk like in that movie from the 80's. inner space? can't remember. anyway it's called the fluid mosaic model, and represents the 'impermeable' barrier that forms every cell in your body.
you know that some crazy actually wrote an article dissing all of those sci-fi movies where people shrink down enough to travel in somebody else's bloodstream. he talked about how it'd be impossible by rules of biology and physics and all that other mumbo jumbo. DENSITY. i think he said it had to do with DENSITY. shrinking things. losing essential things when you scale down so dramatically? how if people were that small that actually have to eat more than their weight every day just to survive. yeah that guy was crazy. i should find the article.
i can't believe that you posted pictures! scientist matt. one whiff of science and you're off and running, is that it? i think you should write textbooks for people like me. forget academia: the real money is in science creative non-fiction. just keep trying to get me to love those lipid bilayers. see if you can do it.
the best part of my day, honestly, in all honesty, was reading about how you daydream of floating on RAFTS of them. sdaflsfjdasfjd
yeah also you can't shrink atoms? you can't i don't think. except i often wonder if we live on the electron of an atom of another universe on a much grander scale. but yes. i would love to write text-books about lipids; you know THC (from marijuana) and many other drugs deposit into the lipid (because they like fatty environments - lipophilic - better than aqueous ones), and when people exercise it's all released from fat being consumed back into the bloodstream. then they get drug tested and return a positive sample. i don't know why i told you this. but it's true. xxx
re: electron of an atom of another universe -- you just blew my mind, man.
so the solution for people/athletes about to be drug-tested is to lay in a state of obesity/sloth from the time of smoking marijuana until the time of said drug test. and then maybe the fat won't be released? I AM A BLUE RIBBON SCIENTIST.
"fatty environments" is such a crass term, can't you all get together and think of something better?!
"these are the things that we do in our spare time as a couple" = perfect.
i wish i could hang out with you guys in real life. everything you do together sounds so lovely. i am now simultaneously waiting to go home from work and feel for my liver and craving a big greasy slice of pizza.
oh god i'd be worried we'd scare you away? matt's a lunatic, after all.
in all sincerity though, thank you :) hanging out with him is great because there's never a dull moment. i can't wait for you to locate your liver. make sure to lay down flat to find it. i swear to god it's totally freaky.
Re: No. Way.otter_popsOctober 19 2006, 14:17:30 UTC
she was one of the first pagers of a google image search of "wiccan girl" - now i feel like a total asshole to have used her picture. a sex magic cult doesn't sound too bad, at all.
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this was not an intentional open letter. actually, though, that's my favorite section of the site.. aside from the short imagined monologues:
http://mcsweeneys.net/links/monologues/18gartersnake.html
best ever.
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Also, the suburbs of Maryland scare me, not because I'm a NoVa snob but because they are so strange. What an odd mix of forest and city and rich and not so rich.
I love the C&O though, and would willing venture into Maryland just for that.
I have no need for pizza, though. I have Five Guys burgers.
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you've hit on it exactly! the bizarre mix. the only place i really like in maryland is this place where an old and abandoned amusement park rests next to a shopping center. it's called the enchanted forest and there are still weird signs/statues up, ethereally promoting it. but that's where the luster of maryland ENDS.
i don't know what the C&O is but i'll investigate!!
Five Guys - we have one of those in my hometown. i support your patronage wholeheartedly.
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here is what the membrane is supposed to look like with all its pumps and heterogenous lipid distribution, including lipid RAFTS that i daydream of floating on one day when i'm shrunk like in that movie from the 80's. inner space? can't remember. anyway it's called the fluid mosaic model, and represents the 'impermeable' barrier that forms every cell in your body.
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i can't believe that you posted pictures! scientist matt. one whiff of science and you're off and running, is that it? i think you should write textbooks for people like me. forget academia: the real money is in science creative non-fiction. just keep trying to get me to love those lipid bilayers. see if you can do it.
the best part of my day, honestly, in all honesty, was reading about how you daydream of floating on RAFTS of them. sdaflsfjdasfjd
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so the solution for people/athletes about to be drug-tested is to lay in a state of obesity/sloth from the time of smoking marijuana until the time of said drug test. and then maybe the fat won't be released? I AM A BLUE RIBBON SCIENTIST.
"fatty environments" is such a crass term, can't you all get together and think of something better?!
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i wish i could hang out with you guys in real life. everything you do together sounds so lovely. i am now simultaneously waiting to go home from work and feel for my liver and craving a big greasy slice of pizza.
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in all sincerity though, thank you :) hanging out with him is great because there's never a dull moment. i can't wait for you to locate your liver. make sure to lay down flat to find it. i swear to god it's totally freaky.
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