So make a move, because I ain't got all night

[thorne_scratch]

Apparently it's Lurker Amnesty Day, or something? I don't know, I'm trying to dig my ass out from under two and a half feet of snow. If you lurk, please feel free to say hello in the comments. I am in general a very unthreatening and laidback person. The majority of the charges for public drunkenness and lewdness were dropped, and that thing with

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[mewsrissicat]

Seriously interesting links, there.

Best of luck with the shoveling - we finally managed a single pathway out of here at 5pm tonight. *whew* Everything is going to *hurt*, I can feel it now.

[thorne_scratch]

Didn't have time to do a full-on link post last night, but it's coming! As for me, my God, we have a snowblower and it is still a horrendous pain-in-the-ass and at least three-man job.

My main issue is having yelling matches with my Dad, who is only one year out from open heart surgery and seems to think he should be the one doing the heavy work. Parents, augh. If I accidentally cut my foot off with the snowblower, I demand you guys kidnap me. When the roads clear.

[mewsrissicat]

Ugh... your Dad's cardiologist would have a coronary, if he knew, you're so right.

Lady, we'd be glad to kidnap you *before* the accident, just to save you from all the overly dramatic emo-shots of blood spattering the white snow piles.

This isn't a Quentin Tarantino movie, you know. XD

[thorne_scratch]

I know. I really think I should just drug my whole family into hibernation. It would be easier to deal with.

Heh. Well, no Tarantino blood sprays, but should we have a sword fight or blow some stuff up to make up for it?

[soranokumo]

Calvin and Hobbes stamps?! Going to get them, definitely. And thank you for the links! I haven't heard the Weezer song but I'm looking forward to it.

And yes, we've had snow like crazy up here as well, but thankfully have managed to keep our power. Other parts of Pittsburgh were not so lucky. >_<;; Anyway, still dunno if I'll be digging my car out in time to get to class tomorrow, so... the Mews have been digging for the past two days (within reason) and we still don't have everything clear. It's craziness.

[thorne_scratch]

I know! I can't wait to use them on all my Very Serious Mail.

We're pretty much buried, and expecting another storm on Tuesday/Wednesday. I have a wedding to be at next weekend, and I'm wondering now if I'm going to make it or not. Can't say I would be brokenhearted, but we'll see how it turns out.

[soranokumo]

I just now dug my car out of the snow today. :P And yeah, we're expecting another six inches up to another whole foot of snow tomorrow. Here's hoping it won't be so bad, though I have to admit, it would be kinda cool to have classes canceled on Thursday, too. Not that it really matters when they can be held digitally, but you know. I dream.

I hope the snow storm isn't so bad on you all tomorrow, and you have much less to worry about...

[thorne_scratch]

They were saying five to ten inches, now they're saying ten to twenty. Joy. We folloow the Federal Government on whether we have to go to the office or not, so I'm waiting to see if they're canceled or if it's liberal leave. I hope they cancel; I hate having to waste my vacation days with liberal leave.

I have to catch up on days of your writing entries, and I meant to say something encouraging for your job woes. You might want to ask the guy if you could have a quick teleconference with him, just to clarify your job requirements and time lines? I used to do that in the early days of my journal stuff, when they were pretty much just having me fly by the seat of my pants. I know you'll succeed! *hug*

[cherokee1]

Lurking device dropped.
Hello.
You are bookmarked from a swing through of various people's rec tags and memories.
I found you a week ago? maybe, and have been enjoying the delicious writing.
Mmmm, fiction.
Thank you.
C

[thorne_scratch]

Hi! Lord, that's flattering. I'm always surprised to be bookmarked or memories, but that's because my own memory and tagging system are in such a shambled. I keep promising myself to sit down one day and really clean up, or at least post a master fic list, but time keeps slipping by. At any rate I'm really glad you like it!

(From your interests listed, I'm assuming it's the FF7 stuff. Oh, FF7, I just can't quit you. Though I fear by now my personal fanon is too different than the general fanon out there to be of interest.)

[maureenlycaon]

So the Henrietta Lacks story has hit the New York Times at last. Rebecca Skloot's got her own blog up on ScienceBlogs, and the discussion on different blogs there has been somewhat interesting.

I say "somewhat", because most of it's been high, high praise for Skloot and her work and her writing, and discussion of efforts to promote the book. ;-)

It's a strange thing, but a story about this hit the old Science 89 magazine back in the 1980s. There, though, the emphasis wasn't on ethical questions about the cells but about the cells themselves and their tendency to take over other cancer cell cultures. At the time, it had been discovered that a lot of supposedly different cancer cell lines that medical researchers used in labs were actually HeLa cells.

Odd that the story didn't kindle more interest then . . . but I'm glad it's emerged in the public eye now. Sadly, it will probably lead to even more people distrusting all "scientists" and "modern medicine", not to mention African-Americans' already intense distrust of medical trials.

[thorne_scratch]

I hit the link by chance last Wednesday, and thought it was interesting enough to also get my mother's take on it, as she's an RN. I would have brought it up to the doctors at work, but I didn't want to unintentionally set off some kind of massive argument, as there tends to be every other week or so, usually about health care. (Also, I kinda don't want them to know I was browsing online during work.) I'm interested in checking out the book now. Thanks for reminding me to browse ScienceBlogs more often.

I'll have to bring it up to my father as well, who works for a cardiology group focused on African American cardiologists. Or rather it used to be; the group has been attempting to change its membership directive to those interested in cardiology as particularly related to African Americans, rather than African American cardiologists.

[thorne_scratch]

Oh, no, you should totally comment in that case. Some of my best conversations and friendships have come out of things I cringe to remember I said. That's sort of the brilliant thing about fandom life.

I'm pretty sure I'm shoveling the wrong way. Life with your knees, not with your back, and all that. Unfortunately, there's no choice about it. And thanks, the headache has disappeared, thanks to sleeping ten hours straight. Good times!

I'm doing the whole interest check thing with a lot of the comments, and I'm glad to see you like Zack/Cloud too. I think they're my most comfortable pairing in all of FF7. (Not necessarily my favorite, which is probably Seph/Zack/Cloud, or intriguing which is Seph/Cloud. But comfortable, and possibly hilarious, though I also think Reno/Cloud is hilarious for totally different reasons. As we can see, I am a bit of a Cloud fan.)

[thorne_scratch]

Drunk posting is one of my greatest joys in life, no lie.

I like Reno/Cloud for the sheer humor factor! That story is the one that's gotten the most reviews on ff.net, hands down. But yeah, that original game has an all star cast; there's barely anyone I don't like. Well, except for all the new franchise characters, but everyone knows my opinions on that, and there's no use being a stick in the mud and repeating them again.