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[Nov. 8th, 2009|07:00 pm] |
HA! I knew it, the secret behind Applebees!
http://message.snopes.com/showthread.php?t=5019
Not that they're the only restaurant to nuke food, just that they're the only ones whose food uniformly tastes like it.
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| Hee-hee-hee! |
[Oct. 2nd, 2009|07:59 am] |
What part of me is an 10-year-old boy that I still love comic books and chuckle over the Land-O-Lakes girl showing her "boobs"?
Seriously, the butter-peep-show never ceases to crack me up... I want to show it to my niece, but that would be totally inappropriate (right?).
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| Sayonara, jerk! |
[Aug. 25th, 2009|05:54 pm] |
Stanley Kaplan, founder of Kaplan Test Prep, died recently. NPR's obituary (or maybe it was a relative's eulogy) described him as someone dedicated to providing "advantages for those who were disadvantaged." To his credit, I'm sure he was a real mensch back before selling his company for $45 million, but there's no denying the test-prep industry has done a great harm to education in this country. How can some surgeon paying $10,000 for Kaplan's private tutors to get his retard kid into grad school* possibly be considered helping the economically "disadvantaged"? o_O
*True story. Four times over. They all ended up getting in, of course. |
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| WBCN Send-off |
[Aug. 11th, 2009|07:21 pm] |
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I've been listening to WBCN's retrospective the past four days, and I've gotta admit - if they still played such quirky rock with low-key, local DJs instead of the fratastic radio jocks like T&R, I probably would have listened to them a lot more in the past decade. Too bad WFNX adopted the same bro-centric format with the Sandbox... Social D and Bad Religion aren't sexist, why are your immature carpetbagging DJs? |
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| HHA Agencies |
[Jul. 27th, 2009|01:15 am] |
Can anyone recommend a good certified home health agency in the greater Boston area (as opposed to an employment agency of HHAs)? Visiting Angels are horrible - their HHAs are erratic, and my mom was left alone on the floor today after she fell* and broke her hip because no one showed up again (and yet surprisingly, those people never seem to get fired - go figure!). Her social worker doesn't have other suggestions, so I turn to you, good people of the internet...
Yeah, it's a total longshot, but I'm desperate - my sister usually handles the HHA situation, but she's fed up so I said I'd find some leads... If you have personal experience with a non-shitty agency, please let me know the name and I'll hunt down the details. Thanks!
* Please, no "I've fallen and I can't get up!" jokes
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| Why I hate professional science |
[Jul. 20th, 2009|10:53 am] |
Study acronyms like 'AWESOME', article titles like 'Recovery from neutropenia and a bamboo pole', case reports of 'This one time, in band camp, a patient I saw...', nineteen MDs getting authorship on a study, random summer students literally only plating assays and getting first author in JCI, being lied to by "colleagues" and then scooped...
And 5 years on, I get sneered at with "All those years in the lab and not one publication? Tsk... that's a shame." |
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| Zapruder Film |
[Jun. 23rd, 2009|07:59 pm] |
I figured I was the last person in the world not to have seen this, so thanks to the glory of Youtube I now have. Jesus... Effing... Christ. His head gets blown off while Jackie is holding him. :-O I sure don't blame her for running off with a Greek billionaire, she deserves it after living through such a horrific experience.
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| Merry-Go-Rounds for -- Er, WaterForLife |
[Jun. 20th, 2009|07:30 pm] |
A friend of mine started an LJ comm called ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) waterforlife to address water sanitation issues in developing countries. It sounds dry (or all wet - har har), but it's a huge issue worldwide that affects health and progress and feminism. Please join the comm - entries will consist of periodic updates about the issues, and ways to help and stuff, and I think there's $15 gift certificates involved (from her own pocket). Uh, I'm doing a really bad job of selling this....
BUT! And this is the coolest part - she's trying to get all of LJ to raise enough money to buy a PlayPump. A merry-go-round for children that extracts 1,400 liters of water per hour, and can bring clean drinking water to 2,500 people for 10 years! A merry-go-round! I want one...
Wheeeee! 
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| Too much lamb! |
[Jun. 14th, 2009|05:18 pm] |
I accidentally bought 2.5 lb of lamb shoulder, which is too much for the little lamb tagine I planned to cook. What should I do with the other 1.5 lb of lamb? I tend to have bad luck freezing meats...
UPDATE: I cut up the rest of it and made giant lamb tagine. It is definitely more cost effective for a single person to eat out every night... :P |
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[Jun. 12th, 2009|01:24 pm] |
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In addition to forgetting their family members and what decade it is, people with dementia get night terrors too?! Jesus, is this not the most horrible neurological disease ever? I'm so glad they're trying new programs, although I find the "kindergartener" simile to be a bit offensive: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/14/nyregion/14cover.html?_r=1&hp |
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| Don't ask, don't tell |
[Jun. 8th, 2009|12:13 pm] |
Court Rejects Challenge to 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'
I really can't get my head around the vehement opposition against gays serving openly in the military (or for that matter, gay marriage). I've heard the overt arguments - it undermines morale, adds sexual tension, etc. - but to me, these are all justifications from ignorant, cowardly homophobes. Whose morale is undermined? The 19-yo hick who hasn't even met a gay person before, or the captain who spends 20 years serving his country and then either gets his ass kicked or is discharged? I'll be honest, I'm not a fan of the hairy armpit brigade or bitchy queens either, but what kind of retard expects fellow soldiers to be sexually accosting everything in sight? Or at least, more so than the average hetero soldier? And in a time when those currently enlisted are getting screwed over and disillusioned with practices like stop-loss, doesn't it undermine the notion of having a military that is strong in both numbers and dedication to kick people out for behavior that doesn't directly affect others?
Full disclosure: I'll admit I'm a moderate liberal, and I have lots of gay friends. However, I also get a little queasy watching gay folks make out (although any kind of PDA grosses me out), and I have a terrible habit of using such Boston slang as "gay" and "faggy" to describe annoyances like beaurocracy. But I also feel my opinions on someone's sexual identity don't mean a damn, and certainly shouldn't have any impact on however they pursue their particular kicks.
But I'm curious to know if my "liberalism" is blinding me - is there any solid argument against having gays serve openly in the military that isn't based in the ignorance or uber-Christianity of the current military society? For the record, although I'm pro-choice, I can see much more moral and legal legitimacy in the anti-abortion arguments compared to the anti-gay military or anti-gay marriage arguments.
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| POKEY LITTLE PUPPY!!!! |
[May. 31st, 2009|10:58 pm] |
Cakewrecks featured this pic of a baby's 2nd birthday cake with The Pokey Little Puppy! I love the pokey little puppy! I want to be 2 yrs old so I can have that cake!
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[May. 9th, 2009|11:38 am] |
MY neck has seized up again! I think I'm going to be one of the very few people to buy a vibrator as an actual back massager:
Hitachi Magic Wand
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| This is how you encourage theater attendance? |
[Apr. 17th, 2009|03:50 pm] |
I took the afternoon off work to get advance student rush tickets to Spring Awakening at the Colonialan and my roommate gave me her student id as well because she couldn't take off work. The website states "one ticket per student" and "must show student id" (and no one picked up the phone when I called to clarify). Needless to say, neither of the two fucking old geezers at the BO (think the muppets in the balcony) would sell me the second ticket. There was absolutely NO mention of "student must be present to purchase ticket", so I basically lost 3 hours of pay for nothing.
Fuck you, Colonial Theater! And you wonder why no one gives a shit about theater anymore... |
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| Must... not... buy... Nancy Drew! |
[Mar. 26th, 2009|07:32 pm] |
Confession: From the age of 9 to 12, I was an avid reader of the Nancy Drew Case Files. No, these weren't those retarded "Mystery of the Lost Mitten" books from the 40's, these were awesome: murder, beatings, organ smuggling, international conspiracy, cheating on sweetheart Ned Nickerson - I swear, if they could have tossed rape into these pre-teen books, they would have. As it was, Nancy got knocked out and tied up in nearly every book (no three-strike concussion rule for teen sleuths!). But all the mysteries were also thoroughly grounded in real life - it's where I first learned about Quantico, the IRA, curare, "six jump slumps", and Coco Chanel. Seriously bad ass.
Anyway, I just saw a bunch of the early Case Files on Ebay for peanuts - but since I have no money and even less space in my apartment, I'm trying desperately to not bid.
Desperately.
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| Diploma Names! |
[Mar. 24th, 2009|05:40 pm] |
Question for all you scholars out there - and yes, that's all of my Flist!
Would you use your full middle name or just a middle initial on your grad school diplomas? I don't particularly like my middle name, and because it's much longer than my first name it tends to "visually eclipse" the first (and I AM my first name!), but I'm afraid it would look kind of cheap and unprofessional if I just used an initial. Thoughts?
(I can't remember what I used on my undergrad diploma - I think I tossed it a few years back :P) |
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