Hi everyone!  I'm here asking a favor.  Neil Gaiman (one of my favorite authors) is going to be speaking at MIT in May and I would really love to go see him.  Problem is that tickets are only on sale at certain Comic shops, all in the Boston area and I cannot get up there to purchase tickets (which have to be bought with cash).

I was wondering if ( Read more... )

Here are a couple poems my reproductive physiology professor gave us.  It's the bull and cow's views of breeding techniques used in domestic breeding.

The Bull View

The noble bull once roamed the wood,
Breeding his cows and doing good.
His sons and daughters proud to say,
They had all come the natural way.

But now, alas, sad to relate,
In deep disgrace ( Read more... )

I thought some of you might find this article interesting.

Russian 'bird-boy' discovered in aviary
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/02/28/wbird128.xml

If you are interested in reading a great book FREE, go to http://tiny.cc/WRiXE.  For the next month, you can read Neil Gaiman's "American Gods" online for free.  It is a great book and since you don't even have to go to the library to get it, check it out.

Has anyone seen the new Ask.com commercial? It's a guy singing about how he "found what he was looking for" in a broadway musical kind of number. The background shows search results of videos and pics of "chicks with swords," which is what he was looking for. The girls all dancing in the number are all wearing skimpy outfits and have swords. To ( Read more... )

Last night I had my lab practical exam for my mussels class. I did really well. There was only one question that I was unsure about because I didn't directly study the information. But I did remember some stuff from when I did the reading. After the test he posted the answers and I did great. I may lose a couple of points, but other than that ( Read more... )

I found out the other day, purely by accident (Karl still gets emails from UMD), that my favorite professor, Dr. Robert Leamnson, passed away on December 22. He was the best professor I ever had because he really knew and loved what he taught. Dr. Leamnson never gave away an answer. He always made you reason it out to ensure that you not only ( Read more... )

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So yesterday morning I ended up in the emergency room. I had woken up at 2:30am with lower back pain that would not go away (not muscle pain, but something is wrong pain). I thought it was just gas bubbles, but they wouldn't go away and got worse. I didn't fall asleep again until 5am and was back up at 6am with the pain now in my back and my ( Read more... )

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