I think we can probably assume that if there are no more posts from Alison then she made it out. Or that the computers also turn themselves off as the door locks. Either way.

on another note, I am *precisely* 123 words short of the minimum for my lastest last-minute late-night attempt at an essay. This is the fifth essay in 2 weeks and I am really not caring anymore, especially as the clock ticks over and I know my bed is just over there so warm and soft.....

But Gandhi is really interesting.

Superman/Clark finally defeated by the mighty blue justice:

Locks on the inside? That's pretty creepy itself, let alone all these mysterious noises.

on a different note, I am sitting in an entirely (biological life-) empty (save for me) computer lab, where I swear I can hear keyboards typing away, and people discussing things. aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! and it's really starting to creep me out. If you don't hear from me tomorrow, please check in GSB 221 to see if my corpse is hanging neatly from the projection screen or something... really creepy

oh, hey, Paras, funny you said that, I was sort-of wondering, but the article was definitely French, so I don't know... perhaps it's Frerman or something... you know how languages develop their own flavour... and maybe the translator just forgot to translate that word...

back to creepy... in fact I'm going to leave the room it's really getting to me... that and the door locks on the inside after 10, and it's 10!

you smell like mouse.

Ok... it happened once before but I hadnt given it too much thought and just kinda laughed it off... but it happened again today. I got chased by a cat while riding my bike. In the same area... but by a different cat. What could this mean?

Funny story. Benzine, in German, is gasoline. Your call, Alison.

hehe...
My combined two-post electricity ramble was exaclty 50/50 on the good/evil scale according to the Gematriculator

Hmmm... yeah, I don't know whether benzine=benzene or not.
I do know however that benzene is definitely genotoxic - a carcinogen.
Due to it's planar conformation the benzene molecules insert themselves between the stacked base pairs in DNA and is therefore known as an intercalating agent. The presence of the benzene itself does nothing to the DNA sequence, however during transcription or replication it's presence affects the watson-crick hydrogen bonding between template and incoming bases and can lead to increased mispairing and base substitutions. Also when it is intercalated (but not during replication) the size and shape of the helix is distorted which triggers the nucleotide excision repair (NER) pathway which nicks the DNA backbone on one side of the distortion, then on the other, removes the strand in between and replaces it with new DNA. The problem is that there was no real sequence damage to start with, but when the DNA is replaced the benzene will screw up the wc H-bonds again and induce the mismatch. This escalates into a downward spiral of "repair" leading to more and more mutation and even double stranded breaks. At this point the cell will often enter apoptosis if it can, otherwise it may become "immortal" and grow as a tumor.
So basically... benzene BAAAAAD!!!

thanks Beck and Paras, but mostly Beck... 'twas interesting... but did you know that the waste products of the photovoltaic cells used to generate household electricity, or cars or whatever else you desire to have solar powered, are incredibly toxic and apparently non-recyclable given our current technology standards? Just goes to show you that Einstein's right again: The problems of today will not be solved with today's technology.

I was asking about the benzene thing because apparently Switzerland uses Benzene to generate electricity (?) and didn't have the foggiest idea how it would happen. It is toxic still, right? and unless benzine is something different from benzene (I was reading in french, so everything was different, I just couldn't figure out whatelse benzine could be and babelfish was no help whatsoever) then that's what they're using. Crazy Swiss...

Also on the crazy note... isn't it amazing the amount of knowledge and "stuff" you acquire over the course of your life? Like, for example, I know that dirt is gritty in your mouth, clay feels silky when you rub a wet sample between your fingers and that beavers can close their ears and nostrils and have a see-through membrane over their eyes when they swim under water. I just could never put it all into logical sentence and paragraph format (without a lot of planning and organization) the way you did, Beck. CRAZY!

And... Eric, thanks for the refresher on Massive Attack... I burned it off of a friend of mine and neglected to copy any information about it down at the time... and she lives in Calgary. so cheers!