Take that Genetics 412: B-

Not bad for not showing up to class since the midterm and not reading notes or studying for the final!
Still waiting for the dreaded Genet 408 and Biol 321

Gak!! Horizontal Scroll Bars!!!

Hey, what's that thing in the sky?



(Just thought I'd point that out. This is from the European Space Agency, but I know that the Hubble Space Telescope people post a ton of excellent photos for backgrounds, etc.)

Well I gotsta say I feel enlighten'd now, yo

By the way- kudos to EMCEEs P & E for steppin up in the face of adversity and rising to the challenge. Rhyme on, brothas- keep up with those sick hooks.

much admiration,
-MC Me.

"...There's absolutely no purpose for them, half the time they don't rhyme, and the other half it's so goddamn forced it's rediculous. [sic]
If you have something to say, DO NOT put it in rhyme if you expect myself or some other people to bother reading it."


When ya works with the dialects of rhymes,
the spellin deviates (as ya'd expect) from the line
of best fit to elicit the illicit
wordplay like mine does,
keepahs must first be findahs
in this case, so to appreciates
the acquired tastes of the abrassive
one does needs ta learn to read
and doin so leads to learnin to spell,
which ya need as well
t'understand the wordbombs that fell.
Need to educate to propogate
a cultured mind to find
a properly opinionated mind
with thoughts on wordbombs
as well as the bombs heard
by the Kurd kids without moms
you hurt yourself without knowledge
beyond the college-type
or university lecture-hallage-hype
Kuz the times ripe to learn
that the right ta vote is a right ta earn
and not a rite-of-passage when ya turn
eighteen and think yer cool kuz ya left-lean
on the spectrum of politic
get with it, don't be so thick.
The means of the message is in the medium
and if'n ya can'ts find a vestige of effort
ta learn t'appreciates the 'tedium'
then by all means don't be readin'em,
but it could be fer yer own good
and ya prolly should, to be undastood
as a contributin member would
in our war-torn neighbourhood.



And if you haven't bothered to learn to read and appreciate rhyme, the translation is as follows: learn it. The spelling deviates as the form permits, but if you can't learn to spell outside of the rhyming-ring then you might need to start from square-one. Education comes in many forms, and to cut yourself off from any one type of communication is devastating both to yourself and society as a whole. Be open-minded. Embrace cultural difference. Make a difference.

I think I like the new terror alert level there. Or maybe it was there before and I'm just blind. Either is quite possible. It's good to know how scared I should feel each and every day when I go outside. It's good to know that some person who I've never met, and quite frankly wouldn't make me cry if they got run over by anything, cares enough about me to tell me to issue some vague caution of an imminent terrorist attack in my backyard. How very pathetic our society based soley on fear has become...

Go to SpeedySnail to see the world's most useless sign.

No surprise that it's in the Psych Department, eh?

Oh yeah, a couple more things. These are for my benefit, really. They're phrases that I've heard that I figure I should start saying more often:



• "Hmmmm. That doesn’t make sense to me. But then, you are very small.
  Perhaps you're right."
  - Treebeard, "The Two Towers"



• "You pit your puny will against mine? In my presence, you are an
  ant, a termite. Abase yourself you grovelling insect!"
  - Sutekh, "The Pyramids of Mars"


I really feel that people don't say abase or grovelling enough these days.

Don't look at me to rhyme. Beyond the typically lame "I don't rhyme 'cause I don't have time" and "I'm a poet and I didn't know it," speaking in verse is not for me.


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Remember a while back when we were talking about the abundance of USB around. I mean, some computers come with upwards of 10 USB ports. After your printer, digital camera(s), webcam, mouse, and keyboard, you still had some leftover. Well, how about filling it up with this. I don't know if you can read that, but it says USB Christmas Tree. Can USB reindeer and Santas Claus be far behind?




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I was just sent the link to this survey. It seems Microsoft is more worried about open source alternatives than they let on. It's a survey sent to Linux users, asking them why they switched to Linux from Windows. Hmm... I wonder how many different ways I can phrase "Because you are more evil than Satan, and your product has pissed me off nearly continuously for 15 years" before they get the message.