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QUOTE(mreye @ Dec 29, 2006 -> 01:01 PM) "They said you was hung." "They were right."

1. Despite my current lack of belief in a Divine Agent, when I was younger I was a devout Catholic who seriously considered the priesthood and almost went to Quigley Seminary South before opting for St.Ignatius instead. 2. I didn't lose my virginity until the summer before my senior year of high school, and when I did it was outside in an open-air courtyard on the UIC campus. 3. Through high school and into college my summer job was selling hotdogs out of a stand at Buckingham Fountain, various Lake Michigan beaches, and/or at Lincoln Park Zoo. I also worked as a food vendor for home Bears games; I was at the stadium for every home game of the 1985 Championship season but only saw the 4th quarters of the games after we closed up the food stand. 4. Odd jobs during college in Chambana included working at a Greek fast food joint, at a record store, and in an undergraduate work-study gig breeding cockroaches for various ecological studies. 5. I got together with my future wife completely by accident when a flat tire made me late for a date with another person and by the time I got to the pub she was gone and so I sat down with a group of grad students from a different department that included my future wife. It was three days before Valentine's Day and apparently she was desperate for a date and asked me.

33 34 36 now

I got 32 or them the first go-round, and there's at least 6 more of them that are on the tip of my brain. Anybody besides me get the fourth one in the top row?

Yeah, this doesn't look good. I'll never get why people can't just be happy with being obscenely rich, instead of having to come upp with new ways to bend/break/ignore rules to make themselves grotesquely, pperversely rich.

QUOTE(sox4lifeinPA @ Dec 28, 2006 -> 12:55 AM) why did she sell it? That's my question as well. Sounds like a one-of-a-kind keepsake from a dead brother that you'd have to be reallly desperately broke before you thought of selling.

QUOTE(sox4lifeinPA @ Dec 22, 2006 -> 11:19 PM) Apparently they're no match for Japanese Scientists... That's what they thought about Godzilla too. Wait for the sequel. QUOTE(DBAH0 @ Dec 22, 2006 -> 08:53 PM) Wouldn't really want to be stuck down in the ocean with one of those things would you. If you were down at 1,000 m and not ecnlosed within a submersible you'd have bigger problems than these guys. But, yeah, they are very capable predators and they put up a good fight with the sperm whales that are munching them. For centuries whalers hauled in sperm whales with impressive suction mark scars on them inflicted by Architeuthis – as well as a belly full of beaks. If fact, some of the earlier overestimtes of the maximum size the squid attained were because extrapolating body length from the diameter of the scars on the whales didn't take into account the fact that the scars grew as the whales did.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Dec 22, 2006 -> 03:50 PM) /rollseyes Now you've gotten with the picture, Kap. We've been /rollsey-ing this admin for a wahile, but there's always room for one more.

QUOTE(sox4lifeinPA @ Dec 22, 2006 -> 02:08 PM) and I'd like to say that 1 in 1000 is a horrifying number. How does it work? That would be one out of every 1,000, PA. If I could type in crayon for you I would. ;)

QUOTE(sox4lifeinPA @ Dec 22, 2006 -> 02:10 PM) I'm ok with God taking as long as he wants to make the earth. So, your God is kind of a Short Bus Special Ed. God and the time to completion on a task doesn't matter. Cool. How very progressive of you.

QUOTE(sox4lifeinPA @ Dec 22, 2006 -> 01:42 PM) I've got a secret...I've been hiding under my skin.... domo. domo. It's a Dennis DeYoung Christmas.

QUOTE(sox4lifeinPA @ Dec 22, 2006 -> 01:37 PM) again..."scientists" You can't be considered an"expert" on any particuular organism until you've done in a couple thousand of them, Bro.

I know that's not supposed to be a complicated question, but. . . I'm taking paid time off next week from the job I thought I was getting fired from but now it turns out I'm getting promoted away from instead (go figure) – in order to catch up on the Smithsonian contract work I took on back when I thought I was getting fired but now apparently am not, and also to catch up on some contract work finishing up some museum digital interactives for a county environmental visitor center. I'm looking at 9 more months of basically doing two full time gigs and the first 3 months has already fried me pretty good. I won't mind the extra $$ but I think it will all go for rehabilitation therapy aftter my exhaustion-induced nervous breakdown.

QUOTE(Queen Prawn @ Dec 22, 2006 -> 01:22 PM) Well isn't that nice...everyone in the company that is here today went to lunch and didn't invite me.

QUOTE(sox4lifeinPA @ Dec 22, 2006 -> 11:59 AM) My favorite part of the article.... "Scientists" there's a special level of Dante's Inferno reserved just for biologists to be eternally tortured by all the organisms they snufffed in the name of science. Most of my doctoral work involved captive predator-prey studies so my professional kill total is pretty low. But I have friends whose cumulative fish collections during their thesis years are probably in the neighborhood of several hundred K and I'm sure their afterlife will include at least a century of being captured and formalin-fixed in jars by huge monster fish.

QUOTE(sox4lifeinPA @ Dec 22, 2006 -> 10:55 AM) what made Virgil Goode switch from Dem to Independent? Even when he was a Dem, he was a prototypical Southern Democrat whose ideas on abortion, gun control, gay marriage, etc., were all right of the national center. He sided with the Republicans on the Clinton articles of impeachment and became an Independent in 2000, choosing to caucus with the Republicans. He had been lobbied to go over to the Dark Side since the Clinton days and did it in 2002, possibly with the promise of a seat on the Appropriations Committee. I loves me The Google.

This is the same japanese research group that got the still images of one a couple of years ago. http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/12/22...d.ap/index.html A professional acquaintance of mine, Clyde Roper of the Smithsonian has made a career out of hunting for these guys. Almost to the point of a Captain Ahab and Moby Dick obsessiveness in some folks' opinion. Scientists have yet to observe live giant squid in their natural deep-sea habitat (@300 to 1,000 meters), and that's still Clyde's key ambition. My institution's markee research vehicles are a pair of midwater research submersibles designed to explore precisely thsese depths (we leave the real deep stuff to Woods Hole/Jason). Our subs and Clyde's research goals would be a perfect match but for the fact that the search for giant squid in the deep sea is very much a needle/haystack proposition, and at an expedition cost of $30-$50K per day it's hard to fund very many days of searching. (Anybody want to sponsor an expedition??) BUT, if this Japanese team can demonstrate some site fidelity on the part of the squid, maybe the haystack will get small enough that we really can tackle the search with the subs. Anyway, I got really jazzed when I saw this story. Maybe I'll drop Clyde a line and tell him we have loads of subscription sub time available for 2007 (poor federal funding cycle), if he wants to give these Japanese fellers a shout.

Is this going to be Virgil Goode's macaca incident that sends him packing in the next election?

We're going to be high 70s and RAINY. I'm not asking for snow or anything, but how about a Christmas Eve in the 40s so we can at least use the fireplace?

QUOTE(sox4lifeinPA @ Dec 22, 2006 -> 09:37 AM) Come On.... Encino Man Goes Asian... Oh, we got it. [/Rex Kicka** golf clap]

QUOTE(Soxy @ Dec 22, 2006 -> 01:00 AM) I hope you're joking, because I actually thought that was kind of funny. . . I'm quite sure he was. So much so that the green would have been redundant. PETA2 is an odd youth activist group, but they are very good at poking fun at themselves. Read the staff bios on the site.

QUOTE(Kid Gleason @ Dec 20, 2006 -> 07:24 PM) Terrible movie and all of it's "great lines" are complete throw-aways. Grandma just called and said you're supposed to go home. She says she doesn't want you here when she gets back because you've been ruining everybody's lives and eatin' all our steak. Throw-away line?? I think not!

QUOTE(ptatc @ Dec 21, 2006 -> 09:27 PM) The term comes from the basic components of DNA and RNA, the Deoxyribonucleic acid. Nuclear medicine involves the nucleusof the molecule as stated above. The reason that it is put in the larger more well known nuclear medicine is simple: money. When apllying for grants especially federal grants the broader the classification the more chances there are at obtaining the research money. You may be right about the strategy to broaden funding possibilities, but I'll take you to task on the definition of the field of nuclear medicine. What you described is, broadly, within the fields of molecular biomedicine. In contrast, the term "nuclear medicine" traditionally refers to a subdiscipline within the field of radiology pertaining to the use of radioisotopes to either image the body or as part of radiation treatment therapy. As per this entry on "How Stuff Works" or this FAQ page from the Nuclear Medicine Research Council or this entry from RadiologyInfo.com or this entry from the Journal of Nuclear Medicine

I'll second Balta's confusion as to the question being asked. "Nuclear medicine" as it is usually defined doesn't have anything to do with cell nuclei. Rather it is referring to atomic nuclei and specifically to the nuclear properties of matter that allow different forms of "gamma camera" physiological medical imaging to be done. Not sure how that ties in with stem cell research, but i hope that helps.