Count yourself lucky to have been spared the Southwest experience. I fly Delta almost exclusively, mostly because I'm in Atlanta, but because I like them better. I do fly BA when I fly to Europe, because I like them, too.

Obviously, they were way ahead of the internet on the cinnamon challenge.

Are you new here? That's the entire premise of this blog. If you can't take the heat, get out of the Kitchenette.

Nice find. I was going straight from memory, so I'm sure my numbers aren't quite right anymore. That said, I think maybe there was a distinction I should have made, between the sites that can do Ebola research, and those that built the isolation units that could handle infected patients (a changed sparked by the…

High-five! I can't complain - I got to go to Vancouver in the summer and eat the best frozen custard of my life, we spent two weeks in Spain after a conference once, and there were plenty of beach locales in there, too.

I read it as a kid, too, and I cried myself to sleep for weeks.

Shout out! My dad worked at Fort Detrick when I was growing up, though he mostly did HIV research, so he didn't have the full space suit. He was, however, the best Career Day parent EVER because he would bring the whole class the suits he had to wear in the lab to work with HIV. White suits, booties, masks, the works.…

Callmekatina appears to have a lot more knowledge of the specifics than I do, but I was under the impression that there were five of those sites across the U.S. (but I could be totally misremembering, it could four), and that like 20 years ago, there was ONE. Then, there was an outbreak of Ebola among the primates at…

I wouldn't live in most of Georgia, but Atlanta is great, and really cheap compared to other cities. Atlanta proper is a solid dot of blue in a red state. Plus, there's so much work to be done in these places, that when you get even an incremental victory, it feels special. I love it so much, and I have lived ALL OVER…

This was a quote from the director/lead actor in another article:

This is my exact take on the situation. I like you.

That might have been my favorite part of the movie. My best friend and I were howling with laughter.

For a basic, hour-long workout, as referenced in the NYT article (and not, like, an hour-long workout that happens to be an 8-mile run in Phoenix in July), water is just fine. For really long, arduous workouts, like marathons and such, something with a lot of potassium is actually pretty useful.

My last cat was a boy cat, and I currently have a boy cat, and I have never seen cat penis. They were both neutered really young, so maybe that's why? I do not ever want to see my cat's penis. The girl kitten went into heat at like four months and shoved her vag in everyone's face for a day before we could get her to…

There's a detachable plastic bump. I had this doll.

Based on some of the kids I knew, I wouldn't be surprised if spoons were real.

Yeah, I agree with you on the subtle versus overt violence (except when subtle=institutionalized racism, because that shit sucks). I was just surprised by what these kids would say out loud - lots of jokes about immigrants, lots of jokes about minorities, lots of homophobia.

Damn. I apologize for the southern culture he decided to hitch his wagon to. UGH.