Re: the hiring freeze - I thought these guys were supposed to love their armed forces? I guess that’s only when they’re out killing brown people and not when they’re just trying to live their life and juggle work, kids and everything else normal human beings have to deal with.

BRANDY CINDERELLA IS BEST CINDERELLA

I loved that movie. And I loved that somehow Whoopi Goldberg and Victor Garber made a Filipino child.

This is exactly the kind of stuff Chris Brown would spout about when he was assaulted as a kid by his babysitter; trying to make it retroactively consensual so he could live with it. (Nobody on Jez had a lot of love for Chris Brown but the site was rightfully taken to task when they tried to downplay it.)

One major reason the travel ban was rejected by the courts is because they refused to explain why one was necessary on top of all the established procedures we already have. Expanding the list of countries doesn’t change that.

Honestly, if a real Jurassic Park ever did open, I be like “come on, you dummies, nothing in the movies is ever like real life! LET’S GO!”, an hop right on the helicopter.

Did anyone tell him about fungi?

Yep, sounds like a George Church project. This is what I predict will come from this. It’s also why I support this effort, 1000%.

So they haven’t made the embryo yet? Then they’re not really close. There’s no artificial wombs for such a creature at present (like you said), so it would involve inseminating an elephant (not easy), hoping said elephant carries the pregnancy to term, and that the resulting creature resembles a mammoth more than an…

Palin’s “I can see Russia from my house” seems so quaint now that the Russia is coming from inside the house.

I heard her speak in person a couple of time and still have one of the light nanosecond length wires that she handed out at one of the speeches. And I wrote a lot of COBOL code back in the day.

Admiral Hopper was a helluva a human being and her accomplishments are even more noteworthy considering they came out a time when she had to fight against people’s prejudice against her gender. Yale should count their lucky stars they are able to count her as an alumna.

I have considered this, maybe this is the push that I need. Someone down thread said to try tangecello, which I actually did, as I’ve made batches of limoncello before and loved it, but it just wasn’t that good. They are tasty but have a very distinct tang to them (ha ha Tang), but maybe preserving them would move…

That is good to know, I wasn’t sure to order the first or the second book in the series off Amazon, but now I’ll just start with the first one. Thank!

The crash dieters at my job are convinced that eating bread is unhealthy because they want to eat “paleo” (but still tasty and fried). “Bread is bad for you, you’re not supposed to eat it.” Never mind that it’s tied with beer for, like, the first thing humans ever invented.

Have you seen Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency yet? It’s based on a series written by Douglas Adams, it has Elijah Wood in it, and it’s delightfully quirky.

I made a pound cake today for no other reason besides I was craving delicious, delicious, pound cake

I don’t even think the Supreme Court would rule 4-4 on this. The judges clearly lean conservative and liberal, but I think even the conservative ones would rule against this - they’re conservative but not dumb.

I always get a swell of San Diego pride when I watch that movie. I used to play youth basketball in the gym where the first competition scene was shot.

My high school wasn’t the best, but when I attended, they did offer Microbiology as an elective, which I took my senior year (the first year it was offered). That class, specifically the teacher teaching the class, changed my life and caused me to fall in love with the subject, go on to graduate college with a degree…