Aaah, the good ol' days before safety standards. It's WHMIS in Canada. The horror stories I have heard from older scientists...like the lady on the fourth floor with nerve damage in her legs, from handling acrylamide(for gels), without gloves. <shudders>

I understand the laptop being ruled inadmissable, I don't understand why the jury wasn't given the option of finding him guilty of a lesser charge, like manslaughter. Frankly, they don't need the laptop evidence; the fact that she was beyond blackout drunk and he admitted to having sex with her should signal what…

The argument that Sky tries to make falls apart when you ask why he cares so much. It doesn't affect him, and it's not up to him to decide how others behave. The problem is a manufactured one, and he's trying *very hard* to maintain it. This isn't 2008. Sky's arguments are from a time that no longer exists. …

I still manage to nick myself at least every 2-3 months, despite 25-30 years practice. I think the reason they bleed forever is the shallowness of the cut; you're taken out a bunch of capillaries, but no larger vessels, so the clotting process takes longer to get going. There's not enough biochemical signal to start…

I'm so jealous of you right now. You get to read The Wee Free Men for the first time. :)

I remember watching the coverage of the 2008 election (American politics is a favourite spectator sport up here in Canuckistan), and when the results came in for Virginia, I shouted at the TV, "He won Virginia?! Obama won Virginia!?!". I was completely blown away.

That book is full of contradictions. I remember the first time I read it, I got to the end, and then right away went back to the beginning and read it all the way through again. I was sure I was missing something. There seemed to be this theme of allowing one's identity to be subsumed into a larger unit, for the…

Ugh. I remember reading something, an interview with up-and-coming actresses in Hollywood, and how they all fudged their measurements and dress size on their CV's. For no other reason than the fact that the (usually male) casting director would not even look at anyone over 125 pds, regardless of their height or…

I had to read through it several times at first to make sure I understood it, but it appears to grammatically correct.

That dress is hot. You should get it.

Oh god, "Shakespeare in Love", that was the movie that turned me off Goop forever. And she wasn't even Goop yet.

Our two kitties love the warm satellite box, but are not so good at sharing...which means the little kitty gets pushed off by her bigger brother all the time.

Orange kitties are awesome!!

I concur.

Toxins can be products of ordinary metabolism (such as lactic acid), can be produced to kill or immobilize prey (such as the toxins in snake venom), or can be produced for self-defense (such as the cyanide produced by several plants).

Thank you for sharing that Ebert review; I don't remember seeing it before. I especially love this paragraph:

k, all I can think about is that episode of Farscape when the bad alien stuck a giant needle in everyone's eye ew ew ew ew ew......

Sigh.

I second this.

If it's wrong, then I don't wanna be right.