this is my favorite part of the day. the part where i get emails about all the things i have to change that are only in error because nobody ever proofreads anything before they send it to me.

leave it to the internet to find a place to buy your very own Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch.

OF (creation) SCIENCE!

High School Level- 1st Place: "Using Prayer To Microevolve Latent Antibiotic Resistance In Bacteria"

Eileen Hyde and Lynda Morgan (grades 10 & 11) did a project showing how the power of prayer can unlock the latent genes in bacteria, allowing them to microevolve antibiotic resistance. Escherichia coli bacteria cultured in agar filled petri dishes were subjected to the antibiotics tetracycline and chlorotetracycline. The bacteria cultures were divided into two groups, one group (A) received prayer while the other (B) didn’t. The prayer was as follows: "Dear Lord, please allow the bacteria in Group A to unlock the antibiotic-resistant genes that You saw fit to give them at the time of Creation. Amen." The process was repeated for five generations, with the prayer being given at the start of each generation. In the end, Group A was significantly more resistant than Group B to both antibiotics.

you’ll have to excuse me now, i have to go roll around on the floor having a combination of laughing fit and seizure…

<sing>i’m not quite hungry
but it’s about lunch time
and i don’t wanna sit at this desk no mo’</sing>

from sh0rtie…

haha completely mad geeza !
 
nifkin rules
::[”_”]::

apparently, if he feels that the other fish are getting in his space Abe becomes a real asshole. andrea said he bit one of the clownfish on the face and wouldn’t let go one afternoon. she rearranged the rocks and there haven’t been any territorial pissings since. he’s a pretty little fish though…

i applied for the AAS in cybercrime program at the local community college for the fall semester for no real apparent reason at all. if they let all my stuff from college before and my work experience in then the classload shouldn’t be too bad.

CJS111 intro. to criminal justice
CSI214 information systems security
CSI127 internet fundamentals
CJS217 constitutional law
CJS215 criminal law
health/fitness/wellness gen. ed. requirement (yick)
CJS205 cyberlaw
CJS216 criminal evidence and procedure
CJS222 investigation and criminalistics
PHL151 modern logic
CJS207 cyber forensics
CJS225 criminal justice ethics
CJS206 cybercrime
BPA162 business communications
1 criminal justice elective

err, yeah, that’s the full 2 years right there…

in the car this morning i was contemplating how all the people where i work don’t understand a thing i do but like to tell me how to do it anyway. it made me think back and go looking this up again: If Architects Had To Work Like Web Designers…

Dear Mr. Architect:

Please design and build me a house. I am not quite sure of what I need, so you should use your discretion. My house should have somewhere between two and forty-five bedrooms. Just make sure the plans are such that the bedrooms can be easily added or deleted. When you bring the blueprints to me, I will make the final decision of what I want. Also, bring me the cost breakdown for each configuration so that I can arbitrarily pick one.

(mental note: find "Blog This!" bookmarklet on blogger’s site to use at home because i’m too lazy to actually go to blogger.com to add an entry…)

for those keeping score, my fish now has a name. his name is this: ABE VIGODA. (that will either make you laugh or make you look at me and be like "huh?")

we went to ikea in college park and have things in the apartment pretty much rounded out at this point. coffee table, tv stand, 2 of 3 shelf units up, lamps, etc. it looks like an actual apartment now and it’s good.

yesterday i finally got tired of having to retape the earpiece on my old glasses (okay, i got tired of it before yesterday, but didn’t do anything about it until yesterday) so we made a run to the mall and i went to lenscrafters and got a new pair and a new pair of sunglasses too. point being: next job, vision insurance is a must. paying for that out of pocket was nuts.

andrea’s good, sid’s good, i’m okay, i guess that means all’s well for now. you can go on about your business now…

and, as usual, i am responsible. in this case for quoting morrissey in a thread on yayhooray regarding my history and the background of the DESTROY NIFKIN movement…

ikea finally came and got their furniture and issued a refund for the cost of the couch and the slipcovers. waiting on checks to clear (since i’m moving banks) to get the money from one bank to the other so we can go buy whatever else we need. it looks like we’ll probably go try going to the ikea store and seeing what’s in stock there to start with (i know, i know, i swore off the scandi goodness, but it’s easy and we just want it all done now) then expand from there if we need to.

last night andrea got me a fish, that’s right *my* fish. it’s a royal gramma and it’s tiny and cute and doesn’t have a name yet.

so, i’ve officially been ordered to start using this space again as my main blog and to stop using my profile dealy over at Yay Hooray! all the time instead…

you know me, i’m just here to serve…