Pricerite now has Blue Diamond Almond milk (Original, Unsweetened and Vanilla) at $1.99/0.5 Gallon.
I am swimming in a Sunday bliss induced by mango tea in almond milk, reading several engrossing articles on mitochondrial mysteries and writing my IRB protocol while broad beams of sunlight from my flat windows caress my bald head. And that is a run-on sentence with very poor form that I am trying to avoid in my technical writing.
Ah. Perfection. (Or will be perfection, if I finish this IRB protocol and a good part of my background and specific aims for the analysis I want to carry out.)
But, Pricerite, I do love you. And that justifies the terrible grammar and deplorable lack of structure in this entry.
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03/07/2010 11:58 #51123
Pricerite, I love you.Category: grocery
03/03/2010 20:15 #51103
Totally Bald.Category: simple pliny
I went bald today and it is a liberating feeling. I can feel little streams of air wafting across my head. A young lymphoma patient snipped my curls off. She is still on a regimen of five different kinds of chemotherapy. A cancer survivor told me about the time when she lost her hair - all of it, including the hair from her nostrils. She said she felt as if she were breathing the world in every time she inhaled.
I am more convinced than ever that we need to keep going, work harder and think out of the box in our battle against this wretched disease. We don't have any time or space for cynicism. My department's reaction amazes me. All of them, without an exception, went out of their way to make my bald nutty head feel appreciated and warm. They are a unique family.
I ran into the charming (e:enknot) in the cafeteria when I went searching for (e:libertad). Tony, who on earth is Andrew Reed and how do you know him? More importantly, what is he doing on the tables of our cafeteria? He is not even a first-page hit on Google Images:
He is clearly not one of these: Or is he? Do you have a deep dark obsession with the British church, state, police and sport, that no one had an inkling about... till right this moment!??
(e:libertad), I am now so curious about your office! I am going to gatecrash someday. You work in a mysterious building that is just marked by a direction - not even a name! And no guests are allowed?! Why, my office is always crawling with guests and other random people!
I am more convinced than ever that we need to keep going, work harder and think out of the box in our battle against this wretched disease. We don't have any time or space for cynicism. My department's reaction amazes me. All of them, without an exception, went out of their way to make my bald nutty head feel appreciated and warm. They are a unique family.
I ran into the charming (e:enknot) in the cafeteria when I went searching for (e:libertad). Tony, who on earth is Andrew Reed and how do you know him? More importantly, what is he doing on the tables of our cafeteria? He is not even a first-page hit on Google Images:
He is clearly not one of these: Or is he? Do you have a deep dark obsession with the British church, state, police and sport, that no one had an inkling about... till right this moment!??(e:libertad), I am now so curious about your office! I am going to gatecrash someday. You work in a mysterious building that is just marked by a direction - not even a name! And no guests are allowed?! Why, my office is always crawling with guests and other random people!
metalpeter - 03/04/10 20:53
I want to see it. If I ever really wind up doing locks for Love, who knows I know I would want the pictures posted.
I want to see it. If I ever really wind up doing locks for Love, who knows I know I would want the pictures posted.
paul - 03/03/10 22:59
where is the picture!
where is the picture!
libertad - 03/03/10 21:09
Wow, it never occurred to me how many of those in the morgue were smokers. I hope their spirits encourage us to give great support!
Wow, it never occurred to me how many of those in the morgue were smokers. I hope their spirits encourage us to give great support!
tinypliny - 03/03/10 20:58
Hmm.. so the quitline is "above the morgue". You can persuade ANYone to quit!
Hmm.. so the quitline is "above the morgue". You can persuade ANYone to quit!
libertad - 03/03/10 20:45
I should say I have (e:enknot)'s pic of tiny being bald. I will send upon request. She is cute bald!
I should say I have (e:enknot)'s pic of tiny being bald. I will send upon request. She is cute bald!
tinypliny - 03/03/10 20:40
I made them take it to the bone - but I still have a slight fuzz left. The hairdresser was using electric clippers and they can't really go as far as a conventional blade.
Hehe, I didn't have THE peterazzi around! ;-)
I made them take it to the bone - but I still have a slight fuzz left. The hairdresser was using electric clippers and they can't really go as far as a conventional blade.
Hehe, I didn't have THE peterazzi around! ;-)
libertad - 03/03/10 20:39
The answer (e:tinypliny) is that our office is oppressive. We are chained to our desks and are starved of sunlight.
I can arrange to have you come take a peak while I'm on lunch tomorrow. We are directly above the morgue so if you can get to the morgue we are just one story up which is better than 6ft under? I guess you will have to wait and see...
The answer (e:tinypliny) is that our office is oppressive. We are chained to our desks and are starved of sunlight.
I can arrange to have you come take a peak while I'm on lunch tomorrow. We are directly above the morgue so if you can get to the morgue we are just one story up which is better than 6ft under? I guess you will have to wait and see...
metalpeter - 03/03/10 20:34
Did they cut very low or do you look like Cojack Or stone Cold Steve austin or best example is (e:vincent)? My other question is why no Picture?
Did they cut very low or do you look like Cojack Or stone Cold Steve austin or best example is (e:vincent)? My other question is why no Picture?
02/27/2010 23:22 #51087
We are creatures of carbon.Category: science
We evolved through our carbon interactions.
We migrated lead by our carbon needs.
We reproduced guided by our carbon culture.
We engineered our carbon environments.
We sheared the fabric of our lives with carbon based hostilities.
We continue to interact and change our carbon dynamics.
To carbon we all shall return.
- C Graphic:
02/26/2010 19:19 #51080
Organic milk - hating it!Category: eating in
I finally caved in and bought a carton of Amish Organic Country Farms 1% Milk (well, mainly because they were out of the fat-free milk gallon). I really had high expectations from this milk - seeing as how it is organic and all. I could not have been more unrealistic about my expectations.
This milk tastes like it came directly from the cow or buffalo or whatever bovine they were milking. I know some of you are smirking and saying. "It's milk. What else did you expect?".
Let me tell you, I did not expect the farmyard cow/bovine smell. It completely throws my milk drinking experience. It taints my coffee and makes tea unbearable with its heavy heavy cow-ish/bovine odour. My tongue is now coated with the same odour and I can feel it slowly creeping up my sinuses. Ugh. Ugh. UGH.
I am DONE with this Organic Amish milk business. I am going back to fat-free mass-produced possibly hormone tainted neutral-smelling milk. I think I will deal with the devil and trade a little undue cell proliferation for the urge to throw up everytime I drink my favourite black tea with milk.
Maybe boiling will do away with the smell? What do you think?
This milk tastes like it came directly from the cow or buffalo or whatever bovine they were milking. I know some of you are smirking and saying. "It's milk. What else did you expect?".
Let me tell you, I did not expect the farmyard cow/bovine smell. It completely throws my milk drinking experience. It taints my coffee and makes tea unbearable with its heavy heavy cow-ish/bovine odour. My tongue is now coated with the same odour and I can feel it slowly creeping up my sinuses. Ugh. Ugh. UGH.
I am DONE with this Organic Amish milk business. I am going back to fat-free mass-produced possibly hormone tainted neutral-smelling milk. I think I will deal with the devil and trade a little undue cell proliferation for the urge to throw up everytime I drink my favourite black tea with milk.
Maybe boiling will do away with the smell? What do you think?
libertad - 02/27/10 21:08
I have no idea. I never buy a gallon and I admit I don't even look at the price of things that I buy on a consistent basis. The glass has a refundable deposit on it. You really should try it just once because it really tastes so awesome.
I have no idea. I never buy a gallon and I admit I don't even look at the price of things that I buy on a consistent basis. The glass has a refundable deposit on it. You really should try it just once because it really tastes so awesome.
tinypliny - 02/27/10 19:04
I find myself in perfect agreement with (e:zzzzzzooobbbba)rr even though I am less than unprincipled about many things - which is equivalent to saying that I deliberately may have deleted the concept of principles from many icky situations. I draw the line at inhaling and gulping down the scent of cows and other ruminants, however.
LOL @ (e:heidi)'s comment. Yeah, shows shocking lack of exposure to anything farm-related, huh? Do you like that smell - can you detect it, just curious...
@Libertad - really? recyclable glass? How much is a gallon at the coop?
I find myself in perfect agreement with (e:zzzzzzooobbbba)rr even though I am less than unprincipled about many things - which is equivalent to saying that I deliberately may have deleted the concept of principles from many icky situations. I draw the line at inhaling and gulping down the scent of cows and other ruminants, however.
LOL @ (e:heidi)'s comment. Yeah, shows shocking lack of exposure to anything farm-related, huh? Do you like that smell - can you detect it, just curious...
@Libertad - really? recyclable glass? How much is a gallon at the coop?
libertad - 02/27/10 11:47
I prefer milk that comes from cows not treated with growth hormones but never have had organic. I like Byrne Dairy which is sold at the coop or I have heard at Price Rite. The coop sells it in a glass returnable jar and I swear it tastes so good from a glass jar.
I prefer milk that comes from cows not treated with growth hormones but never have had organic. I like Byrne Dairy which is sold at the coop or I have heard at Price Rite. The coop sells it in a glass returnable jar and I swear it tastes so good from a glass jar.
zobar - 02/26/10 20:32
I don't know nothin about organic cow milk. You'd be able to use it up quicker, and probably notice the taste less, in cheesy dishes. I recommend a yin/yang mornay sauce with organic milk and Kraft singles freedom cheese.
I once ended up with a carton of rice milk and it totally fucked with my coffee until I found something else to do with it. Soy milk is ok in coffee. Rice milk tastes like rice. I like rice as much as, if not more than, the next guy but if you don't draw the line somewhere man where are your principles.
- Z
I don't know nothin about organic cow milk. You'd be able to use it up quicker, and probably notice the taste less, in cheesy dishes. I recommend a yin/yang mornay sauce with organic milk and Kraft singles freedom cheese.
I once ended up with a carton of rice milk and it totally fucked with my coffee until I found something else to do with it. Soy milk is ok in coffee. Rice milk tastes like rice. I like rice as much as, if not more than, the next guy but if you don't draw the line somewhere man where are your principles.
- Z
02/25/2010 22:34 #51078
China = Italy = Information OligarchyCategory: opinion
I can't believe how similar they are. One has a paranoid stuffy government who monitors any anti-political comments like a hawk. The other has a prime minister who owns every traditional broadcast media in the country and is now moving to crush internet freedom so that his broadcast media would profit and thrive at the cost of the net.
How do people vote in these autocrats?
Italy may be one of Europe's favourite tourist destinations, but I bet very few scientists would actually want to live there. How close-minded and disturbing is this latest news?! Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
How do people vote in these autocrats?
Italy may be one of Europe's favourite tourist destinations, but I bet very few scientists would actually want to live there. How close-minded and disturbing is this latest news?! Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
tinypliny - 02/26/10 18:57
I have it from reliable sources that it is going to get worse for all internet commerce and broadcast - including Google in Italy.
Seeing as how you are the absolute child and compulsive addict of the internet information highway, I cannot imagine you being happy at all, living there. (Unless of course, you anticipate replacing all your internet addiction and cravings with a bucketload more of olives and fig-eating).
I have it from reliable sources that it is going to get worse for all internet commerce and broadcast - including Google in Italy.
Seeing as how you are the absolute child and compulsive addict of the internet information highway, I cannot imagine you being happy at all, living there. (Unless of course, you anticipate replacing all your internet addiction and cravings with a bucketload more of olives and fig-eating).
paul - 02/26/10 17:43
I agree it is really scary but I still plan on moving there at some point.
I agree it is really scary but I still plan on moving there at some point.
EDR = Existing Data Review.
Sorry about the jargon. (Kind of scary how glib I have become in IRB jargon now that I am doing so many of these protocols).
Ah! I see about the budget. Are you "the clinician" on some of the other grants where people have put in your % effort? Do you at least get protected time for this?
and the budget bit was explained to me. It's an 'in kind' budget- apparently the university is trying to quantify how much 'good' they do for the 'public' which includes research. So I have to claim what % of my time (and thus paycheck) I spend on my research.
EDR?
Budget proposal for an EDR with a consent-waiver?!! *That* IS absolute BONKERS - even by the worst IRB case-scenario! Did your hospital get bruised by some ethics violations or grant fraud at some point in the distant past by some random fellow/faculty who is not in Canada?! I can only think of that as a plausible reason for such massive red-tape.
yeah, I applied for a waiver of consent, and should get an expedited review. But they keep bouncing it back b/c I don't think my research proposal needs to be like a massive NIH grant proposal, but they want more.. This is a descriptive, pilot, nothing study. No statistics beyond "x percent of people with carpal tunnel syndrome also have tennis elbow". And STILL- this has taken months and isn't done yet. the latest is they want a budget proposal- even though it's an unfunded, zero-budget project. It totally discourages me from wanting to ever do research.
OH MAN. Retrospective chart review involves human subjects and the whole HIPAA battalion. I submitted mine in January and have not heard back from the clinical research services yet.
If there are no patient-identifiers in your analysis you could potentially write-up a non-human subject research protocol. RPCI's non-human protocols are approved very efficiently. I have my non-human subject research protocol approval but CRS is totally dragging its feet on my existing data review portion.
ugh, wanna write my IRB protocol? All am I doing is a tiny little retrospective chart review, but they keep wanting more and more from me. It is totally discouraging me from ever doing research.
Because journals are MEANT to be run-on and on. 8^)
Because I am way more impressively creepy in person. hahahaha
I'm surprised you don't comment on the ridiculous run-on sentences in my posts :-)
And why haven't we seen pictures of your adorable bald head?