It looks like a millipede but is waaay too fast and light. I see it sometimes scurrying on the walls of my flat.
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06/13/2010 12:12 #51872
Mystery InsectCategory: buffalo
06/13/2010 11:50 #51871
Spit for the CureCategory: science
We had a massive recruitment campaign yesterday and persuaded around 1000 people to donate their saliva to cancer research at Roswell. It's amazing how much dependent our quality of research is, on the type and number of people who decide to participate.
paul - 06/13/10 12:02
Spit driven research
Spit driven research
06/11/2010 18:43 #51853
Indeed.Category: the odes
05/30/2010 19:37 #51764
The truth is...Category: simple pliny
I have definite animal-hair related allergies. I found that out for sure over this weekend. I thought I had missed something growing up with a strict rule against having pets. Turns out, I just missed sneezing like a maniac and having the worst itchy nose ever.
What is interesting is the symptoms seem to have a latency period and kick in after having more than a few hours of contact with animal hair. Certainly feels like a delayed hypersensitivity reaction.
Also, being woken up at 3:45 in the night with a huge dog breathing and drooling on your face to be let out in the yard is not restful. I guess I will stick to the no-pet policy from now on.
What is interesting is the symptoms seem to have a latency period and kick in after having more than a few hours of contact with animal hair. Certainly feels like a delayed hypersensitivity reaction.
Also, being woken up at 3:45 in the night with a huge dog breathing and drooling on your face to be let out in the yard is not restful. I guess I will stick to the no-pet policy from now on.
tinypliny - 06/11/10 18:41
Probably. I could have developed some kind of tolerance to animal hair antigens. Good point. However, I don't want to go through the phase of developing tolerance now.
Probably. I could have developed some kind of tolerance to animal hair antigens. Good point. However, I don't want to go through the phase of developing tolerance now.
metalpeter - 05/31/10 10:40
(e:libertad) makes a good point. Another question is if you where house sitting as it sounds like how do you know it is the dog and not something else in the house? Some times Pet hair is specific to the animal like dogs or cats or this or that. In other words you could only have an allegry to one kind of animal and other pets would or could be fine.
(e:libertad) makes a good point. Another question is if you where house sitting as it sounds like how do you know it is the dog and not something else in the house? Some times Pet hair is specific to the animal like dogs or cats or this or that. In other words you could only have an allegry to one kind of animal and other pets would or could be fine.
libertad - 05/31/10 08:22
Maybe you wouldn't have allergies now towards pets if you had them when you were younger?
Maybe you wouldn't have allergies now towards pets if you had them when you were younger?
05/25/2010 13:27 #51727
Roswell CafeteriaCategory: eating out
Just got charged $5.76 for a grilled cheese sandwich with green peppers and onions - that was mediocre at best. The regular grilled cheese sandwich is $2.36. Grilled cheese sandwich with tomatoes is $2.69. Grilled cheese sandwich with bacon, tomato and lettuce is $3.39.
I don't like squabbling over charges at check out. I think it is just crazy that on the rare occasions that I do decide to get something from the place, I am overcharged without fail.
I am done with the Roswell Cafeteria. Once and for all.
Goodbye.
I don't like squabbling over charges at check out. I think it is just crazy that on the rare occasions that I do decide to get something from the place, I am overcharged without fail.
I am done with the Roswell Cafeteria. Once and for all.
Goodbye.
enknot - 05/28/10 03:17
Sorry to say tiny, but that place jumped the shark a few chef's ago. They're making money, but the food is lackluster at best on it's killer days. Stuff I'd toss together in a rush to stave off hunger when no one was watching.
Ok here goes once and for all, it's time we cook together. Most times for lunch lately I've been eating little packs of this Gobi Aloo I whipped together and froze for lunchtime consumption.
I need some more new veggie indian dishes though, for now I fool around with this one. I was going to use tofu to make it a bit more hardy but had a pack of paneer and decided to toss it in there instead and it wasn't half bad, even if the rice sucked (I used Goya Jasmine and I might as well used short grain white cause it was awwwwful).
Pack a lunch, and if you're desperate for yummies for cheap send me an email and we'll see what we have in the freezer.
Sorry to say tiny, but that place jumped the shark a few chef's ago. They're making money, but the food is lackluster at best on it's killer days. Stuff I'd toss together in a rush to stave off hunger when no one was watching.
Ok here goes once and for all, it's time we cook together. Most times for lunch lately I've been eating little packs of this Gobi Aloo I whipped together and froze for lunchtime consumption.
I need some more new veggie indian dishes though, for now I fool around with this one. I was going to use tofu to make it a bit more hardy but had a pack of paneer and decided to toss it in there instead and it wasn't half bad, even if the rice sucked (I used Goya Jasmine and I might as well used short grain white cause it was awwwwful).
Pack a lunch, and if you're desperate for yummies for cheap send me an email and we'll see what we have in the freezer.
tinypliny - 05/26/10 23:35
Yikes. That café is rapidly slithering downhill. I am not sure I want to go there again. BGH café across the street might be a much better option.
Yikes. That café is rapidly slithering downhill. I am not sure I want to go there again. BGH café across the street might be a much better option.
libertad - 05/26/10 18:03
I just want to emphasize how chemically the crust tasted. It really was quite awful. The next time I see the manager I plan on asking him if the woman told him about it.
I just want to emphasize how chemically the crust tasted. It really was quite awful. The next time I see the manager I plan on asking him if the woman told him about it.
libertad - 05/26/10 13:52
Yesterday I got a piece of pizza there. In my efforts to try and reduce my plastic usage I carried it out in my hand. The crust tasted like oven cleaner. It made me so nauseus. I complained to someone but I don't know if they did anything about it. Today I ate at Au bon Pain.
Yesterday I got a piece of pizza there. In my efforts to try and reduce my plastic usage I carried it out in my hand. The crust tasted like oven cleaner. It made me so nauseus. I complained to someone but I don't know if they did anything about it. Today I ate at Au bon Pain.
tinypliny - 05/25/10 17:38
Hmm... I guess everyone has their vomit overcharge/bad poop moments. I remember (e:Paul)'s grisly run in with the raw and rotten chicken bone. (e:Paul,39560)
Hmm... I guess everyone has their vomit overcharge/bad poop moments. I remember (e:Paul)'s grisly run in with the raw and rotten chicken bone. (e:Paul,39560)
james - 05/25/10 16:27
Really bad food. But, it is well on its way to becoming really bad poop.
Really bad food. But, it is well on its way to becoming really bad poop.
tinypliny - 05/25/10 15:51
LOL, really? Is that an analogy for bad food or do you mean real puke? :-)
LOL, really? Is that an analogy for bad food or do you mean real puke? :-)
james - 05/25/10 14:30
I was charged 4.50 for vomit and was reminded why it is so much cheaper, nutritions, and delicious to just bring my own.
I was charged 4.50 for vomit and was reminded why it is so much cheaper, nutritions, and delicious to just bring my own.
what is a google goggle? :)
Looks like it's time for google goggles.
Ooh - what a cool idea. I don't have any such thing and often grab bugs with my hands (and get grossed out a day later if I rip out a leg or two).
That is what I was thinking. I have a container set a side just for capturing and releasing insects. It is a plastic deli container and works great because it has a thin lid that I can slide under the container once I have the bug in it. I don't think I have ever injured one in the process. They can withstand losing their legs anyways.
I think they are light enough that they float to the ground and scamper away. How do you capture them without squishing them?
I hate those things. I know they kill other bugs and stuff but they "bug me out". I capture them and throw them out the window. I wonder if they are OK after the fall from a second floor apartment window?
way back when, after we had just moved to this house, part of pmt gave us a ride home very late at night. we offered a tour of the house. and would you know it, as soon as i turned on a light, one of those little creepy things ran right in front of us. i stomped the thing super quick and embarrassed. scared me...
hehe I just threw that one into the trash. It was hovering dangerously close to my clothes closet and no one wants one of these crawling around in their shirts and socks.
scooterjeramorph!!!!
they are my favorite house pet, they eat other bugs supposedly, which is good. but i try to weed out the ones that feel comfortable scuttling around in the not dark by throwing them out the window.
Scutigeridae
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Ohhh! :::link:::
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Myriapoda (Myriapods)
Class Chilopoda (Centipedes)
Order Scutigeromorpha (House Centipedes)
I see.
Scootergeramorph?! Is that a real word?!
Does it sting or bite?
It is called a house centipede. Some people call it a scootergeramorph, or something like that.