January 2012
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Tattoos that can save a life →
I have seen people who had medic alert bracelet tattoos, but I hadn’t heard about nano inks before this week. Someday diabetics may be able to avoid stick tests to monitor their glucose if these science fiction-like nano ink tattoos which would change color based on a person’s glucose levels come to pass. Science is awesome.
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I think I burned my brain looking at some of these →
In my last post I mentioned attending a talk about Science Ink this week. One of the slides referenced the Ugliest Tattoos site, so of course I had to go and take a look. And I will not suffer alone so click if you dare.
Carl Zimmer at the NYAS on Science Ink →
Reblogging from my other place because science and tattoos are relevant to many of you and you may want to check out Carl Zimmer’s Science Ink.
Image source here
“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and...”
– Winston S. Churchill (via reb-ellious)
“I used to jog but the ice cubes kept falling out of my glass.”
– David Lee Roth
I wasn’t even jogging, just putting ice in my glass when it lept from the tray and cut my toe. Ow!
The White Elephant in the Room: Keep Calm...And... →
whiteelephantintheroom:
On Ninth Avenue last night, the blaring horn of a moving bus startles me.
Up ahead, I see the reason for the honk:
A white-haired woman is trying to cross too much street in too little time.
In a panic, she starts to lose her balance.
I sprint toward her and in the beam of bus…
Reblogged because … well just read this. And because we all can be family in...
Shhhh!
coyotesqrl replied to your photo: So we’re starting demos today as part of a big…
You can’t fool me. You just wanna be Sabrina because you wanna quit your job and hang out with Scarecrow. (And who could blame you?!?)
And because she was the smarty pants. And yeah, wanna quit my job and move to Babylon 5.
“Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to...”
– C.S. Lewis
I came across this quote just yesterday and today I used the metaphor to try and help someone get over a mistake they made.
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“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it’s time to pause and...”
– Mark Twain
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“The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a...”
– Henry Ward Beecher
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Great minds and all that
janetisserlis replied to your photo: I shot this just to record the amount of snow we…
plus, bonus, you could send the snow to people who don’t get any. wait. what?
That’s really funny because I was going to make a joke about mailing the snow. I know my mom misses seeing snow.
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Just Me: Xin Nian Kuai Le! →
meyechael:
Happy New Year to my Chinese friends.
金玉滿堂Jīnyùmǎntáng - “May your wealth come to fill a hall”
大展鴻圖Dàzhǎnhóngtú - “May you realize your ambitions”
迎春接福Yíngchúnjiēfú - “Greet the New Year and encounter happiness”
萬事如意Wànshìrúyì - “May all your wishes be fulfilled”
吉慶有餘Jíqìngyǒuyú - “May…
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Rebel Without Applause: No longer Clueless →
reb-ellious:
So the theme of this weekend was “Clue.” I’m embarrassed to say that I had never played the game, nor seen the movie. When I mentioned this sad fact to my sweetie, and also that we where going to have a Clue-esque game at an office function this coming week, she took it upon her lovely self to…
I was a little disappointed that they have made significant changes to the game....
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The Art of the Brick at Morris Museum →
The exhibit is at the Morris Museum in Morristown, NJ through February 20.
Visitors to the Morris Museum this winter will be delighted by a new exhibition featuring over 25 awe-inspiring and thought-provoking large-scale sculptures created out of LEGO® bricks by artist Nathan Sawaya. While the exhibition is on view, a special area will be set up where visitors, inspired by Sawaya’s work,...
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Thursday Theme - Crying
When we are born, our first breaths announce our arrival as cries. It is our first and perhaps most personal of communications. It is a default mode of communication. The truly universal language. The language we use and have before we learn the native tongue of our parents. Throughout our lives tears come at times when words fail, are inadequate, or are incapable. Grief. Pain. Loss. Anger....
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coyotesqrl:
nolagrrlnyc replied to your quote: “If a snowclone falls in the forest, does it make…
now you’re just Pullum my leg
I hadn’t an opportunity to reblog this over the weekend, but I didn’t forget. Oh no.
This is some damn fine punnery (to those who know who Geoff Pullum is.)
So fine, that I emailed Professor Pullum to let him know his name had been used as a punchline, to which he...
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“It doesn’t make sense to hire smart people and tell them what to do; we hire...”
– Steve Jobs (via shaneguiter)
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Anarchy & Scotch: MLK →
anarchyandscotch:
I wrote this last year for MLK Day. I’m reposting it because my opinion has not changed.
A couple of years ago, I was asked by a classmate - one whose research focuses on racial portrayals in the media - what I thought of Martin Luther King Day. If I thought it was a good thing that we devote a…
Eloquent treatment of a sensitive topic as usual. :) And growing up in the...
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