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The true winner of Sexiest Man Alive, in my book. Also known as Dr. My Husband. When he does his science lecture thing it drives me WILD!!
(…what, you were expecting Colin? He’s runner up.)
Awww…
Also, because I am remarkably nerdy (also nosy?), I’m straining to make out the title on that slide. All I can see is “Something Something of the Something-DNA Interaction.” Or at least that’s what I think I see.
The medical team took a muscle from above his knee, wrapped it around his sphincter, and then attached electrodes to the nerves.
These are now operated by a palm-sized remote control that he carries in his pocket.
“It’s like a chubby little mobile phone,” he said. “You switch it on and off, just like switching on the TV.”
“They call me the man with the bionic bottom, but that doesn’t bother me. My gratitude to the surgeons is endless because what they have done is a miracle.”
Mr Galvin, who had previously endured the indignity of carrying a colostomy bag, added: “I thought that in these days of modern medicine surely there was something they could do. They’d mended everything else - why not this? Anything was better than a colostomy bag.
First things first, this is brilliant. This is modern medicine taking what was long considered to be a “learn to live with it” problem and really improving the quality of life for someone. For his sake (as well as for all of the other people who could benefit from a procedure like that), I hope this is a great success.
On the other hand, it’s push-button pooping, so it’s not like there aren’t some potential issues.
I mean, think about it: Have you ever accidentally discovered that your garage door opener happens to use the same frequency as some other person’s door, meaning that you can open their door and they can open yours? Or maybe accidentally hit a button on your phone when it’s in your pocket? Remember how frustrating it is when you can’t find the TV remote or when it runs out of batteries?
Yeah, your problems don’t seem so bad, now, do they?
Me: So let’s say I was gonna make cookies to bring to a boy. What kind of cookies should I bring? I don’t have any chocolate chips…
Guy friend: Maybe oatmeal raisin.
Me: I AM TRYING TO GET HIM TO LIKE ME. Are you trying to sabotage this?!
Does guy friend perhaps have a crush? That might be the only explanation for that answer.
CBS is developing a comedy script based on Twitter account ‘Sh– my dad says,’ according to the Hollywood Reporter. Launched in August, the account from Justin Halpern, 28, of San Diego has already attracted more than 700,000 followers. Will & Grace creators David Kohan and Max Mutchnick will executive produce and supervise the writing of the script. The comedy’s title will change if it gets on the air.
I am not a big fan of this idea for a few reasons. First off, I just don’t find the account that funny. There are some things that are funny, but for the most part it’s just an old man being a jerk. It’s just not the type of humor I prefer.
In addition, the entire thing seems like yet another poorly thought out attempt by the networks to try to seem like they are keeping up with new media. It’s hardly the first time a sitcom would be centered on a grouchy old man who says horrible things. They aren’t basing it on this Twitter account because it’s an original idea. They are doing it because it gives the illusion of being current and it gets people talking about it. No one thinks the idea is original. You know who was the first person to notice that his dad said crazy things when he got old? The first person who had a father.
My biggest issue is that not only is it not an original idea, but that there are so many truly talented and original people out there who get completely ignored so that we can be brought another show just like so many other shows that already exist.
Who knows, maybe it will turn out to be a good show. With decent writing, it could be, but I just wish that if they felt the need to go to the internet to find new material that they would have actually found new material.
There sure was a whole lot of… humping… going on.
Yeeaaaaaahhhhhhhhh!!!!!!! ♫Won’t Get Fooled Again♫
Oh, I’m sorry. I just assumed you said that while putting on your sunglasses.
I’m never going going to be a 50 or 100 star per tweet guy. I usually get 0, sometimes 1, or -on rare occasions- maybe 2 stars. That doesn’t matter, though, because of this. The second star there? That’s from Yvette Nicole Brown, the actress who plays Shirley on Community.
By the way, if you aren’t already watching Community, you really should be.
Hmm…That last post got more Likes on here than anything I’ve posted before (i.e. more than one). If you people keep that up, I’m going to start assuming you expect honesty and openness from me rather than just a bunch pictures of food or my dogs.
My advisor gave me some documents yesterday that he wanted me to work on.
I have a quiz today, a stats project due Friday, and homework for another research class on Friday.
I have to finish grading the exams from one of the classes I TA. The same exam that my advisor informed me that I needed to create. The day before the exam.
Today my advisor saw me in the hallway as I was leaving for lunch and said, “Hey. Will you get those documents to me by the end of the day to turn them in?”
“Oh. You should have told me yesterday that it needed to be done today.”
“Well. It needs to be done.”
WTF.
I hate grad school.
I’m not going to lie to you. I hated it, too.
There were plenty of things I liked: people I worked with, designing experiments in the lab, constantly learning something new, the incredible feeling when everything comes together and you find a new piece to the puzzle.
Unfortunately, they were outweighed by the things I didn’t like: Obscene hours expected, everything is needed right now, alarmingly low pay, pretending that there is no such thing as work-life balance, realization that I was working toward a goal that I no longer wanted, sprinting out of CLSL to go move my car because the city of Urbana towed cars from the street starting at 2:00 AM.
You can’t make yourself be motivated to do something you don’t like or care about. Find what you want, and keep that in mind as your goal. Remember that graduate school is just a means to that end, and it can help keep things in perspective.
For me, this meant that once I realized that what I wanted to do was not the track I was on, I decided that getting a Masters and getting out was a better idea. It wasn’t what I originally thought I wanted, but know now that it was the right decision and I wouldn’t change it.*
*Full disclosure: That may actually be the first time I’ve said that. I did struggle for a while with feeling like the fact that what I ended up doing didn’t match what I set out to do meant that I was a failure.
