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[dd128]

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Duh I watched it... How many times? I dunno... but lets just say not only do I know all of the lines, but I also know the song lyrics

🙄

And that's all I have to say about that...

 

[lacrossefiend73]

🙄

And that's all I have to say about that...

Haha yes, it's a sad, sad thing... but also so glorious 😛

TGIF

 

[lacrossefiend73]

Bump! How was everyone's Friday?

 

[dd128]

TGIF

Can I get a hallelujah! 😀

So turns out on my facebook compare people application thing lacrosse is like #2 for "prettiest eyes" and #2"most famous" (not sure what the latter one means)....nothing about the pearly whites though

 

[lacrossefiend73]

So turns out on my facebook compare people application thing lacrosse is like #2 for "prettiest eyes" and #2"most famous" (not sure what the latter one means)....nothing about the pearly whites though

Wait... I'm confused... what is this?

 

[dd128]

Wait... I'm confused... what is this?

It's one of those gagillion different applications you can add on facebook. It means some of your friends have added it and voted for you for the respective categories I'd listed above when your name popped up. I forgot I even had it until I'd checked a little while ago. I'm like best at science, the person to be stranded with on a desert island and some other gay stuff along those lines.

 

[myKuduSlewaZulu]

Duh I watched it... How many times? I dunno... but lets just say not only do I know all of the lines, but I also know the song lyrics

So in the shower is this merely acapella or do you have air guitar accompaniment?

So turns out on my facebook compare people application thing lacrosse is like #2 for "prettiest eyes" and #2"most famous" (not sure what the latter one means)....nothing about the pearly whites though

Hmmm...never really been one for brown eyes, but hers are nice👍. Kinda hard totell though, she really likes B&W pics.

Wait... I'm confused... what is this?

Ooooh, and I'm the old fuddy duddy?🙄

 

[dd128]

Ooooh, and I'm the old fuddy duddy?🙄

You whipper snappers with your rock and roll music and that interweb!

 

[lacrossefiend73]

It's one of those gagillion different applications you can add on facebook. It means some of your friends have added it and voted for you for the respective categories I'd listed above when your name popped up. I forgot I even had it until I'd checked a little while ago. I'm like best at science, the person to be stranded with on a desert island and some other gay stuff along those lines.

Ahh... just another creepy aspect of facebook.

So in the shower is this merely acapella or do you have air guitar accompaniment?

haha I only sing them while watching the movie... they aren't exactly on the lists of my favorite songs or anything

Hmmm...never really been one for brown eyes, but hers are nice👍. Kinda hard totell though, she really likes B&W pics.

Yup, I do love b/w. My eyes are hazel thank you very much... somedays they are more brown, some days they are dark green in the middle and get darker as you go out until they are brown, and sometimes they are just dark green. But thank you for saying they are nice 😉

Ooooh, and I'm the old fuddy duddy?🙄

Well... I am turning 22 in 2 weeks... so I guess you're right. Super old.

 

[dd128]

Yup, I do love b/w. My eyes are hazel thank you very much... somedays they are more brown, some days they are dark green in the middle and get darker as you go out until they are brown, and sometimes they are just dark green. But thank you for saying they are nice 😉

Ditto. Be proud, we have like the rarest eye color 👍

 

[lacrossefiend73]

Ditto. Be proud, we have like the rarest eye color 👍

So we are similar in that aspect... but I just noticed that our smiles are at opposite ends of the spectrum

😀 vs. 😳 (minus the whole embarrassment thing)

 

[myKuduSlewaZulu]

Yup, I do love b/w. My eyes are hazel thank you very much... somedays they are more brown, some days they are dark green in the middle and get darker as you go out until they are brown, and sometimes they are just dark green. But thank you for saying they are nice 😉.

Ok. Mine are just consistently blue. Well, you look better in color...when I se the B&W I'm thinking there's a severe thunderstorm overhead haha.

Well... I am turning 22 in 2 weeks... so I guess you're right. Super old.

Nice! Only 3 more years till you're eligible for Social Security. Start watching for those AARP brochures in the mail.

 

[lacrossefiend73]

Ok. Mine are just consistently blue. Well, you look better in color...when I se the B&W I'm thinking there's a severe thunderstorm overhead haha.

There... changed it to color... just for you.

 

[myKuduSlewaZulu]

There... changed it to color... just for you.

haha....you're too kind. 👍

 

[lacrossefiend73]

So what's everyone up to tonight?

I'm hangin' out w/ the boy since he's going to be out of town in CO all next week for his hockey nationals. He had said something about going to see a movie, but I dunno if I'm up for seeing a movie. And I can't do anything too exciting since I have to be at the lab bright and early 🙄

I haven't baked in a long time... maybe we'll do that. I really wanna make my usual chocolate chip cookies, but bigger and put ice cream b/w 2 of them to make yummy cookie ice cream sandwiches 😀

 

[SgtDoc]

So what's everyone up to tonight?

Very exciting here...I just made a spreadsheet to calculate my GPA so I would know what my science actually is, rather than just estimating. I'm happy to say that it's not the 3.7 I thought, it's a 3.8. I think I'll go play some poker now.

 

[cpa2md]

So what's everyone up to tonight?

We just got back from the thrillinng Verizon store where we got new phones. I had promised my kids phones if they made A/B honor roll, especially since I'm going to be gone. The son actually desperately needs a phone since he's involved in a bizillion things and gets stranded regularly, but alas, he got a 79 in math because he failed to turn in a paper, so he didn't get a phone.🙁 He's major bummed now.

The daughter, on the other hand, does not necessarily need a phone just yet (she will this summer when I leave), but she had 6 A's and 2 B's, so she is now one of the spoiled rotten 12-year-olds in this country with a phone of her own.

Beyond that, we're watching the Spurs play the Jazz.

Oh, I finished what I believe will be my last big tax return today. Somehow it felt kind of sad, which is stupid!! I guess maybe it's because it's for one of my favorite clients. She's a retired dermatologist whose story I would love to know. She's Jewish, and her family came to the US from Germany in 1939. She went to the University of Cincinnati during the 40's. I know that she still has a lot of money in Germany (and a lot of money in general), but I've always wanted to ask her about her family.

It's none too soon that I'm about to quit work...my baby Dell laptop is now falling apart! My N key is now dangling, and my E is getting flaky!!

Have a great evening!

 

[dd128]

So we are similar in that aspect... but I just noticed that our smiles are at opposite ends of the spectrum

😀 vs. 😳 (minus the whole embarrassment thing)

I'm going to be honest with you, I'm not much of a smiler. It ruins the whole cool and image I portray so well 😎

So what's everyone up to tonight?

I'm hangin' out w/ the boy since he's going to be out of town in CO all next week for his hockey nationals. He had said something about going to see a movie, but I dunno if I'm up for seeing a movie. And I can't do anything too exciting since I have to be at the lab bright and early 🙄

I haven't baked in a long time... maybe we'll do that. I really wanna make my usual chocolate chip cookies, but bigger and put ice cream b/w 2 of them to make yummy cookie ice cream sandwiches 😀

I'm sort of laying low, it was a long week 🙁 I just got back from the gym, we have this super nice one they just opened like two miles from my house that has indoor swimming lanes and a lot of high tech weight machines (which I'm not particularly fond of). Still over all pretty nice.

Very exciting here...I just made a spreadsheet to calculate my GPA so I would know what my science actually is, rather than just estimating. I'm happy to say that it's not the 3.7 I thought, it's a 3.8. I think I'll go play some poker now.

Congrats dude, that's a great gpa, just hold it together!

We just got back from the thrillinng Verizon store where we got new phones. I had promised my kids phones if they made A/B honor roll, especially since I'm going to be gone. The son actually desperately needs a phone since he's involved in a bizillion things and gets stranded regularly, but alas, he got a 79 in math because he failed to turn in a paper, so he didn't get a phone.🙁 He's major bummed now.

The daughter, on the other hand, does not necessarily need a phone just yet (she will this summer when I leave), but she had 6 A's and 2 B's, so she is now one of the spoiled rotten 12-year-olds in this country with a phone of her own.

Beyond that, we're watching the Spurs play the Jazz.

Oh, I finished what I believe will be my last big tax return today. Somehow it felt kind of sad, which is stupid!! I guess maybe it's because it's for one of my favorite clients. She's a retired dermatologist whose story I would love to know. She's Jewish, and her family came to the US from Germany in 1939. She went to the University of Cincinnati during the 40's. I know that she still has a lot of money in Germany (and a lot of money in general), but I've always wanted to ask her about her family.

It's none too soon that I'm about to quit work...my baby Dell laptop is now falling apart! My N key is now dangling, and my E is getting flaky!!

Have a great evening!

Verizon?! that makes you the enemy!! Haha, well actually I'm thinking about leaving att, so maybe I'll switch over. My blackberry sort of blows, so at least I'm more than likely going to get rid of it next up grade I get.

Yeah I can't wait to get rid of my dell either. It's about three years old and the little screws that hold the screen into the base seem to keep unscrewing themselves, so the screen wobbles 😡 I've been browsing for what I'm going to get for med school. Have you decided what you want yet?

 

[cpa2md]

I'm going to be honest with you, I'm not much of a smiler. It ruins the whole cool and image I portray so well 😎

Yeah I can't wait to get rid of my dell either. It's about three years old and the little screws that hold the screen into the base seem to keep unscrewing themselves, so the screen wobbles 😡 I've been browsing for what I'm going to get for med school. Have you decided what you want yet?

My husband and kids are not smilers either. It must be on of those stupid genetic things. 😀 I insist that my kids smile with teeth, especially now that they both have very expensive braces!!

Rumor is that A&M is going to be more stringent of their requirement for tablet pc's for next year, but not confirmed. Report is that some people love them, others hate them. I can't see myself using it too much, but I'd probably go with the Toshiba over the HP of the recommended brands. I got my kids Toshibas for Christmas, and while they are cinder blocks compared to my baby Dell, I was actually able to set them up by myself and keep them going - a major requirement for me!!

 

[cpa2md]

Ok, kudu the zulu-slayer, here's one for you. You bragged yesterday about having been vaccinated against kuru, which I had never heard of, but now have.

My sister-in-law's father-in-law (as in husband's sister's husband's father) was just diagnosed with Creutzfeldt-Jacob Disease (CJD). Strange as it sounds, when I first heard his symptoms the other day, that was the first thought that popped into my brain. A good friend's good friend (as in my good doctor friend's medical school buddy) died of it at the age of 40 three years ago (he was an anesthesiologist), and I had been intrigued and followed his very short journey. His first symptoms were a headache the first week of November, and he was dead on Febraury 23.

In looking into a bit more information on CJD, I find that is a prion disease. I have heard of prions, but am not particularly familiar with them, and certainly had not heard of them three years ago. I also found that CJD is related to kuru - another prion disease which reached somewhat epidemic proportions in Papua New Guinea a few years back. It is believed to stem from the cannibalistic habits of the Papua New Guineans some 50 years ago (though the incubation period is in debate).

The questions that then arise are:

1) what was the zulu-slayer doing hanging out with cannibals?

2) what are the odds of indirectly (but much closer than 6 degrees) 2 people with CJD in 3 years? (the incidence is 1 in 1,000,000 annually)

3) what do you guys know about prions? are they real?

4) does the kuru vaccine protect against CJD?

Discuss.

 

[dd128]

Ok, kudu the zulu-slayer, here's one for you. You bragged yesterday about having been vaccinated against kuru, which I had never heard of, but now have.

My sister-in-law's father-in-law (as in husband's sister's husband's father) was just diagnosed with Creutzfeldt-Jacob Disease (CJD). Strange as it sounds, when I first heard his symptoms the other day, that was the first thought that popped into my brain. A good friend's good friend (as in my good doctor friend's medical school buddy) died of it at the age of 40 three years ago (he was an anesthesiologist), and I had been intrigued and followed his very short journey. His first symptoms were a headache the first week of November, and he was dead on Febraury 23.

In looking into a bit more information on CJD, I find that is a prion disease. I have heard of prions, but am not particularly familiar with them, and certainly had not heard of them three years ago. I also found that CJD is related to kuru - another prion disease which reached somewhat epidemic proportions in Papua New Guinea a few years back. It is believed to stem from the cannibalistic habits of the Papua New Guineans some 50 years ago (though the incubation period is in debate).

The questions that then arise are:

1) what was the zulu-slayer doing hanging out with cannibals?

2) what are the odds of indirectly (but much closer than 6 degrees) 2 people with CJD in 3 years? (the incidence is 1 in 1,000,000 annually)

3) what do you guys know about prions? are they real?

4) does the kuru vaccine protect against CJD?

Discuss.

I really don't know a great deal about prions either. lol, then again I would say most people don't. But from what I understand they're sort of hypothetical (I may be wrong, my prion research isn't entirely up to date) Isn't mad cow a prion disease also?

Your CJD question interested me so I looked up some stuff, and apparently the majority of the cases are random, but a small percentage develop as a result of a mutation of a prion protein gene. The two people weren't related were they? Other than that I would think you're right the odds of two people you indirectly know getting the disease are quite low, but not impossible I guess.

 

[cpa2md]

I really don't know a great deal about prions either. lol, then again I would say most people don't. But from what I understand they're sort of hypothetical (I may be wrong, my prion research isn't entirely up to date) Isn't mad cow a prion disease also?

Your CJD question interested me so I looked up some stuff, and apparently the majority of the cases are random, but a small percentage develop as a result of a mutation of a prion protein gene. The two people weren't related were they? Other than that I would think you're right the odds of two people you indirectly know getting the disease are quite low, but not impossible I guess.

Mad cow (or bse) is also a prion disease. No, these people were definitely not related.

I have learned that a lot of things in life are random and that astronomical odds are not always that weird. My best example of that one was when we took a fall trip to Chicago and visited the Shedd Aquarium. My husband and I stopped to look at some penguins, and lost the children (they were 8 and 10). Oops. We went looking for them (the Shedd is a big place), and when we found them, my son told me they had run into his classmate!! Ok, what are the odds of running into one of 25 other kids in your 5th grade class 1200 miles from home while lost from your parents?

I thought they deserved extra credit for that one!

 

[lacrossefiend73]

I've been at the lab for 4 hours and counting 😀

But my poster is starting to look pretty. 👍

In response to stuff above... the only reason I know what kuru is is because of Scrubs... JD in one episode couldn't figure out what a patient had and finally he said "Dr. Cox, I believe our patient has kuru"... and Dr. Cox went on to tell him when you hear hooves, think horses not zebras.

Man... that show is so applicable to life and whatnot

 

[dd128]

I've been at the lab for 4 hours and counting 😀

But my poster is starting to look pretty. 👍

In response to stuff above... the only reason I know what kuru is is because of Scrubs... JD in one episode couldn't figure out what a patient had and finally he said "Dr. Cox, I believe our patient has kuru"... and Dr. Cox went on to tell him when you hear hooves, think horses not zebras.

Man... that show is so applicable to life and whatnot

My favorite one was where JD was imagining what the hospital was like if they treated patients like if they were in a horse hospital. All the doctors were walking around carrying shotguns and he walks up to a patient and says, "I don't like the way that leg is looking," then bam...

Scrubs is my main motivation for going into medicine after all 😉 I'm looking forward to my wacky hijinks filled internship and residency!

 

[lacrossefiend73]

There are way too many good Scrubs episodes for me to pick just one favorite.

My poster looks so pretty so far... it's turquoise 😀

 

[lacrossefiend73]

Thank you for the luck. I think it went pretty well... it was a lot easier than the 1st test. There was really only 1 question I felt wishy-washy on... so we'll see how good I am at predicting performance.

Apparentely I did a good job predicting... yay 😀

I bet the one I missed was the one I changed my answer on... I heart second guessing myself 🙄

On another note... finally felt like spring here today!

 

[doctortobe2012]

Any idea when UTSW will notify us about our waitlist ranking?

 

[CrepesofWrath]

Ok, kudu the zulu-slayer, here's one for you. You bragged yesterday about having been vaccinated against kuru, which I had never heard of, but now have.

My sister-in-law's father-in-law (as in husband's sister's husband's father) was just diagnosed with Creutzfeldt-Jacob Disease (CJD). Strange as it sounds, when I first heard his symptoms the other day, that was the first thought that popped into my brain. A good friend's good friend (as in my good doctor friend's medical school buddy) died of it at the age of 40 three years ago (he was an anesthesiologist), and I had been intrigued and followed his very short journey. His first symptoms were a headache the first week of November, and he was dead on Febraury 23.

In looking into a bit more information on CJD, I find that is a prion disease. I have heard of prions, but am not particularly familiar with them, and certainly had not heard of them three years ago. I also found that CJD is related to kuru - another prion disease which reached somewhat epidemic proportions in Papua New Guinea a few years back. It is believed to stem from the cannibalistic habits of the Papua New Guineans some 50 years ago (though the incubation period is in debate).

The questions that then arise are:

1) what was the zulu-slayer doing hanging out with cannibals?

2) what are the odds of indirectly (but much closer than 6 degrees) 2 people with CJD in 3 years? (the incidence is 1 in 1,000,000 annually)

3) what do you guys know about prions? are they real?

4) does the kuru vaccine protect against CJD?

Discuss.

From what I understand, the big controversy behind prion diseases is that a lot of epidemiologists and infectious disease specialists were reluctant to accept that prions exist when they first became known. They were extremely difficult to isolate and behaved much like viruses (cell lysis, exponential growth curve, etc.) They are misfolded polypeptide fragments that induce normal proteins to misfold and become prions themselves, and they act on specific normal proteins. I'm afraid I don't know much more about them than that, but it sounds like something that you can't exactly vaccinate against. Also, I thought that CJD was what humans get when they ingest the neural tissue of cows with BSE. Is that correct?

 

[dd128]

Any idea when UTSW will notify us about our waitlist ranking?

Not really sure. I don't think there are any oosers here applied to utsw, maybe some lurkers? I'd ask the in staters, I'd bet you're probably lumped in with them like all the other texas schools.

 

[lacrossefiend73]

It's gorgeous here today! But probably back to rain tomorrow 🙄

How was everyone's weekend? My boyfriend and I went and got sushi last night (of course... we go like 1-2 times per week) and one of the guys who makes the sushi came over to our table and was like you guys are in here a lot right? and always order the Double Spicy roll (it's freakin' amazing... spicy salmon and spicy tuna in the roll w/ hot sauce on top)? And we were like yup, that's us... he stood there and talked w/ us for awhile and told us he would make us this other spicy one the next time we came in.

Haha we're getting predictable.

 

[cpa2md]

From what I understand, the big controversy behind prion diseases is that a lot of epidemiologists and infectious disease specialists were reluctant to accept that prions exist when they first became known. They were extremely difficult to isolate and behaved much like viruses (cell lysis, exponential growth curve, etc.) They are misfolded polypeptide fragments that induce normal proteins to misfold and become prions themselves, and they act on specific normal proteins. I'm afraid I don't know much more about them than that, but it sounds like something that you can't exactly vaccinate against. Also, I thought that CJD was what humans get when they ingest the neural tissue of cows with BSE. Is that correct?

There are different types of CJD, and one of them comes from eating the BSE-infected cows. There has never been a case of this in the US. There is also spontaneous CJD, which is what both of my peoply have had. It just happens for no known reason. It is most common (if an extremely rare disease can be common) in people in their 60s, which my sister-in-law's father-in-law is. The other guy was 40, which is almost unheard of. There also seems to be a genetically-based CJD, but it, too, is extremely rare.

There is still some controversy about the existence of prions, since you can't really see them, but a Nobel Prize has been awarded to the person who first described them.

 

[myKuduSlewaZulu]

I haven't baked in a long time

The apocalypse is upon us!! Repent!!

I'm going to be honest with you, I'm not much of a smiler. It ruins the whole cool and image I portray so well 😎

Oh, well pray tell you didn’t see that goofy pic I put on here a couple days ago haha.

Verizon?! that makes you the enemy!! Haha, well actually I'm thinking about leaving att, so maybe I'll switch over. My blackberry sort of blows, so at least I'm more than likely going to get rid of it next up grade I get.

FYI, Sprint has some great deals that aren’t publicly advertised. For example…my plan:

500 minutes
Free nights/weekends, nights start at 7
M2M
Unlimited texting
Unlimited broadband
No activation fee
= $30/mon

Yeah I can't wait to get rid of my dell either. It's about three years old and the little screws that hold the screen into the base seem to keep unscrewing themselves, so the screen wobbles 😡 I've been browsing for what I'm going to get for med school. Have you decided what you want yet?

Does UTH have any spec requirements? I’ve never been able pull the trigger on a laptop. The only time it seemed really useful to have one was in pbl, where you could push the case forward by doing research in real time. Otherwise, I prefer to travel light haha.

I also found that CJD is related to kuru - another prion disease which reached somewhat epidemic proportions in Papua New Guinea a few years back. It is believed to stem from the cannibalistic habits of the Papua New Guineans some 50 years ago (though the incubation period is in debate).

Very good! I was just kidding of course about kuru vaccination, I doubt there is such a thing, though I haven’t looked into it. I need to look into CJD too, don’t think I’ve heard of that one. Kudos for the obscure disease knowledge.👍

Orbit, you're Ashkenazi, right? Do you know anyone with Tay-Sachs, Gaucher, etc?

what was the zulu-slayer doing hanging out with cannibals?

Doesn’t everybody? Why don’t you and your family come over for dinner and I’ll show…er..tell you all about it.

Apparentely I did a good job predicting... yay 😀 I bet the one I missed was the one I changed my answer on... I heart second guessing myself 🙄

Time’s running out on that C….

Any idea when UTSW will notify us about our waitlist ranking?

Are you sure they’re going to? Would’ve thought they’d have informed you of such by now if they were.

How was everyone's weekend? My boyfriend and I went and got sushi last night (of course... we go like 1-2 times per week) and one of the guys who makes the sushi came over to our table and was like you guys are in here a lot right? and always order the Double Spicy roll (it's freakin' amazing... spicy salmon and spicy tuna in the roll w/ hot sauce on top)? And we were like yup, that's us... he stood there and talked w/ us for awhile and told us he would make us this other spicy one the next time we came in.

Sigh...I guess I need to try sushi again. I never got too excited about it. To me it looks less than tasty and a little questionable, but I admit I only tried it once and that was at a Chinese restaurant haha. I went sailing all day Sat, the first day of a two day class, and finish next Sun. The instructor was impressed with our (me and this guy from Rice) learning progress. The weather got me though...for the first 5 hours it was really cloudy and a bit chilly so I left my sunscreen in the car. About an hour after we got on the water it suddenly changed to sunny and warm...for the next 3 hours, so I got a nasty sunburn...😡

 

[lacrossefiend73]

Orbit, you're Ashkenazi, right? Do you know anyone with Tay-Sachs, Gaucher, etc?

I believe I am. No one really talks about it in those terms anymore really... but I'm pretty sure my ancestors came from Germany and Russia. Sephardic Jews are usually from Portugal and Spain.

Luckily, I don't know anyone w/ those types of storage diseases. They are pretty rare, and I'm not really ever surrounded by tons of Jewish people. But, maybe these types of diseases are why so many Jewish people are so smart... sometimes heterozygosity in lipid storage diseases like Tay-Sachs can give greater dendrite growth. Really weird you brought that up because a guy who studied Ashkenazic intelligence as it's called was Stephen Jay Gould and I just watched a video for my genetics class and he was in it.

Time’s running out on that C….

I... just... can't... do... it.

Sigh...I guess I need to try sushi again. I never got too excited about it. To me it looks less than tasty and a little questionable, but I admit I only tried it once and that was at a Chinese restaurant haha. I went sailing all day Sat, the first day of a two day class, and finish next Sun. The instructor was impressed with our (me and this guy from Rice) learning progress. The weather got me though...for the first 5 hours it was really cloudy and a bit chilly so I left my sunscreen in the car. About an hour after we got on the water it suddenly changed to sunny and warm...for the next 3 hours, so I got a nasty sunburn...😡

Yes you do need to try it again! My favorites, besides the special ones this place makes, are California rolls and spicy salmon rolls.

Sailing sounds like so much fun. I'm jealous... but not of your sunburn. Is that little emoticon supposed to resemble what your feelings as well as what you look like?

 

[Jolie South]

Very good! I was just kidding of course about kuru vaccination, I doubt there is such a thing, though I haven’t looked into it. I need to look into CJD too, don’t think I’ve heard of that one. Kudos for the obscure disease knowledge.👍

haha, when CJD and kuru were mentioned, i assumed that we were all playing a tongue-in-cheek joking game. i thought everyone knew about kuru and CJD. i guess not.

 

[cpa2md]

haha, when CJD and kuru were mentioned, i assumed that we were all playing a tongue-in-cheek joking game. i thought everyone knew about kuru and CJD. i guess not.

I was up on CJD, not kuru. Wikipedia is my friend!!!😉

 

[dd128]

Does UTH have any spec requirements? I've never been able pull the trigger on a laptop. The only time it seemed really useful to have one was in pbl, where you could push the case forward by doing research in real time. Otherwise, I prefer to travel light haha.

Yeah, it's pretty general stuff, but you are required to have a laptop. The one I have right now doesn't meet a few of the techinical requirements either, ram speed and hard drive space so I need to get a new one anyway. I've been looking at the tablets, they're pretty cool, but I'm not sure if I'd need it or not.

I was up on CJD, not kuru. Wikipedia is my friend!!!😉

Yeah, I don't know how I ever survived without wikipedia 🙂

Yes you do need to try it again! My favorites, besides the special ones this place makes, are California rolls and spicy salmon rolls.

I'm not the biggest sushi fan in the world. It tastes good and everything, but you have to eat a lot to get full off of it, then an hour later you're hungry anyway! It's healthy, I'll give it that 👍 You know, when you're not ingesting food born parasites

 

[lacrossefiend73]

I'm not the biggest sushi fan in the world. It tastes good and everything, but you have to eat a lot to get full off of it, then an hour later you're hungry anyway! It's healthy, I'll give it that 👍 You know, when you're not ingesting food born parasites

Really? It doesn't make you full? I think the whole rice expansion thing gets me.

And as for parasites... roundworm? meh... doesn't exist. 🙄

 

[myKuduSlewaZulu]

I believe I am. No one really talks about it in those terms anymore really... but I'm pretty sure my ancestors came from Germany and Russia. Sephardic Jews are usually from Portugal and Spain.

Luckily, I don't know anyone w/ those types of storage diseases. They are pretty rare, and I'm not really ever surrounded by tons of Jewish people. But, maybe these types of diseases are why so many Jewish people are so smart... sometimes heterozygosity in lipid storage diseases like Tay-Sachs can give greater dendrite growth. Really weird you brought that up because a guy who studied Ashkenazic intelligence as it's called was Stephen Jay Gould and I just watched a video for my genetics class and he was in it.

Yeah I've only really heard the term used in reference to population genetics, I think.

Haha, well if that's the case with storage diseases, I wonder what's going on inside the brain of the few people heterozygous for a couple of them.

How many teams are competing in the hockey nationals? When is your turquoise poster presentation again?

Yes you do need to try it again! My favorites, besides the special ones this place makes, are California rolls and spicy salmon rolls.

Sailing sounds like so much fun. I'm jealous... but not of your sunburn. Is that little emoticon supposed to resemble what your feelings as well as what you look like?

Aye, aye, capt. And yes, sailing is fun. And yes, I'm glad you picked up on the double entendre. We're so creative with smilies in here.

haha, when CJD and kuru were mentioned, i assumed that we were all playing a tongue-in-cheek joking game. i thought everyone knew about kuru and CJD. i guess not.

Kuru I knew a little about, just because its kinda cool. Exotic locale, cannibalism, extremely lethal....I mean, c'mon. Common cold, not so much.

Never heard of CJD, except maybe in passing. So I'll have to put the dunce cap on for that one.

 

[lacrossefiend73]

How many teams are competing in the hockey nationals? When is your turquoise poster presentation again?

I'm not quite sure actually... but I expect quite a few. He told me that you get guaranteed 3 games in the round robin part and then that determines if you go to the playoffs. In my head I was comparing it to lacrosse nationals where there were 16 teams, but the way he described it makes me think there are more than that.

I get to do it twice actually... April 16th and April 28th. This coming week is my "cram everything you know about stem cells plus more in your head" week. I have to learn how to tell a story w/ my poster... I like telling stories and teaching, let's see if I can pull this off.

 

[lacrossefiend73]

Page 3 Rescue Bump.

Today I... went to Genetics and Society and didn't listen... took the final for my online class (A+... sorry Kudu!)... worked a ton on my poster. We've got the intro, figures and legends... only have to do materials/methods and a conclusion! In about an hour I have to defend all of my figures at a joint lab meeting (my lab + 2 others). Feelin' good... feelin' great 😀

 

[lacrossefiend73]

Lonely.... I'm so lonely...

 

[myKuduSlewaZulu]

Page 3 Rescue Bump.

Today I... went to Genetics and Society and didn't listen... took the final for my online class (A+... sorry Kudu!)... worked a ton on my poster. We've got the intro, figures and legends... only have to do materials/methods and a conclusion! In about an hour I have to defend all of my figures at a joint lab meeting (my lab + 2 others). Feelin' good... feelin' great 😀

She had so much promise...such a waste of talent.

How the defense go? Sounds like a lot of work to put all this together, sheesh.

Lonely.... I'm so lonely...

He'll be back soon enough.😉

 

[lacrossefiend73]

She had so much promise...such a waste of talent.

How the defense go? Sounds like a lot of work to put all this together, sheesh.

haha I'm sorry I disappointed you.

It was good! We were honestly hoping for a bit more feedback, but oh well. The pictures are just so pretty I guess everyone was speechless 🙄

We literally have this one picture that looks like this cartoon from a paper 5 years back that talks about how the stem cell niche should look... and we did it! It's super cool.

He'll be back soon enough.😉

haha I actually meant you guys (I'm thinkin you knew that)... he just left last night, can't be lonely yet!

 

[chr123]

Yeah, it's pretty general stuff, but you are required to have a laptop. The one I have right now doesn't meet a few of the techinical requirements either, ram speed and hard drive space so I need to get a new one anyway. I've been looking at the tablets, they're pretty cool, but I'm not sure if I'd need it or not.

I've done a little looking into tablets and HP makes a reasonably nice one for 1000 - 1200. All the other ones I see start at 1500. I'd be all on board, but it only comes with an AMD chip and intel is still ahead of AMD in the mobile arena. I'm also concerned about how much I'd use it. Whatever I get, I want it to be small.

You may be able to get by with your current machine. Aside from having XP or Vista, I don't see why the other requirements matter...especially if yours is only a year or so old.

 

[lacrossefiend73]

Slow day...

I dunno if I'm a fan of tablets. It seems convenient to be able to write on it, but I really just don't like them.

 

[myKuduSlewaZulu]

We literally have this one picture that looks like this cartoon from a paper 5 years back that talks about how the stem cell niche should look... and we did it! It's super cool.

Are there going to be judges/awards at these poster sessions? So, how would you rate your research "experience" overall, from 1 to 10? Pleasantly surprised? Still sure you won't want to be in it heavily?

I dunno if I'm a fan of tablets. It seems convenient to be able to write on it, but I really just don't like them.

Why not?

 

[dd128]

It was good! We were honestly hoping for a bit more feedback, but oh well. The pictures are just so pretty I guess everyone was speechless 🙄

We literally have this one picture that looks like this cartoon from a paper 5 years back that talks about how the stem cell niche should look... and we did it! It's super cool.




haha I actually meant you guys (I'm thinkin you knew that)... he just left last night, can't be lonely yet!

Of course you did 🙄

What got on my nerves when giving my poster presenation, I spent weeks figuring what to say, how to write up the secions, calculating data, putting together graphs and what not, and people walk up to my poster look at it for a while and say, "awww, your turtle pictures are cute. How did you get them to pose like that?" 😡 I was like, "seriously?"

I've done a little looking into tablets and HP makes a reasonably nice one for 1000 - 1200. All the other ones I see start at 1500. I'd be all on board, but it only comes with an AMD chip and intel is still ahead of AMD in the mobile arena. I'm also concerned about how much I'd use it. Whatever I get, I want it to be small.

You may be able to get by with your current machine. Aside from having XP or Vista, I don't see why the other requirements matter...especially if yours is only a year or so old.

Well I got my laptop at the end of '04. So going into med school it'll be celebrating it's 4th b-day. Probably time to trade it in. I saw those hp notebooks, they were around 1100 without any warranty stuff (which by the way is a gip! Like half the cost of my computer was warranty and I never used it!!). I'm thinking that's what I'm going for, but I'll wait a while before making any decisions.

I dunno if I'm a fan of tablets. It seems convenient to be able to write on it, but I really just don't like them.

I think it's just the novelty of it. I probably won't ever use it, but would be cool to know I could 👍

So I got an email saying I was "accepted" into the pre-matric program (I mailed in the forms last week). I didn't know they could recommend you do something, then say, "well, nevermind..."

 

[lacrossefiend73]

Are there going to be judges/awards at these poster sessions? So, how would you rate your research "experience" overall, from 1 to 10? Pleasantly surprised? Still sure you won't want to be in it heavily?

Yup judges and awards. 1 graduate student and 1 undergrad win out of over 300 posters... and if you win, you get money that has to go to the lab. So it's not that cool. I guess it'd still be sweet to win though.

Hmmm... maybe an 8? It's definitely taught me a lot and made me appreciate it more... but I think the hours demanded by my specific lab brought it down a bit. It was better than I thought it would be though. I do want to do some research in med school... just a different type. I think I'm over basic science stuff.

Why not?

I dunno... they just don't appeal to me right now. I dunno if I would wanna spend the extra money just to be able to write on it a couple times.

 

[lacrossefiend73]

What got on my nerves when giving my poster presenation, I spent weeks figuring what to say, how to write up the secions, calculating data, putting together graphs and what not, and people walk up to my poster look at it for a while and say, "awww, your turtle pictures are cute. How did you get them to pose like that?" 😡 I was like, "seriously?"

haha yeah... no one really thinks stem cells are "cute", so I probably won't have that problem.

I need to start figuring out how I want to tell the story of my research. There's a lot to say!

I think it's just the novelty of it. I probably won't ever use it, but would be cool to know I could 👍

So I got an email saying I was "accepted" into the pre-matric program (I mailed in the forms last week). I didn't know they could recommend you do something, then say, "well, nevermind..."

I want to get a laptop (not sure what kind... probably not a dell again) and then also really want one of those big monitors and a keyboard so I plug that into the laptop when I'm at home and then take the laptop w/ me to class. I work on a big monitor at the lab and it's wonderful.

haha... um... congrats?!?

 

[myKuduSlewaZulu]

haha yeah... no one really thinks stem cells are "cute", so I probably won't have that problem.

I need to start figuring out how I want to tell the story of my research. There's a lot to say!

Oh! Oh! Me! Me! I got it...put neon light borders around all the figures/pictures. Aaannnd...get this....stem cell sock puppets! How could you not win with that?? I so rock.

Edit: Do you think your rating would be much different if the experiments hadn't turned out well?