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bankers = parasites nt

Jill Richardson — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 17:21:54 GMT

But wouldn't ear plugs...

JayinPortland — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 17:03:32 GMT

...only serve to drive the noise even further into your brain?

I think I now know what's behind The Scream.

;)

If I spell out the link...

JayinPortland — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:48:12 GMT

...between parasitic infections and Wall Street, it just isn't funny anymore.

Oops.

Whole Foods only exists in very rich neighborhoods

sbgypsy — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:39:00 GMT

And I hope they decide to put the salad bars where they can do the most good - in the poorer schools.

Frankly, Glastonbury CT parents have the bucks to give their kids as many veggies as they will eat, but that's not always the case in Hartford and East Hartford. I hope they give it to the children that most need it in their 50 mile area.

OK, I admit to being unusually dense this AM

JoanneRigutto — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:23:22 GMT

How would a Wall Street banker joke relate to a parasitologist?

Lol

JoanneRigutto — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:16:57 GMT

Ear bugs, one of the most underrated pests in the history of mankind. How do you deal with them organically?

Ear plugs?

And here I thought "It's a Small World" was the worse. Harold was the plan checker and fire inspector when they built that ride at Disneyland. He had to go over there every day and when the ride was close to completion and they were doing the tests, that song would play over and over and over and over, all, day, long.

No wonder they retire all the firefighters down there on disability.....

Mies van der Rowcrops!

JayinPortland — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 11:57:47 GMT

Couldn't resist, you know me...

;)

Wow, I could make a killing off of skyscrapers that grow food vertically! I'm sure that's how we'll all grow food in the future.

Talk about taking garish glass boxes to previously unimagined heights of hideocy (yes, I think I just invented that word).

For 27 years, Dr. Despommier conducted NIH-sponsored laboratory-based research on a parasitic nematode, Trichinella spiralis. However, his long-term interests center on the environment and the ecology of infectious disease transmission. He co-authored a book on parasitic infections (Parasitic Diseases 5th ed.), authored another on the West Nile virus (West Nile Story), and has published over 65 peer-reviewed scientific articles and numerous reviews on a variety of subjects, mostly dealing with parasitic infections, the ecology of infectious diseases, or the concept of the vertical farm.

Must. Not. Make. Wall. Street. Banker. Joke.

Ear bugs...

JayinPortland — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 04:32:27 GMT

Gha! Just stumbled across this seemingly unassuming business article - nothing new there, one struggling supermarket chain is thinking of selling off some of its stores.

However, one of the chains being sold by the big company, as anyone who has ever lived in NJ, NY or CT and has listened to local radio surely knows, has one of the most annoying jingles ever dreamed up by what must be the most sadistic ad agency to ever exist on earth.

I thought that thing was out of my head forever. I thought wrong.

Ear bugs, one of the most underrated pests in the history of mankind. How do you deal with them organically?

One week ago...

JayinPortland — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 04:15:12 GMT

...after it finally became clear the Mets season was over, I adopted the San Diego Padres as my bandwagon team for this year's playoffs.

San Diego has since lost 7 games in a row, and they now only lead San Francisco by 3 games in the NL West.

The lesson, as always - don't let me endorse your baseball* team!

*I'm known for being extremely good at picking college football, sometimes to a scary extent, like predicting three exact final scores in the same week as I did once last year, for whatever that's worth at least...

I know that it is for pythons

JoanneRigutto — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 03:57:32 GMT

and I think it is for other reptiles as well. I think I saw something about that on a show about aligators one time. I know that when I was breeding burmese pythons and doing artificial incubation of the eggs, I was told that to determine if I'd get girls or boys I had to hold the sand temps at one number or another.

None of the eggs I incubated hatched, but the female python who laid them kept pretending to incubate them. I should have let her do the incubation.

reptiles?

count — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 02:52:24 GMT

I don't know if I should have said amphibians or reptiles.

amphibians

count — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 02:49:59 GMT

Must have something to do with the weather because if I remember right, those were years like this one.

Offspring gender for turtles, snakes, frogs, is strongly affected by a few degrees temperature variation. I wonder if squash are the same. I've never heard that for plants, but there's a lot of stuff I don't know.

Less than 20 hours...

JayinPortland — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 02:44:40 GMT

...until the return of college football!

Presbyterian and Wake Forest kick off at 6:30 Eastern tomorrow.

Rutgers opens their season tomorrow, as well, 7:30 Eastern, hosting ~~Daniel A. Grout Elementary School~~ Norfolk State.

#15 Pittsburgh at Utah is the game of the day.

Game of the Week goes to #24 Oregon State at #6 TCU on Saturday night. Jay's Pick - TCU 21, Oregon State 17.

#3 Boise State and #10 Virginia Tech on Monday night will be another great one. Jay's Pick - Virginia Tech 21, Boise State 20.

Upset pick of the week - Connecticut 42, Michigan 6.

Yeah, that too...

JayinPortland — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 02:16:26 GMT

Which of course, can only mean that the Oklahoma City Zombie Sonics (h/t Bill Simmons) will be moving to Baltimore in the middle of the night sometime soon...

;)

Here's a link fer ya -

JoanneRigutto — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 01:43:22 GMT

Summer Squash from the University of Illinois Extension Service.