by Doctor Science
Now *that*’s a phrase to strike fear into every heart. And that’s what I’ve been dealing with for much of the past week — a virus that even pros thought an “interesting case”. The lovely & talented people at geekstogo came to my rescue, and after about two and a half days of work I am finally clean. It was a lot of this:
only *much* less cool.
I think my favorite stage in the process is “Retrofitting Aesthetics Portals”. [the embedded video is the loading screen for Sburb, the computer game in Homestuck. It is unclear/questionable/quantumly undecidable whether it is initializing the game, or the universe.]
The music is part of a longer piece Sburban Jungle, one of my favorites among the Homestuck compositions. There’s a percussion arrangement, which has even been performed live, though personally I think the arrangement isn’t quite a sharp and fugue-like as it should be.
Anyway, in honor of my computer’s successful cleansing, you get: Tab Dump!
• God and I: Patricia Theresa Nielsen Hayden’s account of her 1980 excommunication from Mormonism.
• Brick Walls: Three-year-old Amelia has Wolf-Hirschhorn Syndrome. Doctors at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia are refusing to do a kidney transplant for her (the donor is in the family, so it’s not a matter of allocating a kidney to her instead of to someone else). The mother reports:
“So you mean to tell me that as a doctor, you are not recommending the transplant, and when her kidneys fail in six months to a year, you want me to let her die because she is mentally retarded? There is no other medical reason for her not to have this transplant other than she is MENTALLY RETARDED!”
“Yes. This is hard for me, you know.”
Link via Not Dead Yet. It would be nice if someone at The Inquirer or one of the TV stations picked this up.
Update: The Inky reports CHOP is meeting with the parents.
• Advanced faculty wrangling techniques:
Getting a group of faculty members together to accomplish something has often been compared to herding cats. I disagree. When I want to get my cats all into one room to do something at the same time, all I have to do is stand in my kitchen, open a can of Friskies, and yell “Num nums!”
Not so with faculty.
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This glorious fabric is from a cape of Golden Orb Spider silk, currently on display at the Victoria & Albert Museum. Meanwhile, scientists working with Kraig Biocraft Labs have genetically-engineered silkworms to produce spider-y silk. Maybe it won’t always be worth a king’s ransom.
• England worst place in the world for bogus “walking while brown” stop-and-searches, from Cory Doctorow. I am boggled, and since I can’t find a link to the actual study I am also suspicious.
• And to cap off the virus victories, India has gone a year without a case of polio, due in part to support from initially hostile Muslim clerics.
Why can’t you just stand up in the faculty room and yell “Publication opportunity!”? Or, for junior faculty, “Tenure track opening!”? Just a matter of figuring out what motivates them.
donuts?
I thought donuts were for hearding policemen….
Well, they work for engineers, from my experience as one, and people who hold whatever position it is that Homer Simpson holds at Mr. Burns’ nuclear plant. I figured it was pretty much universal, based on the diversity of the sample – engineers, Homers and cops.
“Patricia Nielsen Hayden?” Hmmm, that biotech must be pretty advanced. Last I heard it was Patrick and Teresa NH.
The shame!!! corrected, thank you.
I find that shrimp and beer/wine work wonders
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