I don't know if I'd ever try this one:
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I consider myself very fortunate that I don't work in business. As a physician and a scientist, I just don't think I would fit in the culture that well. Oh, I'm sure I'd adapt if ever the killer opportunity in big pharma or surgical device manufacturing ever came around to which I couldn't say "no…
I mowed my lawn today.
It's the first time this year in what will be the coming weekly ritual. I hate it. Every time, I fantasize about never mowing again…let's rip out this ghastly generic middle-class turf and sow it with wildflowers and the Big Bluestem. This should be prairie, dang it, and it…
Pretty much every academic on-line has already commented on the New York Times piece on student email today. As usual, Timothy Burke says most of what I'd like to say:Much of the complaint recorded in the article also seems much ado about nothing. As Margaret Soltan observes, what's the big deal…
The 2008 Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine was announced this morning.
The winners are HPV and HIV (OK, OK, the people who discovered them) - the year of the virus!
I don't pay much attention to these, as biology I care about has not received the prize since 1973, but I was happy to hear…
Especially not in Texas or Florida...
Is it just me or was the percentage of Asian shop workers awfully high? What's the deal?
Could just be the area they filmed this in.
This video left me in tears :D
What did people think of the cameraman following him? Wouldn't you think that would make it look like a prank?
I actually wondered that myself...
I think the coolest was the one who said: "You are a robber! Get out!" and manhandled the guy out the door. I mean, if he really had been a robber, there should have been a weapon somewhere?
Orac & Samantha: I just assumed the camera was concealed somehow. Like maybe it was a hat-cam or something of the sort.
Either that, or it was staged. But whatever the case, it was still pretty hilarious.