Tuesday, April 29, 2008

As You Can See

I've decided to snazz it up a bit, blog-wise by adding a picture to put behind the title. The stupid thing is, the html isn't designed in a way that the title box has a different background
so instead, I had to crop the fucking image
which by the way, is a micrograph of a slice of mouse cortex

there was this study done where they spliced genes into mouse dna
and these genes were designed to express a fluorescent protein,
so, they put three different color genes in: blue, yellow and red
the resultant effect:


They call it "Brainbow"

I call it fucking awesome.
It's fucking raining outside and the heater isnt working again, since I live in tenement housing.

Last night, I decided to go to bed early, since I had been up and working since 7 am the day before (I am a nerd)
So I called it a night at like...9 pm.
I woke up in the middle of the night to discover that somehow a piece of chocolate had been knocked off my bedside table into my bed and that i had somehow smashed it all over my back.


Either that or I shat myself in my sleep but just happen to have rich, creamy poo.


I am also slightly ashamed to admit that I keep chocolate on my bedside table..
not always, I swear.
ok, well
READ ABOUT BRAINBOW MICE!
its cool, also, there is a lab in Maine that produces them for scientific consumption...
so if anyone wants to start a fake lab and collect rainbow brained mice, then...I have a few papers you need to sign.

Sunday, April 27, 2008

Wow..so..nobody is going to read this

But what the hell right? Ok, so this is my first blog..and I feel like an idiot right now because for at least the next week, I'm not going to be able to figure out how to like..add people to the list of people who can read your blog. Clearly I am the savviest of technogeeks. I hate that there is a spell check function (I just discovered this since technogeeks is apparently not a word). I figure, if you cant spell, then you probably shouldn't be writing a fucking blog.

Let's see, what can I do to flesh this out. I suppose I can add a fun picture that is really really loosely related through like..five jumps of logic to what im writing right now..ok I need a minute to free associate...

ok, so it's been like..five minutes and free association is really hard to do on your own. Also, since I just bitched about weird seemingly unrelated blog photos, i'll save you all the trouble of having to try and pick apart the convoluted path of my genius mind.. ok
so for those of you who dont know what free association is
(aka those of you who are retarded)
you start with a word, any old word. Let's sayyyy .....spell, since after all, what you are reading right now is like..a cliff's notes of my current thoughts as I try and pinpoint the perfect image to pop my blog's cherry with..that's gross...

I've decided to never use the phrase "pop [insert noun]'s cherry" ever again..from now..

ok
word
ummm...ok, lets do cherry
fairy
trashy
mashed potatoes
finger paint
sausage
cart
grocery store
frozen spinach
freezer
wart removal
ah...looks like we've found the picture topic! and now you'll be able to come up with random shit by yourself too!
wow, my blog is going to change your life..