Yes. Half the restrooms in my building have been out of service since the beginning of the year. We have drums and buckets permanently stationed everywhere to manage ceiling leaks. Actually fixing them seems impossible.

For frying the Lodge Blacklock. Cast iron but you can lift it one-handed. Beautifully non-stick once seasoned, but they will try to tell you it comes seasoned and that’s a dirty lie.

In Elkton, VA fourth grade was Monticello and fifth grade was DC. Our DC trip was canceled because we had just bombed Libya and the school feared terrorist reprisals in DC. 🙄

My hottest of takes: DST is good, actually.

I grew up in rural area, in a nominally Methodist church that always had an evangelical flavor. They recently disaffiliated over gay marriage.

The Incredibles. Completely different movie after I had kids. I get choked up just thinking about the mom when the plane is crashing. Also the moment where she is checking herself out in the mirror. I know that dismay!

Do you work in my building?!?

When I rode horses I had a coach who also coached modern pentathlon. He said early Olympics were basically teams of military officers showing off, thus the running/shooting/swimming/fencing/equestrian-show-jumping event

I once had grapes that tasted like grape flavor. They were giant, like the size of a ping pong ball. A coworker bought them at a farm stand while traveling and brought them to work. Apparently one of those things you don’t see in grocery stores because they don’t survive shipping very well.

Yeah I got cocky yesterday, hit some slush and gave myself a scare. Not a fan.

5:20 am there's no traffic, I've just been going down St. Paul.

But for real is it usable now? Specifically Penn Station as far as 27th. I have been taking crazy routes home. In the immediate aftermath going up Charles was kind of ok but then traffic picked up. Also, clearing the path through the North Avenue school building parking lot would be awesome.

I used to teach a Molecular Biology of Aging course. The last class session I’d play a video of this creep and we’d discuss. He kind of moderated from total looney toons to sane sounding if you didn’t know anything about aging. By then my class knew something about aging though.

Yeah, I normally bike to the train station and I am pretty hardy about the weather but not THAT hardy.

Best of luck! I dream of a job in Baltimore also!

We tried a Catholic megachurch for a while. It was weird. Mass is mass; you can't mess with it. So they moved the homily to after the end of the mass and it was given by a layperson. The priest was almost a figurehead. Didn't care for it. We ended up in a traditional parish.

Rear of a GMC Hummer with the license plate “GIVEMEA”

I am in science so conventions may differ but I expect the centrality of the research question will remain paramount

Structure is:
-rationale: why study this thing? Why care?
-what is known?
-what is unknown? I.e. the question you intend to answer
-what is the bridge from the known to the unknown: your research method
-why are you uniquely positioned to build this bridge?
-how will output move rationale forward

I think about the English evolution of the verb “to check” in “checks and balances”. Modern speakers think of “to check” first in the sense of “verification”, instead of “to stop forcibly” or “to restrain”. People who used horses daily would certainly think of a check as a strong restraint.

Every time I see rails peeking through the asphalt I want to cry.

Had the smug feeling of reading the MARC alerts while comfortably riding my on-time train 407. (Don't worry they got me yesterday with a delay, I was due some luck.)

I get that he’s disputing a specific definition of a scaffold but that is semantics? And it mostly seems like a personal beef tbh.

I don’t have enough experience with Hyman’s papers to know whether they are being represented fairly, but dude comes across as a crank, and as someone who works in ALT my understanding of PML as the scaffold of PML bodies in the way that coilin scaffolds Cajal bodies is kind of essential?

Somebody there loves Christmas I think that tree stays up well into the new year.

My rule of thumb is only one weasel word per sentence. (May OR Possible, not both!)

Hey. From a random fellow Fed stranger on the internet, remember that depression lies. Things are legitimately scary, but it’s the FUCKING DARK that is telling you that nothing will ever be good again. Solstice is a month away. The light will return. Please keep posting, you have a fan in me.

It is though. I live on 30th. There has been a huge influx of Spanish speakers in my neighborhood. All along Frisby and the end of 30th near Greenmount is primarily Spanish speaking now. According to a Church official I spoke to, mostly Guatemalan and Honduran.

(Recommended even if they are forthcoming with answers because trust but verify)

The answer is $15 full plasmid sequencing. Actually I think Eurofins dropped to $12.