I got mail

and mail in a real life mailbox... and by mailbox I mean that hole I'm pointing at in the picture.


So not much to brag... BUT BUT... unlike those in Biology or MCMP (I forgot what that stands for) My hole is my hole... not a hole for all those with a last name starting with a C.
SO, you can not see it in the pic, and the close up pic didn't show my best side so I'm not posting it, but the hole I'm pointing at has my name and ONLY my name.

MUAHAHAHAHAHA.... next step... graduation :)

ON an artistic note:

What to do?

You know how we all kid around about how hard and difficult life as a PhD is... complain about the weekend hours, non helpful boss, lack of any life outside the lab... but we know that we really spend our time blogging, not working, and who are we kidding, we wouldn't have a life anyways since we would be blogging and playing video games in our free time.

But what to do when you get to know someone that REALLY REALLY hates her job.
Completely tired of what she is doing, and only in second year.
Hates her boss
Hater her lab
And it is a definite true feeling, no sarcasm

I thought it was just before the qualifiers stress, but that one long gone... still the feeling persist.

What do you say to this person? How can you make their life less miserable?
What would you guys do?

Great ART

http://www.destructoid.com/elephant/photo-m.phtml?photo_key=7440&post_key=31764#photo

So good

I gotta love Cane watering Tiberium

a poop someone on digg already made that comment... but I love C&C more ... i bet :)

Ok then I love the Earthworm Jim vs Worms :)

Vandalism :(

Guess I'm not as unlucky as stynky who got his bike stolen... but... why the hell would someone do that to my bike?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!?!?!
There are not even that many undergrads around, so I'm assuming its not drunken fraternity kids act.

What the hell happen?

EEK

"the Academy" also pointed out that exclusion of children from drug studies was more unethical than clinical testing, and could lead to devastating results.

The antibiotic chloramphenicol was released in the 1950s without adequate testing in infants and children. As use of the drug became more common, reports of a serious and often fatal reaction called the Grey Baby Syndrome surfaced. This reaction was related to slow clearance of the drug in infants as compared to adults, due to deficiency in hepatic glucuronyl transferase in infants. Similarly, though less devastating, widespread use of tetracycline in children was subsequently shown to be associated with dental dysplasia.

OH the one I've heard

Death on Gene Therapy Trial

In the fall of 1999, 18-year-old Jesse Gelsinger died as a result of his participation in a gene transfer trial. Jesse had a rare metabolic disorder, ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency syndrome (OTC) that was being controlled by medication and diet. Researchers were testing an innovative technique using adenovirus gene transfer. Shortly after treatment Jesse Gelsinger experienced multiple organ failure and subsequently died. This case catapulted research with human subjects into the national media. Serious concerns related to conflict of interest, data safety monitoring, and informed consent have made the Gelsinger case a contemporary illustration of continued doubts about the ethical integrity of research with human subjects. This case has instigated deliberations on all these controversial topics at the national level. The outcome of the discussions has yet to be determined.

Hmm wikipedia has more info than the crappy citi test I'm taking

Random trash talk: "Stynky you really want to keep eating herbicide fill, genetically modified animals and plants?"

Obedience to Authority Study (Milgram Study)

The purpose of this study was to determine response to authority in normal humans. The researchers told recruited volunteers that the purpose was to study learning and memory. Each subject was told to teach a "student" and to punish the students' errors by administering increasing levels of electric shocks. The "student" was a confederate of the researcher who pretended to be a poor learner and mimicked pain and even unconsciousness as the subject increased the levels of electric shock. 63% of the subjects administered lethal shocks; some even after the "student" claimed to have heart disease. Some of the subjects, after being "debriefed" from the study experienced serious emotional crises.

Ethical Problems: deception, unanticipated psychological harms.







OK, no idea or references on this one... but kind of funny... hmm... guess I shouldn't be a scientist.

To be just... in research

OK, so I haven't read all of this, but it is kind of funny what I just read.
"Who ought to receive the benefits of research and bear its burdens? This is a question of justice ... conceiving the principle of justice is that equals ought to be treated equally. However, this statement requires explication. Who is equal and who is unequal?"

ON the plus side... now I want to keep reading instead of cheating and press next to see what weird things I find :P

Edit one:
My MDs during my history
The first century physician Celsus justified experiments on condemned criminals in Egypt using wording that became a classic defense for hazardous experimentation: "It is not cruel to inflict on a few criminals sufferings which may benefit multitudes of innocent people through all centuries."
Brady, Joseph V. and Jonsen, Albert R. "The Evolution of Regulatory Influences on Research with Human Subjects." Human Subjects Research - A Handbook for Institutional Review Boards. Ed. Greenwald, Robert A. et al. New York: Plenum Press, 1982. 3 - 18

Once more into the bridge my friends

Haha, so we meat again giant bean


K, but I just wasted the morning doing boring paperwork...

Lets do something I can not do anywhere else but here

Something Original

Worthy of a LOOOONG trip here

An act that says....
oh wait look, a comicbook store
brb



sigh. They don't have Nightwing annual 2... guess I'll never know why he didn't marry Oracle after all.

OK, little time left, lets go to the sears tower, it is a weekday so it must be empty


D'oh



...
hour later






Oh well... time to go home
I take the 5pm train, I shall be there by 9ish

turns out this pic is taken at 12 midnight...




Cargo trains get priority over passangers, Amtrak gets to sue the railroad owners but the small fine they pay is nothing compare to whatever they make by making pass tons of cargo trains before us.
The free market has spoken and they prefer overstock walmarts than strangers getting home on time.
People could rise and be heard by their congressmen ... but people have gone lazy, complaisant.
And the new French president is not a socialist :(

Whatever!!!!!!!!

Game deprivation did not get me the A.

So when i come back I will level up my characters, start ranking on CoH, buy C&C3 and pretty much compensate for the useless months of no gaming ...