Warm Fuzzies

So a post or two ago I blogged about foetus scientist and their possible plagiarism.  It turns out after I read the lit review - it was just bad writing and not understanding the project or the field very well at all - rather than purposeful plagiarism.  I talked to fs made it abundantly clear what needed to happen I think I repeated myself about four times in one email (I emailed the lit review back to them with appended comments) - I even used italics and exclamation marks.  I think they got the point - they have a practice 10 minute presentation soon - we shall see.

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Apart from that I am just tired - I have been doing my best sponge impersonation - some of it is working.  I am also currently thinking I need glasses I am finding it hard to read text on the computer screen from more than 30 cms away these days.  I turned the text size up and I am currently sitting about 30 cms away from it and it is nice and clear.  Joy - another gem of my old age.

E.

Hap Hap Happy V'day to you all

Figure 1: Eppendork's beating V. day heart

So feeling particularly in a happy full on, doped out high on sugary self bought chocolate and a few glasses of rose (cause it was valentines day (now isn't as Eppendork fell asleep due to wine but had good intentions) and her beloved is a million miles away doing man stuff) - I found this beautiful little geek fest Vday poem.

# open HEART by Eric Windisch, Feb 15, 1999

open (HEART, ">for_me");
for ($this-valentines-day; $you and $me; $together++) {
$you = "My special one";
$me = "Your darling";
}

%time = ($you => $me, $together => "forever");
while ($you = push(@me, @away)) {
foreach (@second) {
die a_bit to my $death;
goto hell;
}

pack $my_bags, @and_leave;
package my_love;
unless(!$i_see_you) {
write YOU_SOON;
}
}

reverse keys %time;
bless me;
for (last; kill $me;) {
if ($you) {
die;
}
}

Oh be still Eppendork's beating heart - the Sandy kind not the Edgar Allen Poe kind.  I do love me some comp geek (and yes my own beloved is a comp geek, tho he refuses to admit to it).  I now have an inane desire to sing "I love you in the morning and in the afternoon.  I love you in the evening and underneath the moooooooooon!".  Which may well just be extra chocolate I found that was left over from yesterday - cause really Eppendork doesnt hang out with too many purple dinosaurs that she knows of.

Happy Vday to you all.

E.

OMG - That's Fantastic

Sometimes when Eppendork needs a bit of an uplift (I was going to write a blog about my recent programming marathon with two particularly good programmers and baby programmer E - but that can keep for another blog) - now after a long day doing stuff I myself signed up to do and enjoy doing I am tired.  This darling readers was Eppendork's up lift for today - words to the effect of OMG that's fantastic may have been heard to come from my lips.   I seriously think that had I not jumped on the Bacteriology wagon - I would have been a full on, card carrying, gun toting Parasitologist - they are just that cool.

PS:  Lovely Isis since you were distracted  and couldn't do Hot shoe of the week I your faithful follower have shoed it out for you with these hot hot hot babies which I think I may just cry over cause they are just that beautiful.

That is all for now.

E.

Make Someone Happy - Cause it tis a lazy Sat

Eppendork is enjoying her lazy Sat afternoon and realises that there may not be that many more of them for a while so is fully appreciative of it.  I found this at AA - I embraced it cause it looked like fun :)  I took out the d - f steps cause I couldn't be arsed on my lazy sat.

RULES:
a) Put your MP3 player, iTunes, Windows Media Player, etc. on shuffle
b) For each question, press the next button to get your answer.
c) YOU MUST WRITE THAT SONG NAME DOWN NO MATTER HOW SILLY IT SOUNDS

1. IF SOMEONE SAYS 'ARE YOU OKAY' YOU SAY?
"That's the way I wanna rock n roll" - AC/DC

2. HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOURSELF?
"Shameless" - Ani DiFranco

3. WHAT DO YOU LIKE IN A GUY/GIRL?
"Sleep" - Kimya Dawson

4. HOW DO YOU FEEL TODAY?
"I know this bar" - Ani DiFranco

5. WHAT IS YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE?
"Another man's vine" - Tom Waits

6. WHAT'S YOUR MOTTO?
"Does your mother know?" - ABBA

7. WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU?
"The girl at the bottom of my glass" - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds 

EEEK!! Eppendork is not really a Lush

8. WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU?
"You know that I'm no good" - Amy Winehouse

9. WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT VERY OFTEN?
"Blood" - My Chemical Romance

10. WHAT IS 2 + 2?
"Jack the Ripper" - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

11. WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR BEST FRIEND?
"Hast thou considered the tetrapod?" - The Mountain Goats

12. WHAT IS YOUR LIFE STORY?
"1234" - Feist

13. WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?
"If you knew" - Neko Case

14. WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
"I'm sticking with you" - The Velvet Underground

15. WHAT WILL YOU DANCE TO AT YOUR WEDDING?
"Turn me on" - Norah Jones

16. WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL?
"Lay all your love on me" - ABBA

17. WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY/INTEREST?
"Through the morning/ Through the night" - Robert Plant & Alison Krauss

18. WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST FEAR?
"Beautiful Disaster" - Kelly Clarkson

19. WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST SECRET?
"Serpentine" - Ani DiFranco

20. WHAT DO YOU WANT RIGHT NOW?
"And no more shall we part" - Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds

Eppendork may have a lot of Nick Cave and Ani DiFranco - but oddly correct re #20

21. WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS?
"Over Protected" - Britney Spears

22. WHAT WILL YOU POST THIS AS?
"Make someone happy" - Jimmy Durante

I have eclectic tastes...

E.

Someday I'll be Saturday Night....

But currently it just feels like an eternal Wednesday - humpday - where it's almost painful.  One day Eppendork will be Saturday night, but that day is not today or within the next two months - why?  Because her lab - love it tho she might - isn't quite set up yet so she cant just jump in and lay down some blazing hot burn ya grandmother's knickers off science yet.   

Figure 1: Yup still smoking hot as the day I first realised you existed age 10 and 3/4's

I spent today reading manuals - for a loverly robot that when working properly will just be smoking hot and plow through the buzzkill work that I need to get through to get my data. Another part of my day was spent trying to get another robot to work properly - this was done in collaboration with sexy scientists A (who really knows who stuff) and B (who like me is in awe of scientist A).  Main thing I came away with was robots are like kids - they wont do what you want them to do unless you make it so damn clear that its crystal and squeaky.    Have also taken up programming (very slow progress here) - am officially uber-geek.  

Last time I checked it's still Wednesday - it may Thursday in two or three months.

E.