"30-Minute Meals with Woodrow Wilson"

My workplace cafeteria made it into the DCist.

"The corner of 13th Street and Pennsylvania Ave NW may contain the best lunch value downtown. No, we’re not talking about the the all-too-familiar basement level food court or street vendor. Instead, look up and join the world thought leaders at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars."

"Chunks of fish and clams in a balanced, creamy base make one day's seafood chowder a great value, but let loose a starving intern with a bowl of beef chili onto a full fixins bar, and you'll soon see the value that can be packed into a few square inches."

The clam chowder is good.













Source: http://dcist.com/2008/06/03/30minute_meals.php

RE: FW: FW: ROOFTOP POOL

In a city built on networking, there is one relationship in your 20s and 30s that is particularly important to cultivate, one contact that can help create the definitive summer experience of snatches of sun and weekends of nothingness that nevertheless feel smugly accomplished.

You need a friend who has a rooftop pool.

"Remember, Chrissie used to have one?" says Frederick Oldfield, drinking a beer at a sports bar in the District. "She'd be downstairs cleaning or something and I'd be up there laying out?"

His friend Craig Collins nods. Sigh.

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/30/AR2008053002881.html

OH O'REILLY

shotgun dumplings

Two years ago this week, some friends and I made a short film about a family from Mississippi who decides to move to Prague. It's called "Shotgun Dumplings," and we filmed the majority of it in just one day. So please excuse the sound quality. And the acting, storyline, editing, cinematography, etc. Watch the trailer before you decide whether or not to invest the 30 min, okay?

trailer


part 1


part 2


part 3 (includes music video)

reason #436 why i miss the czech republic

carbon nanotubes = the next asbestos?

A major study published yesterday in Nature Nanotechnology suggests some forms of carbon nanotubes--long, straight multiwalled carbon nanotubes--could be as harmful as asbestos if inhaled in sufficient quantities.

“This study is exactly the kind of strategic, highly focused research needed to ensure the safe and responsible development of nanotechnology,” says Andrew Maynard, Chief Science Advisor to the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies (PEN) and a co-author on the paper.

Multiwalled carbon nanotubes are already being used to provide lightweight structural support in a range of commercial products, including baseball bats, tennis rackets, bicycle frames, and automotive parts. Don't inhale those products!

Source: http://www.nanotechproject.org/news/archive/mwcnt/

done

forget foam

i decided to use about half of my "economic stimulus" money on a memory foam mattress topper ($130). i've had some back problems in the past few years, so i thought it would help. but after two nights on it, i've had enough. it's super comfortable, but there's just not enough support for the likes of me. i've got sciatic pain down both legs. to the knees!

would anyone like to buy it from me? (queen size, 4 lbs per cubic foot, 3 inches thick). don't be scared by my user review. if your back is healthy, then this thing is magic.

EDIT: I'm selling it for $100 or best offer.

Patrick is busy. You may be interrupting.

me: have you picked up your cap and gown?
Patrick: i had it delivered
Patrick: via carrier pigeon
me: did you get to keep it?
Patrick: yes
me: can i have it?
Patrick: it died
me: can i have it?
Patrick: yes

update your blog

(and in november)

props to roddy

(really)

(yes we can)

facebook ads have risen to a new level

marriedtothesea.com

falcon fetish

there's actually a website for individuals with a falcon fetish. don't be shy....

Know 100 adults? At least one of them is in jail

For the first time in the nation’s history, more than one in 100 American adults is behind bars, according to a new report.

Nationwide, the prison population grew by 25,000 last year, bringing it to almost 1.6 million. Another 723,000 people are in local jails. The number of American adults is about 230 million, meaning that one in every 99.1 adults is behind bars.

article from The New York Times

Frozen Grand Central

what's great is that some people are actually taking pictures. "this doesn't prove anything!"

original source: http://improveverywhere.com/2008/01/31/frozen-grand-central/

iPod Nano(technology)

the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies is giving away free iPods, and you're eligible to win one if you complete their online quiz

so easy a nanobot could do it

obama checks for cleavage

thermonuclear test in french polynesia

i'm a hand model

we did a photo shoot at work for the various potential applications of RFID tags (such as to expedite the recycling of canned goods).









click here for more pics from this handjob

how google maps works

See below for gross

The Chinese giant salamander can grow up to 1.8m in length and evolved independently from all other amphibians over one hundred million years before Tyrannosaurus rex. (Credit: Image courtesy of Zoological Society of London)

turn teddy bear inside out and re-stuff

and more SRAEB YDDET...

toot toot

my artwork, peter's body and dance

coke is bad for you

taken from the New York Times

It is well known that too much soda can increase the risk of diabetes and obesity. But when it comes to kidney problems, is there a difference between colas and other kinds of soda?

Colas contain high levels of phosphoric acid, which has been linked to kidney stones and other renal problems.

Much of this conclusion stems from anecdotal and circumstantial evidence. So last year, a team of scientists at the National Institutes of Health took a closer look.

In a study published in the journal Epidemiology, the team compared the dietary habits of 465 people with chronic kidney disease and 467 healthy people. After controlling for various factors, the team found that drinking two or more colas a day — whether artificially sweetened or regular — was linked to a twofold risk of chronic kidney disease.

Bush and MLK day

President George W. Bush leans over to talk with a girl after Bush participated in a lesson for young children on the importance of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day during a tour of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library in Washington, DC, 21 January 2008. By Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty.

i could take 25

http://www.howmanyfiveyearoldscouldyoutakeinafight.com/

blake got married (2 down, 4 to go)

my lovely blurry family


my lovely unblurry date


rate me: am i married or not?


for lots more pictures go to facebook!

dolphins play bubble rings

Dolphin Play Bubble Rings - For more funny movies, click here

a visor

i'm not big on stand-up comedy, but this guy does a good bush.

*jerk off motion*

• Jason: I'm looking forward to Lost coming back on.
• Lacey: You can't see it, but I'm doing the 'jerk off' motion right now.
• Jason: The male or the female one?
• Lacey: I don't think the female one would give off the "like I care" message that I'm trying to go for. I think it would actually excite people.
• Jason: I never thought about that. Why does the 'jerk off' motion mean that you don't care. If anything, it should mean that what was just said excited you.
• Lacey: I agree. I wonder how those 2 got associated.
• Jason: I'm going to start doing the motion when someone gives me a present that I like.
• Lacey: It's like "Thanks for the Wii, mom" *jerk off motion*

i officially work in an office

just received the following email:

"Afternoon all. If you do not know how to make coffee, please DO NOT make any attempts to do so without first finding someone to show you how. At the moment, the third floor kitchenette counter area and floor are covered with coffee. The machine was running without a coffee pot underneath it. I thank you for being careful in the future as I attempt to get this mess cleaned up!"

this kid's gonna host my next party

nanotoilet

(where protons poop)

old ads

bring the kids!

new ohio state logo announced

old gross

See McCain spreading "fat cheek" syndrome

the evil eye

walmars dinosaurs

self-cesarean section

taken from wikipedia.org

Ines Ramírez Pérez is a peasant woman living in rural Mexico. She speaks Zapotec but not Spanish and has no medical training. She nevertheless performed a successful cesarean section on herself: both she and her baby survived.

Ramírez was alone in her cabin in Rio Talea, Southern Mexico when her labour started. The nearest midwife was more than 50 miles away over rough terrain and rough roads and her husband was drinking at a cantina. Rio Talea has 500 people and only one phone, but it was not nearby.

At midnight, on 5 March 2000 - after 12 hours of continual pain and little advancement in labour, Ramírez sat down on a bench, drank from a bottle of rubbing alcohol, and used a kitchen knife to cut open her abdomen. Ramírez cut through her skin in a diagonal line from across her stomach to below her navel (a typical C-section incision is well below the navel). After operating on herself for an hour, she reached inside her uterus and pulled out her baby boy. She then severed the umbilical cord with a pair of scissors and became unconscious. When she regained consciousness, she wrapped clothes around her bleeding abdomen and asked her 6-year-old son, Benito, to run for help. Several hours later, the village health assistant found Perez alert and lying beside her live baby. He sewed her 7-inch incision with an available needle and thread. She was eventually taken to the nearest hospital, where two obstetricians examined her and the baby: they found both alive and well but could not explain why.

Describing her experience in her native Zapotec language, Ramírez said, “I couldn’t stand the pain anymore. If my baby was going to die, then I decided I would have to die, too. But if he was going to grow up, I was going to see him grow up, and I was going to be with my child. I thought that God would save both our lives.”

Ramírez is believed to be the only woman known to have performed a successful caesarean section on herself. She is also believed to have been profoundly lucky to have put herself in the position she chose, which put her uterus--rather than her intestines--under the incision site. She was also lucky to have drunk a sublethal dose of isopropyl alcohol. She did say, afterward, that she didn't advise other women to follow her example.