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[Apr. 15th, 2011|12:27 am] |
TO: Cursed Shrew
FROM: me
why are yo so selfish.? |
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| Blog post 004; alphadecay and running |
[Jul. 16th, 2010|03:46 pm] |
All my students keep talking about this AlphaDecay thing, plus a lot of you here on the Historical Repository are mentioning it, so I had to check it out. I like horror movies well enough but it really just looks like something someone did for fun in his spare time with a crappy camera. The faceless man just has pantyhoes stretched over his head. Curious to see what the creator has planned next though.
12 miles today. I don't even know how, it was amazing. Amazing, amazing run. And even after eating ice cream and forgetting my pill, which normally makes me feel really sick. Exercise is just amazing with what it can do for your body. |
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| Blog Post 003; http://heirofann.insanejournal.com/2679.html |
[Jun. 29th, 2010|12:37 am] |
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| VLOG: 002 |
[Jun. 27th, 2010|01:14 pm] |
[The video opens to Charley Thurlow sitting on his sofa looking at the camera. He looks very agitated, and when he begins speaking it is clear that he is furious. His hands move every which way as he speaks and more than once he just growls in exasperation.] How the hell is blowing up parts of campus supposed to help students? If you have issues with the way the university is handling this budget crisis, why in the world would you think that planting bombs is going to solve anything? Forget your stupid little message, now the university is going to be spending money on added security - which is pretty damn reasonable if someone's blowing it up - and so in the end you're only hurting students.
[He gets up, walks away, then comes and sits back down a moment later.]
And not only that, but there are plenty of students doing research on-campus at 1:30 in the morning. Seems like you tried to do it when people wouldn't be around, but a lot of the science labs run all night because some things are time-sensitive. So now you're just making them feel unsafe.
If you idiots want to make a damn statement to the administration, do it some other way. Stop hurting the very people you're trying to help. [With that, Charley reaches out and shuts off the recording, still clearly irate.] |
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| Blog Post 002; crappy facts and real puppets |
[Jun. 22nd, 2010|12:40 am] |
Maybe I'm a bit stuck in the past, but I hate the idea of holo-Star Wars. I still have my old blu-rays, as old-school as they may be, but that was the best part about Star Wars. You have to keep the flaws - crappy facts, real puppets.
That's what makes it so good, you know? |
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| Blog Post 001; runner's high and science high |
[Jun. 8th, 2010|01:45 am] |
Great day.
I spent the weekend in Westport since my future brother-in-law's birthday is tomorrow, and so before coming back to NYC this morning, I went for a long run. 8.4 miles and I'd forgotten how great it is to run around there. It was a different neighborhood from the one I grew up in, of course, but Compo–Owenoke is still nice even if it isn't our Revolutionary-era Old Hill home. Great area, great run, great weather, great high. Runner's high, of course, and I really understand why people claim to be addicted to it.
Then I come back and (of course) none of my undergrads show up for my office hours but I ended up in a long conversation about how amazing neurotransmitters are with two of undergrads I had last semester who now work in the lab. Which, of course, lead to my showing them my tattoo, which lead to one of the young women telling me about these amazing earrings she just bought online. Apparently they make wine glasses with the ethanol molecule scratched into them. I might have to buy them.
All this budget cut stuff is really worrisome. I still have another two years left on my grant but days like today remind me there are a lot of undergrads who do really care about school and I hate the thought that there will probably be less opportunities for them in the future. |
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| VLOG: 001 |
[May. 18th, 2010|02:50 pm] |
[The video opens inside a small office at NYU. Professor Charley Thurlow is sitting at his desk, a stack of papers sitting beside him and behind him is a large bookshelf filled with volumes about genetics and biology and various medical texts. He fiddles with the iHolo for a moment, then sits back and stretches his arms out, a small yawn escaping.]
14 hours and 28 minutes and I am DONE! [He motions to the papers] Grading. It wasn't that bad since it's Developmental Genetics II, a graduate course, and graduate students are nothing like undergrads. Some of these were REALLY good. I'm really proud.
Found out I'm teaching Principles of Biology I this summer, an undergrad class, which I didn't really want, but I'm advising some graduate students so I can have them do all the grading. I'm looking forward to -- [A knock sounded at the door and Charley looks past the camera, then reaches over to it, presumably to turn it off.]
I've got to go, but if there are any NYU students out there who could use a biology credit, consider taking my class. It's not hard if you do the reading and show up for class.
[Charley hits the button and the camera turns off] |
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