So here's my problem. I like my research topic. A lot. And so each time I find a new article even tangentially related to my topic I end up looking it up and reading it. Which doesn't aid in the whole actually finishing my proposal thing.
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10:10:36 AM,
Thursday 9 May 2002
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Placebos are better than Prozac. Placebos repeatedly have done just as well as (or better than) anti-depressants in studies done by the drug companies themselves. People on sugar pills also seem to undergo similar brain changes as people on Prozac. I think, and the article says this, too, that the effects are helped considerably by the clinical attention the people received (which of course are not necessarily received by those who by the Prozac online). The moral of the story is that psychology, i.e. actually talking to those being treated, is still absolutely necessary in treating depression. Happy Mother's Day, a few days early, Mom.
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11:22:45 AM,
Tuesday 7 May 2002
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Debbie sent us awesome croquet pictures (in the mail). Maybe we can get those online.
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09:36:04 AM,
Tuesday 7 May 2002
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One of the people in my office brought in a stray puppy that she's trying to find a home for. The puppy is asleep on my feet. Remi, are you sure you don't like dogs?
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02:56:12 PM,
Monday 6 May 2002
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::Insert strawman here::
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::repeat::
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10:39:41 AM,
Thursday 2 May 2002
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Did I mention I took my only exam yesterday, turned in the last term paper, and now the semester is over?
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10:16:22 AM,
Thursday 2 May 2002
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So a judge has ruled that we can't imprison people just because they look vaguely like they might possibly be from the Middle East or Afghanistan or somewhere like that and they might know something about September 11 or some other terrorism or something like that. Why does this judge hate America so much?
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12:56:03 PM,
Wednesday 1 May 2002
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Sign in the Tate Student Center:
We will be showing A Beautiful Mind the weekend of May 4-6, rather than Amelie. We apologize for the inconvenience.
Inconvenience nothing, how about apologizing to the insult to my taste? How about apologizing to all that is good and decent in the world?
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12:39:00 PM,
Wednesday 1 May 2002
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I too must say that croquet was absolutely awesome. Thanks to Debbie for driving. Thanks to Neil and Martin for the use of their floor. Thanks to all those who travelled for travelling. Yay.
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11:19:28 AM,
Tuesday 30 April 2002
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I heard you sing a rebel song,
Sung it loud and all alone.
We can't afford the things you save,
We can't afford the warranty.
I see you walking in the glare
Down the county road we share.
Our southern blood, my heresy,
Damn that ol' confedaracy.
It took a long time to
Become the thing I am to you.
And you won't tear it apart
Without a fight, without a heart.
I'm sorry for what you have learned,
When you feel the tables turn.
To run so hard in your race,
Now you find who set the pace.
The landed aristocracy
Exploiting all your enmity.
All your daddies fought in vain
Leave you with the mark of Cain.
It took a long time to become you.
The center holds, so they say,
It never held too well for me.
I won't stop short for common ground
That villifies the trodden ground.
The center held the bonded slave
For the sake of industry.
The center held the bloody hand
Of the executioner man.
It took a long time to become you.
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07:38:13 PM,
Wednesday 24 April 2002
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I heard you sing a rebel song,
Sung it loud and all alone.
We can't afford the things you save,
We can't afford the warranty.
I see you walking in the glare
Down the county road we share.
Our southern blood, my heresy,
Damn that ol' confedaracy.
It took a long time to
Become the thing I am to you.
And you won't tear it apart
Without a fight, without a heart.
I'm sorry for what you have learned,
When you feel the tables turn.
To run so hard in your race,
Now you find who set the pace.
The landed aristocracy
Exploiting all your enmity.
All your daddies fought in vain
Leave you with the mark of Cain.
It took a long time to become you.
The center holds, so they say,
It never held too well for me.
I won't stop short for common ground
That villifies the trodden ground.
The center held the bonded slave
For the sake of industry.
The center held the bloody hand
Of the executioner man.
It took a long time to become you.
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07:37:19 PM,
Wednesday 24 April 2002
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From the news to strange to be made up department: Atlanta Police to patrol on Segways .
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09:28:28 AM,
Wednesday 24 April 2002
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Maryland goes with a radical concept: spending enough money on each student to provide and adequate education.
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09:32:57 AM,
Monday 22 April 2002
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Indigo Girls are playing two shows at Chastain Park in Atlanta in June. Time to study up on MARTA schedules. I'm sorry they're not coming to Athens, but I can imagine the logistical nightmare that would be. Can a whole town be a venue?
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08:42:25 AM,
Sunday 21 April 2002
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I'm sort of sad about Layne Staley because Alice in Chains was angsty when I was angsty (not that I was addicted to heroin or anything but just that I was a whiny adolescent) (and not that I'm never angsty now).
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08:27:53 AM,
Sunday 21 April 2002
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Anybody from Portland, ME to Baltimore, MD feel this?
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11:56:25 AM,
Saturday 20 April 2002
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For those completely out of the loop, the House had voted months ago to drill in ANWR per the desires of the vice president and other rich white men. On Tuesday, the Senate voted not to drill.
In case you were wondering, as I was, about how the 54/46 vote to close ANWR to drilling went down.
Five Democrats voted in favor of drilling and in favor of invoking
cloture, including Sens. John Breaux (LA), Mary Landrieu (LA), Zell Miller
(GA), Daniel Akakaand Daniel Inouye (both from HI).
Eight Republicans voted against the amendment, including Sens. Olympia
Snowe and Susan Collins (ME), Peter Fitzgerald (IL), John McCain (AZ),
Bob Smith (NH), Gordon Smith (OR), Lincoln Chafee (RI), and Mike DeWine
(OH).
Independent Sen. Jim Jeffords (VT) also voted no.
I just registered to vote here in GA. Guess who I was already planning to vote against.
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11:31:01 AM,
Friday 19 April 2002
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My middle finger is mostly healed. It will be a few more weeks on the index finger, though. The good news is that my fourth finger has become quite dextrous.
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10:49:59 PM,
Thursday 18 April 2002
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I was told that I should ask Dr. Wallace about my particular problem.
I explained that I already had and I summarized what he had told me.
I was told Dr. Wallace would never have said that.
Discuss the implications of this exchange.
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06:03:22 PM,
Thursday 18 April 2002
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Must survive last week of class.
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09:06:45 AM,
Thursday 18 April 2002
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Speaking of US hypocrisy, how about our non-democratically elected government assisting with the overthrow of the democratically elected government in Venezuela.
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11:24:41 AM,
Tuesday 16 April 2002
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Zell Miller and Phil Gramm are UGA's commencement speakers. I can't adequately express my nausea.
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08:07:03 AM,
Tuesday 16 April 2002
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Yeah, so, that went horribly wrong and it's the best animation I've seen in a long time, so we try again Caribou need to do their part.
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09:16:26 PM,
Monday 15 April 2002
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I hadn't looked at Salon in months. But I picked the perfect day to check it. _
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01:42:33 PM,
Monday 15 April 2002
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Once again, we're shown to be the hypocrites we are. Amnesty Intl. condemns US prisons in Guantanamo .
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01:24:21 PM,
Monday 15 April 2002
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The Blogledyte Quiz Okay, so I'm Chris unless I change from liking Remi to liking Stephen Dorff, in which case I am Martin. Why does liking your SO make you Mr. Gillen? No offense intended to Mr. Gillen, of course. The verdict is, heterosexual women may feel left out.
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05:50:23 PM,
Saturday 13 April 2002
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Vote your hopes, not your fears!
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08:12:29 PM,
Friday 12 April 2002
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I haven't posted recently for two reasons:
1) I had a geomorphology term paper due yesterday
2) I removed a large chunk of my left index fingertip on Saturday. Typing is now a slow and unenjoyable process. Give me a month or so, though, and I'll be back in full swing.
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10:39:41 PM,
Wednesday 10 April 2002
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The link directly to the entry doesn't work, but if you go back to my first page and scroll down about halfway to the entry talking about acquiring an awesome stream restoration book and then look at the comments you'll see that the author himself, Dr. Gore, commented today, and made fun of Dave Rosgen no less. That is pretty much the coolest thing that's ever happened to me on the internet.
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09:00:50 PM,
Sunday 7 April 2002
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"By sometime this weekend (and it may have happened already) the
entire White Hawk wolf pack of central Idaho's Boulder-White Cloud
Mountains will be dead.
Nine wolves including the pregnant alpha female who is the famous
white wolf will be gunned down from a government helicopter.
Two were killed last week, three yesterday, and the rest right now,
or certainly by the end of tomorrow, because they all have radio
collars and are easily located from the air.
All this death because one sheep and two calves have been killed.
To put this into an understandable and very American context, the
cost to kill the wolves will be around $13,500; the value of the dead
livestock is less than $300. (for which the ranchers, Eddie, Jr.,
Dick and Betty Baker will be reimbursed)."
courtesy of Stan the Hawkman
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07:12:28 AM,
Saturday 6 April 2002
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While in the Biosciences computer lab today I was browsing their webpage and came upon a very nice explanation of evolutionary theory written by a professor who develops high school biology curricula to a student who was challenging his textbook. It outlines the common errors in thinking by "creationists", elucidates the idea of scientific theory, and is just generally well written.
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03:21:12 PM,
Friday 5 April 2002
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A whole lot more than it ever occurs to most people to ask about human faeces complete with amusing British spellings.
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08:27:08 AM,
Friday 5 April 2002
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I cannot describe what a yummy fast-food place Achim's K-Bob (The Most Popular Sandwich in Germany) is, or how bad I feel many hours after eating it. I'm awake, Remi's asleep, and one of the sparrows outside just woke up to sing to me about how the birdfeeder is gone.
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04:08:53 AM,
Friday 5 April 2002
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There is a group of anti-abortion protesters on campus today. Their signs read "Abortion is Genocide". I think they need a dictionary and a history lesson. Women of all cultures are having abortions (when they are allowed to). No one culture is being singled out. Fundamental to the idea of genocide is that a people is destroyed: their culture, religion, and language. A fetus or embryo knows nothing about any of those things. I think the equating of the two is sloppy and inflammatory and I think victims and survivors of genocide victims throughout the world are being shown a great disrespect. As are all women.
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11:40:27 AM,
Wednesday 3 April 2002
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The Glass Horse Technology is cool.
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05:23:15 PM,
Tuesday 2 April 2002
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What Neil Stephenson Book Am I?
I am: Zodiac
Full of facts and figures, you only make it halfway through most things before crapping out. You are focused almost exclusively on stopping distruction to the planet with little time for small things like developing your character. You are slightly paranoid.
[take the What Neil Stephenson Book Am I Quiz]
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06:37:21 PM,
Monday 1 April 2002
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