Saturday, May 30, 2009
Friday, May 29, 2009
Retro-funny
Not sure what the statute of limitations is on petty theft, but that bastard owl has terrorized his last child.
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
mmm...baby....
Someday he is going to come back with some kind of pain inflicting device and put and end to these crappy jokes...
Sunday, May 24, 2009
Friday, May 22, 2009
This phone does errrrvrything
I was going to call it the "TheoPhone" but I didn't want the commercial reference to be obscured...
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Monday, May 18, 2009
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Tornado
Just in case anyone sees the news, yes we did have a tornado hit Kirksville. It hit about 2 miles from my house. Everyone in my family is fine, but many of my classmates lost their houses and other property. More later...
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Monday, May 11, 2009
Friday, May 8, 2009
An elegant solution
Anyone who has ever blasted away at a locked door with a rocket launcher in total frustration should understand this...
Thursday, May 7, 2009
Great day
Well today started off great. I woke up to find out I my 8am class was cancelled. Then I spilled blazing hot tea (which I made because I am feeling quite sick) all over my more sensitive areas. So then I got to spend some time on the phone with an attorney (not about the tea) who told me essentially to jog on. So here I am, crotch full of Earl Grey with no legal recourse and no pants to put on for class.
The government is condemning land and booting home owners to build a flight 93 memorial, California is burning, Michael Savage is suing England (which he should, he may be full of crap but he has the right to be as long as he doesn't endanger the welfare of others), and my boys smell like Boston in the wee hours of December 16, 1773. Fantastic...
The government is condemning land and booting home owners to build a flight 93 memorial, California is burning, Michael Savage is suing England (which he should, he may be full of crap but he has the right to be as long as he doesn't endanger the welfare of others), and my boys smell like Boston in the wee hours of December 16, 1773. Fantastic...
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Monday, May 4, 2009
Damn Computer
I spent four hours trying to get Knights of the Old Republic II to run on my laptop just to find out it doesn't support Vista...
Sunday, May 3, 2009
Med Question #(I have no idea)
Question: What does smoking do that makes ones voice lower and more raspy?
Answer: The bronchioles, bronchi, and trachea are lined by a multi-layered epithelium (a pseudosratified columnar epithelium). This provides the airways with a given amount of compliance, or ability to adapt to changes in volume. Inhaling smoke causes a process called metaplasia, in which the pseudostratified columnar epithelium flattens out into a simple (one layered) squamous (flat) epithelium. This increases elasticity (decreases compliance)and reduces the airways ability to adapt to incoming air. Because of this, we are less able to pass air through the larynx, and thus reduces out ability to modulate our voices. Combine this effect with blisters directly on the vocal chords (another direct result of smoking) and you get a deep, raspy voice.
Seems like this should be more complicated, but its really not...
Answer: The bronchioles, bronchi, and trachea are lined by a multi-layered epithelium (a pseudosratified columnar epithelium). This provides the airways with a given amount of compliance, or ability to adapt to changes in volume. Inhaling smoke causes a process called metaplasia, in which the pseudostratified columnar epithelium flattens out into a simple (one layered) squamous (flat) epithelium. This increases elasticity (decreases compliance)and reduces the airways ability to adapt to incoming air. Because of this, we are less able to pass air through the larynx, and thus reduces out ability to modulate our voices. Combine this effect with blisters directly on the vocal chords (another direct result of smoking) and you get a deep, raspy voice.
Seems like this should be more complicated, but its really not...
Saturday, May 2, 2009
Friday, May 1, 2009
Pig Bite Fever! (Ba Da Ba Da!!!!)
We are not all going to die. However, I would be willing to bet that half of the people who read that sentence read it as "we are all going to die". It's OK, I'll wait, go back and re-read it. It does in fact say we are NOT going to die.
Let me preface this with a small introduction to immunology. There are two major components to the immune system, innate and adaptive immunity. The innate immune system consists of this like our natural barriers to disease (our skin, the high acidity of our stomachs, etc) and phagocytic cells in our body capable of killing any bad thing that may come along. The adaptive portion of our immune system is comprised mostly of B and T lymphocytes. The adaptive immune system takes about 2 weeks to become fully effective after the 1st contact with an antigen, but this system reacts immediately on every subsequent exposure.
Swine Flu (or H1N1 Influenza Type A Virus)is a FLU VIRUS. It is not the plague (caused by Yersinia pestis) or anthrax (caused by Bacillus anthracis) or any other horrifically terrifying disease. No, it is in fact the flu. The only thing that makes it slightly more worrisome than the regular flu is that humans have no natural ADAPTIVE immunity to this particular strain. This doesn't means we have no immunity at all, it just means that a specific attribute of our immune system will be a little slower getting to the party than it would were this a different flu strain.
New flu strains show up every year! Ever wonder why you need to get a flu shot every year but only need your other immunizations every 10 years or so? It because the flu virus mutates so often that it is a new strain making us sick every year!
So if this thing gets out of hand, starts killing more people than the regular flu (which kills about 16,000 people a year by the way), then we should worry. But for now, Imma go have a pork chop.
Let me preface this with a small introduction to immunology. There are two major components to the immune system, innate and adaptive immunity. The innate immune system consists of this like our natural barriers to disease (our skin, the high acidity of our stomachs, etc) and phagocytic cells in our body capable of killing any bad thing that may come along. The adaptive portion of our immune system is comprised mostly of B and T lymphocytes. The adaptive immune system takes about 2 weeks to become fully effective after the 1st contact with an antigen, but this system reacts immediately on every subsequent exposure.
Swine Flu (or H1N1 Influenza Type A Virus)is a FLU VIRUS. It is not the plague (caused by Yersinia pestis) or anthrax (caused by Bacillus anthracis) or any other horrifically terrifying disease. No, it is in fact the flu. The only thing that makes it slightly more worrisome than the regular flu is that humans have no natural ADAPTIVE immunity to this particular strain. This doesn't means we have no immunity at all, it just means that a specific attribute of our immune system will be a little slower getting to the party than it would were this a different flu strain.
New flu strains show up every year! Ever wonder why you need to get a flu shot every year but only need your other immunizations every 10 years or so? It because the flu virus mutates so often that it is a new strain making us sick every year!
So if this thing gets out of hand, starts killing more people than the regular flu (which kills about 16,000 people a year by the way), then we should worry. But for now, Imma go have a pork chop.
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