ScienceAndDance

Sickening, vile, disgusting, tasteless and so… sigh …true!
I absolutely can do without the gore/guts/bodily stuffs (except for the I-don’t-know-why-it’s-so-funny vomiting scene in T.A.), but what he and Matt write about our pathetic society is so down right!
I can’t believe this, but I actually used the lessons from the asshole/pussy/dick speech. In real life! It was a time in my life when I decided I had to be a dick! and so it was! Thanks for the inspiring words!
Cheers!

he’s my source for political news and how they really happened (hehehe, well…not quite, but almost).
What I can’t help from thinking when I watch him is that if what he says was to be translated to, let’s say, arabic and broadcasted to the arabic world (namely, to arabic countries that currently hate the US the most), and people in those countries saw him as a spokeman (he looks good and dresses well enough to be) for what we actually think… well, I think the US would had seen 9/11 many, many times over… No, Colbert, I’m not saying you are a threat to National security, but hey, I get the sarcasm and irony, but not everybody does…
Anyway, here’s a celeb I would love to have a couple beers with! Cheers!
p.s. and he’s a prime example of the superior race, the one-eyebrow-lifters! Hail!

This man makes me burry my face in the pillow once every three and a half jokes of Curb – I get so embaressed for him I can’t watch it! He is most definitely my favorite genius schmuck!

So I had this dream… It was morning and I was driving up the 5, going to school, like I do everyday. Traffic sucks and I am practicing a choreography (I do actually dance while driving) and the obvious happens. I rear-end the car in front of me. I feel all my blood leaving my body in that fraction of a second when you realize you just did something really incredibly stupid. So we move the cars to the shoulder, and I get out of the car spilling my mea culpa and asking if the person is ok. Out of the car comes this guy, and starts yelling at me. Just screaming his head out, and I just stand there, looking at the guy and thinking…mmm, where do I know him from? is he from school? wait, is he from the lab upstairs? no, maybe he’s one of the TAs…and the guy is still howling at me… and then I realize who he is, ah duh, from Heroes! ok then! and the dream ends (or that’s all I remember). ...yeah, I know…pretty, pre-tty dumb…
So, Milo, if you see a black Prius behind you, and what looks to be a giant octopus waiving its tentacles on the driver seat – change lanes! ‘Cose it’s me, and I’m bellydancing in the car! – and although it would be nice to meet you (even though you yelled at me), I sure prefer to keep my car insurance premium where’s at. ; )

Good job, great show! Heroes is one of two shows I actually watch on the computer (since I don’t have tv). Drive safe!

p.s. maybe I should just stop dancing in the car….ummm…or not!

So, I’m really not the type that writes blogs, websites, join discussion groups, fan groups, or any other types of groups at all. I am not a groupie of anything or anybody. I just don’t care for it, don’t have the time for it. I really don’t have the time to be even writing this right now. But I am. And that’s because there’s something that bothers me about myself. I have bad memory. Not in general, but about things that I’ve done, things that happened to me, places I’ve been, you get the picture. I always feel like I don’t have stories to tell about myself. And I’ve had (so far) an actually pretty interesting life. So I’ve been thinking for the past year about maybe having a blog – argh, I know, it’s so cliche… but I recently joined the hordes of cup-o’noodle-eaters, departamental-seminar-free-food loaders, chewed-up-spat-back-out-by-your-advisor , I’m-an-idiot-for-spending-6years-and-getting-paid-peanut-shells elite of the bottom tier of academic society: a Ph.D student. And I thought that could be something interesting to chronicle. So accidently, a few nights back I found this site. And I like it. So I’m gonna give it a try. Man, I never had made a list of things I wanted to do – that was pretty neat! And people I want to meet? yeah, it’s cool. I have a list of names written down, but I will try to add a person a day, because I really want to write why I chose that particular person. Anyway, I’ll see how far this experiment goes…
About my username…well, bottom line is that those are the two things that really make me tick. If I had to describe myself with two words they will be that: biologist and dancer. That’s my core. An infectious disease biology Ph.D student and a bellydancer. The rest is filler… Cheers!

Because she makes me laugh so hard when I’m stuck in O.C.’s traffic on my daily 60miles (one way) trips to school. I just love the different intonations on her voice, to emphasize what’s she’s saying – that’s the best!
First time I heard her on KPCC, she was telling the story about a wine tasting trip to Sonoma(?) with her sister(?). Anyway, it’s been a long time ago… but I laughed so hard and for those three minutes I completly forgot where I was (stuck in the car, in time-frozen traffic) and my whole mind was enthralled by her voice. AWSOME stories, AWSOME humor! Loh Life needs to be much longer though! 3 minutes of laugther out of 1:30h commute is really not enough.
Cheers Sandra! Keep us laughing!

funny, I didn’t even know he was a travel writer…this just instantly added a few more entries into my “books to read someday” list…sigh...
Anyway, the only book I’ve read (well, technically I listened to – I recently bought the illustrated copy, but haven’t read it in its entirity, only selected passages) by Bill is A Short History of Nearly Everything. As a naturalist of no religious affiliation (but raised in the christian school of thought), I found in this book my bible. It lays on my bedside table, just like the “good book”, always ready to provide me with last minute, right-before-sleep-time, words of wisdom and insight into the works of…Nature. As the actual Bible, it starts with Genesis and ends with Apocalypse. And it is really funny! Somehow, he manages also to dig out offbeat facts about many pivotal figures of science, their bizarre behaviours, strange rivalries, and the quirky paths to their discoveries. It’s almost like reading a celebrity gossip magazine about…science. And Bill gets his facts straight, and from the horse’s mouth. He goes to real amazing minds of science, and is able to translate all the technical lingo into plain funny, easy to digest pieces of information quite suitable for cocktail party talk – so, did you know that the amount of water of your average cloud actually fits in a bathtub? well, if that doesn’t work as a good pick up line, you can always go with -so, do you work out?

Cheers Bill! and I’ll re-listen again and again!

This man made me feel ok about the fact that I gave up religion. He didn’t make my mind, I had come to my own final conclusion a few years before I heard of him. But he made the whole thing funny, I felt that someone, out there thought the same things I did about religion, and that it was all right, and made perfect sense to have those thoughts/feelings. Thank you for “the salmon of doubt”, Douglas. And Dirk. And your crazy invented words. Thanks for getting rid of my “I-don’t-believe-in-anything” guilt trip. Unfortunately some people still don’t know the truth…and I guess they never will.
You are number one on my list, Doug! I love your writings. Be at peace, wherever you are/or not are…who knows…well, I guess you do now… Love!