Scientists have discovered that variations in one protein producing gene directly affect the way people respond to pain. Depending on whether you get the lazy genes or not, you'll be a nancy boy or a tough guy.
So, whaddya think? Are you a virile valine man or a methionine mama's boy?
Despite the fact that I have very little paitence for obfuscated navigation that requires 'exploration' to reveal tiny labels, Rinzen rewarded my fumbling with cool poster art. So they get a link.
PopeyeCalves: Look for me on Sat., I'll be wearing the tight leather pants with the wife beater...
Kelly, to a large stranger who was looking at porn in an ASU computer lab:
"You know, if you maximize that little window you can see all of her breasts rather than keep moving the little scroll bar to take a good look at them."As she recounted the story to me, she explained, "this person just LEAPED out of me and regulated."
I never knew the standard phonetic alphabet, and so I'd scramble to find words with matching sounds when spelling my name over less than splendid cell phone connections. I've substituted everything from palomino to prostitute for the P in Paul. The official NATO list, A-Z:
Alpha Bravo Charlie Delta Echo Foxtrot Golf Hotel India Juliet Kilo Lima Mike November Oscar Papa Quebec Romeo Sierra Tango Uniform Victor Whiskey X-Ray Yankee ZuluFor the curious: a list of variants from other lands and times, accompanied by an assortment of notes.
Paul spent some time considering why nerds are unpopular — it's a topic that seems simple and obvious, but when you take the time to try to figure it out, like Paul did, it gets trickier. Paul's a programmer, not a school psychologist, but his analysis is careful and smart. What follows was pulled straight from his essay.
- Why don't smart kids make themselves popular? If they're so smart, why don't they figure out how popularity works and beat the system?
- The answer, I think, is that they don't really want to be popular. They want to be popular, certainly, but they want even more to be smart. And popularity is not something you can do in your spare time, not in the fiercely competitive environment of an American secondary school.
- Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness. It's much more about alliances.
- Humans like to work; in most of the world, your work is your identity. And all the work we did [in school] was pointless, or seemed so to us at the time.
- When the things you do have real effects, it's no longer enough just to be pleasing. It starts to be important to get the right answers, and that's where nerds show to advantage.
- It's hard to find successful adults now who don't claim to have been nerds in high school.
- School is a strange, artificial thing, half sterile and half feral. It's all-encompassing, like life, but it isn't the real thing. It's only temporary, and if you look you can see beyond it even while you're still in it.
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