Nov 13
Eric from Boulder commented on Kids These Days: Friendly Stalkers and Forbidden Meeps.
Who took the strawberries? And did you just mutter "meep", when my back was turned, Mr. Roberts?!?
Nov 12
Eric from Boulder commented on Dear Science.
I also support a blinded, randomized, controlled trial on the flu vaccine. Weirdly, the only reason you can ethically do such a study is that the evidence for the efficacy of the flu vaccine is so weak. For vaccines whose efficacy is really solidly established, like the one for polio, it would be unethical to do a study in which half the participants got a placebo shot. Science, do you understand NIH/vaccine politics? Why _hasn't_ such a flu vaccine study been done in recent years?
Nov 11
Eric from Boulder commented on CERN's Large Hadron Collider Encounters Bird Food From the Future?.
Penzias and Wilson ate breakfast a scant 200 yards from a radio telescope that peered into the fastnesses of an impersonal universe that no more cares for the lives of you and me than do the goons manning Castro's machine gun nests across the bay from Gitmo. Who ordered the Code Red on those pigeons? Sure physics is about finding the truth, but you can't handle the truth!
Nov 9
Eric from Boulder commented on SL Letter of the Day: Should He Finally Meet His "Ex" In Person?.
@3: Nailed it. That's some seriously good advice.
Nov 9
Eric from Boulder commented on Lunchtime Quickie.
@7: I know the clip, and it thoroughly rebuts the notion that woman's soccer is nothing but a bloodless form of real soccer! The clip is posted all over, and in all the comment threads I've seen, the player in question is pilloried, up to and including calls for her lifetime ban. But I think the individual clips are likely taken out of context. Seasoned players rarely get that aggro unless the other team has been working them, off the ball, out of sight of the ref, all game long. Look closely at some of the clips, and you can see it going on. Even for the hair yank, which sure was way unacceptable, you should look at what the opposing player is discreetly doing with her hand behind her back just before Ms. Animosity clotheslines her. I won't say she had it coming, but that wasn't no fully innocent victim, either.
Nov 9
Eric from Boulder commented on DP Poll Dance.
DP = Double play. Duh.
Which in turn, I suppose, leads to two displaced players trotting forlornly back to the dugout.
Which in turn, I suppose, leads to two displaced players trotting forlornly back to the dugout.
Nov 9
Eric from Boulder commented on Twitter and Health Reform; The GOP and its "Other" Problem.
He's talking about the only Republican in the House of Reps who voted yes on the healthcare plan, pictured in the post.
Nov 7
Eric from Boulder commented on Monfort's Abstract.
@23: You snapped to the fact that 12-22 except 15 is all one guy, right? Ian Smith, indeed.
Nov 5
Eric from Boulder commented on How to Open a Bottle of Wine.
Has anyone tried it? Does the method work?
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