Escherichia coli (E. coli) can give you a severe case of food poisoning or, with a little genetic engineering, a useful plastic. Scientists at San Diego–based Genomatica, Inc., have announced success in manipulating the bacteria to directly produce butanediol (BDO), a chemical compound used to make everything from spandex to car bumpers, thereby providing a […]
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Apparently Washington Mutual failed yesterday. I’ve never experienced a Great Depression. I’m not stoked about it. Most things are a lot more fun to read about in history books that to live through.
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Due to pool closure, allergies severe enough to keep me home from work on Monday (I’m just now feeling about 80% human), pump failures inducing sugar woes (yesterday was *awful*), and the fact that it’s fit test assessments at work (which means no regular work workouts this week), I’ve decided to take the week off
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This neatly sums up everything I intuited about the books. They just stank too much of that Anne Bishop “I’m writing a feminist romance ha ha ha just kidding there are cock rings and child rape and incest but really I had feminist intentions because so many women just can’t get over how hottt guys
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So last night I pull out one of the 5 new replacement pods I received from the Omnipod Insulet Corporation. I went to activate one. And the first one out of the box FAILED. FAILED. A REPLACEMENT FOR A FAILED POD FAILED. I called them up, reported the failure. They are sending me another one.
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Well, it’s that time of year again – time for our quarterly fit test at work. My blood pressure is about the same – still in the good range. Pushups and situps remained the same – about 50 each. My only real accomplishment was shaving off those 4 lbs that I’d gained just before the