Tonight is Guest Star night!!

See below the fold for Surprise spoilers!

BEST EPISODE EVER!!!!

I could have watched another 2 hours. I haven't enjoyed an episode of a TV show so much since Jarod (The Pretender) went off the air. more...

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1 , I'm being a real trooper and NOT reading the spoilers. Do you know how hard that is for me? Even considering I read a bunch of the script pages for this ep.

Posted by: Ith at May 17, 2005 10:23 PM (CeQty)

2 Carmen Electra made that episode well worth watching....yum.

Posted by: Jeremy at May 17, 2005 11:13 PM (/U19w)

3 How could I have guessed you'd say that

Posted by: caltechgirl at May 17, 2005 11:16 PM (x/Dup)

4 Yowsa!! I'd read a lot of the script pages, but seeing it was so much more powerful than reading it. If HL doesn't get an Emmy, he'll have been robbed.

Posted by: Ith at May 18, 2005 01:05 AM (CeQty)

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Final 3 on tonight, next week is the whole banana. Each contestant will do 3 songs tonight and has 2 phone numbers...Updated at each commercial....

Clive Davis is tonight's guest judge!

Moving the Comments below the fold!

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It has been a worthwhile afternoon. Consider:

Visitor # 30,000 arrived at 1:36 this afternoon via the Accidental Verbosity Site Meter (Jay and Deb win again!)

Trip to Target: Acquired 1 copy Team America: World Police (the Uncensored Uncut version)

followed by dinner at BK: brought home Luke Skywalker, Jabba the Hutt, the Millenium Falcon, and Han Solo the coffee table (toys)

I'd say it's been quite a night already. House and AI yet to come.

F*ck Yeah!

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There's been much debate over the BFL mailing list over GOP babes and Hotties, based on this post at Lex Communis, and one nightmare-inducing email portraying certain liberal females at their worst juxtaposed with lovely photgraphs of GOP/ conservative women....

So the question arises, if there are any number of conservative "babes" (female), Then who are the conservative hotties??
Here's my list (based on apparent support for Bush during the previous election or personal statement of conservatism)
Nick Lachey
Stephen Baldwin
Freddie Prinze, Jr.
Jason Sehorn
Tom Selleck (hey, I grew up with Magnum, ok?)

Anybody else? If you enter yourself, there had better be a suitable picture

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... look this good you will not!

(h/t: Boba Fett)

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Chapel Hill is devastated after learning this weekend of the deaths of James and Alison Sapikowski, who were long-time local business owners and the "parents" of the UNC club hockey team. The couple were shot to death in their home, probably two weeks ago, by their 16 year old son, Adam, a student at posh local private school The Durham Academy.

Adam Sapikowski shot his father 3 times, and his mother twice, with a .410 shotgun.

Somehow, the crime managed to remain hidden for two weeks. Police were only called after an out-of-town relative became alarmed. They began looking for the "missing" family, but a routine search of their home turned out to be anything but. The family had never left town. Adam Sapikowski was staying in a local hotel while his parents bodies decomposed on the floor of their bedroom.

It's not only the parents that are sickos, sometimes. Let's all be thankful he didn't take that shotgun to school, too.

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...why this is news.

So he delayed it. So what? It got the science some publicity, which is alright with me. He didn't lie. They just kept it quiet. Discoveries in science are kept quiet all the time for financial reasons. Especially by large corporations and in the case of controversial findings.

There's no lie here. According to the paleontologist in question, Jack Horner, the names and dates are all recorded honestly in the lab notebook, which is in fact a legal document attesting to the record of discovery that can be used in court, and must be presented to substantiate published claims.

So why in HELL is NPR spending taxpayer money to hound this guy? Clearly he is an honest person. He just used his information to his advantage, and his employer's (Horner was a paid consultant on the Jurassic Park films), without altering the scientific record.

I mean honestly, do you think he would have gotten even 30 seconds on the news if he had reported the finding broadly in a shorter period of time?

Hell no he wouldn't.

I guess I just resent the hell out of the implication that delaying publication is dishonest. You see, in my game, we like to VERIFY our results by repeating the experiments before we go running our mouths off, and well, sometimes that takes longer than a year to accomplish...

But then again, this is NPR we're talking about.

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This week at the American Society of Clinical Oncology meeting, an astonishing breakthrough in the treatment of some hematological cancers was announced.

The drug Revlimid was tested in 115 patients with MDS, or myelodysplastic syndrome, a condition in which the bone marrow can not make enough mature, healthy blood cells. MDS, while little known, is actually more common in American adults than Leukemia, and results in anemia and fatigue, and eventually death from somatic oxygen deprivation. MDS patients require frequent transfusions to keep them alive, and there are few drugs available to treat the symptoms of the disease.

According to the authors of the study, Revlimid was initially tried in order to ease the symptoms of the disease, but to their surprise, doctors found that Revlimid actually was curing the disease itself.

After about six months on the drug, 66 percent no longer needed blood transfusions, said the study's leader, Dr. Alan List of the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Fla. A year later, three-fourths of them still don't need transfusions.

But the big surprise was that signs of the genetic mutation fueling the disease diminished in 81 patients and vanished in 51.

"The chromosome abnormality completely disappeared, something we've never seen before" from a drug aimed just at boosting red blood cells, List said.

That's amazing. It seems to have at least temporarily CURED nearly half the patients in a reasonably sized study, and more patients than that had their main symptoms alleviated. Drugs don't usually do so well in this kind of study, especially when their mechanism of action is unknown.

Revlimid is chemically related to thalidomide, and like its notorious cousin, little in known about how Revlimid works, except that it boosts certain aspects of the immune system. So far, according to the authors, the drug has been well-tolerated with few serious side effects.

I'll be keeping an eye on this one, it may turn out to be a real boon to millions of people.

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Well, if you missed the Survivor finale last night, too bad, 'cause it was a doozy!

Jenn, Ian, Katie, and Tom were the final four. Jenn went home after a fire-making tiebreaker loss to Ian. In the final endurance challenge, Katie quit after 4 hours, and Ian and Tom lasted more than 12 before Ian quit.

Four hours in, Tom told Ian that if he'd quit, he'd go to the final two. Ian said no. 8+ hours later, Ian told Tom that he'd quit if Tom promised to take Katie to the final two. Tom agreed, and Ian became the last member of the jury. Dumbass.

As for the final tribal, was it me or was the cattiness so totally contrived except for Coby (who really is just a b*tch)? I mean, yeah, I knew they all disliked Katie, and that Tom played the game better than about anyone ever (can you say DOMINATION? I knew you could...) so wasn't it just a forgone conclusion that Tom would win over her? I mean duh. Ian quitting like he did cost himself some $$ but he also handed Tom a $1 million check!

I think the only vote Katie got was Coby's and that was really a vote against Tom. Even Caryn voted for Tom.

Katie spent some money getting her hair done, and Steph looked pretty good. Gregg looked ratty.

Probst's hair looked shitty, too. I think he had a bad dye job going along with the stupid cut.

Did they HAVE to ask Wanda to sing?

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Good thing Survivor finished up.... This week rocks even without it:

Tuesday: Team America comes out on DVD (F*ck Yeah!), Sela Ward arrives on House
Thursday: Star Wars Ep. III Revenge of the Sith opens.

Need I say more?

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Emily posted this meme:

1. What's in your CD player right now?

2. What book is on your coffee table/night stand?

3. What's in your VCR?

4. What's in your DVD?

And these were my answers:

CD: SW Ep. III Soundtrack
Book: Revenge of the Sith
VCR: ROTJ (the original version, dammit)
DVD: Empire Strikes Back

What a geek-tard! Although, I must admit, the book is on GMT's nightstand, not mine...

So, how about you? What are you wasting time with, non-virtual media-wise?

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Seems blogging has found its way into the clubhouse and the front office... Guess who's got a blog now?

He Who Bleeds Dodger Blue. He blogs Dodger Blue too. Check it out!

If you click through to the MLBlogs page, there are links for the blogs of a number of other baseball notables, including Brooks Robinson.

(h/t Cap'n Ed)

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The lovely and talented Boudicca of Boudicca's Voice is the host of this week's Carnival of the Recipes. Lots of yummy things this week, and especially a number of really yummy looking recipes that won't break that swimsuit diet!

Drop by and check it out!

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Holy Sh*t!
Hella Drama tonight. more...

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Rob's daughter Sam is in a blog popularity contest with a $1000 prize at stake. She could really use it, and all you have to do is drop by and click for her site.

Go here and vote for Savannah Sam (you'll need to scroll down)

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Have you seen Arianna's NEW blog???

Be sure to check out every person on her blogroll individually....

(h/t Babalu)

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I found this at Dean's World.

Drink and bathroom/body part humor warning!! Pretty much SFW, since it's from Amazon.

Follow the link for the funniest Amazon.com list EVER. EVER!

Why are you still here? Go. Laugh.

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Scientology is so passe. How about Fictionology? Now there's a pseudoreligion I could get my mind around.

"Fictionology's central belief, that any imaginary construct can be incorporated into the church's ever-growing set of official doctrines, continues to gain popularity. Believers in Santa Claus, his elves, or the Tooth Fairy are permitted—even encouraged—to view them as deities. Even corporate mascots like the Kool-Aid Man are valid objects of Fictionological worship.

"My personal savior is Batman," said Beverly Hills plastic surgeon Greg Jurgenson. "My wife chooses to follow the teachings of the Gilmore Girls. Of course, we are still beginners. Some advanced-level Fictionologists have total knowledge of every lifetime they have ever lived for the last 80 trillion years."

"Sure, it's total bullshit," Jurgenson added. "But that's Fictionology. Praise Batman!""

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I added the references and made some changes to one of the data sections based on new observations and now all I have to do is make corrections based on what the boss tells me I need to work on, and fix the figures and make sure the numbering is consistent. Yay!

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Notice which school was first? Huh? Didja? Notice which school (MIT) wasn't on the list?

Mwahahahahahahahaha

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1 Hey...I stopped paying attention once I was rejected by Stanford after being acccepted by MIT. Despite spending my work-study years working in the Admissions Office; sometimes I still thing that at some point...they just start picking names out of a hat or something!

Posted by: PurpleMD at May 12, 2005 04:02 AM (R9Nla)

2 I bow to your great geekitude! Funny that David Duchovny is on the list... So, when you gonna run for pres?

Posted by: Marie at May 12, 2005 07:10 AM (cRiTs)

3 I wish this had been around when I was in high school, I would have known where to apply and actually get in

Posted by: KG at May 12, 2005 12:07 PM (8u5Sl)

4 Some might think that you are overcompensating for the fact that your high school didn't provide you with the opportunity to try out for the pep squad. Not me, mind you, but some.

Posted by: Peter Sean Bradley at May 12, 2005 05:22 PM (pO1tP)

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