It cost me $35 to take a cab to my hotel room. I assume it was 75% my hotel being in the middle of nowhere (its near the convention center) and 25% me not knowing the area and my cab driver taking advantage.
It was probably 100% Boston having the most expensive cab fares in the country.
“Researchers of Canada: pay attention. Get on this. It’s a fully funded grant opportunity in a very interesting area of research.”
—Lorna Tessier, director of public relations for Canadian Blood Services, quoted in the Montreal Gazette, on a $500,000 grant available for research investigating whether it could be safe for gay men to donate blood. In Canada, as in the United States, all men who have had sex with another man since 1977 are barred for life from giving blood, due to concerns about spreading HIV. No one has yet applied for the grant, which was created 2 years ago.
Answer My Question on StackOverflow -
I asked a question on StackOverflow and haven’t received a correct answer. If you’re a web ninja and can solve it, I would love you to death.
Pretty normal curtains in here (Taken with instagram)
“I’ll continue to congratulate anyone who refuses to knowingly ship shit of any kind.” —
kung fu grippe: Things Communicated
Bill allows sightless to hunt with laser
Signed into law by Gov. Bobby Jindal, HB 39 authorizes the use of laser scopes by visually impaired hunters while hunting with a sighted individual. Prior to the law, sighted hunters had the daunting task of looking over an impaired hunter’s shoulder and then trying to guess if a rifle or shotgun was properly aligned to make a clean shot.
It’s appalling to think how many years blind people with rifles were legally barred from shooting at things—even with the assistance of an infallible technology like laser beams.
Once again, we find our country shamed into cultural evolution by the maverick, science-based activism of our Southern brothers.
What?
Your quote clearly states they weren’t barred from shooting at things, they had to have someone look over their shoulder, which is absolutely ridiculous. Talk about a way to make it so someone accidentally gets shot.
The article admits the lasers are frequently miscalibrated, but its a huge improvement.
Legal highs: the dark side of medicinal chemistry -
The title is a play off the WSJ article that it extends and responds to. Personally, these people disgust me even more than Andrew Wakefield, who this week is being exposed as even more of a fraud.
So, on Monday, boston.com told us about an “Unruly passenger removed from US Airways flight.” This kind of flew under my radar because I didn’t care.
Let me quickly quote from the article:
Milatovic allegedly would not comply with a flight attendant’s instructions, refusing to take his seat and refusing to place his carry-on luggage into the overhead compartment, State Police said.
One passenger also reported hearing a noise coming from a plastic bag that Milatovic was carrying when he finally put it in the overhead bin.
Sounds like he had a large bag that he didn’t want to put overhead or something?
Well, it comes out today, the bag had “keys, a bagel with cream cheese, and a hat”. Hmm. It was an 8 am flight, so you might have a guess about what a normal person does with a bagel and cream cheese he brings onto a morning flight, and it isn’t put it in the overhead compartment…
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My laptop is a perpetual motion machine.
What Is Money? - NYTimes.com -
I’ve always wondered about exactly what thismpost by Krugman describes. I’m glad a famous economist cleared it all up for me.
Michael Gerson - An Obama foreign policy win in South Sudan -
I really hadn’t heard elsewhere about Southern Sudanese independence, it seems pretty major
Fascinating book out of MIT
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Most people I talk to seem to have no idea that Ireland’s government is insolvent. Please notice.