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18 Grocery Store GIFs Worth – Wait for it – Checking Out
All GIFs are 2-for-1 this week if you use your club card.
Teenager
That moment when you realize that your kid has you by the balls...that no matter how much your presence means to him, he knows he is in in control...it's not in bad way. ..it's not vicious or vindictive. ..it's the last scene before the final curtain...I'm no longer the teacher...I am now the student....relief and sadness wash over me. ...am I happy? is he?...will that wide and windy road carry him on the straight and narrow? I hope not. ..he dreams, his soul seems to dance with every breath...wise and still youthful. ..His presence is often times overwhelming...A direct challenge to my being
18 Grocery Store GIFs Worth – Wait for it – Checking Out
All GIFs are 2-for-1 this week if you use your club card.
Break on through to the other side
OMG...I just realized that my minimizing is not about getting rid of useless things...it is about making peace with my past. Holy shit. I have been systematically reaching out to people from my past and making peace/ resolving guilt/ and letting go....I may be forgiving myself...This is huge. Shit, my psychiatrist is gonna flip....
A look at some Friends that helped to shape my life
I ran into an old friend today. We have known one another for almost a quarter of a century. I have always liked this guy. He was fun and jovial; but most of all he was sincere. He was a part of a group of guys that I grew up with. They are two to three years older than me. I was always just one of the guys. I lifted weights with them. I drank with them. I did every drug known to man with them; and sometimes, I slept with them. Tim, the guy I ran into today was fortunate to have escaped my clutches. That was a good thing. I was always so at ease with him. He was like my brother. Then there was Joe. Joe the genius! He has a photographic memory. Probably one of the most intelligent people I have ever met. He holds degrees in German, Political Science, and a Masters in some sort of Economics. He is a walking encyclopedia. Some of my fondest memories in life were with Joe. (But those stories will come.) I never slept with him. He tried, but he remembers it the other way around. Ces’t la vie! Chad was the heartthrob of the bunch; at least in my opinion. I think I fell in love with him immediately. He had silky blonde hair and a face of Nordic god. The verdict is out on whether or not I slept with Chad. I say no, but Joe insists I did. This is the pattern with Joe. That leaves us with Ashley. Very Gone of the Wind, if I do say so myself. This is the one I lost my virginity to. We were in his burgundy Camaro at Sports World, and it sucked. Not really his fault though, it just hurt like hell.
This was the core group. Over many years I slept with lots of guys who knew these guys. Joe will quite freely state to anyone who will listen that I slept with just about all of his friends. In the end, I look back on those years with great fondness and sadness. I was having a good time and I always had these guys to fall back on, even when whatever got fucked up was really my fuck up.
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On repeat
Sometimes I wonder what my family thinks when I listen to the same Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson song over and over again?
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Acceptance Simplified!
I want to be part of the community. Making an impact. I want people to cry when they see me leave. But really I want to feel included. Plenty of people want to include me. But it is terrifying to give in; to be accepted.
Flashbacks are real!
This photo is equivalent to what I mandate as bliss; complete comfort. One may say my Utopia. I never feel comfort. I never feel safe. It seems I am in a constant state of paranoia. (yeah for the Schizoid diagnosis). Sometimes I feel very close to a sense of normality; however, that small and what should be meaningless, becomes an overwhelming sense of fear and a desperate need for validation.
Can a virtual brain replace lab rats?
Testing the effects of drugs on a simulated brain could lead to breakthrough treatments for neurological disorders such as Parkinson’s, Huntington’s and Alzheimer’s disease.
Researchers from the University of Waterloo in Canada hope Spaun, the world’s largest functioning model of the brain, will be used to test new drugs that lead to medical breakthroughs for brain disorders.
Terrence Stewart, a post-doctoral researcher with the Centre for Theoretical Neuroscience at Waterloo and project manager for Spaun, will tell an audience at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) annual meeting in Chicago about the advantages of using whole-brain simulation as a tool to aid new discoveries in medicine.
“Our hope is that you could try out different possible treatments quickly to see how the brain reacts and how each one changes behaviour before testing them in people,” said Stewart. “Our brain model offers a new way to test treatments. For Alzheimer’s disease or a stroke that causes memory loss, we could see how a new drug affects the firing pattern of individual brain cells and measure how it changes brain performance on memory tests before trying it on people.”
Stewart’s team has already made progress simulating Parkinson’s and Huntington’s diseases. Their next step is to simulate Alzheimer’s disease after giving Spaun a hippocampus, the brain region involved in forming new memories.
Spaun is more like the human brain than other computer brain models because it makes mistakes and loses abilities in similar ways to people. To simulate the cognitive decline associated with aging, for example, Stewart and his team killed off neurons in the brain model and observed it gradually forgetting more numbers on a memory test.
To reproduce movement problems associated with Huntington’s disease and damage to the cerebellum, Stewart damaged parts of the simulated brain affected by those conditions.
“We showed that errors made in reaching behaviour seen in people with those disorders correspond to the errors made by our brain model when neurons in the affected brain regions are damaged,” he said.
Spaun can see, remember, think and write using a mechanical arm. Most importantly, this virtual brain – which mimics the neuron firing patterns seen in the human brain – allows the researchers to study and understand how damage to individual cells affects the behaviour of the whole brain in different neurological diseases.
Stewart presented new research on successfully simulating the effects of aging and Huntington’s disease in Spaun at a symposium panel, “Virtual Humans: Helping Facilitate Breakthroughs in Medicine” on Friday, February 14, 2014.
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What a two months
I have spent the last two months dealing with the increase in my meds. Unfortunately I was not able to handle the increase. I have been worse than I was before I was diagnosed.
I am getting much better since the decrease. I have a lot to share, but so busy with work.
Be glad I haven't posted because I have been an emotional wreck!