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February's bliss HI. I haven't been here for a bit, but had some pics to show off, so there you are. 64°. In Wisconsin. In the middle of frigging February. This will bite us in the ass later. I would make a light joke about global warming, but our Lord and savior assured that doesn't exist anymore. Crisis averted! The last picture is from South Padre last week, where I went out boating with dolphins and burned some skin that isn't used to seeing sun. Hope all is well with everyone!
Yep.
November 6th and the grass is almost as green as April. 1. I'm over mowing. B. I had the lawn spotless yesterday. Trees are assholes. 3. Gotta love this weather, though. The kid and I went for a 4 hour bike ride (Rumors of a bar stop are all conjecture). IV. November can stay this way a bit longer. 5. It's almost dark and I'm sitting outside listening to a Packer game and watching the snotmuncher ride his four wheeler. In November. On the sixth. 6. This page left intentionally blank. G. Go Packers! Oh, and also congrats Cubbies!
Gene-editing technique to treat lung cancer is due to be tested in people in August.
Chinese scientists are on the verge of being first in the world to inject people with cells modified using the CRISPR–Cas9 gene-editing technique.
A team led by Lu You, an oncologist at Sichuan University’s West China Hospital in Chengdu, plans to start testing such cells in people with lung cancer next month. The clinical trial received ethical approval from the hospital’s review board on 6 July.
“It’s an exciting step forward,” says Carl June, a clinical researcher in immunotherapy at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
There have been a number of human clinical trials using an alternative gene-editing technique, including one led by June, that have helped patients combat HIV. June is also a scientific adviser on a planned US trial that would also use CRISPR–Cas9-modified cells for the treatment of cancer.
Last month, an advisory panel of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) approved that project. But the trial also requires a green light from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and a university review board. The US researchers have said they could start their clinical trial by the end of this year.
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If you’re an introvert, can you reblog this with your favorite weather?
#social experiment
rainy, windy, stormy
Lightly cloudy, cool, slight breezes
Rain, especially really nasty storms.
extremely overcast, cool, mild breeze
Mild to heavy rain.
Rainstorms. absolutely. from cool misty days to full out monsoon rain and everything in between that isn’t also humid.
Ungodly blazing heat. Humidity maxed. Everyone stank, sweaty motherfuckers. Levels the playing field.
soft rain, distant thunder
A warm spring storm with lightening on the horizon and a southern breeze. ..
I just found this picture of the kid playing around on the four wheeler in our stone quarry from a while ago. Don't really remember taking it but it looks kinda neat.
I’m facing the apocalypse with The Rock, Ezio Auditore, and Darrell Hammond. I’ll take it.
You?
a bunch of professional motorbike racers, a punk rock band (die toten Hosen) and Jackie Kennedy - well this would certainly be entertaining, and it would either be a very successful team or like a terribly organised school trip.
Craig Benson from Battle at Bloody Beach, Jeff Stanton from Apache Rifles, and Logan Keliher from Bullet for a Badman. Three Audie Murphy characters…hmm, as long as we’re aptly armed to the teeth, I think I’ll do okay. ;)
I’ve got Maggie MacKay, who is a zombie killer; Napoleon Solo, a secret agent with some mad fighting skills; and Tim Gunn. Well, I guess at least we’ll look good.
I’m so fucked I have Aziz Ansari, the cast of ‘Black Books’ and Patricia Heaton.
Aziz Ansari, the protaganist from The Parable of the Sower (a post-apocalyptic teenage black girl), and the idiots from Top Gear. I have to find a way to sacrifice Mays/Hammond/Clarkson. Sorry bros, you’re gonna get us killed.
I’m not sure how I’d do, but I’m pretty psyched because I get the cast of Monty Python, Cecil from Welcome to Nightvale, and the cop lady from Last Shift, who I guess was in Walking Dead? So she’s got experience and she can educate us.
A ten-year-old blind girl in occupied France, Aziz Ansari, a few dozen stray cats with expensive taste and toys shaped like donuts and trains.
The Doctor, A private investigator and the descendant of H. P. Lovecraft, and Booker DeWitt. I’m gonna be just fine.
Alton Brown (Good Eats), Ash Williams (the Ash vs Evil Dead series), and a $3,900 refrigerator that has a built-in SodaStream (arguably the protagonist of the blurb in the 2015 Holiday Gift-Buying Guide in Consumer Reports I read while I was peeing). I would rate my chances as favorable.
I have Lorelei and Rory, Mark Watney, and a zombie pathologist so I am definitely going to survive.
Tim and I have the Muppets, chemistry, specifically conservation of mass and the nature of chemical reactions, and 90s song titles in the passive voice. I have no idea if we would survive.
Ooh! Ok. I’ll have Shawn and Gus from Psych, and Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, and Ariel and the gang from the Little Mermaid. I think I’ll be ok.
Scholvin, baby turkeys, and Duffy. I’m golden.
The Green Bay Packers, the peeps from NCIS and the ensemble from Big Bang Theory. (Protagonist schmotagonist. Team/ensemble shows FTW). Not only will we survive the zombie apocalypse, but pretty sure we’ll have built a self sustaining fully secured community by dinner. Gibbs will be our leader obvs. Abby and Mcgee are in charge of wrangling the nerdy scientists. The packers are critical for security and manual labor. They also run the compound’s farm (fuck yeah Wisconsin boys). Oh man I totally have a world built in my head.
Warden, Dog, Alistair, and Wynne (current party in Dragon Age:Origins). Inquisitor, Cullen, Leliana, Josephine, Dorian, Sera, and Blackwall (advisors and current party in Dragon Age:Inquisition). And Sam and Dean Winchester.
I’ll be juuuust fine.
Also, I’m a nerd.
Also, also, I’ll be in my bunk.
The Real Housewives of Atlanta, Netflix’s Marco Polo (So that includes Kublai Khan and his armies) and Doctor Who.
I think I am good. Bring it, Zombies.
Dr. Who, Green Bay Packers, and now King Julian. Started out strong but even the doctor can't save us now...
It's the fricking middle of October and currently 69 degrees. I'm doing some fall cleaning of the barn ( that's a thing, right?) and thought I would take a break and clean up some pictures in my phone. Last night the sunset made the whole world orange - it looked MUCH cooler in real life. It was surreal. I wish I had gone in and gotten a real camera. But you kinda get the idea from these. And the little snapper was out in the middle of the road when I went for a walk yesterday - he got a little snotty with me when I picked him up and moved him. I expect him to show up and try to kill me in my sleeping bag some night 10 years from now. Snappers hold grudges. And, as far as Authentic Weather goes, I'm listening to most of their advice.
I have no words. Watch where you go when you eat out. (those were words)
I know - I had a favorite pizza place. I had to install a new Ansul system there. I no longer have a favorite pizza place.
Just got done battening down the hatches. There's a pretty ugly nor'easter coming our way.
A typical Saturday in my hometown.
CRAP.
I Was Having A Great Year Until
1. I awoke at 2:30 Friday morning with an abscessed tooth. Painful and kinda gross, I know. I couldn't sleep and had to wait until the dentist opened to get in so I decided to peruse mail email where I found...
2. My address was changed on my credit card THE DAY THAT THEY WERE GOING TO SEND OUT A NEW ONE! Thankfully, they sent me an email that it had happened so YAY! for Capitol One. But the fact someone could change my address scared me so I fervently changed passwords everywhere. I was up at 2:30 so I had to do something anyway. And then...
C. The doctor changed my ADHD meds which isn't anything too bad but led to me driving to get some today when...
IV. A horrific gust of wind blew my new tonneau cover off my truck. Luckily no damage to any other vehicles as the plastic parts spewed all over the highway and minimal losses were noticed in the box contents(but it was cold and windy and actual inventory will wait) but GODDAMN! It was less than 6 months old.... Thankfully good old Chevrolet will stand behind it but still...
So I'm stayin home from now on. Next to the fireplace.In the heat. Possibly with some type of adult beverage. Luckily I'm single so I don't have to venture out into the real world anymore.
We went out. I wouldn't suggest it. Also, bonus finger photo bomb.
It was 50 shades of grey out for a major portion of the day but (HELL YEAH!) mid 30's all day so the kid and I went for a 4 mile hike. Well, he cheated and took the bike but still... I am so ready for spring but don't want to get too excited because February and March can be a bitch...
During the hike an old friend happened by in his car and saw us so we stood in the middle of the road and talked for 30 minutes. I love living in the middle of nowhere where we didn't have to worry about traffic or anything and could just shoot the shit - I believe I counted 5 cars on our road all day and all but one was a neighbor.
For the first year since my divorce, the kid and I are skipping out on the yearly monster truck rally in Madison. We are at his cousins birthday party instead. After he whined all week about it , he has no complaints tonight. Just to be safe I'm not going to mention it.
The kid's spring break coincides with my birthweek and (one of my no longer so top secret) trip ideas is to spend some time in Chicago to check out the museums. I've been keeping an eye on hotels and have checked out the museum passes but if anyone has some cool ideas I'm open for new stuff!
My eyes look awful squinty in that picture. I'll blame the 10 year old photographer.
I want to play!!!
Four names that people call me (other than my real name)
Johnny
Sparks
Junior
Waelchli
Four jobs I have held
Farmer
Auto Body
Manager of auto parts store
Electrician
Four movies I’ve watched more than once
The Princess Bride
Big Fish
The Grand Budapest Hotel
All Monty Python Movies
Bonus - All Disney, Pixar, ad infinitum
Four books I’d recommend:
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Trilogy(Thats 4, right?)
Four places I’ve lived:
Monticello, WI
St. Jakob in Tirol, Austria
Madison, WI
Belleville, WI
Four places I’ve been, compass points edition:
Anchorage, AK
Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
NYC
San Diego, CA
Four things I don’t eat:
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Four TV shows I watched:
Buffy
Firefly
Shameless
Psych
Four things I’m looking forward to this year:
SPRING!!!
The first motorcycle ride of the year
Highly top secret road trip with the son
Another highly top secret road trip but adults only
Four things I’m saying:
Now who the hell put that there???
I saw this in a cartoon once and I think it could work
You want it done when???
Scheisse!!!
Some days you nail it with Christmas presents and it is the coolest feeling. All he talked about was xbox this and Nintendo that but I went in a different direction and by the look in his eyes on Christmas morn I believe I did right.
