Homemade Meat?

It is an interesting concept- growing meat cells at home. Something I am usre will make vegans happy- especially considering how awful Tofu can be when not properply prepared. On a safety end, this meat would be free of prions, viruses, bacteria, and fecal material. But does it taste the same. The texture of meat comes from how much activity the animal gets and what sort of food it eats. I doubt chemicals in a Petri dish will live up to comparison (something like Veggie hot dogs).

I am impressed that someone ever thought of doing this. It shouldn't be surprising considering scientists can grow human ears on rats.

If given the option, I would try it.

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V for Vendetta

It is the best movie that I have seen in a very long time. Amazing acting, great story. I think that Natalie Portman should win an award for her performance.

Either that, or I like men with masked and with mystery.

With everything that is going on in the world today (terrorism, wars, cocky governments) this film definitely makes one think.

I would like to write lots about this film, but I don't want to spoil it for anyone.

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Dance!

Every play dance dance revolution? I have the borrowed game at my appartment. There is a mat with arrows on the floor. Funky music plays and you step on the buttons with your feet when prompted. I have quickly discovered that I have abosutely no foot-eye coordination! With a bit (well, okay, a whole lot) of practice I can almost make it through the lessons. I'm considering buying the game.

It's made me think. The mat has all the buttons on a normal PlayStation controller. You can play any game with. What a great fitness idea. Instead of sitting on chair playing games, you can be active and add a challenge to game play. Especially in the more monotonous parts, like leveling up in any Final Fantatsy game. I have the PS mat, but you can buy ones that are compatble with multiple consoles (the come with adaptors) and you can plug in as many as there is room. I bet there would be lots of fun while drinking and playing mario cart!

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Ikea and Exams

They have been a few busy days since I last posted. Mom and Alicsa arrived on Wednesday evening. For supper I planned on making Vietnamese beef noodle soup, but since it was ash Wednesday I had to change the beef to shrimp and the beef broth to vegetable broth. It tasted great. I was impressed at how well Mom could use chopsticks on her first try. Just as an asides- eating with chopsticks is great: you have to eat more slowly which leads to enjoying the food.

Thursday morning, Mom and I spent two hours looking at stores downtown. There are some pretty nice places and nice things to look at, but we didn't buy anthing since the next day we were going to Ikea. I walked to campus around noon to TA my small class of 7. That was fun. I really prefer having 7 students instead of 52! I was able to spend some time one on one with one student to help him understand things beyond the scope of the lab. I sometimes wonder if I would prefer teaching over research... Thursday night we all went to Angels Diner to celebrate Alicsa's birthday. Afterwards we had Dairy Queen icecream cake. It has been ages since I've had that kind of cake. I've missed it. My favorite part? The crunchy chocolate fudge layer!

Ikea is amazing - I wish I had gone there when I first moved in. That way I really would have decorated the place. It's hard for me to be motivated to buy lots of stuff knowing that I'll be moving in a few months. But definitely my kind of store. Maybe Alicsa will drive me there again next weekend?

Yesterday was busy. Proctoring the exam at 8:30am. I was happy to have been trusted enough to head one of the exam rooms :). Afterwards lots and lots of marking. Did you know that there is a gremlin gene. It doesn't have to do with not eating after midnight, but with birds having webbed feet or seperated toes. The is also a Sonic Hedgehog gene/mutation that makes limbs have lines of symmetry/line of reflection. If I ever discoverd a gene, I would definitely name it something cool like these ones.

For two nights I have been staying up late playing clue with Mom, Alicsa, and Jason. Everyone has won games except me. This is different- usually I have uncanny luck at new games!

Company is leaving today but coming back this weekend. All in all, this visit is going better than I thought.