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[Jul. 7th, 2009|11:18 pm] |
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| I use a photograph of jazz legend, Thelloneous Monk! |
[May. 14th, 2009|11:57 am] |
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| | heatwave ice cream remix | ] |
I am silly. My dad is here. We did a photoshoot of him gaping at highrises. What else? Twenty-seven; dancing the river; bonding with rosedale dogs. Face to face! Out in the heat! Hangin' tough, stayin' hungry! Hope spring is arriving where you are. xox. |
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[Jan. 16th, 2009|03:09 pm] |
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Jesus and Mary
Are takin' me down to the
other side of town
Where they don't count the days
With steel blades on the walls of time
They just dance naked in
the sun all the time |
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| well these surely speak for themselves |
[Dec. 18th, 2008|12:22 am] |
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preview: I'M AN ATHENIAN 33YRS OLD WITH A GOOD BUSINESS IN THE CENTER OF ATHENS. THERE IS ALOT OF TALKING GOING ON IN THIS BLOG, JUST LIKE IS HAPPENING IN GREECE RIGHT NOW. PEOPLE GLOBALLY ARE DIVIDED ON THIS ISSUE. WE ARE ALL (GLOBALLY) GOOD PEOPLE.
TO FIGURE OUT WHICH SIDE YOU ARE ON, ASK YOURESELF A SIMPLE QUESTION: WOULD I PREFER SOMEBODY BURN AND LUTE MY SHOP OR SOMEBODY MURDER MY SON?
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/12/2008_greek_riots.html |
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[Dec. 17th, 2008|10:27 pm] |
st. john's!
let's do stuff!
let's go bowling at st. pat's?
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edit:
props to rodney, who is clearly on the internet.ball :) |
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[Dec. 12th, 2008|04:47 pm] |
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I have been mildly depressed, sleeping 12 hours a day, smoking too much, and not brushing my teeth frequently. The following is the most interesting theory I have heard in years.
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Bernard Crespi, an evolutionary biologist at SFU, has developed a theory - with the help of Christopher Badcock, a sociologist at the London School of Economics - that suggests a "genetic tug of war" could be behind mental disorders such as autism and schizophrenia.
The theory, first published in Behavioural and Brain Sciences, suggests autism and schizophrenia are at opposite ends of a spectrum of mental disorders. Each is an extreme outcome of a battle between the mother's and father's genes, which can steer brain development in one of two directions.
"Freud brought biology into psychiatry. I'm trying to bring evolutionary genetics into psychiatry," Crespi said Thursday in a telephone interview.
Looking at the social behaviours of the two end-spectrum mental disorders, Crespi said they are solid opposites.
People with autism often have underdeveloped social behaviours, in that they often don't say much and avoid eye contact.
At the other end of the spectrum, people with schizophrenia are often hyper-developed in sociality, Crespi said.
Their sense of self can be hyper-developed into megalomania, language is hyper-developed into hearing voices, and rather than feeling isolated, people with schizophrenia often feel as if they're being watched or plotted against.
Crespi says the theory could have significant implications for various therapies for mental disorders. He suggests it makes sense to encourage behaviours that are found at the opposite end of the spectrum. So, in people with autism, it would make sense to nurture and strengthen their social behaviours. And the opposite might be true for people with schizophrenia.
"If you have somebody who's schizophrenic . . . by these ideas, what they've got is kind of an overdevelopment of their social brain, if you will. And you basically want to encourage them to be less mentalistic, less over-interpreting with regard to sociality," he said.
"You essentially want them to become relatively more autistic in the way they think about the world." |
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[Nov. 17th, 2008|02:04 pm] |
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British colonization of North America began with the settlement of St. John's, Newfoundland as early as 1497. It officially became England's first colony in 1583. |
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[Oct. 23rd, 2008|01:01 pm] |
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about two weeks ago, i started taking these omega whatever capsules that i had kicking around. unfortunately, depending on my stomach contents, each dose may or may not result in an all-encompassing taste and smell of fish. it's where i'm at, friends. |
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| The Illicit and the Dangerous |
[Oct. 21st, 2008|12:05 pm] |
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Scientists use bees and wasps to sniff out the illicit and the dangerous
A punny little article.
“Bees are wonderful insects for detection devices,” she says. “They give us an unambiguous answer, and they work until the minute they die.”
In other news, something in our newish apartment seems to be giving me, the ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) quining, and the dog terrible mysterious allergy symptoms. This sucks. Waking up every morning and having to remediate the itching, phlegm, malaise even before facing the normal quotidian slings and arrows? Not acceptable. So now I feel like I have to go on an etiological quest of sorts. black mold? malicious dust-mites? lightnings? sparks? noxious vapours? strangely coloured gnats, ravens circling in pairs? Plague!
See how England mourns, drenched in tears.
The people stained by sin, quake with grief.
Plague is killing men and beasts.
Why? Becauses vices rule unchallenged here.
Ahh, yes. Always the absent morality. Ugg. Seriously, though. Our landlord is on some month-long vacation for October. Speaking of absent.
At least A is back. Oh me nerves! |
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[Oct. 14th, 2008|12:03 pm] |
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no surrender, no delete! |
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[May. 20th, 2008|08:35 pm] |
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it was so good to see people yesterday. i get so weird and anxious from lack of friendly contact. then it circles. like when dana scully got that ergot red snake tattoo. bringing the analogies back. i think i need to book a sutherland-chan student massage before i can literally no longer move. i guess this is just a stressful time, preparing to look for a job. somebody rub me. |
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[Apr. 15th, 2008|07:46 pm] |
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emerging in the spring, a time-honoured Livejournal tradition here at kellista. within a five-minute walk from my apartment there is a spandex dumpster. i shit you not. neon orange stretch velvet. dayglo yellow spandex with blue foil holographic polkadots.
madness.
so i'm on a student placement with community living toronto for the next two days and then showing a poster of my work there on friday in some sort of gymnasium-based mandatory job fair thing. erg. my next placement is doing therapy with kids with autism at surrey place in north york. working for free is so awesome. eight more weeks.
also i got a giant tattoo of an analytical engine.
family and loved ones have been doing the funeral thing for the past few days. much sadness in that faraway ocean-bashed place where my heart is.
lonely me.
i guess that's it! it melts! it melts! |
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[Apr. 12th, 2008|11:36 am] |
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[Feb. 29th, 2008|10:48 pm] |
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just like it says.
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also, it's been gnawing at me (like a proactive little rodent) - even though i do think the research of inducing autistic savant-like behaviour in a mouse by altering one gene related to neuroplasticity is very cool, i cannot fairly exclaim so without a shout-out to the much tortured and maligned but apparently empathetic mouse as a species. not to mention an expression of general dersion towards the politicized american specialized-mouse-breeding industry. is it "right" or "worth it" to do research like that on hundreds of millions of mice a year? just askin' is all.
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[Feb. 28th, 2008|01:10 am] |
Gene research may help explain autistic savants
"Hung said that while it seems counter-intuitive that loss of an important synaptic scaffold protein would result in improved learning among the mice in this study, the absence of this protein may "trap" the mice's synapses in a more plastic state, which means the synapses are ready to respond to input but not maintain it in long-term memory." |
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[Feb. 26th, 2008|02:00 pm] |
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In the olden days of white culture, people used to look up to Kings and Princes. These were the people that they adored, and every night they wished and hoped that somehow they could wake up and be just like them. But with Royal Families crumbling, that role has been filled by one man: Mos Def.
Stuff White People Like is fah-nee. |
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| you do the silly meme now! |
[Feb. 24th, 2008|08:52 pm] |
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A) Four jobs I have had in my life:
federal government "bilingual" student receptionist, research assistant at animal welfare org w/ dogs in office (!),line cook, cooking instructor for psychiatric consumer-survivors
B) Four films I would watch over and over:
the big lebowski, apocalypse now, (??!)
C) Four places I have lived:
St. John's, Parkdale Toronto, Little Italy Toronto, Montreal for a summer (adventurous, no?)
D) Four TV shows that I (have)watch(ed) (recently - mostly from this life-changing website):
house, mr. show, mantracker, ross kemp on gangs
E) Four places I have been:
codroy valley, nl; matanzas, cuba; kew gardens, uk; peterborough, on
F) People who e-mail me (regularly):
quining, School, kayla, mad students
G) Four of my favourite foods:
broccoli, decadent ice cream, mushroom-gravy 'poutine', veg. sushi
H) Four places I would rather be right now:
prostrate in some hot-sunny oceany place, driving on an epic armed tour through the 'stans and down the volga river, at some sort of boot camp fitness farm, having tea with nan (and being portaled away afterwards)
J) Four favourite authors:
jeanette winterson, j.g. ballard, david mitchell, cormac mccarthy |
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[Feb. 23rd, 2008|05:07 pm] |
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We have identified a 16th-century Flemish Nativity painting in which one figure appears distinctly different from other individuals in the painting with an appearance of Down syndrome. This may be one of the earliest European representations of Down syndrome. The depiction is of an individual with Down syndrome as an angel. |
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| spotted |
[Feb. 15th, 2008|02:03 pm] |
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DO NOT TAKE THIS
FLYER DOWN
THERE IS A VERY
ANGRY HORNET
HIDING BEHIND IT
WHO WILL STING
YOU IN THE NECK
OH GOD SEE
THAT BULGE
RIGHT THERE
THAT'S HIM |
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| anyone want to go see this at the discount theatre by my house (east end t-dot represent)? |
[Jan. 18th, 2008|12:47 pm] |
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| | plus ca change | ] |
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| | some velvet morning - lydia lunch/nick cave | ] |
There Will Be Blood
Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, runs 158
There Will Be Blood is at once a sweeping epic about the early days (circa 1900) of the American oil industry and a claustrophobic character study of a tycoon in the making. Director Anderson freely adapts the Upton Sinclair novel Oil! into a film that's a meticulously crafted combination of Citizen Kane, The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre and Moby Dick. Yet for all its many strengths - none greater than the scenery-chewing tour-de-force performance of Daniel Day-Lewis, cinema's leading overactor, as oil baron Daniel Plainview - Blood falls short of its progenitors for its lack of a heartbeat beneath that slick, oily veneer. |
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[Oct. 11th, 2007|02:40 pm] |
A seagull in Scotland has developed the habit of stealing chips from a neighborhood shop.
The seagull waits until the shopkeeper isn't looking, and then walks into the store and grabs a snack-size bag of cheese Doritos.
Once outside, the bag gets ripped open and shared by other birds.
The seagull's shoplifting started early this month when he first swooped into the store in Aberdeen , Scotland , and helped himself to a bag of chips.
Since then, he's become a regular. He always takes the same type of chips.
Customers have begun paying for the seagull's stolen bags of chips because they think it's so funny.
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lulz. |
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| four days in the life.. |
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Требуется Бухгалтер
All because I am ejaculating the way I never have.
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[Jul. 23rd, 2007|07:33 pm] |
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a synopsis of summer so far, after some depressive wordlessness these months:
roommate r went laden with saddlebags and attached water bottles on a nine day bike trip, leaving me in charge of the garden! The sparrows are nipping off ripening strawberries before they redden, I fear, but we've already feasted on romaine and broccoli and cherry tomatoes and herbs of all sorts. today r & i split the first cucumber! watermelon is our most ambitious plant. he came back from the trip with brutal poison ivy welts.
d's back from newfoundland.
it's hit 45 celsius including the humidex, which bodes well for the heatwave forecasted this week. grizz enjoys the local 'splashpad', basically various showers and sprinklers that go in hydraulic sequence at the push of a button. very cool. literally.
WITCH:
They dressed me up like this.
CROWD:
Augh, we didn't! We didn't...
WITCH:
And this isn't my nose. It's a false one.
bikes, painting banners, frisbee, the clothing-optional beach on the island, mourning a person we never got to know. racing on & hitting side mirrors with my bike, all macholike. allthewhile nan in the background, firm believing someday i'll give up this black coffee for strong tetley with a splash of condensed milk and a sprinkle of white sugar, come to my smog-skewed senses, and come home out of it, already, and all will be well with the world and my brain again. well. that certainly was a triumph when tried, now, wasn't it?
now a's up and left to collect budworms on the west coast of the nfld and i've taken her job at the dildo farm! for some reason m.i.a. can't get into the u.s. fools.
that's about it, i spose. |
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[Jul. 10th, 2007|03:58 pm] |
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i think that tonight i will go batwatching. |
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[May. 1st, 2007|03:51 pm] |
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| | 'higher cognitive processes' lecture mp3 :( | ] |
boards of canada? check. sobering flash animation? check. |
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