Megumi's blog

not sure what's going on...

2008-03-31T16:09:00.001-05:00

for my "real" blog, go to gumimeg.livejournal.com!

Too many web sites, soooo little time!

2006-08-23T13:03:00.000-05:00

I have recently been told that I must switch to livejournal. It's very blah right now.
gumimeg.livejournal.com

How can magnets increase fuel efficiency?

2006-05-01T07:29:00.000-05:00

Did anyone see the story in the news about "Energy cel"? Supposedly by putting magnets on your fuel intake line, you can increase the efficiency of combustion. I have a hard time understanding how this works. Any ideas?

This is the most information I could get:
http://www.energycelsystems.com/How_It_Works.html

Will the real slim shady please stand up?

2006-04-28T10:26:00.000-05:00

Palaver posted on a previous post:

Megumi, You blog entries bring Burroughs and the posttextual paradigm of discourse to mind. I thought of this because your entries reflect the work of Semioticist rationalism and cultural discourse. As you know, the main theme of Tilton’s essay on semioticist rationalism is a mythopoetical totality. It could be said that the premise of subtextual dedeconstructivism states that culture is capable of significance. Baudrillard suggests the use of Sartreist absurdity to deconstruct capitalism. Therefore, the subject is interpolated into a cultural paradigm of narrative that includes sexuality as a paradox. Debord uses the term ‘cultural discourse’ to denote the bridge between class and sexual identity. However, many discourses concerning semioticist rationalism may be found. The characteristic theme of the works of Burroughs is the absurdity, and some would say the defining characteristic, of neomaterialist society. In a sense, Porter holds that we have to choose between cultural discourse and constructive libertarianism. Your choice is obvious!

My new Do

2006-04-10T21:33:00.000-05:00

Which now has become orange from its once brilliant red :(

Habitat for Humanity, March 30 2006

2006-04-10T20:04:00.000-05:00

Streptococcus pneumoniae - the ninja bacteria

2006-04-04T14:49:00.000-05:00

Streptococcus pneumoniae is still a significant pathogen. Fifty years ago, it was thought that it could be eradiated because of antibiotics.

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dbmd/diseaseinfo/streppneum_t.htm

I am currently looking for their weak spot so that I too can snap their little necks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH7vmhLYUuI&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Faskaninja%2Ecom%2F

Be fruitful and multiply!!!

2006-04-03T10:45:00.000-05:00

See the link to the right!

' "Scientific " Creationism and the End of Modern Science' - taken from Abstracts for the MS Academy of Sciences 2006

2006-03-20T10:34:00.000-06:00

By George Phillips

Modern scienc and the scientific method are under attack, and the assault thretens centuries of advancement in reason and rationalsim. the threat to scienc and reason comes from Creationist apologetics (CA) - a growing movement among Evangelical fundamentalists holding that the Christian Bible, interpreted literally, has supremem authority over all instruction including the abillity to observe and interpret natural phenomena. CA is reaching the Christian consumer in the form of books, A/V media, WWWeb sites, "science" museums, home schools, church "educational" programs, and itinerant speakers via a familiar apologetics crusade called "scientific" creationism (SC). Although this oxymoronic institution of scriptural literalism may be of no immediate concern to the rational public mindset, SC proponents have recently found another inroad into the U.S. public school curriculum in the form of Intelligent Design (ID), an 'origins' movement claiming to be neutral on the subject of religion. Publicly, the ID movement advocates the study of design in nature without attributing design to any specific designer. However, an inquiry into 'design' necessitates contemplation of a 'designer' - i.e. a questfor supernatural explanations for natural phenomena. Although also populated by agnostics, theistic evolutionists, and those otherwise religiously neutral [bolded by me - isn't that funny!?] on origins, the ID movement is heavily supported by CA/SC advocates, who believe that all scientific inquiry should be subsumed under and interpreted through strict scriptural exegesis. Unlike modern science, CA/SC doctrinal "scienc" begins with Biblical conclustions and entertains only those facts that support inerrant scripture.

I guess I'm not so modern...

My sista'

2006-02-28T20:15:00.000-06:00

Guess which one is my sister!

Cookies

2006-02-27T13:29:00.000-06:00

You are getting dizzy...

Lab Buds

2006-02-27T13:15:00.000-06:00

These are the people I work with
Back row (L to R): Dr. McDaniel, Chinwendu Onwubiko, LaShundra Johnson, Justin Thornton, Quincy Moore
Front row (L to R): Lisa Quin, Xiangyun He, me, Stephanie Carmicle

Dessert

2005-09-09T16:29:00.000-05:00

New Post: some dessert I made that actually looks as good as it tastes