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Scientists add new letters to DNA. They created molecules X and Y that don't occur in nature and got them into the DNA of some bacteria with all the A, C, G, and T, and it took.
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Weezer's Blue Album is $5.00 on the Amazon MP3 store. (The 20th anniversary was on Saturday.) Listening to it front to back. SO GOOD.
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Just read Redshirts by John Scalzi. It bent my brain in half and I loved it.
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I have a coworker who has an audiobook of Redshirts. He listens to it on an average of once a week.
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I loved that book. I reread it the day after I finished it.Dead Cat wrote:Just read Redshirts by John Scalzi. It bent my brain in half and I loved it.
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Black Jeopardy! on SNL
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I loved the BYU shout out!Digit wrote:Black Jeopardy! on SNL
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Watching "The World Wars" on the History Channel. SO AWESOME.
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The June 2014 issue of the Ensign. There is a picture of me in the magazine. Can you guess which picture?
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My guess is the family history picture. Unless you're cheating and you're a picture of hands or something.
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I've been trying to find the version of Falcon in the Dive by Rex Smith in the Scarlet Pimpernel soundtrack all day, but Amazon and iTunes both have the wrong version in the mp3 downloads for that album. I keep seeing people say that the Terry Mann version is superior, and maybe if I were more musically inclined, I'd think so too, but since I'm not, I don't. And the one I accidentally bought sounds like the singer is bored by comparison. I guess I could buy the actual physical cd and then rip my own mp3 of the right version, but that's a lot of expense and work for a soundtrack that's not that good as a whole. Get it together, music selling places.
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No, it is not in the article about family history. It is a picture showing my face, as well as the rest of me in my Sunday suit. I'll give you a hint, I'm in a group photo.bobtheenchantedone wrote:My guess is the family history picture. Unless you're cheating and you're a picture of hands or something.
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Priesthood power article? First page?vorpal blade wrote:No, it is not in the article about family history. It is a picture showing my face, as well as the rest of me in my Sunday suit. I'll give you a hint, I'm in a group photo.bobtheenchantedone wrote:My guess is the family history picture. Unless you're cheating and you're a picture of hands or something.
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Nope. Not that one.Tally M. wrote:Priesthood power article? First page?vorpal blade wrote:No, it is not in the article about family history. It is a picture showing my face, as well as the rest of me in my Sunday suit. I'll give you a hint, I'm in a group photo.bobtheenchantedone wrote:My guess is the family history picture. Unless you're cheating and you're a picture of hands or something.
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Jim Carrey's Graduation Speech to the Class of 2014 at Maharishi University. I wonder what the accounting majors thought of it.
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Wow, I have a hard time imagining a better version than the Terrence Mann one, but I haven't heard the Rex Smith one, so now I'm curious to hear it, too.UffishThought wrote:I've been trying to find the version of Falcon in the Dive by Rex Smith in the Scarlet Pimpernel soundtrack all day, but Amazon and iTunes both have the wrong version in the mp3 downloads for that album. I keep seeing people say that the Terry Mann version is superior, and maybe if I were more musically inclined, I'd think so too, but since I'm not, I don't. And the one I accidentally bought sounds like the singer is bored by comparison. I guess I could buy the actual physical cd and then rip my own mp3 of the right version, but that's a lot of expense and work for a soundtrack that's not that good as a whole. Get it together, music selling places.
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This is the closest I can find. http://youtu.be/vbwNQc2qhJY?t=2m31s It's very live. And I don't think he was AS shouty in the version I used to have, but there was still a bit.Katya wrote:Wow, I have a hard time imagining a better version than the Terrence Mann one, but I haven't heard the Rex Smith one, so now I'm curious to hear it, too.UffishThought wrote:I've been trying to find the version of Falcon in the Dive by Rex Smith in the Scarlet Pimpernel soundtrack all day, but Amazon and iTunes both have the wrong version in the mp3 downloads for that album. I keep seeing people say that the Terry Mann version is superior, and maybe if I were more musically inclined, I'd think so too, but since I'm not, I don't. And the one I accidentally bought sounds like the singer is bored by comparison. I guess I could buy the actual physical cd and then rip my own mp3 of the right version, but that's a lot of expense and work for a soundtrack that's not that good as a whole. Get it together, music selling places.
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Oh, I read "Falcon in the Dive," but for some reason I was thinking "Where's the Girl" (which is the one I can't imagine better than Mann's). Smith's version of "Falcon" is very different from Mann's, but I like it, too.UffishThought wrote:This is the closest I can find. http://youtu.be/vbwNQc2qhJY?t=2m31s It's very live. And I don't think he was AS shouty in the version I used to have, but there was still a bit.Katya wrote:Wow, I have a hard time imagining a better version than the Terrence Mann one, but I haven't heard the Rex Smith one, so now I'm curious to hear it, too.UffishThought wrote:I've been trying to find the version of Falcon in the Dive by Rex Smith in the Scarlet Pimpernel soundtrack all day, but Amazon and iTunes both have the wrong version in the mp3 downloads for that album. I keep seeing people say that the Terry Mann version is superior, and maybe if I were more musically inclined, I'd think so too, but since I'm not, I don't. And the one I accidentally bought sounds like the singer is bored by comparison. I guess I could buy the actual physical cd and then rip my own mp3 of the right version, but that's a lot of expense and work for a soundtrack that's not that good as a whole. Get it together, music selling places.
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Finally reading The Bell Jar. It's a hobby of mine to fantasize about what reviews of a book I might write would say. Being compared to this book would be the best thing that could happen.
“I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor, and another fig was Europe and Africa and South America, and another fig was Constantin and Socrates and Attila and a pack of other lovers with queer names and offbeat professions, and another fig was an Olympic lady crew champion, and beyond and above these figs were many more figs I couldn't quite make out. I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.”