Whew...

[senoritafish]

I stopped by to see my dad in the hospital after work yesterday - stressful enough in itself as I'd forgotten to get back to someone who'd requested a data summary of me, I couldn't get hold of my boss all afternoon, and had a newspaper call about shark populations - I hate media calls, and oh btw, must remember to submit a media contact form! :p He told me, after a course of stronger medication than he's been taking at home, the doctor told him he's much improved and should be able to come home soon, maybe even tomorrow.

That's a relief...

So have a funny...


Where do new fake tree cell phone towers come from?



I think this one is pregnant...

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[tikistitch.livejournal.com]

Oh, gawd, LEETLE BABY CELL PHONE TOWERS!!!

Oh, did you know they make a PINK TASER FOR GIRLS? I need to post about that one too.

I HATE THE MEDIA. Yes, really. We've had a couple people over the years talk to Gus about the Star Wars stuff. We've had some real nice people, but a couple of them, "OH LOOK COLLECTORS THEY ARE WEIRD AND FUNNIEH AND LET US LAFF AT THEM!" Gah.

Hope your dad feels better....

[senoritafish.livejournal.com]

Baby cell phone towers - do they have a free-moving larval stage before they settle down as sessile adult? I wonder if they look like something else and pupate?

I have been seeing pink and floral tools at the hardware store, so a pink taser does not surprise me. Too much. :D I read somewhere about a woman who painted her chainsaw pink because the neighborhood guys kept borrowing it and never returning it. After that, the borrowing slowed way down and it was returned almost immediately when it was.

Not that I am a huge fan of pink.

Luckily, for this one, she just emailed and I pointed her to the Department's web page, and directed her to the researcher I know with the feds in La Jolla. She was welcome to call back, but said she'd gotten enough from the links I supplied.

The one time I talked to a TV reporter was after a fisherman had caught a 17' great white. Came to the office and talked to me, and the only sentence they used was the one where I'd managed to stick the word "awesome" in it about 5 times. Felt like an idiot. He also didn't bother to come until the day after when the thing was gone, and was grossed out that I'd been near/touched it.

Yes, I see the same sort of reports you mention during Anime Expo down here. And of course they find the guy with the nerdiest, most ill-fitting cosplay to show on TV as well. Or Man-Faye. Always ticks me off.

[tikistitch.livejournal.com]

One of my LJ friends actually collects pink tools (or doesn't really collect, she uses them) so I know you cna get, say, a pink chainsaw, or whatever. It just still seems extra kooky when it's a taser. Like you're a Powerpuff Girl gone wrong or something! :D

I had to talk to the media about my research a grand total of once, and it was a disaster. It was about a dietary intervention, and the dude kept confabulating it with a weight loss diet. I can't tell you how many times my colleague and I told him NO. And then we saw the news story, "GREAT NEWS IN THE BATTLE OF THE BULGE," showing a woman picking at a salad. *sigh* A lot of reporters are just sort of ... bad.