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My family used to have a few, but not anymore. We had a little Shetland pony and a few others of different breeds.

Winter is coming! Got a couple fun things planned for fall DragonCon, Sonoma Valley trip (visit aunt & uncle), Caribbean cruise (got lucky there!), Halloween, Winter Solstice funtime! Don't forget Talk Like a Pirate Day! Winter on the other hand... In my area we don't get winter, we get Fall+. It is as bad or worse than it sounds. Cold enough for snow, but not enough for it to stick. It is wet ALL the time (a few years ago we had a drought and ambient humidity of 80-90% on average). If it does snow, everyone loses their damn minds. Think Hyperbole and a Half's simple dog. "What is this magical white stuff from the sky? IS THIS THE END OF DAYS!? I'M SO HAPPY!!" EDIT: that turned me into a squirrel! yay!

I like dragonflies well enough, nothing wrong with them. This one is red! There are worse things than dragonflies. Like scorpion candy

For me it depends on how I'm feeling when I make the character. First, I usually just toss something together and beat the game. Then I pick a specific "class" I want to play around with. I usually make a few of those. Then I go for 100% everything in one run. That style depends on the game. In fallout sneak and a rifle make for a massive combat advantage. Computers and locks and speech are usually next. I don't much care for bloody mess, I like having bodies for storage and easy looting

squid: mmm, lunch starfish: those things are weird, right? dogfish: fun Of those, starfish are my favorite. They're so strange. Radial symmetry is pretty uncommon in animals.

I can appreciate your stance against meat. I still say that dissections are useful. The argument that animals are harmed by dissection is not really true. While many animals are used, most of them are waste products destined for the landfill. Some estimates place the number of animals killed for dissection around 1%. That's not to say I advocate animal abuse. Rather I believe that, when done properly, dissection helps to instill a greater understanding of and respect for our fellow beings. Hearing that all mammals begin life as female until testosterone kicks in is one thing. Seeing the transformation halfway through is something else entirely. Seeing the nerves and blood vessels in an earthworm may make you think twice before "playing" with one. After all, you have the same things yourself.

I love science of all kinds. MIT has an OpenCoureWare program where they make many of their classes available freely online. Not accredited, but you can learn the info for free. I don't think they have any marine bio, but they are a great place for general sciences. Get those bio classes under your belt before you even start. What aspects of marine biology do you like? micro-organisms? aquatic mammals? deep sea creatures? maybe just cephalopods or echinoderms.

I'm going with one year dead

Dissections are important in biology. Even if it's just earth worms. I know a doctor who did some of his cadaver work on a professor of his that died. It's a bit messed up, but it's also very important. Take fetal pigs for example. They are a by-product of the pork industry. We can use them for science or we can toss 'em. They aren't specifically harvested. Being against dissection only make sense if you are against meat, imo. I think that the discomfort from doing dissections is in itself beneficial. That's my two bits on that. I think learning styles are less important when to comes to learning. Knowing what helps you is good, but it's thought that using all of them helps you to learn the knowledge better than any one alone. Taking the same information in different ways helps to reinforce it. Knowing some techniques is more helpful. Interestingly, some classic techniques are less useful than others. Highlighting, for example, is not seen as favorably as it once was. Neither are rereading or summarizing. The cram session is frowned upon too. Spreading the learning out is good though. As are practice tests or flash cards. Anything the encourages you to pull the info out of you mind. Example flash card: integral calculus 1: the area under a curve 2: 3: 4: http://vocaroo.com/i/s0LA0WBM0mTY (audio) By putting the information in several forms and then trying to recall the answer, you can increase your ability to remember this fact.

rofl... ... ... no really, wtf? that's hilarious. What browser are you using? Is it up to date? Ditto the OS. Maybe try an alternate browser. Or delete you cookies / cache. I will defer to anyone who knows more about the forum itself, as my knowledge on that particular subject is limited also the dot is killing me

Have a botfly How about one in your eye? http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/nsfl-botfly-removal-5-year-old%E2%80%99s-eye

yum pickled lemons

I think it would be fair to say that a lot of psychology is baloney. That's not to say that there isn't a lot of good there too. But the ADD/ADHD epidemic isn't quite as bad as it is made out to be, for example. Not to belittle the disorder, but rather the over-diagnosis of it. It demeans those that actually have it. Our understanding of how the mind works hasn't really made much progress since the 19060's. Neurochemistry and brain physiology have made so much more progress. These days, it's not uncommon for a drug rep to know more about the medication a psych doctor is prescribing than the doctor prescribing it. In fact, some of the greatest advances in the field are not in the field itself, but rather the social acceptance of the field. We don't treat people with depression or mania nearly as badly as we did a decade or two ago. OCD and ADD can actually garner sympathy these days. The understanding that psychological disorders are real problems that deserve real attention and treatment is a tremendous gain. Many practitioners also have disorders themselves. Ranging from narcissism, to depressions, to general psychosis. While this does increase sympathy for patients, it is not without it's drawbacks. You may find a therapist that likes to insult her patients or a doctor willing to prescribe medicine with near fatal side-effects just to prove that he is in control of the situation. To my knowledge, there is no official study on this topic. Sadly, there is still a mentality of caveat emptor in psychology. Many times the burden of understanding, and insisting on proper treatment falls to the family or even the patient. Further, there is little in legal recourse unless there are grievous consequences. This is a very poor stance in so complex a field. Drugs are often prescribed without thought to other medications. Psychologists seem to get caught in prescribing contraindicated medicines more than other doctors. Many offices or institutions have their own procedures and are unwilling to deviate from them, regardless of the patient's needs. In some places, there is even blackballing of doctors or patients. I'm not trying to demean the field, or reduce confidence in psychologists. Rather, I'm just making some observations. Psychology has it's share of dreck, but it is getting better and better. The conventional "talk therapy" is still very effective, even on stubborn disorders. Medications are more effective than ever. Patient treatment and social acceptance are improving as well.

I'm not a big fan of tying to stick people into categories like this. Most people are a combination of them. You gotta find what works best for you. And don't be afraid to try different things. Also, you are probably your biggest enemy or ally. Just remember Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: "Don't Panic." I've seen people become literally unable to do simple addition because of stress. The Myers-Briggs... I think I change types every time I take that test

Yup I have a steampunk and a pirate as well, but that's not going to help anyone find me

I have a bomberman costume. This was the from last year.

News out of Emory is a bit scarce, but last reports say that the first person brought in is doing better day by day. The only other thing I've heard is that they ran out of experimental treatment. For whatever that's worth.