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it’s freaky and cute at the same time. like a monkey.

(3:13:18 PM) KGB1: it’s not a grunt at allll
(3:14:43 PM) dnd: lolol
(3:15:00 PM) dnd: that’s awsome
(3:15:08 PM) dnd: i can’t even make noises like that
(3:15:16 PM) KGB1: no idea what to call that
(3:16:30 PM) dnd: some sort of mating call

That’s What She Grunted [Tennis] deadspin

Gogo Taylor Rideout!

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has a five minute video interview with the baby’s parents (Brittany Rideout and Adam Bouchat) and doctors. She’s been in the hospital 80 days because she was born at only 26 weeks of gestation — that’s 14 weeks, or 3.5 months premature. She was ten inches long.

Her mother, Brittany, had strokes and other complications from the the pregnancy, forcing an early birth or face the deaths of the mom and baby. Brittany has lupus.

Taylor’s survival is a milestone for the hospital. She’s the tiniest ever to survive in its history. She’s at two pounds now and will be allowed to go home in a week or so.

the video PP-G doesn’t ~do~ embedding
the article PP-G

bad weather baaad but everything else wooooohoo!

This is my new camera. I’ve owned it for 3 hours. It’s approximately the same size as my Sony dsc-h2 and weighs a pound or three more. This guy shoots in RAW format. RAW allows fine manipulation of the image, including but not limited to: fill light, hue, exposure, vibrance, and other things not really thought about. It’s able to shoot in both RAW and .JPG at once, creating two files for easy viewing. Be still, my heart; I still need a charger, zooming lens, and lens filter.

Stats for the dorks:
Canon EOS 400D aka the ~Rebel~ xti
2.5″ viewing screen
built-in flippy flash
CF storage
Canon Lens EF 50mm (what i have for now)
10 megapixel capability
auto sensor cleaner woohoo!

Yay for craigslist.

Next on the things-i-shouldn’t-buy docket: inspired by Cam’s need for a mixer for recording, now i’m looking for one after trying to record Branwyn. Result: when hooked from the amp, there is a crazy electricity interference buzz with both the XLR and 1/4″ outputs. When Branwyn is plugged directly in, no sound gets captured. Stupid passive pickups. I’ve recorded Betsy before with a giant Phonic mixer, but i want the bumbum Branwyn packs that Betts lacks. Also, I would like to have something more compact than 16-channels.

Another way to go about it would be using an instrument microphone like an SM57. I’m wary about micing (”miking?” that looks like “viking” only lamer) when it comes to bass. If you have any ideas, shoot them my way. Or Cam’s. I guess. I GUESS. Guitar for him, bass for me, awesome for all. Barry, stop living far away goddammit.

i’m sorry.

FAR comes out June 23rd.

www.reginaspektor.org iz fan site
www.reginaspektor.com iz her real site

ROACH (Ruthless Organization Against Citizen Heroes) is a reaction to the heroes who have been popping up in the last few years. Men and women have been taking super hero aliases to be goodniks in a world of sad. Naturally, the eventual plan is for world domination. The leader of ROACH, the Potente, keeps a blog as a way of relaying news to members.

You, too, can join this taskforce against crazies in tights!

ROACH
Troubling News - The Hatchet Applies to ROACH BiA
BREAKING: The Hatchet Now In R.O.A.C.H. BiA
Meet Real-Life Supervillain Society ROACH [Citizen Evil Genius] io9

Spiders come back to life after drowning in water. Marsh-dwelling French-type wolf spiders do, that is.

In an experiment at the University of Rennes testing how long it takes spiders to drown, a surprise happened while they were letting the dead spiders dry out for dissection and whatever it is they do to dead arachnids. The original plan was to poke different types of wolf spiders while immersed in water to see if they responded. The types that responded the longest won the Stay Alive The Longest Contest — two marsh-dwelling types stayed alive longest (28 and 36 hours), over the 24 hours for the forest-dwelling types. All of them DIED so no real winners in that race.

Until.

Hours later, the spiders began twitching and were soon back on their eight feet.

“This is the first time we know of arthropods returning to life from comas after submersion,” said lead researcher Julien Pétillon, an arachnologist now at Ghent University in Belgium.

Marsh-dwelling [Arctosa] fulvolineata, which took longest to “die,” typically requires about two hours to recover, the researchers discovered.

In the wild, the species doesn’t avoid water during flooding, while the other salt marsh species generally climbs onto vegetation to avoid advancing water.

The spiders’ survival trick depends on a switch to metabolic processes—the processes that provide energy for vital functions in the body—that do not require air, the researchers speculate.

dun dun DUNNNNNN

Spider “Resurrections” Take Scientists by Surprise National Geographic
Spider “Resurrections” Take Scientists by Surprise wtf_nature