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Name: Jesse Pino
User type: Default
User ID: 69
User since: May 19, 2005
User last visit: 07:15PM on September 05
E-mail: pino@mail.utexas.edu
AIM: Pino313
Homepage: http://www.ph.utexas.edu/~pino
Bio:
U.T. Phys Grad student 2nd Year, Plasma Theory
Past Posts:
pino has posted 65 links and 56 comments on Alkaline Earth since May 19, 2005.
Recent Posts: (Select Last [10] [50] [100] [All])
2008 Sep 03 05:14 (#3985): Don Lafontaine is dead.
2008 Sep 01 10:00 (#3981): Republican Convention Schedule.
2008 Aug 19 07:58 (#3969): Colbert v. Colbert
2008 Aug 07 03:21 (#3957): Electrolysis hype.
2008 Jul 29 02:08 (#3947): XKCD-style politics.
2008 Jun 13 10:44 (#3888): Where's Sarah Connor now?
2008 Apr 05 11:54 (#3801): You can now pry the gun from his cold, dead hands.
2008 Mar 25 09:46 (#3783): Real outsourcing in India-
2008 Mar 18 06:06 (#3774): Arthur C. Clarke doesn't make it to 2010.
2007 Oct 09 09:41 (#3559): Hard drives=hard cash.
Recent Comments: (Select Last [10] [50] [100] [All])
2008 Aug 23 10:02 (#3971.11809):ok, first person to record a gospel song about pussy wins a prize.
2008 Aug 14 01:51 (#3961.11763):
Help, my head's fallen off!
2008 Aug 14 01:46 (#3963.11762):These are not the hammer.
2008 Aug 05 10:20 (#3948.11716):fivethirtyeight.com puts forward the idea that Obama may announce with national ads during the Olympics. That would be a brilliant move I think.
2008 Aug 04 12:43 (#3951.11705):Doesn't Funny bunny look like Cheney, and Chumpy like W? Read it that way and it gets even unfunnier.
2008 Jul 22 04:38 (#3936.11640):It would have been nice to see the cost and expected lives saved per year on these numbers. I'm sure that the 7 trillion number is just because noone is expected to die from wood-preserving chemicals being unlisted, but how much was actually spent would be a good thing to know.
In terms of airport security the article does a good job in stressing that the 9/11 attacks have made passengers more likely to fight back, which is a security measure that costs nothing. All of the measures that have been instituted are reactionary, but future terrorists know that thing that have been tried before are met with more resistance the next time, so likelyhood of an attack along that vector is reduced. It would also be interesting to put the annoying measures (liquids/ shoe removal) in terms of productivity-hours lost.
2008 Jul 19 03:19 (#3929.11627):I just wish they didn't call him 'fusion scientist' in the headline. It gives the rest of us a bad name. We haven't had that kind of negative publicity since Doc Ocks in Spiderman 2.
2008 May 07 11:29 (#3834.11243):This would be great with a time dimension, so we could really see how things grow.
2008 May 05 01:42 (#3832.11234):They forgot some recent stuff, like "Dick in a box" and "Lazy Sunday". I know those are songs, but they included "porcupine racetrack", which is lame. I have to say I think one of the best ones in terms of lasting power and comedy/drama is #29, the argument set to Beethoven's 5th. No words, no current events- very universal.
2008 May 01 11:37 (#3826.11222):The cuddliest thing I've eaten is roast Cuy (Guinea pig). A lot of bones, not too much meat. I like baby tako sushi, but I don't think i could eat a live one.