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Sam

the crane wife

About Me

I like it when deers eat from my hand. I am a scientist. Also, my life is meaningless.

My Interests

Did anyone ever get the south park joke i had here? My real interests include but are not limited to the following: beating dead horses with sticks.. drunken philosophy (not to be confused with the philosophy of the drunkard).. art of various varieties with the exception of that made by people with their heads up their assholes.. Talking about books and movies until i reach a new plane of profound experiential understanding.. I am interested in many scientific fields but my true love is developmental biology, more specifically the connections between epigenetics and cell division. I am currently studying how it can be that every cell in our body has the same genetic code and yet different cells can behave in different ways.. Any experience that forces me out of my routine and forces me to look at the world in a new way therefor allowing me to find some significance in an otherwise meaningless series of coincidences.

I'd like to meet:

Other people who spent a significant portion of their life in someone's basement listening to nirvana.

Music:

The Dears, Arcade Fire, Ministry, Bauhaus, Modest Mouse, Nirvana, Amon Tobin, Built to Spill, Trail of Dead, The Pixies, Neutral Milk Hotel, Queen, Pulp, Sigur Ros, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Tool

Movies:

Capote, the kill bills, the big lebowski, midnight cowboy, une chien andalou, Bonnie and Clyde, the cook the theif his wife and her lover, Natural Born Killers, Man on the Moon, Being John Malkovich, science of sleep

Television:

24, six feet under, law and order, south park

Books:

Ok I will do an honest book section. East of Eden and the grapes of wrath by steinbeck, Anna Karenina, The wind of bird chronicle and Kafka on the shore by haruki murakami, anything by Kafka himself, especially The Kastle. Books with passionate strong females like Lady Chatterly's Lover, Jane Eyre. Anything Kurt Vonnegut, my fave is cat's cradle. A book called The Outsider by Colin Wilson that is a survey of existentialist thinking, The Wall by Sartre, the unbearable lightness of being (the movie is also great), crime and punishment, Bukowski!!!!

Heroes:

Charles Bukowski, and this guy who is a squiggle analyzer but drives a bus and drinks water in his spare time....

My Blog

Ima Nerd

I love nerdy science jokes, and these are the best I've seen. In fact I am such a nerd that if you don't understand why these are funny I will explain to you the science/math behind each one!Thanks to...
Posted by Sam on Fri, 16 Feb 2007 07:24:00 PST

Living the dream

The bukowski dream. I decided a while ago that my death will occur in a bar fight over the virtue of a woman. Last night I didn't die but I fought mini zappa for a raven haired bartender. Mini Zappa g...
Posted by Sam on Wed, 07 Feb 2007 05:12:00 PST

stain my embryos, babycakes

I'm sitting in the lab with some RNase between my legs trying to thaw it out, and behind me I hear what sounds like someone having an orgasm. Or it could just be another form of biological ecstasy.
Posted by Sam on Mon, 05 Feb 2007 11:31:00 PST

This is halloween

Or maybe bizarro Christmas. I usually love Christmas. I get to see my family, who I love and get along with in a way that most people find odd. But this past week has been, well, pretty crappy. My mom...
Posted by Sam on Tue, 26 Dec 2006 10:22:00 PST

my mom broke her shoulder

today. She was walking and she slipped. She broke the top off her ulnus and has to have surgery in the morning. Sucks.
Posted by Sam on Fri, 22 Dec 2006 05:52:00 PST

Tyra does it again!

Yesterday I left work early and got home in time to catch the talk show circuit. I do so once in a while in order to ensure I am caught up with the state of humanity, the HOTTEST decorating schemes, a...
Posted by Sam on Fri, 08 Dec 2006 04:07:00 PST

why does everything turn to shit?

One day you are happy maybe things aren't perfect but you feel like you are making the best of your life, and then suddenly the whole world seems to have gone insane.You get to work and the incubator ...
Posted by Sam on Tue, 07 Nov 2006 11:50:00 PST

sometimes

you eat the bar, and sometimes the bar eats you.in the meantime...it got so crowded on the road i started driving in the sandmy head was feeling scared but my heart was feeling freethe desert turned t...
Posted by Sam on Sat, 21 Oct 2006 03:22:00 PST

Pics from NYC

Here are the first batch. I took 3 rolls and this is the first two.http://saminnyc.shutterfly.comI opologize for how much they suck.
Posted by Sam on Fri, 06 Oct 2006 03:35:00 PST

NYC BITCHES

SO i just wrote a long ass blog and then my time ran out and it was erased.  I will just say that we have had many adventures so far and i will list them in point form 1. Met budo he rocks 2. wa...
Posted by Sam on Sat, 30 Sep 2006 08:16:00 PST