i'm a business.. man.

Words can't begin to describe how I felt about the sopranos finale..

WTF comes to mind.

Then Oz.. but at least Oz had an ending, this was just left open for so many interpretations..

1) Bobby and The boat:  Bobby said before you die you probably don't even hear it coming.  The screen went blank and everything was mute, did Tony get capped?

2) Nothing, this was just an end scene showcasing a change in the life of everyone except for Tony who still has to look over his shoulder wherever he may go.

3) It's what you make it to be, maybe the whole family got wacked and Meadow just happened to walk in on it.

4) Chase is a lazy fucking bastard who doesn't deserve to make another series again.

Yeah, I know Chase originally planned for it to only be 12 episodes but HBO pushed him and pushed him to make more so he did.  I don't really blame him for the quality, because it was still better than most shit on tv, but the last two seasons compared to the first two were absolute shit.  Everyone went emo on the fucking show, and this last episode was a huge fucking let down.  AJ talking about bush and then wanting to join the fucking army, like what the fuck? 

This entire episode made no sense, especially if Tony was supposed to get wacked at the end.  I mean Phil's guys seemed to have lost confidence in Phil and didn't really give two fucks if he got killed saying "you gotta do what you gotta do"

I was surprised that Paulie made it this far, I thought maybe he would have died or something.  His whole confrontation with the cat was funny, I now call my cats "snakes with fur." 

Damn, the sopranos is on tonight.. as I said earlier this week I hope its a good episode and nothing lame.  Also John from Cincinnati premieres tonight, that seems like it isg oing to be pretty interesting, from the guy who did deadwood and nypd blue, so tune in as well, it is on right after the sopranos, but no entourage this week :(

Other than that I start my job tomorrow, sort of nervous, don't really know what to expect, first real day of work ever since I can't exactly call working at a stadium, nor landscaping an office job.  I'll post more about it tomorrow.

It is a sunday so I'm going to continue ironing and being lazy and watching this bush league racing on abc (all these retarded rules about using boosts and certain tires a certain amount of the time and the allowance of shortcuts, wtf!)

So.. only a few more days until I start my job.  I'm really looking forward to it, hopefully it's fun, I don't really care too much about the difficulty because as time goes on it will change.  I've been doing a whole lot of nothing this week just playing wow and spending money.

Speaking of which I went to the outlet mall here and bought some dress shirts, ended up getting some for $30 (was 50% off so) I bought 4 of those and then I went to the dockers outlet and bought some pants, sumbitches were $39.. what kind of outlet is this!  Anyways I got 4 pairs of those as well.. I also had to pick up some dr. scholls gellins son, because i gotta be gellin like magellan.. yeah, that was lame, but i love those commercials.

in other news, my wow doesn't work anymore.. i had a big problem with the fps since the patch and they've released some hotfixes that have done nothing but make the problem worse rather than better like they said it would.. oh well.  not really gonna play as much so maybe it'll be fixed when I finally do get to play it on the weekends.


at least i'm not paris!

Paris back to jail..

Yay.


Although this is sort of not even newsworthy imo, it is better than anna nicole and that retarded drug triangle, because everyone except the fucking retards knew that she was on drugs and somehow the media kept portraying her as an innocent human being rather than the druggie slut that she was.  Yeah, I'm a tad mad that all of this even makes national news coverage, they fucking interrupted my 12:00 news to say that she was going back to jail, fuck that, feed me real news about the shit going on around here.


Lady on msnbc just said that its not really fair because the services in prison for people with problems aren't that good. WELL BOO FUCKING HOO, YOU SEND FUCKING CRAZY PEOPLE THERE EVERY FUCKING DAY AND ITS FINE FOR THEM, yet you send some random fucking druggie party goer there and suddenly its not good enough for her?  Maybe we should re-evaluate our policies on people with problems.


Bart loves nancy grace, that is all.

Ohhhhhhhh what a lovely day it is to be a celeb.  Damn, these guys get such crazy treatment is ridiculous.  So I guess I can drive drunk twice, and then get caught with a suspended license and then show up to court late on numerous occasions and only end up with 45 days in jail only to have that lessened not once, but damn near have it fucking commuted.  WTF.  Paris somehow has a medical problem all of a sudden that prevents her from being in prison?  Sure, I really believe that.

[09:30] (jhadagar) He said privacy rules prohibited him from giving details about the medical issues, but celebrity Web site TMZ.com earlier quoted sources saying Hilton was refusing to eat much of the jail food served her.
[09:30] (jhadagar) so like
[09:30] (jhadagar) if i refuse to eat in jail i can get out ?
[09:30] (plishin) only if you're, uh.. well.. i was going to say attractive
[09:30] (plishin) let's say "a celebrity"
[09:31] (plishin) but i do concur, jail food is terrible
[09:31] (plishin) but that's why it's JAIL and not VACATION
[09:31] (jhadagar) well yea, thats why its jail as opposed to say, olive garden

How the fuck does this hunger strike work for her, but for not other inmates.  Fuck off, that is about as retarded as it gets. 


Let us look at recent events as well, when Jacko showed up to court late, it was cool.  Any of us show up to court late, we're going to be hangin with the fellas in jail.  No if's and's or buts about it, we're goin to the bighouse for contempt of court.  You know what else is fucked, Lindsay fucking Lohan.  What the fuck is with this broad, she can get in like 30 accidents, still have a god damn license and then all of a sudden drive around all coked up and hit something like a fucking curb, flee the fucking scene and get caught with over a few ounces of cocaine in her car and nothing happens.  Jesus, that happens to me, I'm going to jail for life for trafficking, you fucking know it.


Take note folks, if you want to be a drug dealer you better have millions upon millions behind you and a couple oscars wouldn't hurt as well!

Just another uneventful day, it was actually pretty cool here today which is really unlike vegas.  The last few days it was like 95-105, hotter than shit, and my parents hate using the a/c since they'd rather use fans, but today was a welcome relief.

Anyways, I got a couple more days off before I start my job so I've been playing WoW like all day.. I'm doing what I did when I played counterstrike on my ollllllllld ass computer, while waiting for crap I'll do some situps / pushups, trying to get back into shape.  This worked great for counterstrike since it always took like 2-3 minutes to load the map, yeah, it was a shit computer, but now whenever I complete a quest I just do 1x25 pushups and 20 reps of my little modified situps (bounce a ball off the wall and catch it, twist to your left and touch the ball on the ground and twist to the right and touch it on the ground and then do a reg situp.)  This worked well for me back in high school, we used to do sets of it in between exercises with a medicine ball, but I'm using one of those cheap kids play balls.

In other news, i got this strange rash on my hand, yeah.. strange place to be writing about it.  My mom thinks it has something to do with my Reynaud's, because I've lost circulation in this hand before, but I thought Reynaud's only has to do with cold weather, maybe I'm wrong, because I'm pretty ignorant on the whole thing.


Yeah, this is also a tad late, but I was watching parts of traveler and then got turned onto the daily show and colbert so I was late :(

Damn, I had some journal written up and semagic lost it.  The entry was about the Sopranos and the 2nd to last episode they had on sunday.  So the episode went like this, people got shot, two of the big name people, no not tony, but silvio and bobby.  This whole season has been about people getting wacked, moreso than the last which it just ended with Tony running when the fed's invaded John's house.  Basically everyone that's gotten killed this season, outside of Chris, has had some relation to Phil, the head of the New York family.  None of this has settled too well with Phil who was, before this season, a man who really didn't retaliate and would rather talk things over rather than resort to violence.  This season this has all changed though, the guy has snapped and so rather than talk things over after Tony stomped one of his boys in (like in American History X, the curb stomp.  He did this after the guy approached his (Tony's) daughter while she was on a date making sexual references and the such) he went over the edge and decided it was time for all of this to come to an end.

So this is where this episode started, Phil is basically ordering his men to kill off the top 3 members of the Soprano family including Tony, Silvio and Bobby.  Tony gets wind of this from an FBI agent he speaks to regarding some Arabs and who once were on detail following Tony himself.  So Tony warns his guys and everyone gets word except for Bobby, Bobby ends up getting caught in a hobby store where he is buying some $8000 train set.  The guys come up on him and unload like 15 rounds into him.  To tell you the truth, I hated this guy.  His character was the stereotypical wannabe nice guy, the guy killed his first person like 3 episodes back and it was some random reject in a laundry room in Canada, needless to say he's soft.  So then after that scene happens they go and follow Silvio who was just packing up all of his things at the Ba-da-bing, a strip club.  Once Silvio starts to head out the parking lot the two dudes show up and end up blocking him in, they hit him like 3x, nothing mortal, he survives that shooting long enough to die in the hospital.


The episode ends with Tony hiding in a house with an assault rifle, somewhat reminiscent of the ending of Scarface.  I just hope they don't fuck up the ending of this series like they did with Oz.  Oz was a major disappointment, anthrax in the mailroom after all those seasons, wtf?   I mean damn, they survived a bombing, crazy drugs, some guy trapped in a wall and a naked luke perry, but they can't survive some anthrax in the god damn mailroom?

Read an article just now by some guy with a nifty comb-over.



First off, people still look all bummy like this?  I'd say judging from his looks he's not qualified to speak on anything, yeah fuck him..  So what did Mr. Comb Over have to say in his article:

Is UFC a sport or not a sport?
The so-called sport of ultimate fighting, which is little more than glorified street fighting...

It's a "so-called sport", yet, when you break all these disciplines up back into Judo, Wrestling, Boxing, Jiu Jitsu, etc.. they are sports, so what the fuck is the deal when you combine them all?  I mean fuck, Judo, Wrestling and Boxing are in the olympics and Jiu Jitsu is well on its way, Muay Thai has been known as a sport for forever.. so how the fuck is this a "so-called" sport.  As for glorified street fighting, no, this has rules.  A street fight is anything goes, I mean last I checked you can't punch or kick someone in the nuts, or gouge eyes, or bring a god damn trash can into the mix (maybe he should go check the WWE, yeah its fake, but it has more street fighting in it than MMA).

Here's what UFC fans have in common:

A. They're mostly Neanderthal males hiding in caves.

Wow, I'm a Neanderthal living in a god damn cave.  Last I checked a Neanderthal means many things, but I am not boorish or insensitive, so maybe I'm a different species of Genus Homo living in Europe or west Asia.. no.  It doesn't fit.  WRONG

B. They're not nearly sophisticated enough to appreciate the sweet science of boxing, nor the infield fly rule, the pick-and-roll, the left-wing lock, the bump draft or the pulling right guard.

You're right, I can't stand watching a 12 round hug fest, but appreciating the infield fly rule, what is there to appreciate?  The pick and roll, yeah I know the pick and roll all too well, I do appreciate it since the T'Wolves almost put the lakers out with it a couple years ago, and Stockton and Malone perfected that as well.. Yeah I don't appreciate it.  The bump draft, maybe, but I am starting to like watching F1, Nascar, no way.. those guys go too slow.  Wrong here again.

C. They still think the "Flintstones" is a documentary.

I wish the Jetson's was.  WTF is the point of this line?

The macho world of mixed martial arts is a disturbing trend in sports programming, which, unfortunately, might get much worse before it gets better. It often attracts higher ratings than both NBA and Major League Baseball postseason games among the coveted 18-to-34 male demographic.

Maybe because those two sports have a big problem.  The NBA is too damn big now, you got struggling teams and teams tanking just to get a draft pick (see: Celtics, Bucks and Grizzlies).  You have a commissioner who is power hungry, who doesn't know the definition of consistency (see: kobe bryant's mysterious flopping and his subsequent suspension and then watch lebron do the same thing in the playoffs...) or maybe he's just a powertripping egomaniac, I don't know if you even saw the Suns series and how the Suns were ruined when Amare got put out for that weak weak call.. Yes It was in the rules, but you've changed the rules before.  As for Baseball, steroids have cost baseball all credibility, not really much else you can say.  At least all of the MMA organizations that fight in the US test for these kind of drugs, you know maybe something these other SPORTS should do.

Now there is more to the walking comb-over's argument but I've said enough

You know what really chaps my ass.. game companies.  Lazy fucking game companies, who create a game and then basically just throw it out there.

Yes, I know the game industry is split between developers and publishers and all that, but for the sake of this argument lets forget about that because I am going to be bitching about Electronic Arts and Blizzard.  Why are these two lazy?  They put out crazy games and then let them go to shit with one of the following, a) they didn't really test it before putting it out b) they made it too easy c) its just full of bugs or d) all of the above.  These two companies usually choose option d as their method of terrorizing the game industry.

Let us take EA, the first two series of games that come to mind, Battlefield and Madden NFL.  What a fucking travesty Battlefield is, it started off ok, it was really their first venture into a large scale FPS (at least they didn't make it into WWII Online).  It was okay starting it, had some decent support, fun game.  Then out comes Desert Combat, a modification for it, which basically blows it to shreds.  Now what does EA do with this?  They take that little company over and basically repackage Desert Combat as Battlefield 2.  This wouldn't be so fucking bad if it was actually somewhat playable (Yes it was actually playable but the numerous bugs and graphics problems made it annoying to play).  There were various bugs in the game, weapons not doing the damage they should, weapons not doing what they should, etc.  But the big problem on it was the load time, if you changed settings be prepared for an hour of reloading, because EA never wants you to change settings.  God help you if you ever wanted to tweak things, it'd go bad.  On to Madden, I don't really hate them for this, but to me Madden is more of an arcade football game, and it will never be what NFL 2K was and rather than face competition like a man, they just bought the NFL License so no one else could ever use it.  What a bitch way out.  So they put out this soft game that "hardcore" fans like, apparently I'm not one of them because I don't like it.  Anyways EA always seems to take the easy way out and this is why they are lazy.


On to blizzard.  My first Blizzard game I played was the Lost Vikings, I'm too young to remember what the fuck was bad in this game, but I'm sure there was something.  The next game was the original Diablo.  I didn't really have a chance to play this on the computer but I got the PSX version instead.  It was the 2nd game to ever scare me, yeah, it scared me.  The first was Night Trap on the Sega CD, why Night Trap?  Because I played it with my retarded cousin and he'd always keep telling me that someone was gonna invade the house and rape us.. Yeah, not a fun thing playing that game.  I dabbled in the original Warcraft games, nothing exactly wrong with them, I'm sure some lore monkey would like to fight me on this.  Then my favorite game came out, Diablo II.  What a game this was, 4 acts, with 3-6 missions in each, with 3 difficulty levels and a fucking level where you get to kill cows HOW FUCKING AWESOME.  Low and behold, they release an expansion $29 for another act and 6 missions and two new classes, the druid and the assassin.  Ballin, I get to set traps for chumps now and I can switch into a werebear and maul people.  I really didn't like either class, the assassin was cool, but the druid was extremely weak at that time, except if you went heavy into shapeshifting and had some crazy gear.  I had a lightning / orb sorc, this thing was a beast.  The best thing at this time was to go around in the cow level and kill fucking cows on hell, yeah, die you evil bovine bastards.  So I killed them cows like crazy, but low and behold this was all killed off with the addition of patch 1.10. Damn Synergies.  There was no way to change your character once you made a choice, so I had a level 94 sorceress that was just worthless.   So I stopped playing.  On comes World of Warcraft.  This game is a lot of fun, but the problems always come when they implement a patch, they call it balance, I call it bullshit.  With this balance they always seem to make a class either absolutely weak or just extremely overpowered, there is never any balance.  On top of these balance changes, they always do some random change which results in a retarded drop in FPS.  They deny that a change has taken place until there is damn near a mutiny on the tech support forums and they finally look into it.  Rather than test their products before release, blizzard just releases them and lets us test it for them, no not the PTR, how dare you call that a testing area, that is just for fun, no one really tests shit there.


I'm a tad tipsy, so maybe some of this made no sense, just rambling.

This has been part 3 of my 30 part series BETTER KNOW A DISTRICT, aka 30-in-30.

It's 9:58 and the day has gone kind of strange.

I woke up just hoping that the good ol' boys at federal express would have already shown up with my paperwork for work.  Yeah, I just got my first job out of college working at this place called Gaming Laboratories International (http://www.gaminglabs.com/) as a Test Engineer.  I get my own cubicle apparently with a slot machine and I have to check the payout system to make sure its correct and do some math to make sure it all adds up, sounds pretty cool if you ask me. 

As I was saying before I got off track, I was waiting for my paperwork to show up, and then I had to call the head HR guy and tell him that I accepted the job (which I already told him I would).  Deep in the back of my mind I thought this was a joke someone was playing on me, because damn $40,000, that is a lot of god damn money to me. Neither of my parents have ever made that much, only when combined with some random gambling winnings have they made more than that, yet somehow with Enron magic they've managed to make it appear and feel as if we were well off.   This new job puts me in the ever so awkward position of  "I'm 22 and I'm making more than you ever did at any age".  I feel kind of bad now, however my parents are excited though, but I can't help but feel that it is just a facade.

Back to my day, the package finally came at like 2 this afternoon. It was hotter than a pancake.. yeah, a pancake.  So I opened it up and there were like 30 pages that I had to fill out (I only filled out like 1 page of info when I worked at the baseball stadium, that was all the tax shit).  So I called the head HR dude up, he congratulated me and all that and told me that I would start work the 11th.  Boo, I say.  I want and need money now, so I can get a BRAND NEW CAR.

Speaking of which, I have no idea what the hell to get.  I've been looking at a lot of cars, I really want a Subaru WRX STi, but the insurance on that is going to be a pretty penny.  I have been looking at maybe getting a Lancer, no not the Evo, but the new Lancers.  It has a lot of nice features, including the paddle shifting which always interested me when I first saw it in the BMW M3s.  I honestly just have no clue, gas is a bitch right now, 3.30+ isn't fun and I don't want to get a gas guzzling pos..

I get sidetracked a lot, it is 11:02 now!

ok.. so I have lost all faith in this country.

our country has turned into bullshit in what seems like over night (yes it was fucked before, but some of you, like me never thought it would be like this).  we don't care about our own citizens.  the south is god damned destroyed and bush and his people are taking the role of the iraqi minister of inofmartion to new heights... "we dropped food, water, etc.."

WHERE IS THIS SAID FOOD?

our politicians are sack-less wonders... they'll all have an overnight session to try and save AN ALREADY BRAIN DEAD PERSON, just one god damned person, but it took them 4 days and i believe is still taking them time to fucking approve aid to save thousands upon thousands of people.

WHERE THE FUCK ARE YOUR PRIORITIES, WITH SOME UGLY, BRAIN DEAD BITCH IN FLORIDA ? WHO HAS BEEN BRAIN DEAD FOR YEARS ?

You know I've started to hate Kanye West over the last year since hes become an arrogant asswipe, but he hit the nail on the head last night, with one minor change.  He stated, "George Bush doesn't care about black people..." no let us get this straight OUR GOVERNMENT DOESN'T CARE ABOUT ANY OF OUR CITIZENS.. oh yes, but we can help thousands and millions of tsunami victims in a day response and pass emergency legislation to save a god damn brain dead cunt.

BUT WE CAN'T SAVE OUR OWN COUNTRY.


AMERICA WAKE THE FUCK UP. 

Our politicians are too busy sucking each other off and watching monty python to care, some of the media is feeding lies just like our government is, its time we all wake the fuck up and do something.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050903/D8CCNBNO0.html
http://www.slate.com/id/2125581/?nav=tap3
http://www.cnn.com/video/player/player.html?url=/video/bestoftv/2005/09/02/cooper.katrina.landrieu.cnn
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0509/01/acd.01.html

wtf
communist pigs.


i couldnt use my internet thismorning until i voted in the communist elections..

fucking wack

ah yes.. insomnia...

how great it is.

A message to those who trapped us up, from federal guys who backed them up
We never will die, we black and tough, lead in your eye, we strapped to bust
Half of us been locked up inside the beast, look at the time we see
Brooklyn to Compton streets, Queens, even the Congo needs dreams
Our bullets and triggers our enemies pullin' on innocent women and children
It wasn't no ghetto killers who mixed up the coke and put guns in our buildings
But I'm not gon' cry, and I'm not gon' stand just watch you die
I'ma pass you a .9, I'ma grab your hand -- come on let's ride
A message to those who killed the king, who murdered the Christ
The same regime, what God has built you never can break
What God has loved you never can hate, man makes rules and laws
You just a ruthless dog, your kennel is waiting
You devils will run back into the caves you came from
Whenever that day comes, forty-acres, plantations, see every race won
Sincerely yours, Street's Disciple, revelations

hey duke, you can run but you cant hide...

you know who the fuck you is... this is motherfuckin thane... you little bitch, man the fuck up for get the slapped the fuck up.

tryin to sell your house, tellin the paper you resigned... you fuckin ball-less bitch...

Jealousy's for women, but some niggas is bitch made
They make you wanna run across they're head with a switch blade

Animal-Human Hybrids Spark Controversy
Maryann Mott
National Geographic News
January 25, 2005

Scientists have begun blurring the line between human and animal by producing chimeras—a hybrid creature that's part human, part animal.

Chinese scientists at the Shanghai Second Medical University in 2003 successfully fused human cells with rabbit eggs. The embryos were reportedly the first human-animal chimeras successfully created. They were allowed to develop for several days in a laboratory dish before the scientists destroyed the embryos to harvest their stem cells.

In Minnesota last year researchers at the Mayo Clinic created pigs with human blood flowing through their bodies.

And at Stanford University in California an experiment might be done later this year to create mice with human brains.

Scientists feel that, the more humanlike the animal, the better research model it makes for testing drugs or possibly growing "spare parts," such as livers, to transplant into humans.

Watching how human cells mature and interact in a living creature may also lead to the discoveries of new medical treatments.

But creating human-animal chimeras—named after a monster in Greek mythology that had a lion's head, goat's body, and serpent's tail—has raised troubling questions: What new subhuman combination should be produced and for what purpose? At what point would it be considered human? And what rights, if any, should it have?

There are currently no U.S. federal laws that address these issues.

Ethical Guidelines

The National Academy of Sciences, which advises the U.S. government, has been studying the issue. In March it plans to present voluntary ethical guidelines for researchers.

A chimera is a mixture of two or more species in one body. Not all are considered troubling, though.

For example, faulty human heart valves are routinely replaced with ones taken from cows and pigs. The surgery—which makes the recipient a human-animal chimera—is widely accepted. And for years scientists have added human genes to bacteria and farm animals.

What's caused the uproar is the mixing of human stem cells with embryonic animals to create new species.

Biotechnology activist Jeremy Rifkin is opposed to crossing species boundaries, because he believes animals have the right to exist without being tampered with or crossed with another species.

He concedes that these studies would lead to some medical breakthroughs. Still, they should not be done.

"There are other ways to advance medicine and human health besides going out into the strange, brave new world of chimeric animals," Rifkin said, adding that sophisticated computer models can substitute for experimentation on live animals.

"One doesn't have to be religious or into animal rights to think this doesn't make sense," he continued. "It's the scientists who want to do this. They've now gone over the edge into the pathological domain."

David Magnus, director of the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics at Stanford University, believes the real worry is whether or not chimeras will be put to uses that are problematic, risky, or dangerous.

Human Born to Mice Parents?

For example, an experiment that would raise concerns, he said, is genetically engineering mice to produce human sperm and eggs, then doing in vitro fertilization to produce a child whose parents are a pair of mice.

"Most people would find that problematic," Magnus said, "but those uses are bizarre and not, to the best of my knowledge, anything that anybody is remotely contemplating. Most uses of chimeras are actually much more relevant to practical concerns."

Last year Canada passed the Assisted Human Reproduction Act, which bans chimeras. Specifically, it prohibits transferring a nonhuman cell into a human embryo and putting human cells into a nonhuman embryo.

Cynthia Cohen is a member of Canada's Stem Cell Oversight Committee, which oversees research protocols to ensure they are in accordance with the new guidelines.

She believes a ban should also be put into place in the U.S.

Creating chimeras, she said, by mixing human and animal gametes (sperms and eggs) or transferring reproductive cells, diminishes human dignity.

"It would deny that there is something distinctive and valuable about human beings that ought to be honored and protected," said Cohen, who is also the senior research fellow at Georgetown University's Kennedy Institute of Ethics in Washington, D.C.

But, she noted, the wording on such a ban needs to be developed carefully. It shouldn't outlaw ethical and legitimate experiments—such as transferring a limited number of adult human stem cells into animal embryos in order to learn how they proliferate and grow during the prenatal period.

Irv Weissman, director of Stanford University's Institute of Cancer/Stem Cell Biology and Medicine in California, is against a ban in the United States.

"Anybody who puts their own moral guidance in the way of this biomedical science, where they want to impose their will—not just be part of an argument—if that leads to a ban or moratorium. … they are stopping research that would save human lives," he said.

Mice With Human Brains

Weissman has already created mice with brains that are about one percent human.

Later this year he may conduct another experiment where the mice have 100 percent human brains. This would be done, he said, by injecting human neurons into the brains of embryonic mice.

Before being born, the mice would be killed and dissected to see if the architecture of a human brain had formed. If it did, he'd look for traces of human cognitive behavior.

Weissman said he's not a mad scientist trying to create a human in an animal body. He hopes the experiment leads to a better understanding of how the brain works, which would be useful in treating diseases like Alzheimer's or Parkinson's disease.

The test has not yet begun. Weissman is waiting to read the National Academy's report, due out in March.

William Cheshire, associate professor of neurology at the Mayo Clinic's Jacksonville, Florida, branch, feels that combining human and animal neurons is problematic.

"This is unexplored biologic territory," he said. "Whatever moral threshold of human neural development we might choose to set as the limit for such an experiment, there would be a considerable risk of exceeding that limit before it could be recognized."

Cheshire supports research that combines human and animal cells to study cellular function. As an undergraduate he participated in research that fused human and mouse cells.

But where he draws the ethical line is on research that would destroy a human embryo to obtain cells, or research that would create an organism that is partly human and partly animal.

"We must be cautious not to violate the integrity of humanity or of animal life over which we have a stewardship responsibility," said Cheshire, a member of Christian Medical and Dental Associations. "Research projects that create human-animal chimeras risk disturbing fragile ecosystems, endanger health, and affront species integrity."

Don't Miss a Discovery

[Verse 1]
She was on her way to becoming a college graduate
Wouldn't even stop to talk to the average kid
The type of latina I'd sit and contemplate marriage with
Fuck the horse and carriage shit, her love was never for hire
Disciplined, intellectual beauty's what I desire
Flyer than Salma Hayek or Jennifer Lopez
Everyone told me, kickin' it to her was hopeless
At first I just thought, she didn't mess with broke kids
The thug niggaz always talking about, how they smoke kids
But the rich-sniff-coke kids got no play
"I'm not even interested" is what her body language would say
Everyone around the way, gave up trying to get in it
It didn't matter how good your game was, she wasn't with it
On the block, bitches was jealous, but wouldn't admit it
Talk shit, and deny to everyone that they did it
'Cause they regreted the long list of niggaz that they let hit it
And no one ever gave them shit except McDonald's and did-dick
Smoking weed with thoughts of envy, whenever they lit it
She smoked intelligently and they bit it, always trying to copy
But when they tried to use her vocab, they sounded sloppy
She had a style, all her own, respectful and pure
I was sick in the head for her, and there wasn't a cure

[Hook - Jean Grae]
Don't you know that, time waits for no man
Not fate, it's all planned
I'm blessed just to know you
I've loved and I've lost just to hold you all night
Can't find, a reason why
God came, to you and I
If I had the chance again, I'd never let you go
Hold tight to your love, 'cause you never know

[Verse 2]
Her eyes are brown and beautiful, yet empty and sad
I used to talk to her occasionally, and she was glad
That I wasn't just another nigga trying to get in it
So every now and then we'd stop and talk for a minute
I didn't have a gimmick so the minutes turned to hours
On her birthday, I gave her a poem with flowers
Then I took her out to dinner after her cousin's baby shower
We talked about, power to the people and such
We spent more time together but it was never enough
I never tried to sneak a touch, or even cop a feel
I was too interested, in keeping it real
Perfectly honest and complete, she would always call me "carino,"
And never Technique, bought me a new book to read every 2 or 3 weeks
Forever changing the expression of my thoughts when I speak
It was because of her, I even deaded all of my freaks
She convinced me, to stop hangin' out on the streets
To stop robbin' and stealin', from people like you
Instead I took her out to the Apollo and the Bronxu
We sailed in Barrio (?) and the Metropolitan too
Got to the point when I was either with her or my crew
So I decided one day, to tell her my feelings was true
I couldn't live without her so I told her, facing my fears
But honey's only response, was a face full of tears
She could only sob hysterically, holding me tight
I tried to speak, but she wouldn't stop until I left sight
I felt like a moth who got himself too close to the light
Except I didn't burn, I turned cold after that night

[Hook]

[Verse 3]
I went on with my life, college and my career
Ended up locked up like an animal for a year
Where the C.O.'s talk to you like they were the overseer
Then I got sent to the hole, when my exit was near
At night in my cell, I'd close my eyes and I'd see her
Hold her close in my dreams, but when I woke she disappeared
Just an empty cell until the state gave me parole in the summer
came back, in tact and on track
But the fact of the matter, is I still felt cold
Even after my mother, hugged me, cryin' at home
My real niggaz would catch me thinkin', out of my zone
Fuckin' lots of different women, but I still felt alone
Relatively well-known around the New York underground
But I kept thinking of her and how we used to be down
The sound of her voice, and the beautiful smell of her hair
Though gone physically, somehow it was still there
I had to do something, because the shit was too much to bear
So I went and visited the building where she used to live
The world looks a lot different after you do a bid
The way your life done changed
While primitive minds (are) still stuck in the same game
Like her cousin who was on the corner slangin' cocaine
Stepped in the lobby and tapped the button next to her last name
Her mom buzzed me up and hugged me up, like a mother oughta
But her facial expression changed, when I asked about her daughter

[Hook]

[Verse 4]
She told me that there was a note for me, that was left behind
She had left it there waiting, for such a long time
I was inclined to ask about it but she brought it up first
I saw a tear swelling up in her eye, and then she cursed
She told me where the letter was and I started thinking the worst
Reversed my position, stepped over and opened the door
And sure enough there was an envelope with my name on the floor
"Nobody loves you more than me carino" is what the letter said

"By the time you get to read this, I'll probably be dead
But when you left in '97 a part of me went to Heaven
I thank God at least I got to know what love really was
But it hurt me, to see what true love really does
'Cause even though we never made love, you were all that there was
It was because I loved you so much that I had to make you leave
You made me doubt the way I thought, you made me want to believe
And then I slipped up, and I let you get close to me
It was hard to not be openly when people spoke to me
This was not the way I thought my life was supposed to be
Baby don't you see, I had a blood transfusion that left me with HIV
Hoped the end exists for me since late in 1993
I died a virgin, I wish I could've given myself to you
I cried in the hospital because there was no one else but you
Promise that you'll meet me in paradise inevitably
No matter what, I'll keep your love forever with me"

What happened for the rest of the day is still a blur
But I remember wishing that I was dead, instead of her
She was buried on August 3rd
The story ends without a sequel
And now you know why Technique, don't fucking fall in love with people
Hold the person that you love closely if they're next to you
The one you love, not the person that'll simply have sex with you
Appreciate them to the fullest extent, and then beyond
'Cause you never really know what you got, until it's gone

so uh.. fuck this shit... i failed my accounting test... 57%.. hey im within two standard deviations... i should pass !  all jokes aside, i studied for that test, and i studied hard (no homo).. god that dipset speak is catchin up to me.. damn them bastards..  anyways, im feelin like a pimp lately *brushes his shoulder off*  and ima try and get at this girl in my german class... damn, shes got a nice ass body, and for my people that live in the hood, she has a nice ass (especially for a white girl)...

anyways, someone said "im the most ungrateful person in the world"  you know who you are, lurking on here... act like i'm not grateful for shit... please, thane is gratfeful for everything.. act like i don't take care of my people... shit is ridiculous man... i help mother fuckers out and they say im ungrateful... i look out for them... and im ungrateful. they say im ruinin my life.. fuck that.. im tired of that shit... you know... i know people care about me, and I appreciate that shit, but sometimes people go overboard and smother me with shit...

hell the first time I went to a god damn party I was 19... first time for most of my shit I was 19... its not sad, I respect my parents for looking out for me, but I mean damn, its like im still locked up you know.. almost like I'm not even my own person, like they to live their life through me... fuck that man, i think my life is already fucked from that brain damage from the concussion... I can't do shit any more, and they want to impede on more shit.... man just let me be me..

anyways on to more pressing matters, I ain't got shit to do this weekend... nothing at all... I have a test next week for my GUI class, i'll probably study for that, and just play FF7 the whole weekend or ncaa basketball..

other than that this week has been great... still trying to come up with a story for my com101 class... im thinking about telling them about how i broke my nose and got a concussion... yea, thats it.