the REAL folk blues

Arrancars.

Viz' translation of Bleach uses this term to denote more than one "Arrancar", a type of being from said franchise.

"Arrancar" is also a Spanish word which means "to rip" or "to yank". Yet in Spanish, most - if not all - words that end in a consonant are pluralized by adding "-es" to the end, e.g., pulmones, corazones, refrigeradores, etc.

No real point to this post; just thought I'd bring to light my disconnect with this word, and how it's really tough to pronounce unless I force a non-Spanish accent when saying it :P

Bad News: Payroll won't be able to get me a check advance until tomorrow at the earliest, Monday the latest.

Good News: I won ~$115 worth of groceries from Whole Foods for guessing the price of goods in a shopping cart. Yeah~

Also Good News: http://kotaku.com/5021337/an-elegant-stylus-for-a-more-civilized-age. Fuck Yes.

That is all :D

First, I apologize to Jen for seemingly mocking your accent. I couldn't help it; when you bust it out the way you do, I can't help but imitate it, and it's not to insult you, I promise <3

Second, if you have Pokemon Diamond and Pearl, you should pick up My Pokemon Ranch for the Wii. At $10, it's a cute little storage system for your game(s) (though you cannot use it to quickly transfer Pokemon from one DS cart to another). Jen and I have been greatly amused by it, and I've had some fun trying to fill it up.

Running late, I decided to walk to school today (45+ min on the T, ~30 min walking).

Big mistake, as it's hot as hell outside.

I made it fine (not to dehydrated), but I can already tell that I got burned a bit.

At least tomorrow I can wear shorts if I decide to walk again :|

Ok.

So Jen and I decided to try our hand at some new things yesterday for dinner. You can check out each one by following the appropriate LJ cut:

( Soy picadillo )

( Tostones )

( Platanos maduros fritos )

Brawl Announcer: "SUCCESS!"
Audience: "YAAAAAH!"

a.k.a. I've passed my dissertation defense. The actual text needs a little tune-up, but it's in stellar condition otherwise.

Next stop: graduation, hooding, and bestowal of a particular title.

I WONDER WHAT IT COULD BE

Greetings and salutations on another solar cycle, my fellow LJers. I've said this before, but I hope to really get back into making posts and, hell, keeping up with people a lot more this year. Hope everyone is doing well (I see from a lot of posts that we're starting off the year alright) and I look forward to a wonderful 2008 with all of you :D

No snow day for me.

Baw ; ;

EDIT @ 6:47 PM: Yes snow day! School closed at 2:00 PM due to the crazy-assed blizzard we had :D

1.) Why's Starscream your favorite Transformer?

I got into TF when it first started, and as you may or may not know, the bumbling henchman was the norm for bad guy teams. Starscream actually had the nerve to stand up to Megatron and say he though he'd be a better leader than him, even if all his "plans" for usurping him were woefully incompetent and he'd always get his ass kicked in the end.

Later versions of Starscream would always give him a very unique characterization for the series, so he's stuck around as my favorite.

2.) Do you think you'll ever go back into academia a few years down the road?

Ideally, yes, but for now my brain needs the break. Not only will it let me "heal" from 10+ years at BU, but it might serve to give me the inspiration needed to be able to come up with my own research questions. I've actually had fleeting thoughts here and there about med school, but nothing that I could really consider serious.

3.) What do you think's the hardest thing about working with your birds?

Particular to birds, not too much. I think what's always difficult is managing their homeostasis during surgery, since they're so small and therefore easily prone to expiring if you're not careful with the anesthesia. Aside from that, of course, is the typical neuroscience quibble of "damn, I hope I hit some neurons with this electrode", magnified even more due to the fact that they're implanted and so, if I've missed the target medial-laterally/anterior-posteriorly, I'm screwed :(

4.) What's one thing you miss about Miami that you can't get here?

The food. WHERE THE CUBAN DELIS AT? ;_;

5.) Why the bear? ;)

LOL JAPAN. But for the serious question, I dunno, lol. Ask Takeuchi XD

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Also, yay for auto-complete tags :D