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May 12 2013

Festival Of Farfalle II: Tomato Cream

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INGREDIENTS one cup chopped white onion six chopped garlic cloves red pepper flakes black pepper salt chopped tarragon half cup dry white wine large can crushed tomatoes (these were from New Jersey) third of a cup heavy cream olive oil parmigiano reggiano Sautee the onions and garlic with red and black pepper until they are …

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May 12 2013

Festival Of Farfalle I: Shrimp

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INGREDIENTS one pound shrimp half pound farfalle fucketonne chopped garlic red chile pepper flakes dried thyme black pepper half cup dry white wine one cup clam juice chopped cilantro olive oil parmigiano reggiano Sautee the shrimp until they are just barely cooked, remove from pan, and reserve. Sautee the garlic with red and black pepper …

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May 11 2013

Crowdsourcing Science And Open Internet Peer Review

If you are crowdsourcing your science and relying on open Internet peer review to justify your science, then random douchebagges on the Internet *are* your peer reviewers. Reacting to them–even the douchey ones–like they are ignorant morons to be condescendingly beaten into submission with ad hominem arguments and accusations of bad faith is fucken stupid …

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May 10 2013

Cheese Ponderable

Does it mean jacke fucken dicke other than “better and more expensive” when a cheese is branded “reserve”? Which is not meant as a complaint, because I am eating a fucken “gruyere reserve” right now that is blowing my fucken mind and it was expensive.

May 10 2013

Moby Dicke CHAPTER 19. The Prophet.

“Shipmates, have ye shipped in that ship?” Queequeg and I had just left the Pequod, and were sauntering away from the water, for the moment each occupied with his own thoughts, when the above words were put to us by a stranger, who, pausing before us, levelled his massive forefinger at the vessel in question. …

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May 09 2013

Dismantling Tired Arguments

If you find yourself “dismantling the same tired arguments” year after year in response to your advocacy for your scientific research program, thatte’s a *you* problem. It means thatte you are doing a shitte jobbe explaining why the fucke anyone should give a flying fucke about your shitte. Corollary: accusing people who raise those “tired …

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May 09 2013

Additional Thoughts On Open Peer Review Of Ethan Perlstein’s Yeast Studies Of Sertraline

Scientists don’t respond to peer review critiques that propose alternative hypotheses to the ones they favor by whining like a college freshman whose heartfelt poetry assignment just got trashed that the professor “just doesn’t understand, maaan”. You put on your big-boy or big-girl scientist pants and address those alternative hypotheses by making arguments based on …

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May 08 2013

Open Peer Review Of Ethan Perlstein’s Genetic Studies Of Sertraline Toxicity In Yeast

Setraline is the chemical name for Zoloft, a commonly prescribed antidepressant. An independent scientist currently unaffiliated with any academic or industrial research entity named Ethan Perlstein has been recently soliciting funds via “crowdsourcing” to continue his studies on the mechanisms by which sertraline is toxic to yeast, with the goal of shedding light on antidepressant …

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May 07 2013

Basketball Question

Is there a reason having to do with the way plays generally set up that there is almost never any offensive player in position to pull down an offensive rebound off a three-point shot?

May 07 2013

User Interface Stupidity

Why do automated teller machines require that you enter your withdrawal amount to the motherfucken cent, when the fucken machine only has motherfucken twenty dollar bills to dispense? Every time I type in those two zeroes, I want to be punching someone in the fucken dicke instead.

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