Below are the most recent 9 friends' journal entries.

Friday, July 10th, 2009
supspirit	10:14p	Edward O. Wilson likes Cake (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Tuesday, July 7th, 2009
supspirit	2:40p	For reference sake (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Sunday, July 5th, 2009
sexydecoy	10:24a	Happy 4th! ( But baby there's no guidance when random rules. ) Current Music: Silver Jews - Random Rules | Powered by Last.fm (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Friday, July 3rd, 2009
supspirit	5:55p	Survey of Retail Milk Composition as Affected by Label Claims Regarding Farm-Management Practices Abstract A trend in food labeling is to make claims related to agricultural management, and this is occurring with dairy labels. A survey study was conducted to compare retail milk for quality (antibiotics and bacterial counts), nutritional value (fat, protein, and solids-not-fat), and hormonal composition (somatotropin, insulin-like growth factor-1 [IGF-1], estradiol, and progesterone) as affected by three label claims related to dairy-cow management: conventional, recombinant bovine somatotropin (rbST)−free (processor-certified not from cows supplemented with rbST), or organic (follows US Department of Agriculture organic practices). Retail milk samples (n=334) from 48 states were collected. Based on a statistical analysis that reflected the sampling schema and distributions appropriate to the various response variables, minor differences were observed for conventional, rbST-free, and organic milk labels. Conventionally labeled milk had the lowest (P<0.05) bacterial counts compared to either milk labeled rbST-free or organic; however, these differences were not biologically meaningful. In addition, conventionally labeled milk had significantly less (P<0.05) estradiol and progesterone than organic milk (4.97 vs 6.40 pg/mL and 12.0 vs 13.9 ng/mL, respectively). Milk labeled rbST-free had similar concentrations of progesterone vs conventional milk and similar concentrations of estradiol vs organic milk. Concentrations of IGF-1 in milk were similar between conventional milk and milk labeled rbST-free. Organic milk had less (P<0.05) IGF-1 than either conventional or rbST-free milk (2.73 ng/mL vs 3.12 and 3.04 ng/mL, respectively). The macronutrient profiles of the different milks were similar, except for a slight increase in protein in organic milk (about 0.1% greater for organic compared to other milks). Label claims were not related to any meaningful differences in the milk compositional variables measured. It is important for food and nutrition professionals to know that conventional, rbST-free, and organic milk are compositionally similar so they can serve as a key resource to consumers who are making milk purchase (and consumption) decisions in a marketplace where there are misleading milk label claims. Link I post this because I recently had a discussion debating cheese: conventionally packaged cheese versus "real" or, I suppose organic, cheese. In addition there was concern over hormones in animal products. This study took milk samples that were conventionally packaged, rbST-free (Bovine growth hormone free) and "organic", where available, from all 48 states, so I have no worry about their sample size. The conclusion is that normal milk, organic milk, and "growth hormone free" milk had essentially the same components (hormones, bacterial colonies, etc.) with slight, though signfiicant, variation. Do read the article, and stop telling me that there are excess amounts of hormones in normal milk versus organic milk, thanks. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
sexydecoy	3:52p	Is this normal? Whenever I find out that someone my age or younger is getting married I feel bad for them. (3 Comments |Comment on this)
akin	10:45a	Flickr This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing. (Comment on this)
Thursday, July 2nd, 2009
havenstar	9:35p	stories my life, told through blurbs. -A week or so ago, I was helping a lady who (among other things) wanted to get a cleanser for her son. As we were chatting, she randomly mentioned that he was a theoretical physicist. I swear to god, I am pretty sure my eyes lit up. "OH," said I, "UM HOW OLD IS HE?" "24." "!!!!! UM UM, OH, YOU SHOULD BRING HIM IN SOMETIME." I am not terribly subtle and also was giggling fit to burst. She seemed to find it funny. She said he actually likes girls who are a bit crazy with their hair and stuff like I am, and that he'd had his hair something like mine for awhile. And then she showed me her daughter (she didn't have a picture of her son) and said they look a lot alike, and if so, boy is PRETTY. Also did I mention theoretical physicist? WANT. His name is Evan. I rly hope she brings him in. Sadly he lives in Gainesville (like two hours away) but if it happens I will let y'all know! -Last Saturday we were having a Breakfast at Lush party- basically an excuse to wear little black dresses. I got quite dolled up, in fact my mother insisted on taking pictures before I left. And MAN was I glad I let her, because I was wrecked before I even got to work. LET ME TELL YOU WHY. I was driving my mother's car (mine was full of mildew, sad story, it is hopefully all healed now) and as I got on the highway... the sunroof opened, or so it seemed. Mind, the sunroof is sealed, it got disabled ages ago, so the button to close it doesn't even work. So there's a slidey felt door thing between me and the sunroof, and I pulled that as closed as I could and figured whatever, can't do anything about it while driving. And then... I noticed that the cars coming from the opposite direction had their lights on. "Fuck," thought I. Sure enough, I hit a massive fucking storm. It's pouring, and the felt covering starts to leak through, and soon enough it is essentially raining in the car. I'm still on the highway, meanwhile, so there's nothing to be done for it. And THEN.. I get stuck in traffic. In the pouring rain. With the roof leaking. It would all pool up on the opposite side of the felt, then drizzle down in a steady stream onto my lap or down my neck or all over my stuff in the passenger seat etc. Charming. Come to find out, the sunroof itself is GONE. As in the glass bit. Just gone. Tore right off. I haven't even seen it on the side of the road anywhere, so god knows what the fuck, but. yeah. The car is currently recovering in the garage, with a new roof on the way, and hopefully it will be fine, but THAT WAS AN ADVENTURE. My dad came with a change of clothes (and a different car for me to drive home) and my day ended up fine but good lord. -Today on my way out of work, I called home to let my mother know I was on my way. She answered with "OMG I WAS JUST ABOUT TO CALL YOU." I'd stayed late at work, so I assumed she was worried, but she was like "NO NO- LISTEN." Apparently my mall was having some deal, where if you bought 10 gift cards in one transaction, you got 2 free tickets to RENT, which is in town starting next week and which will feature ADAM PASCAL AND ANTHONY RAPP. When I first heard about the tour last year, I flipped my shit, and Jackie and I vowed to go, but we never got tickets. BUT NOW I HAVE TICKETS. They are orchestra seats on opening night. OH MY GOD. YOU GUYS. I. COULD JUST EXPLODE. I never would've bought seats that nice/expensive for myself but THESE WERE FREE. (Even though I had to buy something to get them, as far as I'm concerned they count as free because.. I was buying gift cards. Which I can use anywhere, I'm pretty sure, since they're AmEx gift cards. So: free! totally!) EEEEHEEHEEHEE. That is pretty much it from me in terms of interesting stories. um, well, that's it for the past week, anyway, if there were interesting things before then I have already forgotten them. So they couldn't've been that interesting. I've been pretty much MIA lately on all fronts, but hey, now you know the bits worth knowing about what is up with me lately! ta da! Current Mood: giggly (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
akin	8:47p	The DM of the Rings *grin* (Comment on this)
akin	5:41p	Windows 7 kicks ass. I've been using the beta for a while now, and I am very happy with it. Whereas I never recommended folks upgrade to Vista, and in fact after my initial month with Vista I went back to XP (at least until SP1 came along... it's a decent OS nowadays), I think folks will want to go to 7. It's what Vista should have been. Well, they did rush it out in a scant eighteen months from start to finish, but still... Anyway, if folks want to get Windows 7 on the cheap, you can buy upgrade editions now. If you upgrade from XP, you'll be required to reformat your HDD and do a clean install, but honestly, that's what you want to do anyway. Vista users can do an upgrade-in-place, but again... clean installs are better. Windows 7 Home Premium is what most people will want. The upgrade version is $49.99, until July 11th. This is a pre-order; it won't ship until October 22, at which time it will cost $119.99. Fifty bucks for a brand-new OS! The main reason people would want Windows 7 Professional is for the extended Windows XP support. It's going for $99.99. Basically, it will run a virtual Windows XP machine for you to use with your old software. Note that so far, I haven't found anything that won't run in Windows 7, and I've been playing at least one game from 2001 recently... You can also get Windows 7 Ultimate, but there's no real reason to. If you want whole-disk encryption, buy WIndows 7 Pro and use TrueCrypt Here's a chart that compares the three versions... Anyway, you can pre-order these at Amazon or many other stores... do it before the 11th! While they haven't released the exact details of what you'll need in order to qualify for an upgrade, it's a safe betthat you'll have to have access to your original CD Key for whatever version of Windows XP or VIsta that you're running now... (Comment on this)