seanstickle

I am going to be restructuring my weblog into a site more for my papers and publications.

For my random links and thoughts and quotes and whatnot, I’ve started using Tumblr. 

You can find me at seanstickle.tumblr.com 

Pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism is a very odd condition:

A disorder characterized by short stature, round face, short neck, and shortening of metacarpal bones with normal blood chemistry values and normal renal response to parathyroid hormone. In addition, the parathyroid glands are intrinsically normal, and parathyroid hormone levels are also normal. These patients, although they have the same phenotype as those with pseudohypoparathyroidism, have true hypoparathyroidism. 

I discovered this condition from the Radiology Picture of the Day.

From Cracked.com:

Super cool “Floger” chair via Kontrastblog:

From Phillips Exeter Academy:

From Cabanon Press:

Thanks to Making Light.

Last night I had something that wasn’t a nightmare, but wasn’t a happy dream. I had an incredibly boring dream. So boring, in fact, and so confusing, that my dream self was incredibly frustrated with the whole situation. Normally, dream logic is sort of wacky, and the progression of events nonsensical but goofy. In this case, however, my dream self was aware enough of the dream logic to find it enormously tiresome, was fatigued by trying to figure out why certain events were following other events, and was exasperated by the inability to achieve certain ends before the dream world screwed around with the causality logic.

So, I was happy to wake up. Not because the dream was frightening. But because the waking world, in this case, turns out to be much more interesting than the nonsense I had to put up with in the dream world.

It was like entering the land of Faerie, only to find out that the elves and hobgoblins used their magic powers to calculate endless tables of logarithms. Feh.

From My Neighbor Totoro:

From Marie Claire:

From Projectionist:

Reminds me of Rorqual Maru:

Rorqual Maru was a cyborg—part organic whale, part mechanized ship … and part god. She was a harvester—a vast plankton rake, now without a crop—abandoned by Earth Society when the seas died.