Buzzkill Bee

~ I'm a PhD student/hermit. I am, above all things, a scientist.

~ Top shows I love with all my heart: Fringe. Doctor Who. Battlestar Galactica. Firefly. Buffy. Pushing Daisies.

~ Top Movies: Waitress, Amelie, The Fall, A Knight's Tale, Dr Horrible, Star Wars, Big Fish.

screwmidgard:

lorelei-has-adam-mentia:

murdermysweet:

According to IMDB, the name of Jenna-Louise Coleman’s companion…will let people make their own deductions on this matter!

THEY SAID THEY’D BE FILMING PART OF SEVEN ON BAD WOLF BAY!!!! WHAT IS THIS.

No no no no no no no. Please let this not be what it seems. Stop touching things, Moffat!

bonnienoire:

kateordie:

This comic is about how there are two sides to every story.

guys who say their ex-gf went crazy get the extreme sideeye from me

There is a dead bird in my front yard.  It’s really cool and fascinating.

Aaaand that’s about the entire story.  :p  Nothing too complex.  It’s there, I have a camera (and gloves), so I must poke and take pictures.  It’s the law of Bee-dom.

Cedar Waxwing, assembled.

Grace, please explain bird anatomy to me.  What part is this?  It it the wing but with the wing pointing straight at the camera.  You can see the other pictures of this wing to look more, but I just can’t figure out what the large piece of thin bone is.

So some new people have started following me in the past few days, and I feel like I need to put up a disclaimer 

I post stuff like pictures of the dead decaying bird in my yard.

Heads up.

Dead stuff ahead.

Book Giveaway! Ready set go! 

neornithes:

SEE HERE FOR THE GIVEAWAY RULES

Realistic Fiction

• Adverbs, Daniel Handler (aka Lemony Snicket)
• Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules, various, ed. David Sedaris
• Dawn, Elie Wiesel
• Day, Elie Wiesel
• The Silence of the Lambs, Thomas Harris
• The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown
• Angels & Demons, Dan Brown

Writing/Language

• Rhetorical Grammar, 4th Edition, Martha Kolln
• Forgotten English, Jeffrey Kacirk
• Death Sentences: How Cliches, Weasel Words, and Management-Speak are Strangling Public Language, Don Watson

Nonfiction (Non-science)

• The Darwin Awards II
• The Darwin Awards III
• Leave Me Alone, I’m Reading, Maureen Corrigan
• The Monster At Our Door, Mike Davis

Nonfiction (Science)

• I am a Strange Loop, Douglas Hofstadter
• The Scientist as Rebel, Freeman Dyson
• A Sense of the Mysterious, Alan Lightman

Sci-fi/Fantasy and Related Fields

• Anthem, Ayn Rand
• Little Brother, Cory Doctorow (hardback)
• Dune, Frank Herbert
• Speaker for the Dead, Orson Scott Card
• The Ringworld Engineers, Larry Niven
• Science Fiction: The Best of the Year 2007, ed. Rich Horton
• The Android’s Dream, John Scalzi
• Year’s Best SF8, ed. David G. Hartwell
• The Patriot Witch, C.C. Finlay
• The Affinity Bridge, George Mann

Classics

• The Purgatorio, Dante Alighieri
• Island, Aldous Huxley
• The Chosen, Chaim Potok

French-Language Books

• One French-English dictionary
• Bonjour tristesse, Francoise Sagan
• Poemes et proses, Octave Cremazie
• La guerre de Troie n’aura pas lieu, Giraudoux
• L’Ecole des femmes, Moliere
• Mourir pour toi, various
• Candide, Voltaire

Religion/Atheism

• Imagine No Superstition, Stephen Frederick Uhl
• Two Suns Rising, Jonathan Star 
• The Idiot’s Guide to Prayer
• The Idiot’s Guide to the Book of Revelation
• Religion in America: A Short Introduction, Timothy Beal
• Why I Became an Atheist: A Former Preacher Rejects Christianity, John W. Loftus

Parts of my bird… (The scientific and not artsy photos.)

I got bored of studying so I went and played with my dead bird 

My life is… normal.

You all know I prefer biology over chemistry.  But if there’s one thing you can say about chemists is that at least they’re damn logical in naming stuff.

Chemists are all “Let’s use an internationally established system for naming basing on quantity and location of the elements”.

And biologists are all “FUCK YEAH LET ME MAKE UP SOME WORDS!!”

Time to relearn cardiac anatomy.  But first I need to learn how to spell cardiac because it took me three tries to write that.  (Yes, it’s totally cadriac…)　

arpeggia:

Paradise Parking

by Peter Lippmann

My family just posted Memorial Day BBQ pictures.

I can’t even handle how much I miss my family.