So says Indiana University

More often than not, guys interpret even friendly cues, such as a subtle smile from a gal, as a sexual come-on, and a new study discovers why: Guys are clueless.

Nowhere in the findings does it consider that maybe women need to be a little more direct, just that men should “learn to read cues” better.

“I would say that there are many factors that could relate to men demonstrating insensitivity to women’s subtle non-verbal cues,” said Pamela McAuslan, associate professor of psychology at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, who was not involved in the current study.

Can we please stop the male bashing?

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Tone it down a bit?

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whatev

QUICK! Call Andrew Sullivan!

I’m sure he would like to step forward and denounce this act of torture.

Well… maybe… uh… forget it

Ya know…

If cats ever develop opposable thumbs, we are sooooo screwed…

Random crap heard in the office:

Come on guys… His pants were on

Jeff G has a knack for making me laugh

Two vegans walk into a bar. Bartender says, “what can I get for you?” First vegan says, “I’ll have a wheat grass juice.” Second vegan says, “Yum. That does sound good, doesn’t it? Make it two, my good man.”

At which point the bartender slaps them both across the face with a raw flank steak.

I just love the concept of biobutanol, a biofuel that can be run in unmodified existing gas engines, transported using existing gas pipelines and can be used straight or blended with dead-dino gas in any proportion. Sounds too good to be true.

Just ran across this article that discusses new advances in cellulosic biomass use to distill the biobutanol.

Lots of technical mumbo-jumbo but it sounds very positive when they toss out stuff like:

The rate of production of wheat straw hydrolysate to butanol was 214% over that from glucose:

As Insty would say: Faster Please.

Wishing all my “kristian perv” peeps a happy holiday.

God, I miss my daily dose of Protein Wisdom. Jeff has good guest bloggers, but I miss Jeff’s writing and point of view.

Not to mention that he most likely can’t be seen/link/email me because of the whole “Dr. Debroah Frisch being a complete dork” issue.

In any case, come back Jeff, I miss you!

For my regular readers (as if), there is a very special 9-11 tribute going on over at DHD, please consider going over and making a contribution to the story collection.

Since I am planning on getting very harsh with any comments on DHD during the 9-11 tribute, I will provide this thread for the hard-core fans of teh silly.

Open Thread

Note: I’m pourposly not writing about Dr. Deb here, there is this blog for that, but a commentor over there gave me a perfectly good “7 Sins” bit, so I will make an exception.

Every one of the 7 Deadly Sins is in play in the matter of Dr. Deb:

Anger: She clearly is an angry person, but lashing out at a 2-year-old?

Envy: She really wants Jeff’s Blog-Stature.

Gluttony: For punishment.

Lust: Disgusting, but there. Almost everything she writes drips with sexual overtones. (It could be just my dirty mind though…)

Pride: Still she insists that she is the “star” of the play. Lately she seems to think the Stephen Colbert will want to have her on his show.

Sloth: Getting a lawyer is a required action, but she can’t be bothered.

Without Sin: Satchel Goldstein.

Got more? Leave a comment!

From the title of this blog, one might expect some religious nutcase to be writing it. If you stumbled in here expecting that, you will be sorely disappointed.

The reason I named it "7 Deadly Sins" is that I think that anything I will be writing about here will fit nicely into these 7 categories:

Pride is excessive belief in one’s own abilities, also known as Vanity.
Envy is the desire for others’ traits, status, abilities, or situation.
Gluttony is the desire to consume more than that which one requires.
Lust is an inordinate craving for the pleasures of the body.
Anger is a feeling that is directed toward some grievance.
Greed is the desire for material wealth or gain.
Sloth is the avoidance of physical or spiritual work.

My hope is that this will be a place where humor, politics, religion and the trials of everyday life will be represented. I also hope that you will find some of my scribblings to be interesting.

Its been a hell of a ride so far, come along for the next chapter!

Note: This post is pretty much the same as the very first post on the old blog. I like stuff like that… 

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