purple banana (655) 35 SFW Posts | 300 Space Comments | Favorites | RSS Feed I'm a biologist- though I do hug trees, I am not a tree-hugger. I enjoy photography, my bearded collie Benson, and other such things... Registered 2007-06-21 16:12:57 Comment Karma: 9 Featured Comments: 0 Member of :

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Comment on Red leaf (2009-12-09 14:15:24)
It's also a red maple! Acer rubrum! My second favorite maple. Silver maple is fucking gorgeous. Norwegian maple is third. I LOVE MAPLES.
Comment on TIGER'S XMAS PHOTO (2009-12-08 01:51:10)
Gold jacket, green jacket, WHO GIVES A SHIT?
Comment on The Pill kills babies!! (2009-12-05 09:57:25)
Very close! When the pill is used, if there is any ovulation, it renders the egg unable to attach to the uterine wall- some of the same hormones come into play, but the major pregnancy hormone, Human Chorionic Gonadotropin (HCG) does not appear until implantation and fertilization begin. Basically, it's like making your uterus a slip 'n slide for your egg. THAT'S FUN!
Comment on Darwin - Was he wrong? (2009-12-05 09:52:23)
According to David Icke, some of us still ARE lizards...
Comment on Turtle Belt (2009-12-02 10:13:19)
WHAT THE FUCK... Poor guy... The person who did this should have his balls banded like this.
Comment on mimes on twitter (2009-11-30 23:16:48)
Aww I miss UCB, best show ever...
Comment on Magic mushrooms (2009-11-19 08:54:02)
I'm no mycologist, but from the classes I've taken (and the shrooms I've eaten) those don't look like any P. cubensis variety to me... Be very careful. VERY. Especially since they're grown outdoors, it's not a sterile medium, so it's a chance another mushroom could have taken hold. Test for cyanotic bruising when dried- MOST mushrooms (not all!) which contain psilocybin will generally have a grey-blue bruising on the stalk and cap. Don't die!
Comment on Starfish sex. (2009-11-19 08:46:48)
Hate to burst your bubble, but starfish reproduce by releasing male and female gametes into the water; temperature, light, and other outside indicators tell them to release their gametes at the same time. These two just happen to be crawling over each other. Their larvae are free-swimming and NOT radially symmetrical. This introduces a cool theory called paedomorphism, check it out if you can, it's too much detail for me to type here, but it's a really cool theory of evolutionary development from echinoderms and up.
Comment on the making of you (2009-10-28 20:50:15)
Oh my god, I have an uncle Bill; my dad and him were best friends in high school, they met my mom and her twin sister at a bar, and here I am. *shudder*
Comment on Dead Flies (2009-10-21 10:58:39)
My neighbor taught me how to do string a bee when I was seven. She was a very lonely old lady. Reminded me of that neighbor in Beethoven singing Lady Marmalade. With certain wasps, it's very easy to tie the string around the tiny pinch between the abdomen and thorax, but they get pretty pissed.
Comment on Sweet Mary (2009-10-20 22:26:32)
It's actually really good as an herb (if you will) in Italian dishes; most people think pot brownies, but the taste of pot goes MUCH better with Italian. I love me some special meatballs :D
Comment on I want to live in a world (2009-10-20 15:56:51)
LOVE this! Good job, Die!
Comment on Sell Your Soul (2009-10-19 21:02:31)
Oh shit, my bad Demon... I apologize-I got a bit ahead of myself, there, I don't really visit often enough to really get to know members, so sorry if I thought you meant something else. Yeah, it was conditional, I went ahead and thought it was one of those wannabe satanist posts; we have a ton of kids like that around my town, and they annoy the hell outta me... Taking my bong rip right now :)
Comment on Female Cranial Fillet (2009-10-19 20:58:57)
Are you about a size 14?
Comment on Sell Your Soul (2009-10-19 11:19:16)
If you're trying to be "edgy" and shit and claiming yourself a Satanist, which it appears you're trying to do, you're a moron. Satanists don't worship demons and shit, they live their lives as though they don't need to follow pre-set moral standards, in belief that Satan represents all things that Christians withheld from them, such as dancing, sex before marriage, etc. It's not listening to Marilyn Manson while wearing wrist sweatbands with the anarchy symbol on them. Fucking lame.