Well, it's official. I'm WAAAAY overeducated.

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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So I’m sitting here watching an old X-Files rerun. Scully is in a microbiology lab (YAY! Always good to see my field get some press time…), talking to Mulder on the ubiquitous cell phone about this week’s menacing genetically engineered microbe. She says something about “…chloroplasts - plant cells…” and I think, “Dammit! Chloroplasts aren’t plant cells, they’re photosynthetic organelles found in plant cells!! She’s a doctor, she should know that. C’mon, Chris Carter, do some research.”

Sigh. I’m a geek. And I use the word “ubiquitous” in everyday conversation. Help me…

2

Don’t worry. I’m on the case. I’ve got just the things to help you.

Here… here’s a rail. I wan’t you to snort it. Don’t worry about what it is right now. I’ll tell you later
And here. here’s a big wooden board. I wan’t you to smack yourself in the head with it many many times.

Let me know when you’re done.

3

Don’t worry, I barely graduated high school (dropped out and finished at an ‘alternative learning center’), and I would have caught that.

4

My first and only CSI viewing: Cop stops man. Man found w/ bullet in head. Cops says self inflicted. Shady witness says otherwise. Big incriminating clue: one bullet missing from magazine. 50 minutes later ballistics finds bullet, no match with cop’s gun.

Duh.

Cops carry one in the chamber, ergo, one missing from mag. Mags often not filled to brim because of wear on spring. 2nd cops on scene could have sniffed first cops gun, see it hadn’t been fired. Same with vic’s gun, it had been fired. Powder burns on vic would tell proximity of discharge. Powder residue on cop tells if he fired. yadda, yadda, yadda. And they say this one is one of the most authentic shows.

Now the X-Files, THAT is authentic!
(The Truth is Out There)

5

Hey, “ubiquitous” ain’t so bad. Heck, I use it myself (then again, I’m a geek myself, so maybe that’s not saying so much). My best friend, on the other hand, regularly uses “rubric” in conversation. Oy.

6

Hey, you guys should be glad you’re not historians. I can’t watch anything that was set in the past anymore, not without wondering whether or not the film is historically accurate. I still remember debating with my supervisor over whether Shakespeare in Love or Elizabeth was the more accurate (our conclusion, surprisingly, was that Shakespeare was more true to history).

I dread the day that I will see some howler in a theatre and inadvertantly blurt out “That couldn’t have happened!”