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Sep. 2nd, 2009
This is my new favorite.
Sep. 2nd, 2009 12:12 pmSpotted on Not Always Right, from someone who works in a pharmacy:
(A teen approaches my cash register very slowly.)
Me: “Can I help you?”
Customer: “Gimme all the f***ing medicine!”
(Teen pulls out an airsoft pistol with orange tip still glued to the front.)
Me: “The pharmacy is in the back of the store.”
Customer: “Oh…okay.”
(He holsters the air-soft gun in his belt and darts down the aisles to the back of the store. My manager comes out of the back room because of the commotion.)
Manager: “Who was that?”
Me: “Some kid looking for drugs. He went back to the pharmacy.”
Manager: “Why didn’t you call the police?”
(The teen runs screaming from the back of the store out of the front door followed closely by the pharmacy technician, a 35 year old boxer built like a fridge.)
Me: “Doug started working today.”
(A teen approaches my cash register very slowly.)
Me: “Can I help you?”
Customer: “Gimme all the f***ing medicine!”
(Teen pulls out an airsoft pistol with orange tip still glued to the front.)
Me: “The pharmacy is in the back of the store.”
Customer: “Oh…okay.”
(He holsters the air-soft gun in his belt and darts down the aisles to the back of the store. My manager comes out of the back room because of the commotion.)
Manager: “Who was that?”
Me: “Some kid looking for drugs. He went back to the pharmacy.”
Manager: “Why didn’t you call the police?”
(The teen runs screaming from the back of the store out of the front door followed closely by the pharmacy technician, a 35 year old boxer built like a fridge.)
Me: “Doug started working today.”
Sucks to be you, dude.
Sep. 2nd, 2009 01:17 pmPer ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
deadlychameleon, about SurveyFail here (she asks that if you plan on making this information known, you go ahead and repost with attribution so people don't need to click through):
In regards to surveyfail: http://www.fanhistory.com/wiki/SurveyFail
I called the Boston University IRB office. The direct approach works.
They've gotten a lot of emails regarding Dr. Ogas. He is no longer in any way affiliated with Boston University, except as a recent graduate. They have asked him to stop using his official Boston University email address in connection with this project, or his website. He is officially on his own, and this project is NOT IRB APPROVED.
That is the official status as stated by the Boston University IRB office.
The problem with this is threefold:
1. The researcher has no expertise in the area he is researching, nor has he recruited anyone to give him guidance.
2. The researcher has substantial profit motivation to produce work in this area (book contract with Penguin) which may lead to unethical conduct/a tendency to misrepresent his results.
3. The research is in no way overseen by any external body which can examine it for potential unethical conduct.
In addition to all of these, the researchers have now alienated their participant population, who are now very likely to become unreliable participants.
The only way to salvage the study at this point, I believe, would be for them to change it to an observational one.
Never fuck with fandom, y'all.
deadlychameleon, about SurveyFail here (she asks that if you plan on making this information known, you go ahead and repost with attribution so people don't need to click through):In regards to surveyfail: http://www.fanhistory.com/wiki/SurveyFail
I called the Boston University IRB office. The direct approach works.
They've gotten a lot of emails regarding Dr. Ogas. He is no longer in any way affiliated with Boston University, except as a recent graduate. They have asked him to stop using his official Boston University email address in connection with this project, or his website. He is officially on his own, and this project is NOT IRB APPROVED.
That is the official status as stated by the Boston University IRB office.
The problem with this is threefold:
1. The researcher has no expertise in the area he is researching, nor has he recruited anyone to give him guidance.
2. The researcher has substantial profit motivation to produce work in this area (book contract with Penguin) which may lead to unethical conduct/a tendency to misrepresent his results.
3. The research is in no way overseen by any external body which can examine it for potential unethical conduct.
In addition to all of these, the researchers have now alienated their participant population, who are now very likely to become unreliable participants.
The only way to salvage the study at this point, I believe, would be for them to change it to an observational one.
Never fuck with fandom, y'all.
A meme boosted from anonymous_sibyl: Top 5 Characters You Want To Punch In The Face
1. Lydia Bennet, Pride and Prejudice (she's my fallback)
2. Bella Swan, Twilight (that one's a gimme, really)
3. Everybody on Heroes (and yet I'm still planning to watch, for fuck's sake)
4. Izzie Stephens, Grey's Anatomy (about half because it's Izzie and half because it's Katherine Heigl)
5. Chuck Bass, Gossip Girl (I love him as a character, but as a person ... yeah)
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Michael Steele insults a woman whose mother died of cancer at a speaking engagement last night. Between this and that representative who fucking laughed at a woman who hasn't been able to take her kid to the doctor for two years due to a lack of insurance, it looks like the new Republican leadership's defense against health care is, "Stop even pretending we're not heartless."
This rant takes the words right out of my mouth.
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And then there's this:
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Oh, and I finished another chapter of Heroine Addiction! WOOHOO. Now all I have to do is finish another one, and another one, and another one ...
anonymous_sibyl: Top 5 Characters You Want To Punch In The Face 1. Lydia Bennet, Pride and Prejudice (she's my fallback)
2. Bella Swan, Twilight (that one's a gimme, really)
3. Everybody on Heroes (and yet I'm still planning to watch, for fuck's sake)
4. Izzie Stephens, Grey's Anatomy (about half because it's Izzie and half because it's Katherine Heigl)
5. Chuck Bass, Gossip Girl (I love him as a character, but as a person ... yeah)
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Michael Steele insults a woman whose mother died of cancer at a speaking engagement last night. Between this and that representative who fucking laughed at a woman who hasn't been able to take her kid to the doctor for two years due to a lack of insurance, it looks like the new Republican leadership's defense against health care is, "Stop even pretending we're not heartless."
This rant takes the words right out of my mouth.
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And then there's this:
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Oh, and I finished another chapter of Heroine Addiction! WOOHOO. Now all I have to do is finish another one, and another one, and another one ...
Aw, how cute are they?
Sep. 2nd, 2009 07:44 pmI've missed a few episodes, God knows, but if you're following this storyline at all you know where to find the rest anyway. ;)
Mopey Christian is one of my favorite Christians. Thore makes the BEST puppy dog faces.
Mopey Christian is one of my favorite Christians. Thore makes the BEST puppy dog faces.
I feel I should inform you all ...
Sep. 2nd, 2009 09:03 pm... that:
a.) The Muppets are performing tonight on America's Got Talent.
b.) David Hasselhoff is performing tonight on America's Got Talent.
I'm trying to figure out if the awesomeness of the Muppets and the suckitude of David Hasselhoff cancel each other out at the appropriate level to create a black hole.
a.) The Muppets are performing tonight on America's Got Talent.
b.) David Hasselhoff is performing tonight on America's Got Talent.
I'm trying to figure out if the awesomeness of the Muppets and the suckitude of David Hasselhoff cancel each other out at the appropriate level to create a black hole.
A quick comment on tonight's AGT ...
Sep. 2nd, 2009 10:00 pmI am shocked -- SHOCKED I TELL YOU -- that with two semi-final episodes featuring ten contestants each, in which for some inexplicable reason they were only going to pick four out of ten tonight, they threw out the rules tonight and kept the last two to make it five instead.
That said, the fact that Acrodunk got canned is just wrong. Seriously, show? *sigh*
That said, the fact that Acrodunk got canned is just wrong. Seriously, show? *sigh*