Molecule gives passionate lovers just one year

"ROME (Reuters) - Your heartbeat accelerates, you have butterflies in the stomach, you feel euphoric and a bit silly. It's all part of falling passionately in love -- and scientists now tell us the feeling won't last more than a year.

The powerful emotions that bowl over new lovers are triggered by a molecule known as nerve growth factor (NGF), according to Pavia University researchers.

The Italian scientists found far higher levels of NGF in the blood of 58 people who had recently fallen madly in love than in that of a group of singles and people in long-term relationships.

But after a year with the same lover, the quantity of the 'love molecule' in their blood had fallen to the same level as that of the other groups.

The Italian researchers, publishing their study in the journal Psychoneuroendocrinology, said it was not clear how falling in love triggers higher levels of NGF, but the molecule clearly has an important role in the "social chemistry" between people at the start of a relationship."

from yahoo news.

That's it, I'm telling my daughter to "give it a year" when she wants to shack up with the weird looking guy she brings over for dinner.
The 'study' was done by Italians, you know it's accurate.

The Unbeatable Foe

I’m Sir Coughs-A-Lot beware Me and My Power. I rule with an Iron Flaming Fist of Furry. I speak with a Low, Cracking and Booming Voice. You wet yourself when you think of Me … wait … You pee yourself when you think of Me. When you hear my Low, Cracking and Booming Voice you whimper like a child and defecate in you pants. When you finally see Me (you’re already dehydrated) you become sick. A plague sweeps over you and any grand children you might have yet to have. Your lungs come out your mouth and you nose extrudes a foul liquid. Your brain swells beyond the capacity of your skull. The Pain is Unimaginable. This is what happens when you see Me. Fear Me forever! Your weapons are useless against Me. Your sword of Nyquil will not vanquish Me. Your axe of Dayquil will not cleave My Skull. Your Tylenol Cold magic powder will not slow Me down. Your Halls throwing knifes will not pierce My Skin. Your White Blood Cell and Immune System armor cannot hold up to My Strength. Fighting Me is an exercise of futility.

Winter Men & All Star Superman

Just thought I'd do a little update.
I got my bimonthly comics (is that the right term for when you get something twice a month?). Anyway, I enjoyed them all. I think I might do some reviews but for right now I'll just touch on a few things. First of all I MUST recommend Winter Men. You can read the synopsis there. It is as cool as you think it might be. Great detailed/impressionistic art and great characterizations and the main character is likable and deep. The story is far from any superhero fair but it does have to deal with 'super-beings' but has yet to really show any (I'm on issue 3). I highly recommend it. I'm kind of bummed; there's been no solicitation for issue four.
Next up is All-Star Superman (ASS). This beauty is written by Grant Morrison and Drawn by Frank Quietly. Some people don't like Franks work because of the faces he draws. While I agree they are kind of goofy at times, but the level of detail and composition is great. As for story; Grant delivers here. This is classic Superman. No need to know ANYTHING. In one page he recaps Supes origin then delves right into the story. Lex Luthor, Sci-Fi, Super powerful Superman, Bumbiling Clark Kent, arrogant/half-bitchy Lois. Many think that a De-powered Supes is more interesting. I would tend to agree, but this one is awesome too.
I'll save the rest for later. Just pick up Winter Men!! Pick up Winter Men! Pick Up WINTER MEN.

Sometimes I just want to...

Man, sometimes I just would really like to speak my mind, but unfortunatly due to whatever social reasons I don't. I just wanted to say "Fuck you". I didn't want to yell it or grit my teeth when I say it. I just want to softly say "Fuck you". Maybe with a tinge of condesention or malice. Now don't take it personaly readers, I'm not saying it to you. I just wanted to say it but I can't in real life. So, instead I shared my thoughts with the internet. Bless you internet, you are so kind to me. Always listening, never talking back as I blather on and on.

UPDATE: Oh, just in case anyone is wondering: No, the 'fuck you' is not directed toward anyone who regularly reads this site.

Censor Bypassing

Since this site is my soapbox I'm going to complain! Some of you might be thinking "OMFG, that's all you freakin' do is complain about everything!" I say " Yes, of course! I do it because it's funny, to me. What else are we going to talk about? I point out things that don't quite make sense or don't go as I feel they should and this is interpreted as complaining. All I'm saying is I don't like something in some fashion. Jesus, if I just convey the happenings of a typical day it would be interpreted as complaining." Anyway, on to my complaint.
GameFAQs. I love the site.
Here is it's rule for Censor Bypassing:
# Censor Bypassing

The GameFAQs message boards are programmed with a list of words that are considered vulgar under any context, and these words are not allowed to be posted. Attempting to bypass the censor by misspelling, inserting spaces or symbols, transposing letters, using look-alike symbols, or any other method is not allowed. The only acceptable method of posting one of these vulgar words is to completely obscure it, making it impossible to determine what the word is without context. Additionally, certain words are prohibited from being used in topic titles and user information pages; bypassing the censor to post those words where they are restricted is also disallowed.
For example, if "gris" is a banned word:

* Not allowed: g-r-i-s, gr*s, g***, 9|-1$, girs, gryeeeas, grizznizz, **** (rhymes with "bris")
* Allowed: ****, ****ed, ****ing, g'ed, g-word

Here is my post which was deleted:
"... So?
I don't see the problem. Seven Soldiers will/is a great stand-alone story. Does it matter if the characters are used AFTER Seven Soldiers is finished? Does that somehow affect the Seven Soldiers story?
What of the people that like the new characters and want to see more of them? Oh! Now they can by read '52'! They'll be happy.
I thought the bad news was going to be that Seven Soldiers has been canceled. Which it has NOT been!
Besides, G. Morrison is going to be one of the 'architects' of the Post IC DCU. So, he's going to use some of the characters he's tweaked.
I really don't see why you're so against IC, blackmore. But you like that House of M sh... crap.
It just seems like you're more than just 'not interested' in IC. It seems like you're personally offended by it and it's some kind of sacralidge.
I'm sorry, I got of on kind of a rant. That was all my opinion and everyone else can certainly have theirs. No offense to blackmore, I'm just really kind of puzzled, is all."

I contested the moderation, here is my contest statment:
"I'm assuming that this pertains to my use of "sh...". If this is indeed the case; the "..." was not meant to substitute for the actual letters in the word in question, instead they were to signify a pause, which was then followed by the word "crap". It was intended for humor purposes with the subtext that I realized that it was an objectionable word so I substituted it with a more acceptable one (all as if I were really speaking instead of typing). I apologize if this was not clear. But I do not feel that I has violated the TOS because the word in question was not meant to be represented."

Here is a response from a moderator:
"Two letters of a banned word appear. That's a bypass."

I've let the matter go, but it's a shame that my post was deleted because of two letters. What if I was going to say "shenanigans"? I guess that'll teach me from trying to be funny. And people wonder why I'm quite.
And yes. I know it's just the internet. Point taken. Which makes me question why the moderator bothered to read the whole post to find it, it is kind of in the middle of a lot of stuff.

What do you all think?

Preview of Shadow of Colossus

My birthday is soon but my parents were kind enough to give me a couple things early. They like to shower me with gifts, well, more like a splash, but you get the idea. At any rate, I received Shadow of Colossus and it is pretty. I’ve only played for a bit but I can tell you I like it. The premise is that you (your character) has to kill 16 or so Colossi, which are the incarnations of Spirits, in order to resurrect your sister or girlfriend (it doesn’t say the relation of your character to the dead chick you carry). So far there hasn’t been any little bad guys (and I don’t think there will be), the only enemy is whichever colossus you are going after at that time. But first you must get there, which so far isn’t that hard. You’ve a horse to help speed along the way and there’re some jumping/climbing puzzles. The one Colossus I’ve defeated thus far required me to stab it in the ankle then climb up its back and deliver the final blows to its head. It tried to stomp me and hit me with it’s big as a house club while I was floundering around on the ground. The game is beautiful. A nice draw distance and everything has that ancient feel to it. Character animation is very life like. The scale of the Colossus is amazing. The game designers were thoughtful enough to provide a button to look at the Colossi, which is damn handy and just makes me say ‘wow’. I was pleased as punch to see that they included progressive scan in the video options. On any normal TV the game would still look beautiful but on a relatively nice HD compatible TV (like my monitor) one sees every little pixel and it just looks kind of blocky. Turing the progressive scan on improves this immensely. One still sees the ‘jaggies’ but that is because of the Playstation 2’s lack of anti-aliasing. Despite the ‘jaggies’ the game looks great on a HDTV with progressive scan on or on a normal TV with it off. There’s no music in the game (that I noticed) but there’s certainly ambiance, wind etc., which really fits well with the visuals.

Now for some reviews of some stuff:
Green Russian: delicious
Godmother: delicious
Whiskey Sour: delicious
White Russian: Heaven

“Just try to fucking stop us!” – Dr. Tiki