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But these guys can raise the dead, therefore they're far cooler than me.

Scientists have discovered a way to bring dead dogs back to life.

Using a so-called suspended animation technique, they emptied the dead animals' veins of blood and filled them with ice-cold saline solution to preserve the tissues and organs.

The animals had no heartbeat or brain activity and were classed as being clinically dead.

The saline solution was then replaced with fresh blood and electric shocks were used to restart the heart. The dogs appeared unharmed by their suspension and had suffered no brain damage

Scientists at the Safar Centre in Pittsburgh hope to use the technique on humans within a year and are in talks with hospitals about trials on trauma patients.

They believe it could save the lives of people who have suffered massive blood loss, such as battlefield casualties or stabbings victims.

'The results are stunning. They have these dogs with complete cardiac standstill for three hours and they recover to normality,' said trauma surgeon Dr Howard Champion.

Don't read if you're easily offended, but I can see some of this song in my own past. And it's just a great song in general.

Can't you see what you do to me baby?
You make me crazy, you make me act like a maniac.
I'm like a lunatic, you make me sick
You truly are the only one who can do this to me
You just make me get so crazy.
I go skitzo, I get so insane I just go schizophrenic
One minute I want to slit your throat
The next I want sex.
You make me crazy,
the way we act like 2 maniacs in the sac
We fuck like 2 jackrabbits
And maybe that's a bad habit.
Cuz the next day we're right back at it
In the same exact pattern
What the fuck is the matter with us
We can't figure out if it's
Lust or it's love
What's sad is what's attracting us to each other
They say that every man grows up to marry his own mother.
Which would explain why you're such a motherfucking bitch
But I stay and still stick it out with you even though I just hit you today
But you deserve it you hit me first and provoked me to choke you
Just cuz I came home late last night crawled in bed and I woke you.
But if there's one thing about you I admire its, baby,
Because you stay with me, maybe, because you're as crazy as I am
Cuz when I look at you I can see an angel in your eyes
But if I look deeper inside I see your freakish little side.
Like a devil in disguise,
You're always full of surprises
Always pullin' devises
Out your personal vibrators and dildos
You fucked yourself so much
You barely feel those anymore
You're only 24 but you're plenty more now.
Sure than those other little hoes
Who just act like little girls
Like they're in middle school still
You're crazy sexy cool, chillin
You play your position
You never step out of line
Even though I stay in your business
You've always kept out of mine.
I wonder whats on your mind
Sometimes they say love is blind
Maybe that's why the first time I dotted your eye
You ain't see a sign.

Or maybe you did Maybe you like me and stuff
Maybe cuz we're crazy in loooove

Crazy Over you
Crazy Over you
Let me go crazy crazy Over youuuuuuuuu

You're the ink to my paper
Where my pen is to my pad
The moral, the very fiber
The whole substance to my rap.
You are my reason for being
The meaning of my existence
If it wasn't for you
I would never be able to spit this
These sentences I do wit me I am me
Is you rely on me as much
as I rely on you to inspire me like you do.
You provide me the lighterfluid to fuel my fire
You're my entire supply
Gas, the match, the igniter.
The only way that I am able to stay so stable
Is you're the legs to my table
If you were to break I'd fall on my face.
But I'm always going to make you feel
I don't need you as much as I really need you
So you don't use it to your advantage.
But you're essential to me
You're the air I breathe
I believe if you ever leave me
I'd probably have no reason to be.
You are the Kim to my Marshall
You're the Slim to my Shady
The Dre to my Eminem
The Elaina to my Hailey.
You are the word I am looking for when
I'm trying to describe how I feel inside
And the right one just won't come to my mind.
You're like the pillar that props me up
The beam that supports me
The bitch who never took half,
The wife who never divorced me.
You're like the root to my evil
You let my devil come out me
You let me beat the shit out you
Before you beat the shit out me.

And no matter how much
Too much is never enough
Maybe cuz we're crazy in loooove

I'm Crazy Over you
Crazy Over you
Let me go crazy crazy Over youuuuuuuuu

Heh.

I thought I traded in my computer geek card for a medical geek card about three years ago. Apparently my computer geek card hasn't expired yet. Let me explain. (If you aren't a certified computer dork, this post will probably bore you to tears.)

For the last couple of days (possibly a week?) I've been looking at dedicated webhosting providers. I'm looking for a balance of space, bandwidth, reliability, and price. Man, there are a ton of providers out there. None seem to offer exactly what I want, but there are a few that come close. BlackLotus seems to be the closest match, but they only offer 10Mbps ports. This is okay to start, but eventually I'm going to want something that offers greater connectivity. I can request a 100Mbps connection, but I have to have justification for it — which I don't have, yet. And it'd probably cost me a little bit more.

On the other hand, there's The Planet which seems excellent all around, including being a multi-homed provider. They're pricier, though, but they offer beefier servers to start. I don't need beefy to start, but I'd like to be at a place where I can easily expand when the time comes rather than having to switch hosts entirely. I want a host with room to grow easily, in other words.

I've also looked at a boatload of other providers. ev1servers, Host Rocket, and so many others I can't even come up with a name. Chances are, though, if you mention a name, I've probably looked into them. :rolleyes:

I also tossed around the idea of setting up a 1U server and sending it to a colo facility, but the cons of that are if a component craps out, I'm the one that has to pay to fix it. With a managed server this is not the case. On top of that, you general pay more per GB of bandwidth at a colo facility than you would with a managed server. The reason for this is that people who typically purchase a colo know what their site requires, and so they know exactly what they're buying. Someone who is likely to buy a dedicated server plans likes the sound of big numbers offered, even though they'll not come even close to using what's offered, which allows the provider to oversell on things like bandwidth. This doesn't normally happen with colocation customers, so prices tend to be higher because a host cannot oversell (as much).

On the other hand colocation is attractive because you can set up a server the way you want: processors, RAM, hard disk, RAID, OS, whatever, exactly the way you want. You're only limited in the connectivity that your chosen host provides. Cogent seems to be relatively inexpensive, yet reliable by most accounts. (They seem to be an anomaly in the colo hosting market; I haven't figured out why quite yet.)

Ideally, I want about 160GB of storage in a box with 1GB RAM, with a P4 or AMD equivalent on a 100Mbps port with about a 2000GB monthly allotment. And I want it running Debian, at a reasonable price. I haven't found the perfect marriage yet. Of course, this means I'd have to buy a 1U server (hello, eBay) and then configure it the way I want it. And if something shits the bed, I'm shit out of luck.

So yeah, if you want to know about a specific dedicated provider, or colocation facility, I'm your guy.

Oh yeah. And then there's Python. I bought Learning Python last night when we stopped at Barnes and Noble. It is an amazing book. If you want to learn Python, this is seriously the book for you. I've gone through about 50 pages, and I've not ADDed out and stopped actually paying attention to what I'm reading once. I think I've learned more about programming today alone than I have in probably two years.

I also picked up a copy of the Linux Cookbook which is also excellent. I've not read as much in it as I did in Learning Python, but it is similarly accessible and readable. Why didn't I discover the O'Reilly books sooner? I might have actually been a CS grad. But I don't think I'd have wanted that…

Holy lollerskates!

Well I got back about two days ago from my first trip across the Atlantic, and I took a ton of pictures.

Main gallery

• London which includes St Paul's and the Tower of London, and some other stuff.
• Paris, which includes the Eiffel tower and the surrounding area
• Le Louvre and Rodin's Garden, which includes shots from inside the Louvre and Rodin's Garden which is incredibly beautiful and thought-provoking.
• Normandy, which includes Omaha Beach and Pointe du Hoc.
• Warwick Castle, I thought this place was pretty nifty because we don't have stuff like this in the US.
• Oxford, the most beautiful place in the world, bar none. (It superseded Stanford as my personal most beautiful place, actually.)

Normandy was probably the most thought-provoking, and I absolutely loved Rodin's garden. The whole trip was fantastic, but I wish I could have spent more time at each place. Overall, though, the trip was excellent, and I am planning to return to see the rest of Europe this summer, finances allowing.