Georgia, Pt. III

After falling asleep during the last forty miles of Mississippi, I awoke later on to Alabama.

"Shortcut"

Exiting the interstate some distance into Alabama, we drove off the interstate onto Alabama 17, a two-lane highway that led through the small town of York (which actually looked really quaint). To pass the time, Alyssa and I started watching, at her insistence, Finding Nemo, a film which I've actually never watched fully through.

Queer XII

You're such a druggist, pharmacist.

For an early April day, it sure is gloomy!

Starting early Wednesday morning, it began to rain here in North Texas. 

How I Met Your Cigarette

From my Tumblr page

[A few weeks ago, I had run into my friends Mike and Cynthia in a Kroger supermarket near my house. I hadn't seen either of them since we graduated, so we made a dinner date. After our meal, we hung out a little bit, and ended up walking in front of a Buddhist temple near their home.]

ESF Postlet: Austin Blue Balls

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Zest

 Rated 14+ for mature themes that some might find offensive

Let's go to France. Vive la Liberte!

I mentioned Serge Gainsbourg back in 2011, and wrote on his love of puns. He used them extensively in his songs, very tongue-in-cheek.

Night Activities

Earlier this week, I was invited to dinner by a couple friend of mine-- Cynthia and Michael. I've known Michael since my junior English class and Cynthia I met in my senior Econ class. That class was eggcelent!

Two weeks ago, after retrieving some phone numbers from my old cellphone, I started send text messages from new phone to them. I started with my friend Ivan, worked my way to Alyssa, and finally to the happy couple above. 

Mannequins

For the last few years, "video-on-demand" has become very popular among cable and satellite television subscribers. I can remember when it had first been rolled out back in 2006, 2007. I remember being in middle school when Comcast (or was it Time Warner? I don't even remember.) rolled it out in the D/FW area. 

Going Under the Knife II

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that show the dissection of an animal and that material might

be found offensive to some.

Anatomy is a science of structure. A science of the how the bodies of animals and humans are structured how they function. As humans, we learn by doing, and this deed is something necessary to be done in order to know the structures of animals-- and later, ourselves. It advances not only our understanding when our pets or animals become sick, but it helps us to learn how to operate on them-- and again later-- on ourselves.

In this post, we will see the dissection of an adult cat. In this, as the last post, I asked the question whether the dissection-- let alone the photographing-- was ethical. Some gave me a "yes," others gave me a "no." I particularly believe that it is ethical in photographing the dissection. To dissect the animal is another case to be determined later, although, as pointed out in this PETA article, there are better ways to learn without killing first. 

And in case you are wondering, the teacher did give an alternative assignment for those who did not feel they were able (or capable) to dissect a cat.

Going Under the Knife

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and for images that may disturb or disgust some readers.

READER DISCRETION ADVISED

Last week, as part in our journey to become doctors, we began a three-day dissection of a fetal pig. Fetal pigs are product produced by the slaughterhouses when they kill pregnant sows (female pigs), and their either sold to schools (for medical study) or discarded. Fetal pigs are used in dissections because of their similarities to humans, being a mammal, and for the fact that they are so well developed at the time of death.

Now, you might say that this cruel, but in order to learn more about ourselves, something has to give. As someone put, "Would you want a doctor that hasn't practiced first?" I say "no." It's in this way, although disturbing to some, that we learn not only about our bodies, but how it's able to function as an organic being.

Due to the terms of Google's Picasa service, I can only upload a the least explicit photographs.

Once again, what follows are some photographs that might disturb or disgust some readers.