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Making spider silk even stronger

tcr! · May 11, 2015 at 1:53 pm

Spiders Ingest Nanotubes, Then Weave Silk Reinforced with Carbon | MIT Technology Review

Spiders Ingest Nanotubes, Then Weave Silk Reinforced with Carbon

Spiders sprayed with water containing carbon nanotubes and graphene flakes have produced the toughest fibers ever measured, say materials scientists.

Spider silk is one of the more extraordinary materials known to science. The protein fiber, spun by spiders to make webs, is stronger than almost anything that humans can make.

Hopefully the spiders don’t get wind of this. I’m thinking start of Terminator, the Spider Edition.

#science #spiders

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tism tism · May 11, 2015 at 7:11 pm

That is so kewl.

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Jerk the Owl

tcr! · May 11, 2015 at 12:40 pm

#videos #jerks #naturerocks

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jimi hindrance experience jimi hindrance experience · May 12, 2015 at 10:42 am

did i say it one time?!! lmao

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tcr! tcr! · May 12, 2015 at 10:45 am

I love how the owl that stayed behind it looking down, thinking “that’s poop on my damn feet.”

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jimi hindrance experience jimi hindrance experience · May 12, 2015 at 11:05 am

These are the Swine by thejimihindranceexperience.

These are the Swine.

jts

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May 11th, 2015 at 8:39:15 am

tcr! · May 11, 2015 at 8:39 am

Frankenstein skull

#Frankenstein skull.

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jimi hindrance experience jimi hindrance experience · May 12, 2015 at 10:42 am

kewl

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May 11th, 2015 at 8:21:00 am

tcr! · May 11, 2015 at 8:21 am

Frankenstein blowing a bubble

#Frankenstein blowing a bubble.

#arts

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jimi hindrance experience jimi hindrance experience · May 12, 2015 at 10:43 am

kewewwl!

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May 10th, 2015 at 4:53:31 pm

tcr! · May 10, 2015 at 4:53 pm

You deserve a donut box

Peeps, donuts are prob why I can’t loose weight.

#photos #donuts

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jimi hindrance experience jimi hindrance experience · May 12, 2015 at 10:43 am

donuts gud

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May 10th, 2015 at 9:19:47 am

tcr! · May 10, 2015 at 9:19 am

Thank a uterus today

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jimi hindrance experience jimi hindrance experience · May 12, 2015 at 10:49 am

trust me, lois with a few beer under her belt on tuesday afternoon is not something i want to thank.

i sorta misappropriated this line from “Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf?” starring Burton/Taylor. up until “August: Osage County” depicted my mom in glorious color, the Burton/Taylor pic was the definitive reference on my parent’s marriage.

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tcr! tcr! · May 13, 2015 at 9:52 am

Ya, I was thinking about how you’d probably rather not thank Lois as I was posting this. :-D

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5th graders watch Aliens with a dad

tcr! · May 10, 2015 at 7:53 am

Aliens movie poster

Notes on watching “Aliens” for the first time again, with a bunch of kids

Captain’s log: eight fifth graders, one adult, one James Cameron movie.

For his 11th birthday, my son asked if he could have a slumber party. He invited seven other fifth-grade boys. They played video games for a couple of hours, ate pizza, then said they wanted to watch a movie. They’d seen every comic book movie multiple times. Seen all the Indiana Jones films. Star Wars. Anything with a hobbit in it. The usual 11-year old boy options, circa 2015, weren’t going to work.

So I suggested “Aliens,” thinking, “Well, it’s exciting, and even if they haven’t see the first one, the movie tells the story well enough that you won’t be confused about who Ripley is and what’s at stake for her.”

They agreed (some of them had seen the first one anyway, and nearly all had seen at least one film with a xenomorph in it) and so we watched it together. And as we watched, I realized again that while unfortunately you can’t see a great movie again for the first time, the next-best thing is to show it to people who’ve never seen it.

jimi, I thought of you when I read this article a while back.

#movies #aliens

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May 9th, 2015 at 4:55:52 pm

tcr! · May 9, 2015 at 4:55 pm

Wine colored bush with teeny yellow flowers

Peeps, the pokey wine-colored bush with teeny yellow flowers says, “Hello there” in his best Barry White voice.

#photos #flowers

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jimi hindrance experience jimi hindrance experience · May 10, 2015 at 8:50 am

oh yeah

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Good Fortune by PJ Harvey

tcr! · May 8, 2015 at 11:13 am

Peeps, here’s your Friday video…

I love this woman.

Threw my bad fortune
Off the top of
A tall building
But I’d rather have done it with you

Your boy’s smile
Five in the morning
Looked into your eyes
And I was really in love

In Chinatown
Hungover
You showed me
Just what I could do

Talking about
Time travel
And the meaning
And just what it was worth

And I feel like some bird of paradise
My bad fortune slipping away
And I feel the innocence of a child
Everybody’s got something good to say

Things I once thought
Unbelievable
In my life
Have all taken place

When we walked through
Little Italy
I saw my reflection
Come right off your face

I paint pictures
To remember
You’re too beautiful
To put into words

Like a gypsy
You dance in circles
All around me
And all over the world

And I feel like….

So I take my
Good fortune
And I fantasize
Of our leaving
Like some modern-day
Gypsy landslide

Like some modern-day
Bonnie and Clyde
On the run again

#musicvideos #pjharvey

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tcr! tcr! · May 8, 2015 at 11:42 am

I think that one of reasons I adore her so much is that magical, fantastical love that she sings of. That “running away with you” love. I had that once with a girl named Mary. When I was with her, it was always reckless, uninhibited, passionate, unforgiving. We answered to no one.

“Baby, baby ain’t it true…I’m immortal when I’m with you.”

After our first date, I pulled up at her place to drop her off. She looked at me from the passenger seat and shyly said, “I want a kiss.”

We only dated for about three months and maybe that’s why I miss her. Being honest and realistic, we never got to the part in the relationship where we hated each other. Maybe not everybody gets there but I always seem to. :-D

And we kissed all the time. Intensely.

We were stopped at a red light intersection on a highway once, making out in my black Mustang. The light turned green but we didn’t stop or go. As the cars went around, some of them honked angrily, others whistled, other cheered. It was, still is, one of the best moments of my life.

PJ Harvey’s songs bring all those memories back.

And this is all good material for Book II.

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jimi hindrance experience jimi hindrance experience · May 9, 2015 at 12:06 am

GOD BLESS YOU. i mean that as sincerely as capital letters allow. sooo much of what you wrote is the word. i’ve dated some mary’s. i’ll try to relate a story or 2 about ‘em. it’s one of the nuggets of corn you can glean from the mountain of horseshit in marianne w’s canon: LOVE IS MAGICAL. it literally casts a spell. a spell like the fiction of love songs and movies, only real.

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tism tism · May 9, 2015 at 2:36 am

1000% yes.

Before the twisty gymnastics got involved I remember having the innocent necking dreams. The steamy heat, the fumbling, the tripping heart beats. Two heat seeking beings and the thought of
those lips. Always the lips.

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May 8th, 2015 at 8:22:37 am

tcr! · May 8, 2015 at 8:22 am

Creeps and Weirdos bus

Creeps and Weirdos bus — I should/would like to take this work.

#worknews #trafficnews

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