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(This user page to acquire some semblance of style soon...or eventually, anyway. Better look for some good userpage layouts to plagiarize.)

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[edit] Notes to Self

1. Quit slacking off on the internet
2. Buy some books
3. Check out the Semantic MediaWiki wiki
4. Think of things to remind yourself of

[edit] Trivia

"The world's largest desalination plant is located in Jubail, Saudi Arabia. This plant provides 50 percent of that country's drinking water by using reverse osmosis to desalinate seawater from the Persian Gulf. Such plants are becoming increasingly common in the United States. For example, in 1992 the city of Santa Barbara, California, opened a reverse-osmosis plant that can produce 8 million gallons of drinking water a day. Small-scale, manually operated reverse-osmosis desalinators are now also available for use in camping, traveling, and at sea."

"Certain substances that are electronically excited by radiation can also be used to detect and measure radiation. For example, some substances excited by radiation give off light as electrons return to their lower-energy states. These substances are called phosphors. Different substances respond to different particles. For example, zinc sulfide responds to alpha particles. In the past, dials of luminous watches were painted with a mixture of ZnS and a tiny quantity of RaSO₄. The ZnS emits visible light when struck by alpha particles from the radioactive decay of the radium, causing the dial to glow in the dark."

"In Goiânia, Brazil, in 1987 a cylinder containing cesium-137 was left in an abandoned medical clinic. It was discovered by unsuspecting townspeople, who were fascinated by the strange blue glow. The results were tragic: Four people died from radiation exposure, and 249 others were contaminated."

--ISBN 0-13-533480-2

"Some plasmids include an addiction system. These plasmids produce both a long-lived poison and a short-lived antidote. Daughter cells that retain a copy of the plasmid survive, while a daughter cell that fails to inherit the plasmid dies or suffers a reduced growth-rate because of the lingering poison from the parent cell. This is an example of plasmids as selfish DNA."

"Evolution does not necessarily result in optimum solutions. Rather, it favors workable solutions that can be derived from others that already exist." --ISBN 0-697-37560-9, page 226, introduction to the fundamental problem with RuBP carboxylase and photorespiration.

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Yadda yadda yadda, this page has been vandalized twice so far, by users which have since been banned. Hoorah. Thanks to those who caught and fixed said vandalism before I saw it. :)

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• commons me
• meta me (alliteration, hmmm...)
• wikibook me

• IP that I use via school which is often inconveniently blocked due to vandalism School blocking trouble now involves primarily this IP of late. check block status

• Hilarious show: Trailer Park Boys
• My favorite game ever: Fluxx
• The Awesomest Browser: Mozilla Firefox. You can download the latest version here, so as to bask in its awesomeness.

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