aaron lee

So I know it’s been a while since I’ve posted on here. My profuse apologies. A recent conversation with a labmate late at night prompted me to post this snippet:

• friend: So as a medical professional, what do you think about dipping your feet in a bucket of your own urine to get rid of foot fungus?
• me: What?! You can’t be serious!
• friend: Here let me show you… <goes on internet> Look! There’s a post here on a speed reading site on “putting my feet in urine to get rid of fungus.”
• me: Please tell me that you’re not taking serious medical advice from a speeding site on the Internet.
• friend: Oh shit.
• me: What now?
• friend: What do you think they do for systemic fungus?

<context: morning>

chris: Hwei, do you want to wear something over your legs? Here’s my shirt.

katy: Chris, can you cover your face? You’re stumbling me.

teacher: Make benefits a little worse than employee’s spouses.

While doing some reading for class I came across this quote:

Mother’s kiss technique—A child presented to a clinic with a plastic bead lodged high in one nostril. The general practitioner asked the nurse for forceps, but she asked him whether he had thought of trying the mother’s kiss technique. This entailed occluding the unblocked nostril while the mother blew into the child’s mouth. The bead was easily dislodged and retrieved in this way, and mother and child were both delighted…

Glasziou et al. When are randomised trials unnecessary? Picking signal from noise. BMJ (2007) vol. 334 (7589) pp. 349-51

A lot of people I’ve met have ridiculously long list of things that their future significant other should or shouldn’t be like. I, on the other hand, have a simple criteria.

I have to say that I only really thought of one person when I saw this photo (note the license plate):

from flickr

Be prepared to receive something special with no strings attached.

I came across another joke:A professor told dirty jokes in class and the women wanted to protest it. So they decided that in the next time that the professor will start with these kind of jokes they all will leave the class as a protest.Somehow the professor heard about the plan.In the next lecture, in the beginning of the lecture he said: “In Sweden a prostitute makes $2000 per night.”All the women stood up and started to leave the class. So he shouted after them: “Where are you going? The plane to Sweden doesn’t take off until the day after tomorrow.”From netfunny.com

My brother and I were having an “honest” discussion about women and their role in society, and he told me a joke that I wanted to share:Why do women have smaller feet than men?Answer: So that they can stand closer to the stove.

My brother and I were hanging out and doing some studying when he showed me a description about this psychology experiment that was done. Apparently this psychologist showed Americans a mix of food and tools and asked them to separate them into categories. Of course they separated them into a pile of food and a pile of tools.The same thing was done with a group of Africans, and they separated them into a few different categories: potatoes with the hoe, oranges with a knife, etc. When they were asked why they grouped them in that way, they responded, “Because that’s how a wise man would categorize them.” When asked what a fool would do, they proceeded to separate the mix into a pile of food and a pile of tools.What has consumerism done to America?