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Specifically 160 year old beer that was made for journeys into the arctic (Expeditions in 1852 and 1875 to be precise). The desk in the oval office is also supposedly made from wood from one of the ships that carried this beer.

160-year-old beer?

I don't even want to think about how that'll taste. Yuck.

And it's in my head again...

I just escaped Bevelle last night.

Pfft. Heck no.

Nothing is fresh around there. Bunch of crazy old dead people. Think they can run the world.

Well I'll show them!

Ahhh google translate, where would I be without you and your zany ability to parse words?



Yui said
The second Novo
Ren mm
Yogo Yoju
Well Ding
Do bestow

Yui said of the book first
We awarded our millimeter-Ren
Do bestow grant is now

We award our first pot of goodwill mm Yui bestow Kanae Do Well said



Edited, Apr 23rd 2012 10:11am by someproteinguy

The song is actually set up as something of a puzzle (that I only know from the FF wiki).

い　の　れ　よ　
え　ぼ　ん　ず　
ゆ　め　み　よ　
い　の　り　こ

はてな
さかえ
（Reverse these two lines)
く
た　ま　え

You get,
いのれえ、えぼんじゅ
ゆめみこ、えいのりこ
はてなく
さかえたまえ

Translation of that poem, courtesy of the wiki, is:
"Pray to Yu Yevon
Dream, Fayth
Forever and Ever
Grant Us Prosperity"



Watashi wa sakana ni kanji I know I should remember te aru aru sumu.

Okay, I didn't know that conjugation of "To like", so konomu.

And the kanji I forgot is seki, gate (I think I learned it as being used for door too?), which I should have remembered.

Didn't know aruaru meant that.

Put it all together... And I think you're being very, very dirty.

[EDIT]
私は= Watashi ha (wa) = I (am the subject of the statment)
éšã«= Sakana ni = Fish with a particle that denotes location or destination of an object or person.
関して = seki ***** = Gate with a word with different meanings depending on what the word follows (which is likely what is ******** up the auto-translate). In this case, I think its meaning is "by" as in "by <insert person>", with the person being the speaker.
あるある = aruaru = an exclamation of emphasis with many different meanings from "Of course" to "Not necessary".
好む = konomu = a conjugation of the verb "to like", which can mean that or "to prefer"

So I'm lost. The best I can guess is that he's making a comment about his preference for fish gates or something.

Edited, Apr 23rd 2012 3:25pm by idiggory

So not only is it in a foreign language, but it's a puzzle in a foreign language? Oh the complications.

On another note that no one will care about:

WHY ARE JOURNALS MAKING PEOPLE PUT IMPORTANT METHODS DETAILS IN SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIALS? DON'T THEY KNOW THAT MAKES IT REALLY REALLY HARD TO KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON?!!



yeah...

"Dear Die-ary, today I stuffed some dolls full of dead rats I put in the blender. I'm wondering if, maybe, there really is something wrong with me."

This makes me think of Alice Cooper's Welcome To My Nightmare.

******* great album.

That's actually something I want to do as a teacher. Well, the critical thinking part. I'll admit, I haven't taken a logic course. I probably should do that at some point.

The methods section of a paper usually contains all of the details of how a researcher did an experiment. What equipment, procedures, settings, software, etc. they used. The idea is they're supposed to give you enough information to be able to repeat the experiment in your lab. More recently though, this internet thing came around, and compared to the cost of the printed word putting something on the internet is pretty darn cheap.

So more cost-conscious journals have been shrinking the length of papers and moving details that used to be included in that section to 'online-only'. So you'll have a very brief description of what was done and then if you want more detail you'll have to go online and download additional files. Which is great unless you're trying to look at some of those details, then it just becomes a big waste of time. Add in the fact the files are usually an unorganized mess, and yeah you get the idea. It's kind of annoying when you can't get all the information you need just from the paper itself.

Anyway, I'm trying to see if some of the data we have lying around the lab is good enough to squeeze a publication out of. Which means I need to see if anyone has done something like this before. Which means I need to read and compare methods sections from similar projects.

Which means I get all grumpy.

Aww, that sucks.

Also, aren't scientific journals ridiculously expensive anyway? So wouldn't the cost efficiency part be a mostly moot argument even with the low amounts printed?