Hi! Midwesterner, USA. Physics PhD nerd. Astronomy geek. Crafty. TV lover: Supernatural. J2. Orphan Black. Game of Thrones. Doctor Who. Sherlock. The Middle. Jane the Virgin. The Good Wife. iZombie.
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My biggest recommendation would be to take a note from your doctor explaining your dietary restrictions to someone at your college- probably someone in the accessibility office or someone in charge of the food service. My sister cannot have gluten and tried to just get by her first year, but she could eat almost nothing on her meal plan as it was almost all processed food containing wheat in some form. It was an incredible waste of money as she had to buy so much stuff herself. The second year she talked to the school and got it fixed that she was able to get meals from a different dining room on her campus (that was for faculty and not included in the meal plan) that provided her with lots of fresh food (fruits and veggies) and meat, etc.
It was a pain to get straightened out, but well worth it in the long run.
As for snacks/ quick meals, depending on the size of your Walmart, some are getting quite a selection of Walmart brand gluten free products that are cheaper than others. I know my sister’s had their cookies and likes them.
This fall I will be heading off to college and while I will be on the full meal plan I definitely will need to supplement. I will have a small fridge and access to a microwave a target store and a Walmart store. I will be on a very limited budget. I also cannot eat dairy, gluten, coconut, nuts or onion and will be very limited as far as time is concerned. Any ideas of what I should stock up on for easy snacks and meals?
any thoughts, followers?
wellcometothedarkside:
spn spoilers 11x22 yes exactly if this were a fic it would be a very badfic
This episode is a great example of what ‘writing yourself into a corner’ means.
It comes out as incomprehensible gobbledegook.
Love the “family portrait” group shots
Star Wars: Behind the Scenes Part 2
1976-1983
Part 1
The more that Supernatural is about Sam and Dean the better it is.
Eric Kripke (via brotherslovershunters)
The show also regularly references the night of the week it airs on, and ‘Mystery Spot” originally aired on a Tuesday.
Someone already probably pointed this out but the reason Dean dies on Tuesday in Mystery Spot is because Tuesday is “The Day the Music Died.”
On February 3, 1959, Ricky Valenz, Buddy Holly, and JP Richardson all died in a plane crash. The plane they were in was named “American Pie.” Knowing Kripke’s love for Rock n Roll history, it makes sense why Tuesday was the chosen day.
I’m sure this is like common SPN knowledge but I just learned about it today and wanted to share ^^
NASA Technology in Your Life
How does NASA technology benefit life on Earth? It probably has an impact in more ways than you think! Since 1976, our Spinoff program has profiled nearly 2,000 space technologies that have transformed into commercial products and services. In celebration of Spinoff’s 40th year of publication, we’ve assembled a collection of spinoffs that have had the greatest impact on Earth.
Take a look and see how many you utilize on a regular basis:
Digital Image Sensors
Whether you take pictures and videos with a DSLR camera or a cell phone, or even capture action on the go with a device like a GoPro Hero, you’re using NASA technology. The CMOS active pixel sensor in most digital image- capturing devices was invented when we needed to miniaturize cameras for interplanetary missions. This technology is also widely used in medical imaging and dental X-ray devices.
Enriched Baby Formula
While developing life support for Mars missions, NASA-funded researchers discovered a natural source for an omega-3 fatty acid previously found primarily in breast milk that plays a key role in infant development. The ingredient has since been added to more than 90% of infant formula on the market and is helping babies worldwide develop healthy brains, eyes and hearts.
NASTRAN Software
NASTRAN is a software developed by our engineers that performs structural analysis in the 1960s. Still popular today, it’s been used to help design everything from airplanes and cars to nuclear reactors and even Disney’s Space Mountain roller coaster.
Food Safety Standards
Looking to ensure the absolute safety of prepackaged foods for spaceflight, we partnered with the Pillsbury Company to create a new, systematic approach to quality control. Now known as Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP), the method has become an industry standard that benefits consumers worldwide by keeping food free from a wide range of potential chemical, physical and biological hazards.
Neutral Body Posture Specifications
What form does the human body naturally assume when all physical influences, including the pull of gravity, stop affecting it? We conducted research to find out using Skylab, America’s first space station, and later published specifications for what it called neutral body posture. The study has informed seat designs in everything from airplanes and office chairs to several models of Nissan automobiles.
Advanced Water Filtration
We recently discovered unexpected sources of water on the moon and Mars, but even so, space remains a desert for human explorers, and every drop must be recycled and reused. A nano filter devised to purify water in orbit is currently at work on Earth, in devices that supply water to remote villages as well as in a water bottle that lets hikers and adventurers stay hydrated using streams and lakes.
Swimsuit Designs
Wind-tunnel testing at our Langley Research Center played a key role in the development of Speedo’s LZR Racer swimsuit, proving which materials and seams best reduced drag as a swimmer cuts through the water. The swimsuit made a splash during its Olympic debut in 2008, as nearly every medal winner and world-record breaker wore the suit.
Air Purifier
When plants grow, they release a gas called ethylene that accelerates decay, hastening the wilting of flowers and the ripening of fruits and vegetables. Air circulation on Earth keeps the fumes from building up, but in the hermetically sealed environment of a spacecraft, ethylene poses a real challenge to the would-be space farmers. We funded the development of an ethylene scrubber for the International Space Station that has subsequently proved capable of purifying air on Earth from all kinds of pathogens and particulates. Grocery stores use it to keep produce fresh longer. It’s also been marketed for home use and has even been embraced by winemakers, who employ the scrubber to keep aging wine in barrels free from mold, mildew and musty odors.
Scratch-Resistant, UV-Reflective Lenses
Some of the earliest research into effective scratch-resistant coatings for prescription and sunglass lenses drew from work done at Ames Research Center on coatings for astronaut helmet visors and plastic membranes used in water purification systems. In the 1980s, we developed sunlight-filtering lenses to provide eye protection and enhance colors, and these lenses have found their way into sunglasses, ski goggles and safety masks for welders.
Dustbuster
An Apollo-era partnership with Black & Decker to build battery-operated tools for moon exploration and sample collection led to the development of a line of consumer, medical and industrial hand-held cordless tools. This includes the popular Dustbuster cordless vacuum.
To see even more of our spinoff technologies, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/offices/oct/40-years-of-nasa-spinoff
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That’s not the way you walk in real life, is it? Neal Caffrey is one of the few characters on television where you would remark on the way he walks.
No, my god. I wish I was that kind of peacock. Yeah, I locked myself in our guest room for about – I would say like 2 or 3 weeks working on that. And then I would walk around my block and the house. I only had one suit to my name when I got this job – maybe two. And I would put it on and walk around my block. I’m sure I looked like a complete loon in L.A. But I would walk around just figuring out how he moved through the world. We hadn’t even filmed the pilot, but I knew a lot of it was going to play in masters and us walking around together, so I figured I should figure out that part of his physicality. - Matt Bomer [13:00]
Fuck all the monsters and shit, the Winchesters will probably end up dying due to the fact DEAN CANT KEEP HIS EYES ON THE FUCKING ROAD
I miss kim manners, I felt 100% better about the world with him in it
Ugggghhh. I can’t even. NO.
That time when Scott Walker compared American workers like teachers and firefighters to brutal ISIS terrorists.
One scene from Brother’s Keeper with captions for the Wincest-impaired.
There are 2 gateway drugs to science - dinosaurs and space.
My astronomy professor
(via coffeeforcollege)
accurate
(via thedoubleclicks)
1x22 “Devil’s Trap” “I always wanted to be a fireman when I grew up.”
This will forever be one of those lines that for the casual viewer may sound like a throwaway line and a nice little detail about Dean’s childhood. It will always however be one of those lines that will always be among the most tragic ones too, because god knows we all know why Dean dreamed of becoming a fireman at a time when his father was already hunting, but he was too young to grasp what his father was doing. Because even when Dean was a small child he wanted to save lives, protect others and not just from anything, but from fire. Because that was what ripped his family apart as far as he as a kid could make any sense of. Because he didn’t know about monsters, about angels and demons. What he remembered was that there was a fire and that it killed his mom and in many ways his dad and most of all his childhood too…
P: So the thing is, I think that maybe I might be having feelings. Like weird, weird feelings for… *pretzels.*
H: Pretzels? Okay. Well, they’re right here… when you want them.
A scene from Slash Fiction with captions.
Because I HATE the seasonal obligatory brother fights.
