{"id":24,"date":"2007-06-29T13:22:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-29T13:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2007\/06\/29\/tagged-im-it\/"},"modified":"2007-06-29T13:22:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-29T13:22:00","slug":"tagged-im-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2007\/06\/29\/tagged-im-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Tagged! I&#8217;m It."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family:verdana\">Well, I&#8217;ve heard of <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/arabidopsis.info\/students\/paaras\/transposable_elements.htm\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana\">transposon tagging<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family:verdana\">, but I&#8217;ve never personally been <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/endogenousretrovirus.blogspot.com\/2007\/06\/oh-dear-tagged-twice.html\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana\">tagged by an ERV <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family:verdana\">before. Yes, the &#8216;8 Random Things About You&#8217; game has arrived! I feel so validated.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family:verdana\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family:verdana\">Here are the rules:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family:verdana\">We have to post these rules before we give you the facts. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family:verdana\">Players start with eight random facts\/habits about themselves.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family:verdana\">People who are tagged need to write their own blog about their eight things and post these rules.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family:verdana\">At the end of your blog, you need to choose eight people to get tagged and list their names.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family:verdana\">Don&#8217;t forget to leave them a comment telling them they&#8217;re tagged, and to read your blog. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-family:verdana\">I am almost embarrassingly excited about the new Harry Potter book. I have it pre-ordered from Amazon and it&#8217;s due to arrive on my doorstep on the day it&#8217;s released. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family:verdana\">My house is full of unread New Scientist magazines. I got a subscription when I left the lab 2 years ago, and it helped inspire me to start writing my own articles on this blog. But now that I&#8217;m spending all this time writing and reading blogs, I don&#8217;t have time to read New Scientist.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family:verdana\">I hate melon. Every kind of melon. Yes, even water melon. I wish I could like it &#8211; it looks yummy &#8211; and I occasionally try a piece to see if I still hate it. I always do. I don&#8217;t even like eating other food that&#8217;s been stored in the fridge with a cut-up melon. My Grandma was the same way with cucumber and I think the two species are quite closely related.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family:verdana\">I was extremely, painfully, shy at school. I was bullied quite a bit for being a &#8220;swot&#8221; (like the British for geek\/nerd, but with slightly different connotations). Once, when I was about 14, I purposely got some questions wrong on a minor German test. When the scores were read out, I was relieved not to be at the top of the class where I would attract attention and verbal abuse. Instead, I attracted lots of cat calling and &#8220;you&#8217;re not so clever now, are you? Think you&#8217;re so great mumble mumble mumble&#8221; comments. Realising I was screwed either way, I never pulled that trick again. I kept my head down, studied hard, and got the hell out of there. At university I discovered beer, and a class full of people who thought being smart was a good thing, and I stopped being so shy. I think I&#8217;ve had the last laugh.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family:verdana\">My favourite film <em>should<\/em> be Amelie. That&#8217;s what I tell people when I&#8217;m trying to sound intelligent. It really is a fantastic movie. But my actual favourite is Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Whoever cast Sean Connery as Indy&#8217;s father is a genius. I also enjoyed The Prestige, mostly because I think cloning Hugh Jackman is a really really good idea.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family:verdana\">My fiance is one of the (probably) very small number of people in the world who have their name in the acknowledgements of a scientific paper as well as in the credits of a movie. I can take partial credit for the scientific paper, but the movie was all his own work.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family:verdana\">I used to be really quite decent at the classical guitar. I once did a very short solo in the middle of a group piece in front of around 1000 people (other students&#8217; parents) and didn&#8217;t screw up. I would probably still be quite good if I wasn&#8217;t so lazy about practising. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family:verdana\">One of my biggest regrets is that I never got to see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newcastle-online.com\/nufcplayers\/alanshearer.shtml\">Alan Shearer <\/a>play for Newcastle United (yes, really). Every time I managed to get tickets (not often, due to price and the necessity of queuing at 5 am), he was injured. I had tickets for a game last Christmas when he was one or two goals away from breaking the all-time club scoring record. <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/sport1\/hi\/football\/eng_prem\/4537752.stm\">The game was cancelled <\/a>25 minutes before kick-off due to snow. We were already in the ground, and I got to see Big Al throw a snowball. I would have given anything to be there <a href=\"http:\/\/nufc.com\/2005-06html\/2006-02-04portsmouth-h.html\">when he broke that record<\/a>. Instead, I was back in Canada. I&#8217;m depressed now just thinking about it.<\/span> <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:verdana\">OK, who should I tag? Probably people who&#8217;ve linked to me in the past. That ought to teach them. I have to run off to work now, but I&#8217;ll be adding names to this post soon!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:verdana\">Here we go: <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/genomicron.blogspot.com\/\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana\">Genomicron<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family:verdana\">, <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulbegley.com\/\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana\">Begley Web Log<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family:verdana\">, <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/monado2.blogspot.com\/\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana\">Science Notes<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family:verdana\">, <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/divineafflatus.blogspot.com\/\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana\">The Divine Afflatus<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family:verdana\">, <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/planetatheism.com\/\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana\">Planet Atheism<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family:verdana\">, <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/clock\/\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana\">A Blog Around the Clock<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family:verdana\">, <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/everything-more.blogspot.com\/\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana\">Everything and More<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family:verdana\">, and <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/monkeytrials.blogspot.com\/\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana\">Monkey Trials<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family:verdana\"> (the latter hasn&#8217;t linked to me, but I really like the blog) &#8211; you&#8217;re it!<\/span><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ndsu.edu\/instruct\/mcclean\/plsc731\/transposon\/tag4.htm\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I&#8217;ve heard of transposon tagging, but I&#8217;ve never personally been tagged by an ERV before. 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