gift

[opabinia]

The rat was given to me by a hot (and married, goddammit) Romainian doctor from NEMC. It's holding a vial that once contained $20,000 in Bone Morphogenic Protein 2. The aliquots of BMP-2 are now sitting in a -80 at the NEMC lab. I kept the vial after I was done with it, because it's the most ridiculously expensive shit I've ever pipetted. What if I had sneezed right after opening it?

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I had dinner with wsmith. That man is determined to take over the world, and he might just do it. Discipline moves mountains.

Comments

[panzerkunst.livejournal.com]

One New Year's Eve, he said I could have Italy.

[water-childe.livejournal.com]

If I could have a country I think I'd pick New Zealand.

[wsmith.livejournal.com]

Perhaps we could come some mutually beneficial arrangement?

[water-childe.livejournal.com]

::raised eyebrows::

mutually beneficial

Hmmmm. Well I know a bunch about holistic medicene and herbalolgy. I bake a pretty tasty bananna bread, know how to forge copper, silver, and iron, know how to weave cloth from scratch, sew (both by machine and by hand), have been told I'm not a bad dancer etc and so forth. What exactly are you looking for here?

[water-childe.livejournal.com]

**looks at previously made comment**

Oh, and I'm a really bad speller who seems to be have a bad habit of forgeting to use the spell checker consistantly. *bleh*

[wsmith.livejournal.com]

Well, as you are certainly aware, one cannot do everything alone. True world domination certainly requires a whole organization of minions and lackeys below them. That is not even discussing the requirements of running a massive empire. The organizational challenges are considerable. The first thing I need is a collection of intelligent, multi-talented minions to do my bidding vis-a-vis world domination. I've decided that I would rather choose from among people I know and respect rather than the seething mass of humanity; I'm sure the quality will be better this way. Once the world has been conquered, those who were among the first of my minions will reap the reqards. If you'd like to be governor of New Zealand, I'm sure we can talk.

[water-childe.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. You see there might be a slight conflict of interest in you employing me as a minion. I'm actually already an offical Minion of Nathan. I'm not sure why he needs to have so many minions, except to say I think we might all be sleeper agents. I spoke with dr_memory about this recently and he's of the opinion he might be willing do a sort of 'minion time share' but you'd have to chat it out.

[wsmith.livejournal.com]

Oh, and the metalwork sounds interesting. I dabble in casting at lower temperatures, but haven't had the opportunity to try forging as yet.

[water-childe.livejournal.com]

Lower temp casting sounds neat. What sort of metals, and under what conditions?