So what's your OTHER claim to fame?

[StudioShutIn]

I dunno whether to or

[jrmy]

i make components for surgical tools?

Pics or you're a call girl.

grab your ankles big boy...

I love how you've matched your surgical tools to your guitar.

[adrianlee]

Hahahahahahahahahahahaha

[dubkitty]

Coriolanus!

[Gearmond]

anus!

[dubkitty]

i've just thought for years that "Coriolanus" sounded like something that happens in the Castro.

[culturejam]

i write a lot of stuff journalism wise, have had my stuff nationally published.

Me too!!

I've been an editor at a ton of places, but my "claim to fame" is that I write for a national homebrew magazine called "Brew Your Own". I write DIY project articles so people can build their own brewing gear instead of overpay for it. Here's a random link to an article that the magazine put online:
http://www.byo.com/stories/projects-and ... k-projects

I've written maybe 25 or so articles for that magazine since around 2005. You can actually get this magazine at the big book store chains, which is always an ego booster.

I also participate in a homebrewing podcast called "Final Gravity", and you can get it for free through iTunes. Or, you can listen live during the actual show broadcast through Ustream. We're doing a live show this Saturday at 8pm Eastern if anyone wants to listen in. I'd give any ILF'er a big shoutout live on the show if they showed up in the chat room. Double props if you Skype or call in for a live talk.

The guy who runs the podcast is a brewer and a musician, and he has a great studio in his house. Here's the archive page:
http://www.finalgravitypodcast.com/archives.htm

My first appearance is Episode #11.5, and thereafter I'm in most of them.


I also have a lot of shit published that is sort of boring financial/accounting journalism articles, like this one:
http://www.nysscpa.org/trustedprof/607a/tp1.htm

And going further back, I edited and sometimes wrote for a retail trade publication. Here's an example:
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m ... n13760141/

[devnulljp]

I can sex fruit flies (most dipterans, and many other arthropods actually) does that count?
I used to dissect fruit fly brains for a living-- don't try that after a double shot espresso.
I once made a fly that was half male and half female ... poor thing was mightily confused.
Mapped so many genomes I've lost count ...
And I teach Aikido.

[snipelfritz]

I can sex fruit flies (most dipterans, and many other arthropods actually) does that count?

Gimme deets! Bonus points if they could pass for a Penthouse letter.

[dubkitty]

I wrote an reader-submitted op-ed piece that ran in the San Francisco Examiner in the late 90s.

[Dr. Sherman Sticks M.D.]

i took a poop today

[DarkAxel]

i took a poop today

This thread is done then

[devnulljp]

I can sex fruit flies (most dipterans, and many other arthropods actually) does that count?

Gimme deets! Bonus points if they could pass for a Penthouse letter.

Boom Chucka Wow Wow


And this mighty thing is the penis of Callosobruchus analis the bean weevil.
They practice what is called traumatic insemination ... he punctures the female's abdomen with that mace-looking thing. basically a combination of stabbing and rape.



of course, there's also the hemiperan Xylocaris maculipennis, close relative of the common old bedbug, that practices homosexual stabbing-rape. He stabs and inseminates other males while they're copulating and his sperm replaces that of the male doing the deed.

(All this incidentally is why I can't take those all things bright and beautiful people seriously....nature is fucking weird.)

[theactionindex]

They practice what is called traumatic insemination

Anyone without a legitimate claim to fame want to start a death metal band called "Traumatic Insemination" and create a claim to fame?

(I didn't realize nature was THAT fucked btw).

[dubkitty]

of course, there's also the hemiperan Xylocaris maculipennis, close relative of the common old bedbug, that practices homosexual stabbing-rape. He stabs and inseminates other males while they're copulating and his sperm replaces that of the male doing the deed.

now, that's metal