Quotes: Richard Carrier.

"God needs blood to fix the universe, but only his own blood had enough magical power to do it, so he gave himself a body and then killed it." - Richard Carrier.

Drat, still under the weather.

It's not a bad sickness, but sadly it going to stop me from donating blood again.

Drat. Slight sore throat, so I keep my blood.

I was looking forward to donating blood on Darwin Day. But, my nephew got me minorly sick (it's not even very uncomforable) but it's still an illness and therefore no phlebotomists.

Darwin's Day is coming up!

Prepare the festivities. Waiting on pins and needles. I'm set to donate blood that day, so I guess it's just needles for me.

Sarah Connor Chronicles: Genetics

Not that much for genetics, though the rest is pretty stellar.


- Medic: "He's lost a lot of blood"

- Robot: "Sarah Connor is O-. Universal donor."

- Medic: "He needs at least three pints of his own blood type: AB-"

- John: "Test mine."


If your mother is O, the chance you're AB is 0%. My mother is AB the chance that I could be O is 0%. You get one gene or the other, if you have no gene to give you have O. Regardless what version of the gene John got from his father, his mother doesn't have the other gene to give him. With a mother who has AB, I can have A, B, or AB. Depending on my father's blood type (B heterozygous). I have B.

John, ofcourse, had the right blood type. This forces me to conclude that John's mother is not Sarah Connor. -- Odd. I understand the switching to a new timeline, but why exactly are they changing facts established prior to John's conception?

Update:
A commenter informed me of a good explanation of this.

Linda Hamilton's Sarah Connor must have had a blood type to allow John to have AB- whereas Lena Headey's Sarah Connor has type O- blood. The mother currently in this show is clearly different than the mother who gave birth to him; everything makes perfect sense now.

Darwin Day Tomorrow... Bow before your God!

(via Skepchick)

199th Darwin Day is tomorrow (actually it would just be Darwin's 199th birthday and hardly similar, also 199th Lincoln's birthday too). Remember, desecration of the Bible is Mandatory. Drinking the blood of Christian babies is canceled (due to increase awareness via Saint Dawkins we were going to drink the blood of "children of Christian parents" but then a lot of atheists are children of Christian parents and that kind of weirded people out, the suggestion of drinking wine and just saying it was blood was blasted on the grounds that "nobody could be that stupid").

Hallowed are the Ori.
Read the book of Origin!

Donating Blood

I donated blood the other day, and one of the questions struck me as odd.

Have you ever had sex with a hemophiliac?

I know, during the 1970s a lot of hemophiliacs got HIV, and they are certainly a high risk group. But, since gay sex had been ruled out a few questions before this, this implies I would need to have slept with a female hemophiliac.

Female hemophiliacs are 1 in 100,000,000 and usually die at the onset of puberty. So not only would I have to scour the planet to find one, I would need to have sex with a prepubescent girl. Which by the way, would mean she was born in the late 1990s long after they fixed the blood supply that gave hemophiliacs HIV!

To answer yes to that question, would require pedophilia, crap loads of luck, and even then wouldn't imply any difference in safety.

Of less entertaining value they started calling Mad Cow Disease, "Mad Cow Disease." -- Apparently nobody knows what Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is.