Of photorespiring cats and ATP

[22:12] JamesPandLilyE: so my friends parents are huge dorks
[22:12] Katie Tanner: Somehow I can't see that poker game happening
[22:13] JamesPandLilyE: and her little brother is named Solon
[22:13] Katie Tanner: Oh really?
[22:13] Katie Tanner: Hahahhaaha
[22:13] JamesPandLilyE: and she is named Pallas
[22:13] JamesPandLilyE: and her othe sister is named Sage
[22:13] Katie Tanner: Oh, those poor, poor children
[22:13] JamesPandLilyE: *other
[22:13] JamesPandLilyE: I'm serious
[22:13] Katie Tanner: If I ever turn that dorky...lord help us all
[22:13] Katie Tanner: I'll have a kid named "carboxyl"
[22:13] Katie Tanner: or "kranz"
[22:14] Katie Tanner: or "drosera"
[22:14] JamesPandLilyE: my friends physics teacher wanted to name his kid Delta Flux
[22:14] Katie Tanner: or "ATP"
[22:14] JamesPandLilyE: but his wife vetoed it
[22:14] JamesPandLilyE: haha
[22:14] Katie Tanner: Thank goodness
[22:14] JamesPandLilyE: or have the initials be ATP
[22:14] Katie Tanner: Totally
[22:14] JamesPandLilyE: or like RNA
[22:14] Katie Tanner: And have them be a really lethargic, overweight kid
[22:14] JamesPandLilyE: SNURP
[22:14] Katie Tanner: SNURP!
[22:14] Katie Tanner: YESSSS!
[22:15] JamesPandLilyE: name your kid Snurp
[22:15] Katie Tanner: It's like smurf, but more important
[22:15] JamesPandLilyE: or Rubisco
[22:15] Katie Tanner: Or lac
[22:15] JamesPandLilyE: or Tryp
[22:16] Katie Tanner: I really want to see a comic about a tryptophant
[22:16] JamesPandLilyE: haha
[22:16] Katie Tanner: because it would be hilarious to like, only a couple people I know
[22:17] Katie Tanner: Maybe a sleepy elephant or something
[22:18] JamesPandLilyE: I'm totally blogging this conversation
[22:18] Katie Tanner: Hahaha. About how horribly dorky we are?
[22:18] Katie Tanner: It's okay, 'cause I'm totally photoshopping a sleepy elephant now
[22:23] Katie Tanner: I totally want this on a tshirt
[22:23] JamesPandLilyE: what does it say?
[22:23] Katie Tanner: Hang on, I'll show you
[22:24] Katie Tanner: (Link: http://pics.livejournal.com/spookee_eyez/pic/00008h58/s320x320)This
[22:24] JamesPandLilyE: the venn diagrams one?
[22:24] Katie Tanner: (Link: http://pics.livejournal.com/spookee_eyez/pic/00008h58)A bigger version
[22:25] Katie Tanner: Yes
[22:25] Katie Tanner: totally
[22:25] Katie Tanner: Well, I thought it was funny, anyway
[22:26] JamesPandLilyE: okay, if not a child, I'm still having a cat named Snurp
[22:27] Katie Tanner: Totally. and then it would slurp its milk and you could be like "Snurp, don't slurp" and only speak in rhyme
[22:27] Katie Tanner: I tried to do that once during conference. It was hard
[22:27] JamesPandLilyE: although I also wanted to have a cat named Noam
[22:27] JamesPandLilyE: or Chomsky
[22:27] JamesPandLilyE: because those are the best cat names ever
[22:28] JamesPandLilyE: or possibly Schrodinger
[22:28] JamesPandLilyE: Schrondinger would be a mean name for a cat
[22:30] Katie Tanner: Haha. Also, a little on the long side
[22:30] Katie Tanner: Chomsky and Snurp
[22:30] Katie Tanner: Would make a good pair
[22:32] JamesPandLilyE: pep carboxylase and rubisco, another pair
[22:32] JamesPandLilyE: you could call them pepsi and rubsi
[22:32] Katie Tanner: pepsi and rubi
[22:32] Katie Tanner: rubsi sounds funny
[22:32] Katie Tanner: but then, so does pep carboxylase for a cat
[22:33] JamesPandLilyE: you'd have to dye them green
[22:33] JamesPandLilyE: and together
[22:33] JamesPandLilyE: they could fight photorespiration!
[22:33] Katie Tanner: Or eat the grass in the yard, in a humourous turn of events
[22:34] Katie Tanner: which is sort of fighting photorespiration
[22:36] Katie Tanner: in a really dramatic sort of way
[22:49] Katie Tanner: (Link: http://pics.livejournal.com/spookee_eyez/pic/00009qtt)Success
[22:49] Katie Tanner: Oh god. It's like, the epitome of dorkdom
[22:49] JamesPandLilyE: hahahaha
[22:54] Katie Tanner: You know what would be awesome?
[22:54] JamesPandLilyE: what?
[22:54] Katie Tanner: To grow up to be one of those science geeks who grows up to edit song lyrics to sing about science
[22:55] Katie Tanner: I totally want to do that for a living if this dinosaur thing doesn't work out
[22:56] Katie Tanner: I did that for extra credit in AP Chem my junior year. I redid the lyrics for "Carol of the Bells" and my friend arranged it for horn, a couple clarinets, a sax, and an oboe. We roped in an alto and a soprano and we totally did a mini-concert in the classroom
[22:56] Katie Tanner: It was awesomely awesome
[22:58] JamesPandLilyE: sounds it
[22:58] JamesPandLilyE: have you heard the periodic table song?
[22:58] Katie Tanner: Yesss
[22:58] Katie Tanner: It's on my roadtrip mix...
[22:59] Katie Tanner: Um, wow. That sounds a lot dorkier when I say it like that
[22:59] Katie Tanner: What I meant to say was "Yes, I have heard of that song. It's quite amusing"[22:59] JamesPandLilyE: ha