<p>I had never even heard of Dungeons and Dragons before this. One of the articles I read said that her brother also liked it.</p>
<p>So, did the gun run out of bullets, or did it just jam?</p>
<p>I played D&D one summer and could easily have met dh that way. Instead I met him playing pinball. (I have to admit I found D&D boring, but my older son plays and I’m not expecting him to turn into a murderer.)</p>
<p>It’s just a board game. Players create characters like warriors and wizards and then use dice to determine what happens in quests, battles, etc. It was hugely popular about 25 years ago and is still fairly popular today. I must say, I’m surprised anyone could not have heard of it.</p>
<p>I thought it was a video game.</p>
<p>Ala. shooting suspect brilliant, but social misfit</p>
<p>By JAY LINDSAY
The Associated Press
Saturday, February 20, 2010; 4:05 PM </p>
<p>BOSTON – Amy Bishop’s intelligence was never debatable. Even as a child, she didn’t hesitate to tell people when they were wrong. As she grew older, earned a Harvard Ph.D and claimed a genius IQ of 180, her brilliance could come with a bluntness, condescension and volatile self-righteousness. </p>
<p>It was all on display in 2002 when she yelled, “I am Dr. Amy Bishop!” as she belted a woman at a Massachusetts restaurant in a fight over a child’s booster seat. </p>
<p>Eight years later, the neurobiologist was denied tenure at an Alabama university, a failure her husband and her attorney said played a role in a shooting rampage that left three of Bishop’s colleagues dead and three others injured. </p>
<p>More: [url=<a href=“http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/20/AR2010022001849.html]washingtonpost.com[/url”>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/20/AR2010022001849.html]washingtonpost.com[/url</a>]</p>
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<p>From: [Ala</a>. shooting suspect brilliant, but social misfit - washingtonpost.com](<a href=“http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/20/AR2010022001849_2.html]Ala”>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/20/AR2010022001849_2.html)</p>
<p>Doesn’t know her birthday?</p>
<p>I played it as a text game in the 1970s. You could modify the game with a text editor.</p>
<p>Seth Bishop: He ‘loved us to distraction’</p>
<p>By Cathy Conley
GateHouse News Service
Posted Feb 20, 2010 @ 06:13 PM
Last update Feb 20, 2010 @ 06:28 PM
Braintree — This article was printed in the Dec. 17, 1986 Braintree Forum after an interview with the family of Amy Bishop.
Seth Bishop couldn’t think of a thing he wanted for Christmas.</p>
<p>This is probably because he already had everything that was important to him.</p>
<p>He was the core of the family that loved him as much as any family could love a son or brother.</p>
<p>And that’s all that mattered to him.</p>
<p>Just as extras, he was an accomplished musician and a brilliant scholar.</p>
<p>Even though he didn’t know what he wanted for Christmas, holiday shopping together was a family tradition.</p>
<p>So, on Saturday afternoon, Dec. 6, Seth was going Christmas shopping with his mother Judy, his father Sam and his sister Amy.</p>
<p>He was carrying in groceries before his trip to the Plaza, when a horrifying accident occurred in the kitchen of his home on Hollis Avenue.</p>
<p>And in the fraction of a second his life was taken.</p>
<p>How can a family carry on when its core has been shattered?</p>
<p>More: [Seth</a> Bishop: He ?loved us to distraction’ - Braintree, MA - Braintree Forum](<a href=“http://www.wickedlocal.com/braintree/news/x640758690/Seth-Bishop-He-loved-us-to-distraction]Seth”>http://www.wickedlocal.com/braintree/news/x640758690/Seth-Bishop-He-loved-us-to-distraction)</p>
<p>The part about crushing the bird egg really touched me.</p>
<p>Re: Post 1046, so now this genius has allegedly created so much misery for the families of those that she has harmed/killed, including hurting her own family.</p>
<p>For Professor, Fury Just Beneath the Surface
By SHAILA DEWAN, STEPHANIE SAUL and KATIE ZEZIMA
Published: February 20, 2010
This article is by Shaila Dewan, Stephanie Saul and Katie Zezima.</p>
<p>Not long after Amy Bishop was identified as the professor who had been arrested in the shooting of six faculty members at the University of Alabama in Huntsville on Feb. 12, the campus police received a series of reports even stranger than the shooting itself.</p>
<p>Several people with connections to the university’s biology department warned that Dr. Bishop, a neuroscientist with a Harvard Ph.D., might have booby-trapped the science building with some sort of “herpes bomb,” police officials said, designed to spread the dangerous virus.</p>
<p>Only people who had worked with Dr. Bishop would know that she had done work with the herpes virus as a post-doctoral student and had talked about how it could cause encephalitis. She had also written an unpublished novel in which a herpes-like virus spreads throughout the world, causing pregnant women to miscarry.</p>
<p>More: [Amy</a> Bishop, Professor Arrested in Shooting, Was Prone to Volatile Reactions, Colleagues Say - NYTimes.com](<a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/21/us/21bishop.html]Amy”>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/21/us/21bishop.html)</p>
<p>She sounds really unstable…</p>
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<p>The NYT article says that Mr Anderson raised 1.25 million dollars to develop the cell incubator. Not chump change. Wonder how much went to pay his salary? Wonder how much is left?</p>
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<p>What makes you say that?</p>
<p>The 1986 article about Seth Bishop made me very sad.</p>
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<p>Well, for one thing, she can’t hold down a job.</p>
<p>I think toblin was dripping in sarcasm…</p>
<p>Re: the article about Seth Bishop</p>
<p>What a wonderful young man! My heart is aching for him and all the victims and their friends and families. My heart also goes out to Sam and Judy Bishop who must face this horror their daughter committed and probably will be required to relive the death of their son. (sounds like Braintree PD and State police will thoroughly review the investigation and I bet they will reinterview the parents.)</p>
<p>Also from the NY Times article:</p>
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