Unions killed the maid cafe!

[tsukikage]

So, apparently at the New York Anime Festival they had a maid cafe, but because of the unions there they weren't allowed to do anything resembling work like serving food, and there were actually union people there to make sure that they weren't doing any work. How lame is that?
Biology group homework is done, although I'm not sure how well we're going to do on it, and I can't figure out what our T.A.'s name is since One Stop is down. The latter problem, at least, can be fixed in the morning, and I'll do my best with the former.

Kuei, Jenny, Yichin Lee, and Nastassja Riemermann
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Biol 1001, section 60
(T.A.’s name)
Homework II

Part A

	hindwing (shape)	hindwing (pattern)	forewing	thorax	antennae	abdomen
A	curved	plain	curved	striped	long	plain
B	curved	plain	curved	plain	long	spotted
C	pointed	plain	serrated	plain	long	plain
D	pointed	spotted	curved	plain	short	plain
E	pointed	spotted	curved	plain	long	spotted

Part B


Part C
1. An outgroup is a species which is closely related to (shares a common ancestor with) the study group, but where the study group shares a common ancestor that it does not share with the outgroup.
2. The ancestral character trait for the hindwing is plain (or non-spotted), which we concluded because the outgroup as well as two of the four study group species have plain hindwings, and in the absence of contrary evidence it makes sense to assume an outgroup exhibits the most ancestral traits of the species in question.
3. Species C shares the ancestral traits of plain hindwings, long antennae, and a plain abdomen with the outgroup. These traits are considered ancestral because we assume that the outgroup shares the most traits with the common ancestor of A-E. The spotted abdomen derived character state helped us to place species C because species B, D, and E all share this state, and the principle of parsimony implies that it is most likely that this trait arose only once, which would make sense if species C is an outgroup to species B, D, and E. Assuming the striped thorax is the ancestral trait, the derived traits that C shares with the other species are the plain thorax and the pointed hindwing, although the pointed hindwing is an analogous trait.
4. If we didn't have an outgroup we could still use the simplicity criterion to choose a best hypothesis (i.e., the one with the fewest evolutionary steps), but we would have less evidence regarding the ancestral traits of the species, and thus the likelihood of our tree being the correct one would decrease.
5. There is no evidence of evolution or any changes.

Yup. *wanders off to bed for two hours before Dad gets me up to shovel*

P.S. I spent way too long making that cladogram, just so you know.
P.P.S. I learned how to do addition and subtraction with Doraemon today. :)

Comments

[akaneko.livejournal.com]

Bah! MAID CAFES ARE MADE OF SERVICE. SERVICE I SAY!

Unions that are awesome rock, but unions that are not awesome suck.

[tsukikage85.livejournal.com]

So, does is this union awesome or not?

[akaneko.livejournal.com]

Their action of preventing the running of an actual maid cafe is clearly made of lose. Maids are meant to serve me ice cream and talk keigo to me! If they cannot serve me ice cream then it is merely a mock-up of a maid cafe, not an actual maid cafe.

[carve037.livejournal.com]

If you are in a union job, you do not want people outside the union doing your job; if the company can get non-union people to do it, it renders your union powerless. This is exactly how it's supposed to work, and it pleases me to hear about any union that's retained that kind of power. I reckon the struggle of the working class outweighs your weeaboo maid cafe fetish.

[(Anonymous)]

How many maid cafes are there in New York? I have no doubt that there are any number of cafes, and any number of maids, but maid cafes are a very specific niche, and a temporary maid cafe at a con wouldn't be a long-lived business at all either for that matter. It's kinda useless to have people standing around watching people who are around anyway just to make sure they don't, god forbid, work.

I want ice cream from polite ladies in pretty costumes, dammit!

[carve037.livejournal.com]

I could wear a pretty costume and politely serve you ice cream.

[(Anonymous)]

Sweet!

[akaneko.livejournal.com]

How many maid cafes are there in New York? I have no doubt that there are any number of cafes, and any number of maids, but maid cafes are a very specific niche, and a temporary maid cafe at a con wouldn't be a long-lived business at all either for that matter. It's kinda useless to have people standing around watching people who are around anyway just to make sure they don't, god forbid, work.

I want ice cream from polite ladies in pretty costumes, dammit!

[carve037.livejournal.com]

Oh damn...thought I was responding to Nastassja above, hehe.

[akaneko.livejournal.com]

Gohoho!

Maybe we can compromise by having you wear a pretty costume and politely serve ice cream to both me and Nastassja.

[tsukikage85.livejournal.com]

There we go!

Augh! Why is the log-in thing hatin' on me? ToT

[akaneko.livejournal.com]

And anyways, looking at the website for the con, the maid at the maid cafe were volunteers. I think this would make it their weeaboo maid cafe festishes. :P

Re: Augh! Why is the log-in thing hatin' on me? ToT

[tsukikage85.livejournal.com]

How do you keep on not being logged in?

Re: Augh! Why is the log-in thing hatin' on me? ToT

[akaneko.livejournal.com]

I don't know~! ToT

Re: Augh! Why is the log-in thing hatin' on me? ToT

[tsukikage85.livejournal.com]

Wouldn't them being volunteers make it worse? "The non-union people are doing it for less than we get paid, threatening our jobs"?

[tsukikage85.livejournal.com]

* So, is

[killercherrypie.livejournal.com]

"How lame is that?"

It's HILARIOUS. The New York Anime Festival is full of lose for not checking into union and labor laws beforehand. There are reasons for these rules existing whether or not you like them preventing you from receiving food service from young women in fetish wear....I mean...maid costumes.

[akaneko.livejournal.com]

In future years they should TRY HARDER. *pout*

[tsukikage85.livejournal.com]

You know, you have a good point. To not have figured that out beforehand... Then again, I can't say I would have thought to check labor laws.

[akaneko.livejournal.com]

But, you're not a convention organizer-person, are you?

[tsukikage85.livejournal.com]

True, that I am not.

[carve037.livejournal.com]

She ain't no kind of organizer-person, stranger.