Well, of course I climbed atop the slab and I lay down on it
I am having a relatively miserable night, so I have been talking to ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
spatch about various things, including Sherlock Holmes, as one does, and I mentioned the perennial post that goes around about modern AU Holmes and how people are always trying to work out an equivalent for the cocaine habit where the key features are not merely a form of self-medication of which Watson disapproves but also a drug practice popularly considered physically and mentally beneficial and without missing a beat Rob immediately said, "Microdosing." And I hadn't seen that one in the wild yet, so I mention it here.
(In the interests of honesty, he wishes me to add that his first, semi-serious suggestion was kombucha: "It's trendy and people claim it's got super-ass benefits." I have zero difficulty picturing Holmes fermenting his own kombucha, with particular attention to cultivating his own distinctive strains of yeast and bacteria and explaining them to visitors and possibly not warning Watson sufficiently about how much the flat is going to smell like a combination laboratory-brewery, which is in fact what it now is. I don't believe the terrarium in which the vials of E. coli coexisted with the plates of Dictyostelium discoideum to which I fed them ever did cease to smell faintly like hundred-year-old gym socks. I feel nostalgic about it to this day. My parents, considerably less so.)
spatch about various things, including Sherlock Holmes, as one does, and I mentioned the perennial post that goes around about modern AU Holmes and how people are always trying to work out an equivalent for the cocaine habit where the key features are not merely a form of self-medication of which Watson disapproves but also a drug practice popularly considered physically and mentally beneficial and without missing a beat Rob immediately said, "Microdosing." And I hadn't seen that one in the wild yet, so I mention it here.(In the interests of honesty, he wishes me to add that his first, semi-serious suggestion was kombucha: "It's trendy and people claim it's got super-ass benefits." I have zero difficulty picturing Holmes fermenting his own kombucha, with particular attention to cultivating his own distinctive strains of yeast and bacteria and explaining them to visitors and possibly not warning Watson sufficiently about how much the flat is going to smell like a combination laboratory-brewery, which is in fact what it now is. I don't believe the terrarium in which the vials of E. coli coexisted with the plates of Dictyostelium discoideum to which I fed them ever did cease to smell faintly like hundred-year-old gym socks. I feel nostalgic about it to this day. My parents, considerably less so.)
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I'm not sure how old it is as a practice—I associate it originally with Silicon Valley, but it's mainstreamed significantly since then. As soon as
I could see Holmes dabbling with kombucha too. Some of the pictures I found of it online make it look like bad home-brewed bitter.
Original Japanese kombucha is an herbal tea brewed from kelp, which I would go for in a big way. Did you see the recent article about sea grain?
I'd forgotten you had a thing for slime moulds! There's something really loveable about the image of you pottering around with microscopic life. I can totally get that nostalgia.
Thank you! I took many pictures of myxamoebae and aggregations and fruiting bodies through my microscope. I will try to scan and post some of the better ones sometime. (The slime mold themselves were released humanely into the wild.)
Also *hugs* and hopes for a better day. Sending love.
*hugs*
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If you do ever get a chance to scan the micro-pictures, I'd love to see them!