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I am almost too tired to think. Considering I have to get up at stupid o'clock tomorrow in order to compensate for the Red Line's suspension of service from Alewife on the weekends, this is probably a good thing.
Apparently I spoke about exiled, dispossessed, and alienated characters in reasonably coherent sentences while on the edge of a migraine, although I have this memory of rabbiting on about kataphasis and apophasis that I can only hope was edifying, because I have my doubts about its relevance to the conversation.
Bob Kuhn is no relation to any of the people I know by that name, but I want to hear his Roman-numeral version of Tom Lehrer's "New Math."
I finally caught an episode of the Post-Meridian Radio Players' Red Shift: Interplanetary Do-Gooder. It was terrific. I left wanting to go home and tune up my radio telescope.
(. . . I have a radio telescope. It's in the side yard. It was a high school science project. I'm still prouder of the incubator full of E. coli-fed cellular slime mold. They were beautiful.)
Sitting in the row in front of me at the show was the actress who plays Abalyn in Kyle Cassidy's photo series and video of Caitlín's The Drowning Girl—I recognized her from stills. If only the book were out, I could have asked her for an autograph.
You who know who you are, thank you. I'm still working on everything. But it matters.
Apparently I spoke about exiled, dispossessed, and alienated characters in reasonably coherent sentences while on the edge of a migraine, although I have this memory of rabbiting on about kataphasis and apophasis that I can only hope was edifying, because I have my doubts about its relevance to the conversation.
Bob Kuhn is no relation to any of the people I know by that name, but I want to hear his Roman-numeral version of Tom Lehrer's "New Math."
I finally caught an episode of the Post-Meridian Radio Players' Red Shift: Interplanetary Do-Gooder. It was terrific. I left wanting to go home and tune up my radio telescope.
(. . . I have a radio telescope. It's in the side yard. It was a high school science project. I'm still prouder of the incubator full of E. coli-fed cellular slime mold. They were beautiful.)
Sitting in the row in front of me at the show was the actress who plays Abalyn in Kyle Cassidy's photo series and video of Caitlín's The Drowning Girl—I recognized her from stills. If only the book were out, I could have asked her for an autograph.
You who know who you are, thank you. I'm still working on everything. But it matters.
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Sophomore year of high school. Dictyostelium discoideum has one of the more awesome life cycles known to man, or at least to me—they start as single-celled amoebae which feed on bacteria through the normal process of engulfing, then aggregate via a chemical signal of cyclic AMP (adenosine monophosphate) into a multicellular slug which slimes along until eventually it sends up a stalk, reproduces in an exploding cloud of spores, and starts the whole process over again. My project was to determine whether the aggregation was strictly triggered by a lack of food or whether it would occur at a certain point in the slime mold's life cycle regardless of how well-fed the individual amoebae were. Toward this end, I converted a former fish tank into an incubator and stocked it with petri dishes of agar and D. discoideum, also E. coli. Conclusions were that plentiful food can delay aggregation, but cannot prevent it; eventually, reproduction happens. I entered the project in my high school science fair and it went to the state level before being deemed cool but totally useless. I got a lot of great microscope photographs before then, though.
[Sorry, I don't think I'm EVER going to let that joke die.]
Well, it's a classic . . .
And I think it would be cool if you DID tune up your radio telescope, even if I'm not sure what you'd do with it.
A few years after I used it to map galactic clouds of neutral hydrogen (1.42 GHz!), my brother retuned it to look for meteors. It's probably still set to "Leonid."
Hope you slept.
Not really, but the weekend's programming seems to have gone fine anyway.