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A little lesson on Spam
This is a partial quote from the spam comment folder from a couple of days that caught my eye. …but I am not sure that your terrific job is clearly identified. I did a double take. Criticism goes to the spam folder now? HA! The words were so strange to me that I had to read it a couple of times to really let that sink in. On the third time I noticed that what it REALLY said was: …but I am sure that your terrific job is clearly identified. Ok NOW it sounds a lot more like spam. I inserted <not> into the sentence. This is only evidence to…
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Planting
The oregano plant on my desk is beginning to get green. There are new small baby leaves and a shoot that is really too long, indicative of not enough light, that has stretched toward the lamp with new larger leaves. This means the roots are doing their thing. I’ll be able to cut it back, use the leaves, and still retain this plant. I’m excited about it. The St. John’s wort that sits in a coke bottle full of water is also showing many white roots all through the bottle. It is ready for dirt now I bet, though I’ll leave it in the bottle so that I can see…
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Science and Art
String theory and string cheese incidents bring about the bosom of the boson that is ferm as an ion in the midst of heat, rain or shine. Open or closed, open or closed. Which do we want? Can’t we just have both? Symmetry and order but a chaos that brings on the most brilliant of artistic creations that make up nature. Will it stay hidden in a black hole for another hundred years Or reveal itself out in the open? The fate of the universe or silly marketing? String.
