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Who Wants…
Who wants change just for change sake? I want deliberate change that furthers the purpose that isn’t exclusive to only one point of view. Oh and would it be okay if we didn’t have them all piece meal as in a change here, a change there, everywhere a change change? I don’t mean to be ungrateful because bug fixes are wonderful but what if we fixed one and caught the other two caused by the fix BEFORE we set it for download? Easier said than done. It means someone doing regression testing. Hard work and quality unite. [Thoughts with the umpteenth app upgrade done on a device.]
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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.
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A fungus among us. Year two, same tree
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The Whole Person
“We never know the whole man, though sometimes, in quick flashes, we know the true man. … “The house in which the spirit dwells; grows, develops instincts and tastes and emotions and intellectual capacities, but I myself, the true Agatha, am the same. I do not know the whole Agatha. The whole Agatha, so I believe, is known only to God.” Agatha Christie
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Type
Bigger type is easier to read. That was extremely small type on that lady’s monitor at the mall. There were so many people there and they seemed content to stand in line for things. The dragonflies. There must have been 10 of them in that parking lot hovering and then dive bombing each other. It was so neat to see them fly straight up in the air like an arrow only to come back and hover as if sitting on the air over seeing the cars. May they eat ALL the mosquitoes in the city!
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Recognized Voice
It occurs to me that it is a recognized voice, unexpected from its origin. Poison. Instead of the curse words that surface and shouldn’t be said, I wonder how I should respond with more description. I need a peacock to suck out the poison so that it’s feather plumes can transform it into beautiful colors. May the pen in my hand blot out the stink that arises from the pile that arrived in my text box with an invisible cloak wrapped about it. May I spill enough ink on pages to purge the ugliness and turn it into the light and beauty that is only sometimes glimpsed in this place…
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There’s Always More to the Story…
…physicists said Wednesday that they had discovered a new subatomic particle that looks for all the world like the Higgs boson, a key to understanding why there is diversity and life in the universe. That possibility is particularly exciting to physicists, as it could point the way to new, deeper ideas, beyond the Standard Model, about the nature of reality. For now, some physicists are simply calling it a “Higgslike” particle. Peter Higgs, the University of Edinburgh theorist for whom the boson is named, entered the meeting to a sustained ovation. According to the Standard Model, the Higgs boson is the only manifestation of an invisible force field, a cosmic molasses…
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Happy Father’s Day to all the Dads
Happy Father’s Day to all the Dads out there. Keep up the boundaries, the gentle nudges of encouragement, and the love that remains no matter what. The WHOLE world needs this. I know I do! ~Regina Holt
