My friend Tom was out here in Los Angeles just a few weeks ago and began feeling unwell. He thought it was food poisoning, and opted to return home to Maine early. His illness turned out to be something much more serious; he had an inoperable, malignant tumor in his brain stem.
After his return home, Tom and I would not get another chance to speak. We traded a couple of e-mails as they struggled to diagnose his condition, but that would be all.
Thanks, ABC, for an hour of “debate” that (unless I missed one) didn’t cover a single substantive issue. Thanks for asking about flag pins, people the candidates met 40 years ago, sniper fire, and favorite ice cream (or did I make that one up?)
It’s borderline criminal – and we wonder why good people don’t give a shit about politics. Thanks for the circus; you could at least have fed me during it.
Hey pork-lovers: remember the pig brain mist story? Well, mother nature’s delivered us a fresh little firmware upgrade, just like I promised!
Pending a thirty-day comment period during which I’m confident fewer than ten people will make a sound, Federal law enforcement agencies will now collect DNA of arrestees via a cheek swab. Since we slept through the legislation getting passed, I doubt the ACLU’s efforts will wake anyone. But innocent people – have no fear! If you’re not convicted, you can “ask” them to destroy the sample. Yeah.
Pictures of some excellent packaging and commercial design.
Here’s a fun little list of brain oddities. I remember as a kid my brother and I used to fuck with our heads by saying the same thing over and over again, say for a minute or so, until the phrase seemed so ridiculous that it no longer felt real – it would take on an alien, unrecognizable sense. Try it yourself – pick a word, or a phrase, anything that makes sense to you at the moment. Repeat it to yourself at a comfortable pace over a period of a minute or so. It will shortly seem absurd.
Some cool photos of snow under a microscope.
Question is not if, but when, according to sources close to both.
Six hundred over the past ten days.. “unlike anything scientists have heard..” [Associated Press]
Today was one of those days that reminds me why I love living – and as a bonus, doing it here. The sun was shining and it was well above 80. The birds were singing away and frantically going about their springtime business. I have some (sparrows, I think) nesting on the north side of the house. I hear so many different birdsongs day and night that I’ve started checking eNature.com to try to identify them.
