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something new and freaky...
I ran across this article about a week ago. This goes far beyond hybridization and shows our advancing mastery of manipulating genes.
http://www.greenhousegrower.com/news/starlight-avatar-the-worlds-first-…
the first plant in the world that produces its own visible light. The developers "inserted the genes responsible for causing marine bacteria to glow". Practical applications currently don't include a self-lit grow room :))))))
"the President of effervescence"
fantastic Burning Man characterthanks, RL, love it!
When I Grow Up, I Want To Be:
the Ace of acid
the All Time-All Star of alkalinity
the Angel of angles
the Anti-Moron of barbequed boron
the Admiral of aeration
the Ambassador of accretion
the Captain of carbonation
the Co-Creator of crystallization
the Deacon of decantation
the Duke of dissolution
the Eminence of encapsulation
the Envoy of evaporation
the Executor of extraction
the Figurehead of fermentation
the Fourth-Shift Foreman of formulation
the Lord of liquefaction
the Nobleman of nucleation
the Saint of saturation
the Secretary of separation
the Sultan of seltzer
the Superintendent of supernatant
the Superior of sparkles
the Supervisor of solvents
the Shaman of Shulgin
the Assho' of oregano
the Bigwig of bismol
the Bob Barker of blotter
the Beanball Bystander of byproducts
the Capo dei Capi of copper
the Caretaker of catalysts
the Chancellor of choice
the Chief-in-Charge of change
the CEO of cheerios
the Commander of chemical bonds
the Colonel of coalescence
the Czar of zinc
the Dealer of minute detail
the Earl of erlenmeyer
the Emperor of enzymes
the Founding Father of froth
the Freak of flasks
the Guru of greenhouse gas
the Gigantic Ass of dichroic glass
the Inspector of lye detectors
the Head Honcho of hydrogen
the Night Manager of nitrogen
the Original Owner of oxygen
the Oligarch of olefin
the Pope of peptides
the Preacher of peroxide
il Duce of dioxide
el Jefe of Hofmann
the King of anything
the Leader of laughing gas
the Master of melting points
the Magnate of magnetism
the Magistrate of bicarbonate
the Potentate of permanganate
the Paranormal Pimp of pH
the Purple Proprietor of pyrex
the Righteous Ruler of reflux
the Reigning Realtor of rainfall
the Sole Source of sulfur
the Vice-Virtuoso of vacuum
the Baron of butane
the Monarch of methane
the High Priest of propane
the Prince of pressurization
Sir Ferdinand of Fizz...
in the desert
under a fire
next to the moon
wrapped in light
on a comet
...with you
and as I aged, "want" slowly and appropriately faded as I learned:
about People in places of power and privilege
about What to expect from expectations
about What's in a name
about Simplicity
about Dreaming
about Imagining
about Reality
about Gain
about Loss
about Need
(all above positions are open; pays good money - $5 a day)... (%);-}
Tusk, Tusk...
It's nice to see someone producing original work here. For the most part, this place seems to have acquired the stench of Rhino. Nice work, slo...
write on slo , let it grow
I agree with Mike there. As for the Dead Covers project my favorites so far have been China Doll and Eyes of the World, followed by Valerie and Franklins Tower. kudos to all.
Happy Valentine's
...to all the ladies, and especially those who twirl. Let's hope there will be more Furthur to see and meet up at.
Ratdog 2014
Dang! Weir sharing the stage with Kimock and Wasserman?! That's a line-up to die for. No west coast shows? :(
the cruel tutelage of pie meh...
"...this one time, we shot up a sleeping hobo full of novocaine, then we'd yell, "Pie on the windowsill!" And they'd wake up all numb and poor and we'd laugh. But that's just the kind of stuff you do when your growing up in Midland, when you're a young, precocious little thirty-year-old."
- George W. Bush
drown in the lost rivers of london
I have sat there and seen the winter days finish their short-spanned lives; and all the globes of light crimson, emerald, and pallid yellow start, one by one, out of the russet fog that creeps up the river. But i like the place best on these hot summer nights, when the sky hangs thick with stifled colour, and the stars shine small and shyly. Then the pulse of the city is hushed, and the scales of the water flicker golden and oily under the watching regiment of lamps.
The bridge clasps its gaunt arms tight from bank to bank, and the shuffle of a retreating figure sounds loud and alone in the quiet. There, if you wait long enough, you will hear the long wail of the siren, that seems to tell of the anguish of London till a train hurries to throttle its dying note, roaring and rushing, thundering and blazing through the night, tossing its white crests of smoke, charging across the bridge into the dark country beyond.
In the wan, lingering light of the winter afternoon, the parks stood all deserted, sluggishly drowsing, so it seemed, with their spacious distances muffled in greyness: colourless, fabulous, blurred. One by one, through the damp misty air, looked the tall, stark, lifeless elms. Overhead there lowered a turbid sky, heavy-charged with an unclean yellow, and amid their ugly patches of dank and rotting bracken, a little mare picked her way noiselessly. The rumour of life seemed hushed. There was only the vague listless rhythm of the creaking saddle.
The daylight faded. A shroud of ghostly mist enveloped the earth, and up from the vaporous distance crept slowly the evening darkness. A sullen glow throbs overhead: golden will-o'-the wisps are threading their shadowy ribbons above golden trees, and the dull, distant rumour of feverish London waits on the still night air. The lights of Hyde Park Corner blaze like some monster, gilded constellation, shaming the dingy stars. And across the east, there flares a sky-sign, a gaudy crimson arabesque. And all the air draped in the mysterious sumptuous splendour of a murky London night.
- Hubert Montague Crackanthorpe
from 'Vignettes: A Miniature Journal of Whim and Sentiment'.
fuckin' asshole...
"You know, one of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror."
- George W. Bush's interview with CBS News' Katie Couric, Sep. 6, 2006
fuckin' dumbass...
"You work three jobs?....Uniquely American, isn't it? I mean, that is fantastic that you're doing that."
- George W. Bush to a divorced mother of three, Omaha, Nebraska, Feb. 4, 2005
fuck on, fuck off...
"Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter." - the parting words to world leaders at his final G-8 summit, punching the air and grinning widely at those who looked on in shock, Rusutsu, Japan, July 10, 2008
- George W. Bush
fuckin' imbecile...
"Do you have blacks, too?"
- George W. Bush to Brazilian President Fernando Cardoso, Wash. D. C., Nov. 8, 2001.
fuckin' eh!...
"Look, when I was a kid, I inhaled frequently. That was the point."
- Barack Obama
Ooooooooh Gr8fulTed...
I feel you're pain....I really do. We have had our share of heartbraaking losses also ( see World Juniors the last few years). But really...? Was there any doubt which team would win the these two games. I don't wanna sound like a cocky canuck, but we really are the greatest and most decorated hockey nation. Yes we love Baseball ( go Jays!) and Football. But hockey...? It's in our hearts and minds...and imbedded in our souls. Anything less than Olympic Gold is completely unacceptable. I am really happy that both games were very, very good. The women"s had just about everything you could ask for in a Gold medal game, eh? Mens too...but a little less dramatic. Any ways...on a side note... being a big Toronto Maple Leafs fan I was really hoping Kessel and JVR would do well and I really thought the U.S were gonna win this game, going on how the two teams looked going into it. I doubted myself.....it'll never happen again.
peace
Oh Canada!
I've noticed countries that enjoy longer winters do better in the Winter Olympics. USA men played a close hockey game, but were shutout. They must've been worn out, because Finland spanked them 5-0 for the Bronze. Host Russia is sitting on top of the medal count. NHL hockey resumes soon: Ducks might do it this year, though I like the success the Blues have had so far. Your Maple Leafs need to catch up to the Bruins.
The west IS the best...
...so far. The road to the Stanley Cup will almost definitely run through Anaheim or Chi-Town. But in the East well...who knows. Boston and Pittsburgh look like obvious favourites. As far as my beloved TML's are concerned, they not only have to make the playoffs, but home ice is paramount. Leafs Nation knows all too well that there is still lots of time to "shit the bed". I ALMOST put my fist through my 60" plazma at the end of game 7 last year. That loss still stings and will continue for some time. But at least they have shown that they compete against the Bruins the last couple of years.
Carey Price
Habs goalie Price was very effective and the key to Canada's gold medal. I'd like to see Toronto get past the Bruins & Penquins.
have a wonderful day :))))))))))))Dear Dead Dot Net,
I'm writing to let you know that I think our relationship needs to end, but not to worry; it's me, not you. I've stayed much the same while you have grown and grown and grown. At the start, our relationship was all about romance, but things have changed and I feel like I'm holding you back, and since I truly love you, I now find myself willing to let you go. I don't think you'll miss me for very long, if you even notice that I'm gone at all; you have store receipts to tally and orders to fulfill and products to promote. But I did want to stop by here one last time to drop a post and remember what might have been.
I'll always love you. We've just grown apart; that's all.
The Dead Dot Net Community
for M.E...
"When the Internet first came into public use, it was hailed as a liberation from conformity,
a floating world ruled by passion, creativity,
innovation and freedom of information.
When it was hijacked first by advertising and
then by commerce, it seemed like it had been
fully co-opted and brought into line with
human greed and ambition."
- Neil Strauss
Persistence Is All
Slo, that first paragraph still stands.The second only registers if one chooses to acknowledge it.
Boredom is one thing.
Scapegoats are another.
Happy trails
Best wishes to Mike Edwards. Spinning free has happened a bunch on this site: Has AnnaRxia left us too, or is she snowed in down east?
go Badgers!...
headed to the final four in Dallas against fried chicken
Happy Bicycle Day...
71 years ago today, the genie was officially let out of the bottle in Basel, Switzerland.
And, as if in celestial celebration, the Lyrid meteor shower is underway, peaking the night of 4/21 - 22.
Dude, seriously...
...you had to post that at exactly 4:20 pm? Happy bike day to you, too. Sheesh. By the way, happy 4:20 eve everyone.
as the most delightful Bob Ross would say...
"we don't make mistakes here, we just have happy accidents." Had I actually been thinking about it, wtj, I would've clocked in at 4:19 (%);-)
Bike Day lyric
"I've got a bike. You can ride it if you like. It's got a basket, a bell that rings and things to make it look good. I'd give it to you if I could, but I borrowed it." -Syd Barrett
Great back to back holidays to celebrate if you have the mind (and the resources).
Donna Jean...
so I'm watching Independent Lens tonight on PBS and it's about Rick Hall's Fame Recording Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. Eventually they start talking about Percy Sledge and the ever so beautiful DJG comes on in an interview and states that she got her big break when she was hired as one of the backup vocals in Percy Sledge's "When a Man Loves a Woman". Never knew that and I'll probably never hear that song the same again. Didn't know she was born and raised in Florence, AL. either and apparently she's still active in the Muscle Shoals music scene. Great show.....
**How fitting, she ends up being the very last image as the show ends. Catch it when you can.
"Now Muscle Shoals has got the swampers
and they've been known to pick a song or two"...
new fans?...
I've got some '73 cranked right now with DS>Eyes going and I look out the front window and there's two does (deer) laying down underneath a cedar tree not 15 ft from the window with their ears pointed at the window. Honest to goodness truth. Gonna turn it up a little more for us. :)))))))))
doctored living stoned i presume
You must stop spinning naked with the curtains open, Slo. Mammals will talk........
oddly enough,
they don't seem to mind this aging biped.
Although, anthropomorphism may be more deeply rooted
while perception is properly adjusted ;-)
Finite Bees
When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see,For all the day they view things unrespected;
But when I sleep, in dreams they look on thee,
And darkly bright are bright in dark directed.
Then thou, whose shadow shadows doth make bright,
How would thy shadow's form form happy show
To the clear day with thy much clearer light,
When to useeing eyes thy shade shines so!
How would, I say, mine eyes be blessed made
By looking on thee in the living day,
When in dead night thy fair imperfect shade
Through heavy sleep on sightless eyes doth stay!
All days are nights to see till I see thee,
And nights bright days when dreams do show thee me.
- Shakespeare, Sonnet XLIII
periphery conditions boundary
Congratulations to Maryam Mirzakhani on being the first woman to win the Fields Medal prize in mathematics.
Mirzakhani, 37, is of Iranian descent and completed her PhD at Harvard in 2004. Her thesis showed how to compute the Weil-Petersson volumes of moduli spaces of bordered Riemann surfaces. Her research interests include Teichmüller theory, hyperbolic geometry, ergodic theory, and symplectic geometry. She is currently professor of mathematics at Stanford University, and predominantly works on geometric structures on surfaces and their deformations.
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/aug/13/interview-maryam-mirzakh…
How about those Royals!
Let's check back in a month... Although I'm originally from Cleveland, I am a Kansas City fan, having lived in the area for 33 years. I'm happy with KC baseball right now, a game up over Detroit! Keep an eye on the Tribe....
I'm still wondering till now
I'm still wondering till now why I'm not allowed to post new topic, then I ask my myself. If I'm allowed to post new topic, what will topic it will be?..........I don't know either.
If I posted a new topic
I think it'd revolve around my new fascination with Objectophilia.
mystery solved!
How cool! Rock mystery solved!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgZ_hlyiKgY
General Mills v. WilfredTJones
On behalf of counsel for the esteemed corporate American icon General Mills, I'd like to announce application in the federal district courts for an injunction against dead.net poster WTJ to preclude further spurious allegations of intoxicating conduct vis-à-vis monster-themed breakfast cereal standard bearer, Boo-Berry.
Close examination of the following stock publicity photo clearly establishes that Mr. Berry - a beloved apparition among children the world over - lives a lifestyle free of any vice that might result in his "ripped" condition.
So, please resume your usual practice of mainlining truckloads of sugar into your children at breakfast, as we at GM also own significant holdings in the dental services and Ritalin production sectors.
So, please resume your usual practice of mainlining truckloads of sugar into your children at breakfast, as we at GM also own significant holdings in the dental services and Ritalin production sectors.we all knew it....
this is the healthy adult version of the esteemed GM cereal that was introduced in '73. No refined sugars; plenty of delicious nutritious greens :)))) At only $150/box, it's a deal.
It's baaaa-aaaack...30 Days!
Neat. Also, it's snowing here in the SE Appy Mts and, despite the warm early season ground temps, we've got a firm dusting at altitude. Though I can't wait to run the trails with pup, I've waited a couple hrs to accommodate the Post Office, which is only open from 9-11 this a.m., because tracking info tells me that not only DiP12, but the ABB 71 and Cream "Those/Days" boxes, await my lavish attention :) It may seem like heresy, but I'll likely shelve The Twelve for a few days while drowning in Statesboro Blues and sitting down to tea with Jack, Eric, and Ginger! /K
P.S.: GO OLE MISS!