The juxtaposition of blog entries about recipes and worms is purely coincidence. (Really.) But since you’re not going to eat breakfast anyway, behold the latest squirmy thing found while making a wet mount from a leaf plucked from Lake Sammamish. (Thumbnail photos below the fold. Click-through for the larger image.)
This little critter was found on a pea pod today: First reaction: Coooooool Second reaction: ewwwww (a reason to wash your veggies) Third and final reaction: Cooooool! What else can I look at! The new microscope could be even more interesting than my previous foray into macro photography.
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Business trips bring out one of my weaknesses: trying to exploit the airline pricing system for my own, secretive purposes. For example, I finally have a set of dates for Norway (Germany fell-through) and have spent waaaaaay too much time trying to balance the factors important to me: Be there to conduct my business. Obviously.
It’s pretty easy to see where I started, when I got tired, and when I decided to stop. They occur in roughly that order.
Today’s keynote speaker, Daniel Simons, talked about inattentional blindness, the inability to perceive features in a visual scene you’re not paying attention to. It’s used in movies. For example, in The Matrix, the scene in which Neo and Morpheus first spar Kung-Fu style, there’s a stunt double for Keanu. Unless you’re looking for a tall
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All your bites are belong to us. Since my last dentist visit, my dentist has acquired a “digital X-ray machine.” Apparently the device uses one-tenth the level of radiation of a standard dental X-ray machine. The first thing I noticed about this was they didn’t hand me the lead apron. The hygienist was excited about
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Today was my first full day at the visualization conference in Minneapolis “dang it’s cold here” Minnesota. All of my local contacts informed me there were still tickets available for the Packers-Vikings game. Not wanting to find out if pigs were clogging the airways, I passed up the opportunity and went to the conference.
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I still haven’t resolved my dryer issue. One technical detail has been annoying me for a while, until I finally worked on it tonight, is whether I should buy (another) gas dryer, or go with an electric. Conventional wisdom is a gas dryer will be cheaper to operate in the “long-term,” whatever that means. Unfortunately,
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