Here and Now...What's Happening?

[Carmody]

Posted by ulli (here)
And what happens when I yak of insects????
NN comes along in his ant costume
Nice of you to drop by, not so sure about your timing though, Nanoo
I had already written what I did before I noticed your ant avatar.

And as it is on my mind as of late, my brother sends me this video, out of the blue. I just watched it and he just sent it. I lasted for about a minute. You have been warned. I'm still reeling a bit. Gah. (one comment calls it 'the most satisfying on the web' of it's type. I can see why)

Anyway, that is how synchronicity and the universe works, regarding connectivity.

[Playdo of Ataraxas]

Posted by ulli (here)

Posted by astrid (here)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...rase-data.html

Very interesting article. Thank you Astrid.

The idea of storing information in living cells has been the plot of sci-fi fantasies such as Johnny Mnemonic, starring Keanu Reeves - and today it has become reality

Made me wonder if we couldn't change the dam building program in those beavers' DNA.

Which would lead to the holographic idea of other dam building programs out there also getting a make-over...
like all those tradition-based religions which are separating people like beaver dams.

The most spectacular and interesting individual that I have ever met is actually from the MS Gulf Coast. He is an artist, the most incredible poet (all of his poems are very long oral poems and none are written down to my knowledge) and he has a steel peg leg that he welded himself. I met him in the Grünowski one night in Jena, Thüringen. He was involved in some project with Zeiss, possibly, don't know. Anyway, his name is Joe Davis, and his homebase is Cambridge, MA where he is a Research Affiliate at MIT I visited him once in Boston and he gave me a tour of his lab space at MIT. I was amazed. Anyway, originally an artist and sculptor, he is a pioneer of bioart. He has successfully performed various wild experiments such as transmitting the sound waves of a female orgasm into outer space (Poetica Vaginale), creating an audio microscope that translates light information into sound allowing you to "hear" living cells, each with its own "acoustic signature." He once did a similar experiment by playing an electric guitar through the headlights of a Trabant which shone onto a sensor that translated the light into sound and amplified it through a speaker.

But to get the point of the article that Astrid posted, he encoded the eyes of a fruit fly with a poem from Heraclitus. ""It's made my life at M.I.T. biology certainly more tenuous than before," said Mr. Davis, whose esoteric works include a project in which he encoded a 60-character fragment of a Greek text by Heraclitus into the white-eye gene of a fruit fly."" http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/03/ar...gewanted=print

He once told me that his inspiration was that the vast majority of Heraclitus' works have been lost through the ages and that he was in his time the most prolific of the Greek writers. His idea was to store all of Heraclitus' work into a Fruit Fly's DNA so that the remaining texts would never be lost again. Anyway, I will post links to articles that discuss his various projects in detail. Do check out his RuBisCo gene sequence transmission experiment at SETI in Arecibo, where he transmitted the sequence to three stars, using his IPhone. Davis claimed afterward that he had the coolest IPhone in the World!

http://www.centauri-dreams.org/?p=10283 (this is the one about the RuBisCo transmission)
http://www.viewingspace.com/genetics...e_sciam/jd.htm
http://www.viewingspace.com/genetics.../davis_joe.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Davis_(artist)

[ulli]

Posted by Carmody (here)

Posted by ulli (here)
And what happens when I yak of insects????
NN comes along in his ant costume
Nice of you to drop by, not so sure about your timing though, Nanoo
I had already written what I did before I noticed your ant avatar.

And as it is on my mind as of late, my brother sends me this video, out of the blue. I just watched it and he just sent it. I lasted for about a minute. You have been warned. I'm still reeling a bit. Gah. (one comment calls it 'the most satisfying on the web' of it's type. I can see why)

Anyway, that is how synchronicity and the universe works, regarding connectivity.

There is much that I don't share until something like this prompts me.
My father-in-law keeps cows in the pasture in front, and sells them to people who have milk farms.
So these last two days one has been mooing all night and I asked what happened to that cow.
It was mooing basically because the others had just been sold and it was left alone. So I asked why was that?
And I was told it needed a huge abcess draining which had been caused by a snake bite (non-poisonous, but still, a huge snake lives somewhere on the island in the middle of our river, and must have swum across to bite that cow. And it became infected. Now recovering.

[araucaria]

Carmody, you should have hung in there, you missed the happy end. Spoiler: it got worse and worse. Until it stopped

[Playdo of Ataraxas]

Wow, yea Carmody, one minute was enough for me, too. God bless veterinarians.

[araucaria]

Posted by ulli (here)

Posted by araucaria (here)

Posted by Caren (here)
@ Carmody
That reminded me of a friend who loved molasses. She had poured some on a piece of homemade bread and had eaten half the slice before noticing the ants! She said she couldn't eat Molasses after that.. poor ants

Poor ants? I thought insects were increasingly an alternative source of protein?

I could never have survived 20 years living in Costa Rica if I was squeamish about devouring insects.
Especially if I was concerned about protecting the poor insects more than myself.
Here and Now...
Thousands of wasps are swarming ten feet from my front door in my internal court yard garden. The cleaning lady is afraid to go to the laundry area, and quite rightly so.
I won't be watching when one of the men comes and does what has to be done.
The jungle is intruding constantly around here and it's getting on my nerves.
Went outside just now to check on those swarming wasps...and see there is no sign of them.
Pffft...weird.

Ulli, you don't eat wasps, I hope?

We haven't had any wasps to speak of here this year - hardly any plums, and a month late. I'll take the good with the not so good.

[ulli]

Carmody, your brother must know your preferences. Thank God I no longer speak to my brother;
he sprung those things on me all the time.
And we lived on a farm so no shortage of grossness.
I became a city girl, but then ended up here in the country again....the wild west...but I don't venture out to see those things with my own eyes.
Then they hunt me down on my laptop. Will heed all of your warnings in the future.
And araucaria...bravo for being brave and lasting till the end.

[ulli]

Posted by Playdo of Ataraxas (here)

He once told me that his inspiration was that the vast majority of Heraclitus' works have been lost through the ages and that he was in his time the most prolific of the Greek writers. His idea was to store all of Heraclitus' work into a Fruit Fly's DNA so that the remaining texts would never be lost again.

And then shoot that fruit fly into outer space with the next satellite launch?
This would be taking the hoarding instinct to new heights, I suppose.
Wonder what his birth chart looks like...
I'd prefer to send my blessings to the veterinarian any day.

(Hey, Paul, how did I do with the nested post deletes?)

[Carmody]

Oh yes.

There are wasps all around my front door right now. 'tis the season. warm side of the house, no wind.

[ThePythonicCow]

Posted by ulli (here)
(Hey, Paul, how did I do with the nested post deletes?)

Awesome !

[Carmody]

Posted by araucaria (here)
Carmody, you should have hung in there, you missed the happy end. Spoiler: it got worse and worse. Until it stopped

Yeah, I went back and watched it to the end. Sort of. 'man up!', I said to myself. ('why oh why?', as one commenter said. they started with LOL fails, went to kitteh videos and ended the evening with zits and cysts)

Once I had a boil under my nose, on my upper lip. stuck out further than my nose. Nasty stuff, draining that one. My empathy is rather close and complete, which is part of why I'm still swallowing and feeling queasy.

[RunningDeer]

Posted by ulli (here)
@ WCBD

When I read that there’s an unspoken “but” we’ve all suffered so much”.

The unspoken "but" was more like "gosh", we've all suffered so much'...
as I was reminded of the time I lost an entire household of possessions which was in storage...
and had a real shock that this also had happened to you,
and I really, really felt for you, and what you must have gone through back then.

So I had a second shock to discover that you could read me so wrong,
and I hadn't even used the word "but", but you had imagined it.

So I thought that this was a case of instant karma...
where the exact reverse had just been done to you by AriG when she misunderstood you
yet you then did it to me.
Working to rise above one's emotions brings clarity, and clarity is something worth striving for.

Anyway each of us have very different and uniquely personal lessons to learn,
and I'm dealing with my own stuff right now,
so won't get any deeper into what I think others ought to be learning,
butt, this "but" incident was one which did deserve to be clarified.

It's 2:20 and I've just gotten to this post. Sometimes I wonder if it's better to work backwards on the Here and Now. Hey, that means an opportunity to go back and fix what's not broken?

As far as "the but"? I can promise you there will be other times again. It's neither right or wrong. For now, it's how I process. At the time, these were the words you posted with most volume (see below). I could no longer wait for further clarification, and put 1inMany's wellbeing first.


"I've decided never again to share any past history that was traumatic.
From now on I'm asking everyone here to follow my example and only share their happy shyte
because as long as 1inMany is going through her withdrawal crisis
she will just manifest every little thing she reads about here.
Burning her house down while smudging...my oh my, what an oxymoron...

Also lets try to only give her UNDER-reactions, so as to avoid her getting some weird idea
that she has to provide us all with a show.

A calm life is not always a boring life.
I have spoken.

[araucaria]

Posted by ulli (here)
Carmody, your brother must know your preferences. Thank God I no longer speak to my brother;
he sprung those things on me all the time.
And we lived on a farm so no shortage of grossness.
I became a city girl, but then ended up here in the country again....the wild west...but I don't venture out to see those things with my own eyes.
Then they hunt me down on my laptop. Will heed all of your warnings in the future.
And araucaria...bravo for being brave and lasting till the end.

Oh dear, room 101 seems to be locked. Shall we take a look at rooom 102?

[Marianne]

Posted by tetra (here)
Aloha from Manchester, NH USA. If you know anyone renting a 3BR place in the Milford area, I'm all ears <3

Welcome, Tetra!

Your word-picture sounds like a lovely fall day in New England. That feels like old home week to me ... I used to live about an hour from Mancheser, on the NH seacoast. Still have family around there.

So happy you came to join us.

And Starchild, welcome. And to other new posters as well. It's hard to keep up some days! We'll be at 1000 pages soon!

[araucaria]

Posted by Marianne (here)

Posted by tetra (here)
Aloha from Manchester, NH USA. If you know anyone renting a 3BR place in the Milford area, I'm all ears <3

Welcome, Tetra!

Your word-picture sounds like a lovely fall day in New England. That feels like old home week to me ... I used to live about an hour from Mancheser, on the NH seacoast. Still have family around there.

So happy you came to join us.

And Starchild, welcome. And to other new posters as well. It's hard to keep up some days! We'll be at 1000 pages soon!

A couple more pages and I shall be making myself scarce for a while

[RunningDeer]

Posted by araucaria (here)

Posted by Caren (here)
@ Carmody
That reminded me of a friend who loved molasses. She had poured some on a piece of homemade bread and had eaten half the slice before noticing the ants! She said she couldn't eat Molasses after that.. poor ants

Poor ants? I thought insects were increasingly an alternative source of protein?

Still. Poor ants.

[ulli]

Husband walked in the door..first words "sorry I'm late but I had to deal with the ministry of health, then the ministry of agriculture, about that horse and that drainage.

"That" horse is an anonymous horse someone places on the empty lot next to our medical center to keep the grass down. The owner is an elderly lady who lives overseas, and instead of cutting the grass some worker of hers simply lets others graze their farm animals, and the medical center stinks and gets flies.

The "drainage" is the trench running alongside which is really the municipality's job to keep clean, but they don't and there are stagnant waters in there. So he has to try and get the government to act on this.

[Mark]

I made it to about 15 seconds. As soon as it started to drain was quite enough for me. It's wasp heaven at our front door too. Which brings to mind the wasp nest I destroyed earlier this summer over our rear screen door. I had taken the boy out on the back porch and one of the wasps stung me for what I thought was no reason, since I hadn't made a move toward their nest. I rationalize my resultant murderous actions as protection for the boy, since we have no idea if he's allergic or not. Anybody willing to take a guess as to the karmic ramifications? I estimate about 8 wasps died as a result of the spray. Since then, wherever I go, wasps seem to come up and check me out, as if to say, 'we heard about you, dude,', but so far, no more stings.



Ok, this is not the wasp breed in question, but, apparently, a new species of wasp just found. I post this in respect to wasp kind. I did say sorry. Peace.

[RunningDeer]

Posted by araucaria (here)

Posted by Marianne (here)

Posted by tetra (here)
Aloha from Manchester, NH USA. If you know anyone renting a 3BR place in the Milford area, I'm all ears <3

Welcome, Tetra!

Your word-picture sounds like a lovely fall day in New England. That feels like old home week to me ... I used to live about an hour from Mancheser, on the NH seacoast. Still have family around there.
So happy you came to join us.
And Starchild, welcome. And to other new posters as well. It's hard to keep up some days! We'll be at 1000 pages soon!

A couple more pages and I shall be making myself scarce for a while

She's baaack...

[amandapoet]

Posted by WhiteCrowBlackDeer (here)
Hodge-podge Post: small spaces, material possessions, Freedom disguised in false labels

I'd rather live in the small place than a big one. Cost effective=Freedom. Every once in a while I go on a "lighten the load binge". Two simple rules: use non-see-through bags, and no peeking.

I spend most of my time in the same space. My challenge is kitchenware. I own several quality pieces of cookware (Le Creuset). They are perfect for Nishime cooking method which uses very little water. Vegetables cook in their own juices. This cooking method can be used daily because it’s centrally balanced for the body.

And I use a really good knife. Less equipment. I just sprung for a toaster last year. I'm into bagels these days. Oh yes! a coffee pot, though trying to end that relationship. (and a microwave oven mostly to thaw out the bagels) If push comes to shove, coffee pot and micro out; juicer and water distiller, stays.

Books...my rule is/was only 100 (was in the thousands, that’s a conservative number). Thank you, iPad!

Clothes, once I left teaching, I saved thousands and space. Small business out of apartment = Freedom.

I’m annoyed with myself because I’ve purchased so much crap for the 12/21/12, grid down, empty shelves, alternative electricity toys and gadgets, and foods. Breathe, breathe, breathe.

My family loves to invite me to help pare down. Though they don’t like me when I don’t buy into enabling. Ground rules get broken. No-win situation. Whispers behind my back. But I still Love them.
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“The Traveling Pots and Pans & Fresh Starts”

18 years old walk out the door with a brown bag bag filled with clothes and a couple of books. Hitched a ride to the next state over. Fresh start.

Filled my 1963 VW with my 3 1/2 year old son’s things, pot and pans and some clothes and drove away from a five year marriage and brand new home that became just a house. Fresh start.

With one more semester of college, the TV switch began to smoke and flame. I was afraid it would explode. Grabbed my son, while he grabbed his teddy bear and watched as it went up in flames. The volunteer fire department wouldn’t come out because of 3 false alarms that day. 85-90% loss of "things". Fresh start.

2nd marriage of 17 years, left it all, except the queen size brass bed, clothes, books and pots and pans. We are still dear friend. Fresh start.

I really needed to read that Paula....I'm at the precipice now with my kids wondering exactly how I am going to get us from now until that point where we ask yourselves, "remember when we didn't know where we would live...?"

It is encouraging to read that you built a life even with a major setback along the way. I know I'll eventually get to the point where now will become just another experience I dealt with...

Thank you for sharing...because I really want to make this start a better one.

Blessings,
Amanda