The image is manipulated, but not actually impossible. It just hadn’t happened at the time I was looking.
How this differs from other irreproducible results is left as an exercise for the readers….
Archive for January, 2014
Out of sequence
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Annals of Improbable Research, between the lines, blinkenlights, gel electrophoresis, genomics, in the pipeline, JIR, sequencing, too many standards, travel on 26 January, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Frostlight
Posted in Uncategorized on 22 January, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Half past January
Posted in Backstory, My brain, tagged amber, fuschia, gold, indigo, Philadelphia skyline, sunset, teal, time time time, travel, violet on 16 January, 2014| Leave a Comment »
I remember how interesting it was [well, for me] to get to write a “4” in a year’s date for the first time. And now it swings around again.
….haven’t used a PalmPilot in ages, but I still draw my “4”s as if starting the “4” cipher for that machine. I don’t know if this makes them any more legible to humans, though.
Ice light
Posted in Elsinore, tagged end of the day, gleam, ice, thaw, what you see and what you don't on 14 January, 2014| 1 Comment »
Faith in engineering
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged engineering, hey-ya hey-ya my love comes back, modern conveniences, nervous cats, over the ocean blue, travel on 10 January, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Sometime soon, a metal bird will leap into the European sky, vaulting northward over the ocean. I only know some fragment of how that works, should work, will work, as it does many thousands of times every day.
Tomorrow I’ll drive off in a small terrestrial marvel, leaving the cats to wonder when the Moms will be back. But we’ll be back. And I don’t know when they’ll let us out of the house again….
Between now and then, I have any number of things to put back in order…
Oh, that they would freeze…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged citrus greening, hemlocks, hopeful, invasive insects, no - don't play with that, pests, rose death, save the trees, silver linings on 8 January, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Emerald Ash Borer
Citrus psyllid
Marmorated stink bug
Wooly adelgid
Phyllocoptes fructiphilus
Well, of course there was a bee…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Apis melifera, bee, bumblebee economics, good omens, marriage, observation, what were you expecting, whee! on 5 January, 2014| 2 Comments »
The weather was unseasonable, although it was when I was born, so that seemed to be a fine fit for the day that Word and I finally said our vows. A blue-sky day, just as the year was getting to its darkest; a bright morning that promised a golden afternoon. Flats of pansies were stacked near the entrance to the restaurant where we went to eat afterwards, and I was just noticing the blooming camelias near the wall sheltering the sculpture garden when my mother’s voice called me back [I think it was my mother; I could be wrong about that detail]: “Look! A honeybee! [Everyone knows I am besotted with bees] On your car!”
So there was: a bee, out and about, and very, very cold. I’d said it was unseasonably warm for December, but a warm December day is still not the right temperature for Apis. The creature had alighted on the silvery upper rail of the car roof, and was not moving. While there were flowers available, would the bee find them before its energy ran out?
I had read in Bumblebee Economics about how bees sometimes share heat as well as food. In for a penny, I thought, and put my finger on the roof near the insect.
It walked onto my finger, and stopped. I guess they have little barbed feet, like bumblebees — good for gripping flower petals — it felt as if there were tiny Velcro hooks testing their grip. Although it lifted one foot and then another, it did not walk away, taste, or sting.
If we hadn’t had lunch to attend, I might have kept it around for a while, but I knew that the inside of a restaurant was not the place for my new ornament, so after a minute or two I coaxed it onto a camelia blossom, and it scuttled into the center of the flower. The wedding party continued on to find our own sort of sustenance.
Tracking down those last details
Posted in Elsinore, travel on 3 January, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Oh, you know how it goes…
The piece you need is never in the place you’ve been looking…
Snow
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged blissfully unaware cats, fireplace, flake size matters, snow, weather on 2 January, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Yes. Incoming. We have the “French toast necessities” and a roaring fire in the stove. So far, the flakes are purely decorative, which, depending on your point of view, may be perfect.
Rethorykal Questions 