Wed Morn

This is my Cousin winning an Emmy..... Ownt.

OSM 2008: A Year of Edits from ItoWorld on Vimeo.

This is a sweet video. Every time someone made an edit to this mapping website the white light flashes.

That is all

Right on!

‘‘In summary, an industrial cellulose fermentation might be

profitable if the cost of collection of raw materials could be min-

imized through the use of numerous small plants, if the small

plants could be cheaply constructed, if the operation could be

made automatic to decrease necessary personnel, and if the

concentration of cellulose fermented could be increased by con-

tinuous removal of fermentation products. Although such a sit-

uation is at present quite out of the question as an industrial

process, it is almost an exact specification of the ruminant ani-

mal, a small fermentation unit which gathers the raw materials,

transfers it to the fermentation chamber, and regulates its fur-

ther passage, continuously absorbs the fermentation products,

and transforms them into a few valuable substances, meat,

milk, etc. To these advantages must be added the crowning

adaptation: the unit replicates itself.”

Quotation from Robert Hungate (1950), the father of both rumen microbiology and the anaerobic culture technique that bears his name.

The awesome part is that people are fermenting cellulosic biomass by inoculating it with cultures taken from cow rumens, among other sources. The future is almost here!

Gotta Catch Them All!

This may be Eric in a few days.

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poor mo

So Maurice is a nutjob.

He has burnt off all his giant eyebrow hairs except one over each eye. Whenever I light a candle all he wants is to smell it, and he gets very frustrated that he can't stick his face into the flame without it hurting.

This morning he tripped on the balcony and fell off of it onto the stairs, and then fell down the stairs.

He likes to curl up into any basket-type thing we have, including the spider plant pot and containers on cabinets up above the fridge. That's not so curious really. But he can fold his legs all the way up under his head!

He and Pocky give each other vampire bites when they fight.

He doesn't understand toes, and that they are attached to the rest of me. Or petting. He would rather suck on your finger, and chew it a little, than be petted.

He's a good cat though. Yay Maurice!

Work time!

Here's a little something cheery to wake up to:

Tanning salons ho!

Annie might have had the right idea all along: UV exposure may reduce MS symptoms. But this is in mice that don't have MS, because MS is a human disease. They have a virus instead.

This mouse looks pretty damn content though. Sunshine makes everyone feel good.

humph.

It's been raining - it was the perfect time to put the plants out I guess.

Otherwise it's disheartening. No sun, for days - what is this, Maryland?

Victorinox Presentation Master Swiss Army Knife

What use could you possibly have for a FlashDrive with a knife on it.... or is it a knife with a FlashDrive in it... or is it the next generation of self autonomous robots bent on world destruction.... probably just the first thing...

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Happy days

Awesome weekend. Sunday we moved the plants outside and rearranged the furniture. Everything is fresh and clean. So freash and so clean clean.

We rode bikes to get beer and wine in a box, and then to get pizza, and then to City Park, where we laid in the grass in the sun and had our own private party. We solved a lot of the world's problems, including that of the hippies.

Then to Paul's house, where the guys played bocci in the bumpy front yard, and I did stupid homework.

But the craziest part was that afterwards, when we had all had our fill of green chili beer cheese soup, the cat Abby disappeared. We discovered she had crawled her way into and down a vent.

Contraptions were made, of string and wire, but no dice. The fire department came and they looked at all the walls with their heat-seeing device, but no dice. Poor poor Abby. She is a very white cat.

Yesterday we heard from Paul that she made it out of the vent all on her own, and she was completely black. It took two baths to get her clean.

I have lots of stupid research papers to write, which is way harder than St. John's papers because you are required to talk about what other people think. Can't wait for summer and beers in the park Every Day!!!

It's What You Need!!

blast from the past

Check it.

This song has been in my head all day. Make me a pizza!

Crushed like a whale on a beach

Margaret finally did it. She broke off her claws and took my tail with them. Oh well glass figurines cant last forever. I think that's profound. GTG get beer now bye.

Newsie's two: The revenge of newsies.

Thats Moe (Maurice) a jive talkin' cat from the wrong side of the tracks.

Thats Moe and Poxin chillin.

Played hookie all day instead of going to work and getting nothing done. Instead I caught one of these:

Thats a ground dragon type named Flygon for those of you not in the loop. Other than that the sun is shining and the animules are sleeping. I think when The Crab gets home it will be time for a nice walk to the park and maybe a beer or a nap. In other strikingly important news I read the book Neuromancer by William Gibson. The book outlines a distopian future where Case (the main Character) has to hack into an A.I. in cyberspace. Its like Tron and 1984 crammed into a book and combined with nightmares you had about being sucked into your computer. The book invented the word Cyberspace and inspired parts of the Matrix... But dont worry... Its not as good as Keanu (Key-On-Oo).

newsies

1) I got a new cat this weekend. His name is Maurice and he is a space cowboy. Pictures will come soon.

2) Eric and I signed a lease this weekend for a sweet house starting August 1. It has a giant fenced-in yard, a permanent outdoor grille, a deck, a garage, and lots of room inside for all our stuff. I want to move in now! There are no pictures at all of the house.

The landlord was awesome. We got to the showing early and he told us about his radio show where he plays vinyl only and his other radio show of 50s music. His philosophy is to leave his tenants alone, and accept tenants based on if he feels he can trust them or not. He trusted us, about five minutes before another group of kids tried to sign the lease.

Also he is close personal friends with the SubDudes and goes touring with them. He always has too much fun. It's sort of too bad we won't see much of him, because he is a cool dude.

3) I will most likely stay in Fort Collins this summer and go to New Hampshire in the fall for an internship with a biofuels company. Too many fun things will happen here this summer for me to go away, and the company I want to work at just laid off some people, so they are not prepared to bring a new person into the office. Fine by me.

4) I did my important onion shooting experiment yesterday, and will get to see the results this afternoon. Cross your fingers that it worked! Pictures will be posted, if I get any good ones.

That is all.

trendy trendy

I saw a lot of plaid in the fall - Eric and I had a game of plaid-spotting that stopped being fun pretty quickly because it was too easy.

Now everyone is wearing boat shoes - in Colorado. That or those shoes Annie got where they send money for people in Africa to get shoes if you buy a pair. Of shoes.

Also we saw girls in bikinis on the plaza at school today. It was just over 60 and windy, and their top pieces had dangling strings that could have easily been pulled. I think they were advertising a luau. Foolishes!

The boat shoes are especially stupid because there are no boaters here. There is nowhere to boat.

Have you seen anything trendy lately?

PS the best is plaid boat shoes. FTW!

America kicks ass

King Missile you did it again.

Also I got three new books. Neuromancer, The Difference

Engine, BoneShaker. Bam (H1). God damn I love

steampunk. Anyway We played hookie yesterday and

went shopping for fountains, bed covers or something, and

plants. Why doesn't anyone have fountains.... Not having

fountains at the local Tibetan import store really put a

damper on the day. Also we played trivia last night and

got fifth but we won 1/3 rounds via a dartboard tiebreaker.

I should be going to work right now but instead I think I'll

read a little... If I cant do that whats the point of being a

grad student.

Astronaut Buttox

Moon8

1) Speak/Breath/OntheRUN

2)Time/Breath Reprise

3) The great gig in the sky

4) Money

5)Us and them

6) Any Colour You Like / Brain Damage / Eclipse

Pitchas!

Here are some pictures.

Little My walks again!

Redbud!

The fam waits.

Dick Cheney among the crocuses

The building I saw in my hotel room.

I like how the colors change across it.

He's gotten very militant.

Toys!

This weekend Eric and I got Fridgits, which lets you build a marble racecourse on your refrigerator. Some key pieces are a cup to catch the marbles, a wheel to spin them around, and a swinging cup to drop them just where you want. Mostly the marbles roll around on the floor, to the delight of Pocky. There are expansion sets!

We got all this at ScienceToyMagic, which is a store that used to be in Santa Fe and Rob Culbert hated it because it competed with his toy store. The guy in charge is a crazy physics man. The store itself is about as big as a bathroom stall, but his toys are all tiny so I guess it works out. (He sold me the Fridgits with an IOU since I didn't have cash!) He liked to explain how everything worked in a barely not frantic stream of fast-talk.

Also this weekend we got a balance board, but it's a cheap one from Sports Authority and I find it quite disappointing. The balancing point is more like a plane, so if you find the sweet spot you can stay balanced without any work at all. However, doing pushups on it is hard because the board's diameter is so small.

And, Mom sent me Koolaid Fun Fizz Drink Drops, because she's the best. These are the most fun if you put them directly in your mouth and bypass the whole "drop them in a glass of water and watch them fizz" part.

It's almost spring!