Giving a cat a bath is like trying to sharpen a chain saw while it’s running. It will not end well.
~ Tom Plumpton
Choose wisely
You’re all seen Google Ads on the side of various web pages. This is what I saw today:
CUSTOM GENE SYNTHESIS
5 free DNA sequencing reactions with every synthetic gene order
If you see something strange as you’re walking around, perhaps this is the reason. It could be that someone did not choose wisely.
OK, summer changes us, but so does time in general
“…if September is no different from June, July, and August, then we’re doing something wrong.”
– Mitch Albom
Casting
“My life has a superb cast but I can’t figure out the plot.”
~ Ashleigh Brilliant
Stein’s Law
“If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.”
— Stein’s Law
April Showers
April showers
Bring May flowers
March showers bring mud.
Reversible knitting
I was in a bookstore today, and saw a book with the title “Reversible Knitting.” I don’t knit, but I thought, “Brilliant! You make something, you get tired of it, and then you un-knit it and turn it into something else!”
Sadly, that wasn’t what it was about at all.
All the kids are doing it!
The Arctic Oscillation is either a meteorological term, or the latest dance craze. Take your pick.
… and which parallel universe is THIS?
If there is an infinite number of alternate universes, in one of them there is a universe which does not have an infinite number of alternate universes.
This paradox will keep me awake tonight thinking about it. Well, OK, probably not me, personally, but some alternate version of me will be fretting about it somewhere.
Season’s Greetings!
Best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low stress, non-addictive, gender neutral, winter solstice holiday, practiced within the most joyous traditions of the religious persuasion of your choice, but with respect for the religious persuasion of others who choose to practice their own religion as well as those who choose not to practice a religion at all.