Surgery without health insurance, or how to live outside the box without falling over.

Testzone

 
Birthday Party!

Alrighty then, I'm at my friend Nadine's house celebrating the birthday of our friend Lucy. Lucy is going to be 47 on Monday the 13th of December. We were going to put her picture up here; however, we're working with her new computer and we can't make the scanner work. God, I hate XP.
posted by jf at 7:22 PM

 
Where's the money?

I'm still trying to get paid for a weeks worth of temp work, from the week before Thanksgiving. The system (computer or phone) is way more complicated then it should be. Mostly it's a real pain in the ass!

So what are you going to do about it?
Call them up one more time today.

What else is going on?
It's a grey rainy day, and I don't feel like doing much of anything. However, I've got to do a bunch of things, such as apply for the MD energy assistance plan, and food stamps. And, and, and...

Why don't you start a painting?
I wish I could; I haven't done any painting in over 18 months! Something else always seems to have priority. Maybe I'll just go do it anyway. The time will never be there if you don't make it so.

"You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad."
Aldous Huxley




posted by jf at 11:48 AM

 
Elliott and his tambourine



Yes it's true Elliott and I are doing tricks with the tambourine. So far he's jumping through the tambourine at a height of about 8 inches, and there must be a piece of turkey on the other side. We started out with the tambourine on the floor; all he had to do was walk through it. In several months I expect you can catch our act down at the Baltimore Inner Harbor.

That's about as likely as getting rich as an Amazon associate.
So, cats have their dreams. It's not just the rats running the show. And, speaking of dreams, I thought you were going to be research participant. What's up with that?

It looks like I'm too old for most of the studies.
Oh dear, there's no turning back you know.

Who said anything about turing back?
I've heard you talk about backsliding, backstabbing, backstroking, backbiting and backwards. Back wards, perhaps I've been stuck in the back ward of late.

Late for what?
Like I said, "it's too late to turn back now." Well, what I meant was don't get your back up over it.

Up over it? Up over what?
Never mind; I think that might qualify as word salad, or clanging.

"Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination."
John Dewey

posted by jf at 9:17 AM

 
"Germs That Build Circuits"

What?
I know, can you belive it? Read an article in the Spectrum Nov. 2003 magazine. Got the mag. from my Dad, and it looks like you've got to be a member to access the old issues online. However the mag. did provide the following URL
here where you can see a flash movie of biotechnology at work via genetic engineering of viruses.

What does it mean?
The article talks about a process called "directed evolution". It means that on a nano level "we" are directing evolution.

Huh?
Don't worry it's beyond me too, but I do think it quite amazing, and what the consequences will be in the future... is probably "anybodies" guess.

"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."
Aldous Huxley

posted by jf at 9:31 AM