Choking arty

Anyone experienced with growing artichokes?  My first plant is now 3 feet high and 3 feet wide, with 3 or 4 little chokes emerging. Yum. News  and film at 10.

Wouldn't you know it

From a text I’m working on: “The pathophysiology of chronic post-traumatic headache is believed to be due to a combination of organic and psychological factors. Post-traumatic headache may be more common in patients with pre-existing psychopathology. In addition, financial incentives also seem to increase the rate of disabilities among patients with post-traumatic headaches.”

 

 

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Jeer Review

Maybe only editors will laugh, but Harper’s magazine made me do it and led me to it:

 

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1462-2920.2010.02394.x/full

My personal favorite? Perhaps the last on the list: “The writing and data presentation are so bad that I had to leave work and go home early and then spend time to wonder what life is about.” Or a runner-up, “The biggest problem with this manuscript, which has nearly sucked the will to live out of me, is the terrible writing style.”

Collections in the garage

Mother Nature is mad, the president still looks sad (but he's oh so articulate), and I have a ridiculously minute (my newt) problem: whether/how to transfer my excellent record collection that's been moldering in the garage  to MP3. To transfer to MP3 my excellent record collection that has been melting, baking, fossilizing in the deep subconscious morass that is our garage ...whoops, editorial moment. Supposedly the sound of MP3 is questionable, to the fine-tuned ear, but I can't hear that well anyway, so pulling the usb turntable out of the box would be one step farther toward whittling collections and possessions.

The lament of giant fingers

I’ve been passed 2 Smart phones to play with, should I wish to get back on the tech train. All abooooooooard.  But ah, my fingers seem to belong to a giant man, not to me. Jolly Green Me.

 

Exuberant flowers

We seem have a nasturtium field in the back 40. No flowers yet, but some leaves are 10 inches across. Yowsa. The old-world impatiens are about choked out...every year or two something new takes over.  At least the fennel, kudzu, blackberries, ivy, and bamboo are giving it a break.

Dancing at the Desk

Whenever I hear “In Motion” by Trent Reznor/Atticus Ross, why, I just start bobbing and bouncing. Reflex. Kind of like my grumpy cat J. used to do whenever she heard Balinese Gamelan on the Nonesuch Sampler. Pavlovian.      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yczul_609Gg

Transcription Part 2: eating cheating also

Another fine message transcription of a voicemail: "Hi Mr., well all game. He said we probably will but with afternoon 81888 or you used to see if you've eat 218123 you would let him know one these listening to these things on bed rest for the they still, they close up the building. I'm been busy probably a woke up so anyway tell him I need to be eating cheating also, you know I love you. Please call me back at 2121 and I see you there at 1:00. Okay well call them 3415. I would with you. Okay. I wouldn't really important. Thank you. bye bye"

Voice Mail

Why humans are still better than machines at transcription (my latest Vonage delivery): "Hello Kim ...I saw a question about how putting your mother and the knowledge and so I have her in there is no loader in the learner and I know that I almost the lowest Arlene. I was having. Yes I think it's like but anyway yeah. So anyway I don't know how they didn't get in and because I've been anyway. Kiss me a call because that was the last. It's the last thing I pay. I think and we'll figure that out and didn't you the interest that way you could get that video to them tomorrow. So I hope you're having a good time up in Southern Moon my night. He has some graduate on the 18th."

Milo

Our kitty Milo passed away last Thursday night, and I'm sad. We rescued him from a spa in Calistoga in oh, about 1998. He had been failing for a few months. Our senior kitty boys seem to suffer from kidney problems eventually, no matter what we try.  I just returned from the midwest and I'm having a heck of a time adjusting to the time change.