by Jan Bear | Aug 21, 2004 | Uncategorized
On your desktop. It’s an animation of a T4 bacteriophage eating through a cell wall. It’s like the creepy creatures in the Matrix, only more so because it seems to be covered with diamonds and emeralds, and because it’s as close as the scientists can...
by Jan Bear | Aug 20, 2004 | Uncategorized
It’s been a bad week for blogging what with family celebration (31st wedding anniversary) and writing a long article that turned out to be a narrow footpath around some delicate sensibilities. But I’m done now, and my mind is mush. I’ll come up with...
by Jan Bear | Aug 18, 2004 | Uncategorized
How’s a person supposed to write Orthodox satire when items like this appear in real newspapers? A Romanian orthodox priest is to live in seclusion for a month after delivering a five-hour funeral service. Agapie Aurel Rusu has also been ordered to live on just...
by Jan Bear | Aug 12, 2004 | Uncategorized
I ran across this blog today, written by an infantry soldier in Iraq. In today’s post he tells the story of being brought into the colonel’s office and eventually congratulated on his writing. He starts out: I never even knew what a Blog was until I read...
by Jan Bear | Aug 10, 2004 | Uncategorized
My boss’s daughter (age 8 or so) stopped at my desk to say hello. I asked if the taller quiet girl behind her was her friend. “I’m from London,” the girl said. “My dad used to work here.”Her voice reminded me of boating on the...