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Mar. 23rd, 2005
Genetic self-correction?
Mar. 23rd, 2005 10:53 amIn a startling discovery, geneticists at Purdue University say they have found plants that possess a corrected version of a defective gene inherited from both their parents, as if some handy backup copy with the right version had been made in the grandparents' generation or earlier.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/23/science/23gene.html?incamp=article_popular_2
A very interesting article, with fascinating implications.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/23/science/23gene.html?incamp=article_popular_2
A very interesting article, with fascinating implications.
Progress + Easter Egg Craft
Mar. 23rd, 2005 07:32 pmSo, I am down to:
2 photos I cannot find. Sorry. No.
2 photos I have found substitutions for - need feedback from author.
8 photos that I am still waiting for them to send the damn things. All parties have been browbeaten, and those who have not responded to my emails are now going to receive phone calls. Watch out Bodelian! I'm on the warpath!
A handful of maps that I have gotten permission from my editor to have redrawn. Thank you God! There is a higher power in the universe, and even if it is only a sympathetic editor, I am so thankful!
And I have also racked up enough hours that it is time to bill again! Sadly, my last invoice was never paid. (I suppose I'm going to need some more of that higher-power editor intervention here.)
No word on job.
Tomorrow is Maundy Thursday, my favorite service of the entire liturgical season. What can I say besides, DRAMA!
And my mom is coming to town this weekend to spend some time with little me!
S
P.S. I found a very cool way to decorate Easter eggs. All I have in house are brown eggs, which don't paint as nicely as white eggs. Besides, I didn't have any paint. So I covered them in different colors of tissue paper and they turned out quite well. This also does away with the need for blown eggs, as you can glue back together neatly cracked eggs and the paper will cover any cracks as well as help to hold them together.
Here's how:
Eggs - make sure contents are no longer intact and that the interiors are clean and dry.
Get assorted tissue paper, and a little watered down glue (I used Elmers) and tack small pieces of tissue paper to the egg shell with glue. (I have a lot of tissue paper in varying different shades of varying different colors, so each egg is a covered in different shades of one color. Green. Blue. Pink. Jewel tones mind you, none of this pastel crap for me!)
The tissue paper is not likely to glue neatly to the curved surface, so after you are finished covering the egg by tacking on little pieces of tissue paper, get a spray bottle filled with water, and spray the egg. Tissue paper with shrivel to cover the egg neatly and completely. Let dry, and in a few hours you will have beautiful eggs!
(I also added glitter and scripts with good wishes which I inserted into the inside of the egg to make charms, but this is entirely up to you.)
2 photos I cannot find. Sorry. No.
2 photos I have found substitutions for - need feedback from author.
8 photos that I am still waiting for them to send the damn things. All parties have been browbeaten, and those who have not responded to my emails are now going to receive phone calls. Watch out Bodelian! I'm on the warpath!
A handful of maps that I have gotten permission from my editor to have redrawn. Thank you God! There is a higher power in the universe, and even if it is only a sympathetic editor, I am so thankful!
And I have also racked up enough hours that it is time to bill again! Sadly, my last invoice was never paid. (I suppose I'm going to need some more of that higher-power editor intervention here.)
No word on job.
Tomorrow is Maundy Thursday, my favorite service of the entire liturgical season. What can I say besides, DRAMA!
And my mom is coming to town this weekend to spend some time with little me!
S
P.S. I found a very cool way to decorate Easter eggs. All I have in house are brown eggs, which don't paint as nicely as white eggs. Besides, I didn't have any paint. So I covered them in different colors of tissue paper and they turned out quite well. This also does away with the need for blown eggs, as you can glue back together neatly cracked eggs and the paper will cover any cracks as well as help to hold them together.
Here's how:
Eggs - make sure contents are no longer intact and that the interiors are clean and dry.
Get assorted tissue paper, and a little watered down glue (I used Elmers) and tack small pieces of tissue paper to the egg shell with glue. (I have a lot of tissue paper in varying different shades of varying different colors, so each egg is a covered in different shades of one color. Green. Blue. Pink. Jewel tones mind you, none of this pastel crap for me!)
The tissue paper is not likely to glue neatly to the curved surface, so after you are finished covering the egg by tacking on little pieces of tissue paper, get a spray bottle filled with water, and spray the egg. Tissue paper with shrivel to cover the egg neatly and completely. Let dry, and in a few hours you will have beautiful eggs!
(I also added glitter and scripts with good wishes which I inserted into the inside of the egg to make charms, but this is entirely up to you.)
