YouTube video by Robert Murray-Smith RIP Robert Murray-Smith (1963 - 2025)

youtu.be/GhramXiUrY4?... very sad news. Robert was an inspirational amateur scientist who was simply fascinated by everything. One of those people you wished was a friend and could just sit and chat with.

Brings back bad memories of my MSc presentation, loading my slides into the projector in reverse order and having to go through the stages of meiosis in reverse order. No one noticed.

I think I beat my personal best for teaching someone to roll last night. Under ten minutes. Success on the second attempt. Good student, good boat, good paddle sooo much easier. Nice to have an easy one after some the epic struggles I’ve had with some students this year.

These things must be racing through genome space at warp speed.

There should be some law against daughters coming to your house and rearranging the furniture.

That’s insane. Assuming some heterozygosity on every chromosome it can produce. 2^229 different gametes. That’s crazy.

Brilliant!

How fertile are they?

Yeah, but you do get to say “I don’t understand” with increasing levels of certainty.

“Wait for Dave and wait for Mike” is my favourite mondegreen.

Finally got around to explaining to the wife it’s “bottle blond” not “bottled blond” probably should have done this a decade or so ago.

If it is, doesn’t it suggest that phenotype is indecidable from genotype.

Not clear how many Gwh 380 Gw produces.

I used to be an IT manager. My job was simply to stop people talking to the developers.

Nice I’m looking at getting one soon.

I’m thinking of rebranding my truncating ECAs as micro-AIs. #f*ckthesystem.

I remember we learnt about the shakers in school in NZ. I find self extinguishing populations fascinating.

2) it’s completely overbuilt. The council, engineers and builders will spend any amount of my money to make sure I never sue them.
Infinite security has infinite cost. It’s much easier to add a requirement than to remove one so requirements just go up and up.

1)None of the houses built 30 -40 years ago would be compliant now. Warm, sustainable, resilient, eco friendly, unaffordable housing is pointless. I’ve just built a house, you could build three 1980s houses with the same materials. The amount of stainless is unbelievable.

YouTube video by 2swap Adventures in State Space

youtu.be/YGLNyHd2w10?... very cool!

Glider addition. atlas.wolfram.com/01/01/110/01...

Lying in bed this morning I convinced myself I had a proof that structure is the unit of inheritance not dna sequence. I expect this feeling to wear off by mid day and it will join that scrap heap of ideas that only seemed good in the shower or when half asleep.

YouTube video by Open Reel Ensemble Tape Bowing Ensemble - Open Reel Ensemble

youtu.be/vaG5tVnpkwc?... very clever

If you’re doing anything interesting, success is the least likely outcome.

Still using FileMaker. :-)

The whittakers peanut slab is the best way to eat chocolate. If you ever get down to NZ they’re pretty much everywhere.

The speed difference is an issue an escort has to take special attention to, especially long distance navigation and currents. 500 m is a big deal to swimmer and half a knot current likewise. I enjoy the precise navigation aspect.

Is there a knife fight?

It’s hard to unload.

Trading in hot butter.