What’s up there?

Hopefully coming back soon, though probably on an even less frequent basis. Real life business matters, after all… But before that, a commemoration. Sky is lightning hard everywhere here, it’s noisy like there’s a storm front moving, waving around, well not exactly like that but close.

 

Il y a toujours plus bas…

… Quand on est une mule larguée par son esclavagiste. Déprimant, mais il faut bien une piqure de rappel pour rester bien attentif à ce que peut être la réalité du beau monde moderne.

Berry Go Rounder, 6th edition

Dear BGR readers, please have this late edition from June. The previous BGR (#5) was posted here at A Neotropical Savanna, and July’s edition (#7) will be hosted at A Blog Around The Clock. Now, there’s been plenty of plant things happening during June, and here it is:

BGR is coming soon, I promise

I sincerely apologize for having to delay the coming edition of Berry Go Round. It should be posted soon, say in a day or… three. You all know there’s some real world outside… Well, sometimes the real world is also inside. Anyway, the real world is real, no matter what we think about it.

Pontification (presque) honorable

C’est la saison des retours de bâton candidatures. Joyeuse période pré-estivale qui préside à la réception de courriers agréables et d’un réconfort inestimable. Je n’en fais généralement pas grand cas ici même, où la vie réelle est reléguée à l’esquisse évanescente, mais je ne peux résister à quelques exceptions suivant l’adage fort sage de “l’occasion [...]

How do seeds know what plant they are?

Huh?! Indeed. Can you imagine how the world would look like if seeds had no way knowing what to grow into? That’s even risky to try: you may grow as a tropical vine where you need to accomodate for a temperate climate!
Seriously. Have you, dear requester, ever heard of DNA? Yep, plants have DNA too.

More Calligraphy

Another interesting effect of google translation modules for Seeds Aside… I still wonder how good translations are. I made trials from English into French, and apart wordy puns, it seems to work rather well. But comparing between languages with close grammatical and structure descent connections is not the same as translation between more distant ones, [...]

Seeds Aside architecture

This curious plant is a ‘map’ of Seeds Aside architecture:

This is just today’s game, via the Websites as graphs page…
Legend is as follows:

Doing science

(HT from Uncommon Ground)

Electronically trashing applicants

I recently applied to a (very interesting) post-doc position and received an acknowledgement for the application. Guess what the email’s title was?