So I’ve been trolling through my rss feeds, social network stuff and I couldn’t find anything that was interesting enough for me to blog about. But then I’m am not a blog everyday sort of person. I have gotten a new computer so I hope to blog more frequently. Mostly during the weekend when I’ll have more time. Although I found this image.
Monday night at about 10:30 p.m. Kerby died. I became his person when I was still with the Geek Group. He was dumped at the lab when one of girls living at Geek House couldn’t keep him. Cliff and I were dating, so he agreed to take him over Thanksgiving. I moved in with Cliff shortly after that.
Kerby was a curmudgeon. I don’t thin he was ever happy except when he was eating. There were times when he wanted to snuggle and he would start purring. He had a very loud purr. Often Cliff or I would ask”what’s that noise?” We’d look around and there was Kerby sleeping, snoring. Once Cliff woke me up to complain that Kerby and I were snoring too loudly.
He was sick for a while. He lost a lot of weight( he weighted about 20lbs.) Near the end he couldn’t move around, so I would pick him up and carry him where he wanted to go. And that was mostly to sleep in my lap.
I buried him in the backyard where he’ll decompose and return to dust where we all come from. 
From science centric, oak and beech seem to encourage root microbes to facilitate mineral weathering. Root microbes break down minerals to create usable nutrients, like iron, to the trees.
From the Times of India, Capsaicin changes beneficial proteins to help fight fat. It’s action is still to be elucidated, though.
From Physorg.com, marsupials, bats, rodents and tenrecs harbor the genes for Filoviruses, such as Ebola and Marburg virus. This shows the power of examining genomes to discover not only shared ancestry but common infection and incorporation of virus into genomes.
From Physorg.com, Mycobacterium vaccae(a soil bacteria) was fed to mice and the mice were tested in maze runs to see if it increased learning ability. The increase in learning was only temporary, however. Read the rest of this entry »
From BBC News: The marine bacteria found on sushi transferred its genetic material to the microfauna of humans who consume sushi.
From Science Daily, iron (III) hexacyanoferrate (II) or Prussian blue salt when added to ammonia makes hydrogen cyanide. Which is an important building block when it comes to creating life. Leading to stuff like urea, lactic acid and dimethylhydantoin. Interesting bit about it concentrating carbon and creating hematite.
Post 100!
So I just joined Facebook. And I also belong to Twitter, Digg, Linkedin and MicrobeWorld. Would you call Netvibes one? Anyway, I’ve been reluctant about joining facebook because I have this impression that I have to be more proactive about being social. I have to acknowledge what “my friends” are posting and doing on there. For anyone following me on this blog, I’ve been at this for four years and haven’t broken a hundred posts yet (but soon). My just not chatty. So we’ll have to see how this goes.