This week in Vaughan

She lived by the quarry, where we would talk. there was hardly any security then. just walking around the equipment and mountains of gravel, and it was alot like Antonioni's Red Desert, which I watched last night.

If I speak in human and angelic tongues* but do not have love, I am a resounding gong or a cymbal clash.

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John Markoff had a nice story this week in the Science Times, a conversation with Nick Goldman, a molecular biologist working with the European Bioinformatics Institute. Goldman and his colleagues recently stored digital representations of code, photos, audio, sonnets (Shakespeare’s), and a scientific paper in synthetic DNA molecules, using error correction. They then successfully recreated the original digital files – 739 kbytes worth altogether. Fascinating it is because the effort arose out of the researchers’ real concern that they would someday run out of the capacity to digitally store all the DNA research data the world is now collecting. Moreover, they thought up the idea at pub, with drawings on napkins and the whole thing. After a lapse, Markoff is cited here again. Did I say lapse? This whole site is a lapsed entity. Happy 2013! Maybe we should call it Amazing Tales of Time Lapse! The story was first reported in Nature.

Winston Churchill defined success as “going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” Here's to the doctors: whose margin for error is so small.

Pew finds 21% of people who track their health use some form of technology. Ok. Then a jump: of 2100 heath technology companies the fastest growing type was the self-ttracking product and service type. The "dark side": people who are down maybe dont need a device to constantly measure the depths.

Drifts up about 4 feet high. Mostly covered my car. Certainly covered sleek sporty Mazda parked behind me. Neighbors Maggie and Linda and some fellows just passing by dug it out for me! Wow! Good people!

Mid-Winter snaps 2013 (20 photos)

Mission Hill~ from the deck~ looking southeasterly
February 8 2013~

I saw Hound Dog in the year of this recording (1972) and this is what I remember. Wild time! It was maybe Johnson dormitory hall at UW. "The Og Dining Hall. (Course the second set was insanely down blues - but that is another story.)(Paul DeMark opened with the Rocket88's at Og a few months or weeks before, his first gig out, they opened for Sunnyland Slim.)(Paul DeMark you got to write this stuff up!) Anyway, on this recording Hound Dog is at Joe's Place in Cambridge. I only got there once (arriving here in 73), and saw the Sidewinders (featuring the Paley bros.). But Cecelia Vaughan actually saw the Howlin Wolf there. Waitin for snow fall.

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Hound Dog Taylor

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