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Merritt – Day 3 – The Trip Home
I was feeling pretty smug this morning. Watched the morning news, Vancouver is under the rain clouds and soggier than a ducks bottom. Merritt is dry and the sun was peering through blue patches in the sky. Not bad. I’m not sure what people do here other than wait for the annual Mountain Music Festival…but at least they have nice…
Read more »Merritt – Day 2
Day 2, nothing terribly exciting to report. Merritt has moved up in the world since I last passed through. They have a Wal Mart and a Starbucks! I headed to the hatchery early today, and along the way saw an eagle sitting in a dead tree at the side of the road. I turned around hoping he wouldn’t fly away.…
Read more »On the Road Again – Merritt, Day 1
My last trip for a month or so. I needed to come up to Merritt to visit Spius Creek Salmon Hatchery for some work. I generally take about three days to finish the first stage of the work, and this one went in a different direction than most of the other trips. I’ve spent most of the last few months…
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Butt, butt, butt….
I can’t speak to the addiction that I know smokers have, except that it’s an expensive one (financially and physiologically). I’ve never smoked in my life, except for all that second hand smoke I’ve inhaled over the years because friends smoked. I’ve never understood the appeal of sucking horrible chemicals into one’s lungs and then sharing them with others as…
Read more »Harmful Chemicals
I find it quite amazing how long some studies take to get a reaction from the masses. Take the BPA (Bisphenol-A) scare recently. A few months ago a report came out that BPA was considered to be a carcinogen. Sure, like everything else…right? Well, yes and no…this one is pretty integrated into many of our lives. What got the media…
Read more »Plugging the Love Machine
Every morning I run the gauntlet from the bedroom to the living room and pick up all the toys in between. Then I toss them into the basket under the step. If Loki doesn’t see…all is fine for awhile…if he does see me do it, there is usually a butt sticking out of the hole within a minute or so.…
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Attack of the Fruit Flies!
Drosophila melanogaster. Probably the one Latin name I will never, ever forget. In University you learn all about them. They are the basis for much of the understandings we have of genetics and I think they were the first genome translated. At UBC I always hated walking the third floor Genetics wing of the Biology building since it always had…
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The Dog Ate My Homework?
Sometimes I am astonished at fourth year University students. I mean, for the most part they are great, at least the ones I get in my online courses are anyway. Usually at that level one take’s a course because one is truly interested in the subject material. Fourth year courses are usually pretty specific. I teach three of them through…
Read more »Annoyances!
OK, so I was a klutz….I deserve to have paid for stepping off a curb…but I never…ever..realized how long this would take to heal. I’ve been on crutches before..a very long time ago, but in those cases I actually did something really major. I didn’t break anything, but wow, you really tend to take feet for granted. At least an…
Read more »Who says animals don’t feel?
Check out this wonderful video and feel like a kid again! Really, kids are kids, not matter what species!
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