19th September 2012

GMO and the rats that just won’t stay alive

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Supper in sandwich mode: the new Ashton, just up the way, providing the fodder. I still miss the chicken place (a meal on a stick: intriguing), but if it means that proper poutine is minutes away then I’ll acquiesce. For emergencies only, in subscript.

The food world is all agog. Maybe GMO is bad for you, after all. Seems that mice get tumours from too much “roundup readiness”. The science is a little vague, but should the experiments be replicated by other sites, there could be some real noise. After all, a certain seed seller has made its fortune with frankenfoods.

Bill Gates is still the richest man in America. Take that, Apple fanboys! I don’t care, one way or another, but the news that a certain iStock broke the $700/share price point this week means that there are lot of greedy nouveaux riches out there. I wonder if Bill owns any of the competition?

This was day three of the stone wall serenade. Masons don’t work for free, which means that the wall just gets more and more valuable. At one point, they were washing the stones with water and rags. Come on already! The wall was inside, behind plaster for at least half a century. How dirty can you get in those conditions?

I had someone show up with a new laptop this morning, looking to transfer the old data over. Given that both machines were from the same manufacturer, and both loaded with Win7, I took the lazy way out. Clone the drive, push the drivers, check the results. My guess was gold.

 

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