Totally not a morning person. Even from little personhood. There is a really funny photo of me at about 6 with a friend who had spent the night in which we are sitting up in bed and she is all bright-eyed and smiley while I am droopy-eyed and slack-jawed. That pretty much sums it up.
That blood thing is great news. GF’s dad is constantly getting blood transfusions (leukemia), so the need for donors has become crystal clear for me. Being able to make all blood a universal type would be the awesome.
The Keys are the best! I’ve been a few times (my family used to live in Ft. Lauderdale), and GF and I went once together. She is always saying, “We’ve got to get back to the Keys!” I can see the hard partying aspect, but we loved the laid back atmosphere and gorgeous surroundings. Also, in Key West there is the Hemingway House, the Ghost Tour, My Blue Heaven (yum), that cool museum that houses Robert the doll, the cemetery, and so on. Now I want to go like NOW!
The motivation would be economic in that you can take a product that is low in protein and would not qualify for the designation as protein supplement and make it appear that it has a high protein content so it can be sold at a higher price."
Those Communist bastards, putting their obsession with capitalistic profits above the safety of our pets....
Wait, I lost track of whether I'm being ironic....
Whoo-hoo!
Universe's Biggest Object Discovered
A newly spotted giant cloud of intergalactic plasma is the largest known object in the universe. Spanning 600 million light years, it is three times bigger than the previous cosmic colossus.
That cloud of intergalactic plasma is so big, when it sits around the house, it really sits around the house!
5AM is a bit rough for me, but I get up at 6-6:30AM on a regular basis.
This is me, even on the weekends these days. Sadly, I also have strong night owl tendancies.
ooooooohhhhhh! that's 5AM? people get up then?
Like, up off the couch? Or some other up?
A newly spotted giant cloud of intergalactic plasma is the largest known object in the universe. Spanning 600 million light years, it is three times bigger than the previous cosmic colossus.
Didn't the Enterprise run into this once?
I prefer 5 a.m. to come at the END of my night, rather than the beginning of my day.
I started becoming more of a morning person as I got older (but 8 a.m. is prime for me). The kids seem to rise a little earlier (between 6-7:30 a.m.) which is pushing the limits of what caffeine can do for me.
The only time I get up at 5am is when I'm catching a plane someplace fun, and even then, it's ugly like Medusa on the rag and having a bad hair day.
I got up at 5am once when I drove 1020 miles from Madison to Amherst, MA. I drove 20 hours straight. Then I did the same thing when I drove back (getting up at 4:00 this time).
Don't think I could do that anymore. More to the point, I don't want to.
Hah! Everybody's talking about the tubes:
A Series of Tubes
Via Tyler Cowen and Kottke
Ladies Home Journal's predictions about 2000 written in 1900:
Prediction #22: Store Purchases by Tube. Pneumatic tubes, instead of store wagons, will deliver packages and bundles. These tubes will collect, deliver and transport mail over certain distances, perhaps for hundreds of miles. They will at first connect with the private houses of the wealthy; then with all homes. Great business establishments will extend them to stations, similar to our branch post-offices of today, whence fast automobile vehicles will distribute purchases from house to house.
Prediction #23 is a curious mix of the prescient and wrong. "Ready-cooked meals will be bought from establishments similar to our bakeries of today." This is correct. Prepared food "to go" is now widely available, a concept they didn't really have in 1900 but is well-captured by the idea of being "similar to our bakeries of today." Then things go awry: "They will purchase materials in tremendous wholesale quantities and sell the cooked foods at a price much lower than the cost of individual cooking." In fact, people are just richer today than they were in 1900 and can afford more costly food-acquisition methods, especially if they save time. Interestingly, the premise here that wholesale purchase will make the food cheaper than home-cooking seems based on the idea that ingredients rather than labor are the main cost of prepared foods.
Last, of course, the tubes return: "Food will be served hot or cold to private houses in pneumatic tubes or automobile wagons." The pneumatic tube is a real technology, still in use to some extent today, but it was always more of a niche product than its proponents had hoped.
