Mowe Z. Slowley wrote:
> Michael wrote:
>> Mowe Z. Slowley wrote:
>>
>>> Michael wrote:
>>>> Mowe Z. Slowley wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Michael wrote:
>>>>>> Mowe Z. Slowley wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Got me an investor.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Tonight I wired cash to China for samples of a 3W 660nm LED.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> This show is gonna ROCK! !!/YEAH/!!
>>>>>> My guess? A cluster of (20?) of those things with a few
>>>>>> low-intensity spectral additions would make for an *incredibly*
>>>>>> efficient source... and only a dozen such clusters could support a
>>>>>> buncha thriving plants. :-)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Keep us all posted, eh? :-))))))
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> Michael!!!
>>>>>
>>>>> It is soo good to hear your voice!
>>>> I've been lurking here - a lot (in an on and off way, at least) - for
>>>> quite a while, because my life's been more than just a little chaotic
>>>> for several months... but soon the dust will settle. People do weird
>>>> things for love, and apparently I'm no exception: I'm moving from Haida
>>>> Gwaii to Vancouver next week. :-)
>>> That definitely qualifies as weird in my book, but cha' know wut?
>>>
>>> I understand perfectly. Good on ya.
>>> Stay focused on what you are gaining. Keep it bright.
>>
>> How's this for bright? :-)
>>
>> I've reconnected with the first girl I ever really fell in love with, and
>> both of us still feel the same way. Here's us in Stanley Park on the
>> last day of May this year. :-)
>>
http://qcislands.ca/muirhead/Picnic.jpg>
> Huh! For some odd reason I had envisioned her as an Oriental!?
>
> I remember the story. Fantastically romantic. Bears repeating.
Fine, then. I'll repeat it. :-)
Catherine and I got busted by the vice principal of our high school on the
final day of Grade 8 (June 21, 1973) for being rather drunk, sweaty and
underclothed in the bushes by the football field. We'd been eyeballing each
other for months, but had only properly met that very same day. We got in a
lot of trouble and never saw one another again after that day... both of us
were too scared to even make a phonecall all through the summer, and of
course I got myself locked up for a criminal act only a short time later.
She's been married almost 18 years now to (and will shortly be divorced
from) one of the founders of Singapore's state biotech research institute,
she's a crackerjack molecular biologist working away at cancer and
autoimmunity research, and she's a professor at UBC.
She popped into a really weird dream I had one Sunday morning in October of
2004. I woke, figured she was probably in Vancouver (I'd caught a glimpse
of someone who looked just like her when I lived there in 1992), and so I
looked her up in the Vancouver white pages and called her. The reason I
thought she would be here turned out to be false (she'd actually been in
Singapore for 14 years and had only recently moved to Vancouver), but there
she was when I called. She was also astonished that I thought it necessary
to ask if she remembered me. :-)
Anyway, we've both gone pretty far afield in our lives and toughened up a
lot, but all the hurt of that summer long ago really clobbered us both, and
it would haved been beastly for me to open up her guts like that and just
vanish again, so we agreed to talk about it all for a while and see if we
could grow some comfier scars. Instead, we quickly found ourselves in love
again/still.
Remember my Bungy Jump adventure in Feb 2005? The next day was Valentine's
Day, and I went to Vancouver to meet her for lunch... and I guess you'll be
happy to know that romance is not dead and the workings of fate can truly be
a wonder. We both fell head over heels on first sight, and our lunch date
turned into rather more of a brief honeymoon. Except for our long morning
walks on the nearby seawall, I was cocooned with her for two days in a huge,
fancy-assed, 28th-floor downtown hotel suite with a view of almost all the
beautiful scenery that Vancouver has to offer, and my "Do Not Disturb" sign
meant exactly that. Emphatically. :-)
We've been seeing each other ever since, whenever we can fit the time and
finances for it into our lives. That hasn't been often enough by far, which
is the reason for my move.
... and what more is there to say, really? I can't think of anything that
isn't .... ummm... rather too personal. :-)
>>> How's the pup?
>>
>> Cub? He's doing *great*! He's almost 10 years old now and he's
>> *finally*
got all his friggin' puppy wiggles out, and
>> he's mellowed enough for meeting new people and encountering new
>> situations without being all nose, paws and body-weight about it. He's
>> still a dedicated crotch-sniffer though, and I have no plan to train him
>> out of that. ;-)
>>
>> Here he is... trying to muscle his way through a few dozen tons of beaver
>> lodge in an attempt to invite the inhabitants to dinner...
>> http://qcislands.ca/muirhead/HotForWetBeaver.jpg>
>
> Hmm.. busy boy!
>
>>>>> You have hit upon a concept I have been looking forward to trying
>>>>> since my first prototype. Since it did not include the critical long
>>>>> wave reds, my idea was to add a cheapo red heat lamp to the mix.
>>>> Good plan for testing the concept, but there might be some
>>>> high-intensity IR led's out there to fill that piece of the spectrum a
>>>> lot more efficiently. :-)
>>>>
>>> "efficient" at this stage of the game is an economic thing.
>>
>> I woulda figgered. The actual investment is probably pretty small in
>> the grand scheme of things, but when one has cash enough to get the
>> bills and groceries paid with little or nothing left... :-(
>>
>>> However, my investor dude is committing to the acquisition of a
>>> spectroradiometer. So I will know exactly what wavelengths and
>>> intensities I am feeding the little buggers.
>>
>> My GF runs a cancer-research molecular biology lab... I get regular
>> briefs from her [oddly enough, I actually friggin' *need* them
>> sometimes... and my own background is in engineering] about the
>> requirements of objective science and peer review. :-)
>>
>> Research *should* be done as you're proposing. *Know* the values of all
>> the variables that you can control (and those that you can at least
>> measure if they're not under your control), and know the expected ranges
>> of the ones you can't. :-)
>>
>>
>
> Well, Yeah!
> How else are you going to practice controlled elimination?
Uhhhh... with a butt plug? :-D
> I have no desire to start running in circles!
> That's puppy work! I'm at least ten years old.
>
> So, what about Cub? you have a bond buddy in the Charlottes to take
> responsibility for him? Or is he going to move to town with you?
He'll be staying here for a few months (I have to find a place in the city
that will allow a dog) with one of the first humans he opened his eyes to
after he was born... a good friend of mine whom Cub likes far more than he's
ever liked me. He'll be really happy with that, and he'll get more chances
for leashless roaming too because Denis lives at the edge of the forest at
the uphill back edge of town. :-)
> As long as he has you, he will make the best of things. Wrong thing
> to say of you are leaving him, but I kinda doubt that's the case...
>
>>>>> We are rebuilding the first prototype (with some power
>>>>> modifications) while awaiting the sample long wave reds from China,
>>>>> so I will get to try this...
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I promise to keep you up to date.
>>>> Yay! :-))))
