Michael wrote:
> Mowe Z. Slowley wrote:
>
>> Michael wrote:
>>> Mowe Z. Slowley wrote:
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>>>> 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,
Sound's like living dangerously for you two...
Hope that works out OK.
> 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. :-)
>
That was my primary concern.
Thanks.
>> 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! :-))))
>
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