I made a pitch drop experiment as a Valentine's day gift for my girlfriend. I made the card look like a Maxwell House coffee ad with the slogan "our love will be good to the last drop"

Was kinda annoying gathering the pieces. The main dome I was lucky to get on sale from Michael's. Amazon for the glass funnel, had to get a 3 pack, and the spout part was really long, had to cut it, ruined one funnel. Got brass welding rods to make a tripod holder. 100ml beakers only came in a 6 pack, makes for nice shot glasses. The pitch itself was a real pain, forgot where I got the pound, can look it up if anyone wants to buy some. Then I had to break off a piece and melt it to get a few oz in the funnel. Messy.
It's sitting on a bookshelf now, we just checked, still no drop but visible progress compared to when I gave it to her a few years ago.

Thanks to a call out from Jason Scott I volunteered to move his tapes from his garage to the IA warehouse. Appreciated the opportunity to thank him in person for the show.

if they really hated him his middle name would be em

Minitel says bonjour in 1982

If you are in the area, worth a visit. It's really pretty. Here are some pics, including a peek thru the door of the station. https://imgur.com/gallery/hist...

there's instructions posted in the documentation on how to void your warrenty by removing the filter https://www.raspberrypi.org/do...

During a period of unemployment I won a contest sponsored by the movie "Dirty Dancing II".
Never saw the movie but winning the phone and year of service kept me a customer until I got a work issued blackberry.

in 2009 software exec Kalish was murdered by her wife Carol Burger, and put into the trunk of her car which was left a few miles from their home. The Kalish family when talking to police emphasized their suspicions that Burger was responsible, but there was a lot of delays until police finally entered the blood soaked home, to find Burger had shot herself.

We also have the example of Reiser. And so many others.

While it would be very bad to pursue the husband while ignoring other leads, we need a better mechanism for this rare situation.

I had dinner with him after he gave a talk around 1990ish. He was VERY careful to NOT say there was life, just the experiments (beyond the LR) indicated that there was. He was recently interviewed, you tell us if he sounds like he has dementia or delusions. https://thespaceshow.com/show/...

http://www.jneurosci.org/content/35/48/15800
"Thus, the hypothesis that the propagation of neural activity can be carried out solely by electric fields is consistent with experimental data as well as computer simulations. The fact that the speed of the propagation remains constant under different experimental conditions can be explained by the presence of an electric field effect associated with neural firing generated by the network configuration and not by the properties of individual cells. This electrical field effect is revealed when synaptic transmission is blocked and both pathologic and normal propagation can exist simultaneously with field effect governing short range or local propagation, where synaptic transmission may govern long-range propagation and communication."

Dr. Gilbert V. Levin's "Labeled Release (LR)" experiment on the Viking had positive results. He has published in peer reviewed journals analysis on why the results indicate life. He was interviewed on The Space Show last year

One of my favorite poems is "Chocolate Pudding" published in the Feburary 1985 issue of Omni magazine (page 42 http://issuu.com/jerrickventures/docs/omni_1985_02)
Do you have any plans to publish more poems?

Yeh, a friend who was a scientist there gave me a good 10 minute rant about him. That salary would fund 8 or so post docs.

nope, they were proof of concept, incapable of letting anyone enter.

Based on seeing the angst of my Indian friend when he was shopping for gold gifts for his family, there's a lot more cultural meaning than mere stored value.