Archive for July, 2009
FORE!!
Ahh golf, the thinking (wo)man’s sport. After a 13 year hiatus from playing the game, this afternoon I decided to stroll down to my local driving range and thrash a couple of balls.
It was an interesting experience, first off, I got my bag caught in the doors when I was entering the reception, next, I forgot to put the basket underneath the ball dispenser so the balls just went everywhere!! Almost a comedy of errors.
I must not have grown much over the years since my junior clubs still fit me! I’m fairly consistent with hitting them. Perhaps too consistent, no matter which iron I used, the ball pretty much ended up at roughly the same distance but had a different trajectory. Hmn…
Over the past week or two, I added a new driver and 5# hybrid club. The hybrid was nice enough to hit but the ball had a tendency to curve to the right, when I tried to compensate by altering my grip, it went wildly to the right. Same with the driver.
Even after 13 years, it was still quite fun. Guess I’ll be coming out of “retirement” then.
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07 2009
Watermelon Nights
I came across this on the web today. Pretty neat!
Watermelon Nights from Dan Meth on Vimeo.
06
07 2009
Suckers
On Sunday I came across a pond with some Lemna minor (duckweed) and Riccia (crystalwort). Being the biologist (& fishkeeper) that I am, I scooped up a sample and took it home.
Once at home, I filled up my tiny tank and floated my newly collected specimen. When I dropped it in, there were all these teeny tiny worms (possibly flatworms of some sort) which dropped to the bottom. They were very thin and about 1 mm long. Then there were some tiny worms, perhaps nematodes or some of annelid thrashing about. Of course, there were the obligatory Daphnia and some isopods and coepepods.
I stirred it with one of my ice lolly sticks and a leech dropped out! Further disturbance made some more drop out. Anyway, here’s a vid of two of them in motion. Perhaps I’ll do some photomicroscopy later. No doubt there’ll be some algae in the sample.