Blue Eyed Grass
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Cell Biology, Genetics, Chromosome stuff. Believer in American placefulness. Also at https://allpoetry.com/Blue_Eyed_Grass
Over the Edge of the World, Laurence Bergreen
November 19, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Over the Edge of the World, Laurence Bergreen
Geeky thing but for my cell biol class I've long wanted to build a teaching model of the Sec61 translocon big enough for a large lecture hall to demonstrate how START and STOP signals are read to make trans-membrane proteins. Here it is-behold. Students seemed to like it-fun class session.
November 14, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Geeky thing but for my cell biol class I've long wanted to build a teaching model of the Sec61 translocon big enough for a large lecture hall to demonstrate how START and STOP signals are read to make trans-membrane proteins. Here it is-behold. Students seemed to like it-fun class session.
I guess this is a piece about ballooning spiders, the big and the small, the horror and transformation that attend all scales. It was influenced by artist Tomás Saraceno's work.
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Ballooning
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Ballooning
November 3, 2025 at 5:07 AM
I guess this is a piece about ballooning spiders, the big and the small, the horror and transformation that attend all scales. It was influenced by artist Tomás Saraceno's work.
#poetry
Ballooning
#poetry
Ballooning
Need to exorcise words or what needs to get done will not get done. Kutya'i is a Cahuilla word for Wind Spirit, like the strong Santa Ana winds we get in SoCal. And in SoCal no matter north, south, east or west you see foothills and then big mountains. so this piece kinda flows from that.
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October 25, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Need to exorcise words or what needs to get done will not get done. Kutya'i is a Cahuilla word for Wind Spirit, like the strong Santa Ana winds we get in SoCal. And in SoCal no matter north, south, east or west you see foothills and then big mountains. so this piece kinda flows from that.
#poetry
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Thinking about my kid tonight. Finishing his NSF GRFP application and sending out emails to possible graduate school mentors. 21 years. Hard to believe. They say days go slow, years go fast. I guess this piece is kind of like that.
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October 21, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Thinking about my kid tonight. Finishing his NSF GRFP application and sending out emails to possible graduate school mentors. 21 years. Hard to believe. They say days go slow, years go fast. I guess this piece is kind of like that.
#poetry
#poetry
Isn't there some kind of internet thing about an otter on a plane using WiFi? Could have otter riding shotgun to Salinas. Here's a picture my wife took of a cute little bugger in Morro Bay.
August 21, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Isn't there some kind of internet thing about an otter on a plane using WiFi? Could have otter riding shotgun to Salinas. Here's a picture my wife took of a cute little bugger in Morro Bay.
I did some mesquite crosscuts today from some sort end pieces. Tricky to jig, so...focused sawing. Here's a mesquite mariposa bookend. About 10 inches wingtip to wingtip.
August 9, 2025 at 10:33 PM
I did some mesquite crosscuts today from some sort end pieces. Tricky to jig, so...focused sawing. Here's a mesquite mariposa bookend. About 10 inches wingtip to wingtip.
One more mesquite bookend mini-slab from today. A cool face.
August 4, 2025 at 2:46 AM
One more mesquite bookend mini-slab from today. A cool face.
When trimmed down these will be pretty small boards. But the one in the center is what I was visualizing in this piece for a possible bookend. These aren't like 10 ft slabs, so I guess a little golden bookend.
August 3, 2025 at 7:16 PM
When trimmed down these will be pretty small boards. But the one in the center is what I was visualizing in this piece for a possible bookend. These aren't like 10 ft slabs, so I guess a little golden bookend.
And then here are the series of 1 inch slices, wet down to bring up the grain. Maybe should be slicing thinner....but worried they will warp on drying and will need to plane them at some point. So want some wiggle room.
August 3, 2025 at 7:14 PM
And then here are the series of 1 inch slices, wet down to bring up the grain. Maybe should be slicing thinner....but worried they will warp on drying and will need to plane them at some point. So want some wiggle room.
To give a sense of size that piece is about 3 ft long, 10 inches at widest and weighs probably 60 lbs, as big a piece as I can mill without building a feed off table. I ran the first slice through the crotch. Here's both sides.
August 3, 2025 at 7:12 PM
To give a sense of size that piece is about 3 ft long, 10 inches at widest and weighs probably 60 lbs, as big a piece as I can mill without building a feed off table. I ran the first slice through the crotch. Here's both sides.
I know I'm just pitching the void, but doing things with the possibility of beauty seems of the moment.
Have been milling our mesquite limbs. New bandsaw blade arrived, got it adjusted, now ready for some bigger pieces. Here's a crotch on the makeshift sled I built for the miter slot.
Have been milling our mesquite limbs. New bandsaw blade arrived, got it adjusted, now ready for some bigger pieces. Here's a crotch on the makeshift sled I built for the miter slot.
August 3, 2025 at 7:05 PM
I know I'm just pitching the void, but doing things with the possibility of beauty seems of the moment.
Have been milling our mesquite limbs. New bandsaw blade arrived, got it adjusted, now ready for some bigger pieces. Here's a crotch on the makeshift sled I built for the miter slot.
Have been milling our mesquite limbs. New bandsaw blade arrived, got it adjusted, now ready for some bigger pieces. Here's a crotch on the makeshift sled I built for the miter slot.
Sunday morning lattes. The rituals of addiction.
August 3, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Sunday morning lattes. The rituals of addiction.
Alright, that one broke me a bit. Puts me in mind...
July 24, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Alright, that one broke me a bit. Puts me in mind...
Have been pruning some larger limbs from mesquite in back and am milling them on the band saw. Maybe a table project if can find a way to joint and plane the pieces. Beautiful wood, as oxidized turns deep chocolate brown. Very hard; Janka 2345. Piece on left sanded to 220 to get sense of grain.
July 19, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Have been pruning some larger limbs from mesquite in back and am milling them on the band saw. Maybe a table project if can find a way to joint and plane the pieces. Beautiful wood, as oxidized turns deep chocolate brown. Very hard; Janka 2345. Piece on left sanded to 220 to get sense of grain.
Given cost of eggs, we did Easter this year by decorating egg shaped cookies, basically like we do Christmas cookies. Ended up on an embryogenesis theme. Here's a Drosophila syncytial blastoderm, tubulin-GFP, counterstained DAPI. For those familiar with that sort of thing. Yumm.
April 20, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Given cost of eggs, we did Easter this year by decorating egg shaped cookies, basically like we do Christmas cookies. Ended up on an embryogenesis theme. Here's a Drosophila syncytial blastoderm, tubulin-GFP, counterstained DAPI. For those familiar with that sort of thing. Yumm.
Saw your new dog's face and thought what goes around comes around. Enjoy your time together.
April 18, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Saw your new dog's face and thought what goes around comes around. Enjoy your time together.
So it would appear somebody later took portions of her original engravings and aligned them into the figure. But the original artworks at least in one place are attributed to her.
Here is the alignment, where I screenshot the heads from her plates and aligned them on the figure.
Here is the alignment, where I screenshot the heads from her plates and aligned them on the figure.
April 8, 2025 at 4:41 PM
So it would appear somebody later took portions of her original engravings and aligned them into the figure. But the original artworks at least in one place are attributed to her.
Here is the alignment, where I screenshot the heads from her plates and aligned them on the figure.
Here is the alignment, where I screenshot the heads from her plates and aligned them on the figure.
Actually, reading time is mostly spent reading with my daughter to help with AR points. Right now we are doing this book, which is strangely.....prescient.
January 26, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Actually, reading time is mostly spent reading with my daughter to help with AR points. Right now we are doing this book, which is strangely.....prescient.
I am slowly, near imperceptibly, working my way through Wilbur Zelinsky's big book on American placefulness. Lots of great stuff but maybe could have also used a more aggressive editor...
January 26, 2025 at 6:07 PM
I am slowly, near imperceptibly, working my way through Wilbur Zelinsky's big book on American placefulness. Lots of great stuff but maybe could have also used a more aggressive editor...
And he is willing to change light bulbs. Anything to get himself in trouble really.
November 19, 2024 at 2:20 AM
And he is willing to change light bulbs. Anything to get himself in trouble really.
Project Cat is very helpful. When painting, he can cut in on the high line.
November 19, 2024 at 2:19 AM
Project Cat is very helpful. When painting, he can cut in on the high line.