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Sun Sep 24 07:34:35 EDT 2017
Slept from midnight to seven. Woke briefly around five.
High of ninety and sunny today.
Goals:
- More work on Go API
Done.
https://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/irving-harper-paper-wizard/
> When you think of 1950s Atomic Age design, a handful of images probably pop into your mind: The Ball Clock. The Marshmallow Sofa. The Sunburst Clock. What you probably don’t realize is that the designer of these Mid-Century Modern icons spent decades living in obscurity, filling his upstate New York farmhouse with 300-some whimsical handmade paper sculptures of animals, Pre-Columbian and Southeast Asian figures, Cubist abstractions, and African masks.
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/plant-memory-hidden-vernalization
> n one experiment, they vernalized the plants by chilling them in a fridge and then tried to reverse the process by blasting them with warmth. The plants, they found, formed lasting impressions of the cold relatively quickly. After a day or two of chilling, the scientists could still “de-vernalize” the plants, but after four days, that possibility had vanished—the plants remained vernalized. In practice, this means that a warm spell in February won’t trick henbane into forgetting the cold weeks they have experienced.
Started watching the second season of Gotham.
Watered plants, washed dishes.
Lunch: pretzels, coffee, macaroni
Dinner:
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