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Tue Feb 13 09:19:12 EST 2018 Slept from eleven to seven. Woke briefly around three. High of twenty-eight today, and mostly cloudy. For some reason, while driving in to work this morning, I thought about that Lew Welch poem, "I Saw Myself". I saw myself a ring of bone in the clear stream of all of it and vowed, always to be open to it that all of it might flow through and then heard “ring of bone” where ring is what a bell does I ordered his collected poems. Work: - Try to get Sage to call me back. I guess they don't like sales? Done. Waiting to be contacted by a damn reseller. - Patch Tuesday Done. - Work on MECS Twenty-minute walk at lunch. Not too cold. Home: - Download Humble Bundle books Done. - Read Huh. Kehinde Wiley, the guy who painted Barack Obama's Presidential portrait, was in the Yale MFA program at the same time as Zak S. https://www.eartharchives.org/articles/when-giant-mushrooms-ruled-the-earth/ > For 130 years a giant tree-like stump had baffled paleontologists. Was it a plant, an alga, a lichen or something entirely different? A fossil dug up in Saudi Arabia gave the last word in a new study – it was a humongous fungus. > More than 400 million years ago plants had barely colonized the land. New terrestrial forms consisted of hardly anything other than stems. Roots and leaves had evolved. While the wide open emptiness of land on Earth wouldn’t last very long, it was at this time ripe for the taking. A fungus called Prototaxites towered more than 24 feet (8m) over most of the land plants of the Silurian Period and was as much as three feet (1m) wide. > Why on Earth would a fungus grow to be more than 20 feet tall when the fungi of today are barely noticeable on forest floors? Research team member Carol Hotton speculated that it may have been a reproductive strategy to spread its spores over wider distances. I discovered the Go "reflect" package. ``` package main import ( "fmt" "reflect" ) func main() { m1 := make(map[string]string) m2 := make(map[string]string) m1["Michigan"] = "Detroit" m1["Texas"] = "Dallas" m2["Michigan"] = "Detroit" m2["Texas"] = "Dallas" fmt.Println("Reflect deep equals:", reflect.DeepEqual(m1, m2)) // true } ``` Lunch: coffee, tuna sandwich, cup of soup Dinner:

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