Abril 1, 2014

At the Perfect Café...



... why hold out for perfect? Is it really that good?

21 komento:

chickelit ayon kay ...

By coincidence, I was just writing some notes on the subject of naming acids and inorganic compounds, for example, perchloric, perbromic, permanganate, etc. They share the same prefix as perfect, which means "completely." Most words beginning with "per" are etymologically unrelated - perjury, per diem, permeate, etc. There are other examples in chemistry, but what others there in English?

FleetUSA ayon kay ...

Professor, The new picture is a bit better. Maybe need a slightly more serious look rather than a foxy grin.

Hindi-nagpakilala ayon kay ...

Perfect is the Enemy of the Ambitious.

Bartlett's awaits.

chickelit ayon kay ...

betamax3000 said...
Perfect is the Enemy of the Ambitious.

The noble gases are lazy and boring in their perfection.

sakredkow ayon kay ...

That's exactly what I said to St. Anselm.

Michael K ayon kay ...

Patton Boggs seems to be heading for Niagara Falls in a very thin barrel. Whoring has gotten old and tired.

chickelit ayon kay ...

Pernicious is one example; pervert is not.

Bob Boyd ayon kay ...

Nice.
I can see why they don't want to take a chance on its being stolen.

madAsHell ayon kay ...

Nice picture.

We have some commonality; fair skin, mainly Germanic heritage. I am a few years younger than you, but your appearance is much more youthful.

What's your secret???!!!

chickelit ayon kay ...

What's your secret???!!!

Are you asking about Althouse's moisturizer?

Carnifex ayon kay ...

"The greatest enemy of a good plan is the dream of the perfect plan"--Carl von Clausewitz

*note to self...read more von Clausewitz*

mccullough ayon kay ...

Cinderblock. As close to perfect as duct tape.

Lem Vibe Bandit ayon kay ...

Why cancer?

Why not open-heart surgery?


Yeah.


Why not plumbing?

Why not run a lube rack

for all the surgeons know about...


Homo sapiens sapiens?


No way.


Cancer's the only thing I ever wanted.

No, really, cancer is...

Awesome?


Yeah.


It is awesome. How does it do it?

The intercellular regulatory mechanisms...

especially for proliferation

and differentiation.

- The malignant neoplasia just don't get it.


- Neoplasia, cancer cells.


Yes, that's right.


You grow normal cells

in a tissue culture in a lab...

and they replicate enough

to form a confluent monolayer...

and then divide or times,

but eventually they conk out.


You grow cancer cells

and they never stop.


No contact inhibition whatsoever,

they just pile up.

They keep replicating forever.


It's got a great name.

Know what it's called?


- No, what?


- Immortality in culture.


That sounds like a symposium.


It's an error in judgment,

in a molecular way.



But why?



Even on a protistic level

the normal cell-cell interactions...

are so subtle,

they take your breath away.

It's incredible, it's perfect.

Lem Vibe Bandit ayon kay ...

Wit (2001) with Emma Thomson.

David ayon kay ...

So Lem, do you have cancer? Hope not.

Jaq ayon kay ...

Thank God that lefties have been born onto our planet to root out all of humanities imperfections. One day they will succeed and we will all be perfect.

SJ ayon kay ...

I look at that picture, and I don't think that the support structure is even "good".

Unless it's not a staircase.

The corner under the right-hand end of the word "perfect" is unsupported. Even if the other three corners are nailed firmly to something, that thing is unstable.

Jaq ayon kay ...

It won't be that long before every American requires a graduate degree just to know how to act.

Robert Cook ayon kay ...

Was that picture taken in DUMBO? I've seen rickety structures like that in various parts of NYC, but all the places where one would see such things are now gentrified and replete with luxury co-op buildings.

The Cracker Emcee Refulgent ayon kay ...

Looks like a makeshift workbench. The tumble-down sheds and barns of the West are littered with those.

southcentralpa ayon kay ...

They're letting their desire to use the word "perfect" on that pallet be the enemy of the good carpentry

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