Atheist. Misanthrope. Still, I turned around and un-stuck the

paralyzed guy in his wheelchair who had gone off-road. He said he had

been there 25 minutes, no one helped him.

Rat (chinchilla) died today. He was in a cardboard box that a passerby had put him in; this after I dumped him over the wall after the cat had terrorized him. It was a short relationship but I wanted him to live.

......

My deceased friend called my wife to complain about me, she tells

me now. I call BS, and he was deranged.

She says I've sabotaged the back yard. It is my peace place, my cave.

My kid asked about artificial life, from a video game.

I explained that for 'natural' life everyone has a mom,
even if they don't (like most bacteria) have a dad
(albeit there's some very interesting horizontal
gene transfer that has little genetic analogy amongst
higher vertebrates, although amongst humans, culture
is transmitted not only with all the strength of normal
heridity, but also with horizontal meme transfer.

But synthetic life would be composed in a lab.

Kid will play Jonas Salk in a famous americans play.
I'm pleased; although its easy for him as he's done
several reports based on the same research. Much like
certain academics.

Salk snd Sabin are very cool dudes.