Posting will be very thin today, as I have academic appointments all day and a seminar and dinner in the afternoon/evening. Talk among yourselves.
A: Look, fiddler on the roof!
Hili: I can’t see him. Fitness has probably eaten him.
in Polish:
Ja: Patrz, skrzypek na dachu.
Hili: Nie widzę, pewnie Fitness go zjadł.
If I may then, I am interested in what people think of the sort of ‘science’ TV represented by this Channel 4 (UK) TV programme on the DNA of famous people, which has sequenced Elvis Presley from hair, Charles Darwin also from hair, & several other famous & infamous people –
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/dead-famous-dna
Is it of a dubious ethical nature, or is that an outdated view once someone is dead? I am not sure where I would stand…
My guess is that more programmes like this will be made.
My first thought is, “boring.”
It could be done well. It is certainly possible to learn more bits of information about an individual with a tissue sample and a sequencer than without, but how many interesting questions could be explained and answered per hour of TV?
In Episode 2, “Mark Evans tries to learn more about John F Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe from samples of their hair, and travels to New Jersey to come face-to-face with Napoleon’s penis.”
Sounds like utter shite, actually, except that bit about Boney’s willy.
Fitness is a violinist? Well, that would certainly explain a lot….
b&
Rather brief for you, Ben. Catgut your tongue?
I’m just to busy elsewhere to fiddle about here!
b&
Well, don’t fret about it.
(Oh, wait, wrong instrument…)
Honestly, about all that us brass players care about when it comes to these kinds of questions is that we don’t wind up with a frog stuck in the throat….
b&
That would indeed blow.
(Cool info re bow frog!)
That’s just it — you couldn’t blow!
…that, and you’d have what had once been attached to a horse’s ass sticking out of your mouth….
b&
The part about the perception of white hair bows yielding smoother sounds than black is most interesting. Long ago my daughter pointed out that white-color patches were softer than dark ones on our multi-colored pets (both d*g & cat).
I’ve read something similar about melanin-filled tissues in other animals. So I was surprised to read this:
(Emphasis on the last clause.)
Darn, now I’ve lost my train of thought for some rosin.
I smell a dissertation….
b&