Man or Mouse?

And so, to the point....

Beginning of an article from USA Today:

ref.

http:www.usatoday.com/tech/science/genetics/2008-07-17-spine-genetic-map_N.htm

"Scientists exploring the blasted terrain of nerves that give rise to crippling ailments like Lou Gehrig's disease now have an atlas to guide them.
The Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle unveiled the first phase of the world's first genetic atlas of the mouse spine today on the Internet, posting it alongside an atlas of genes in the mouse brain completed two years ago."

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So now we have a true map of the spine of a mouse. I look forward to bigger things. I hope they find a spine in many humans that may seem lacking in that capacity.

As for me, I am better than a mouse, last I checked.

--Dan

Rock Honors

UCLA's Pauley Pavilion.

It's just a cell phone picture, so sorry for the quality. We were about 75 ft. from Pete, about 20 feet above.

What a night!

Pete was very put out by sound problems on his side. After quite a bit of gesturing to the side, at about 2/3 thru of "You Better You Better...." He cut from the song, frustratingly fiddles with the amps, then signals "no more". They then proceded to fix the things that needed fixing. The magic of TV editing will then likely happen, and you will see them do the song a second time. Pete was a blast, Roger was pristine! The rest of the band as we now know them, were all great! Even Rabbit was there, Zak & Simon too.

The Foo Fighters are incredible. Incubus played I Can See For Miles...YES! The Flaming Lips, Jack Black, etc. etc. I enjoyed so much of the whole show! My daughter, Michelle, was very struck as well. We saw the guy from X-Files speak, Adam Sandler played a ditty, Sean Penn spoke, etc. etc. You will see.

Great job to all!

There was mention of another "cable channel" that "sold out". Even though THE WHO SELL OUT was mentioned, it was also added that THE WHO never really sold out. Thanks to VH1 for not going the way of M-T-....rhymes with "scree".

Watch the show when it comes.

--Dan

Huntington Beach

My wife and one of my daughters, at the sea. you can distinctly see the rolling hills of Catalina Island in the distance...beneath the gray, offshore moisture.


Me, Dan. Very scarey, I know!



Cruz!



Looking Northwest, towards the peir.

Maybe more later...


--Dan