Appendix = boot disk
October 8, 2007 by cynthia
So here’s an interesting tidbit: Some researchers now believe that the appendix is designed as a kind of digestive system boot disk. It’s full of all the good bacteria that are needed by your gut to digest your dinner effectively.
When something comes along and strips your gut of its helpful fauna, the appendix repopulates it and gets things working again. Apparently its close proximity to the digestive tract got scientists thinking and…voila: the little wormy bit suddenly made sense.
Hmmm. I had my tonsils out when I was 4 or 5 (still remember it vividly, in fact). Do you suppose they were the repository of my extra brain cells? The germ of many an idea I’ll never have? (which, given the number of ideas currently clogging my brain, might be a blessing)
Just a thought, anyway.
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Dear Cindi, I just looked at your works and I was delighted at what I saw. I guess I didn’t know this was your work. I thought you were in communications. I am really out of the loop. Maybe Uncle Michael was aware. I’m happy that your mother sent us your site. Thanks for doing such beautiful work. Love, Aunt Mary Lee AKA Sister Morgan
I seem to remember an SF story, 1950′s vintage, that has the tonsils as an organ of telepathy. Alas, mine are gone!
GcB
Hey, Uncle Mike & Aunt Mary Lee!
Nice to see the Asian contingent signing in!
Yeah, I do this kinda thing for a living, although this blog is my personal playground. (The professional blogs are a lot more serious and on-target. This one’s kinda all over the map.)
Currently redesigning the site and the blogs, probably going to segment out the glass stuff because it’s got a different audience and all that…but would love to post anything you guys have and can cross-link to your blog.
Hope you’re having fun.
–cynthia
If tonsils control telepathy that would explain a great deal for me as well. However, will have to check to see if my mother’s are also removed, seeing as how she always seemed to know instantly when I was up to no good. I figured she somehow had telepathic powers; if she’s got intact tonsils I guess we have the answer.
You said:
“Currently redesigning the site and the blogs, probably going to segment out the glass stuff because it’s got a different audience and all that…but would love to post anything you guys have and can cross-link to your blog.”
But it’s GOOD for a lot of the glass folks to get exposed to us geeks. They think we’re kind of weird. What??? It’s just ME???
And… inquiring minds want to know, what in that familial blog?
“…it’s GOOD for a lot of glass folks to get exposed to us geeks…”
Hate to tell you this, Gary, but given my experience the glass folks ARE the geeks…sure do seem to be a lot of technologists doing glass, anyway.
Haven’t redesigned the website in at least 18 months, so it’s time, and this time I’m thinking of flipping things around. Instead of having a blog on my website, relatively separate, I think I want to have a website on my blog. Working through the architecture of such a beast right now, but I’ve recommended it to a couple of clients and it seems to work.
Anyway, when I look at blog archives right now I’ve got 193 posts that fall relatively neatly into geek, glass and grazer categories (grazer being everyday kinda newsiphilosophical stuff). May be easier to section them off a bit and cross-post when necessary. Don’t know yet.
But lots of changes coming. The hosting service for this site is driving me nuts (especially since it’s down a lot and also hosts my business mail) and I’ve got a new host for a couple other sites that seems to work better. Also, I’ll probably shift blogs from Movable Type to WordPress, which gives me a few more options, webapp-wise. Orchestrating the migration will be such a pain that I’m thinking it’d be easier to start a whole new site. Still figuring out how to manage the mail migration while the DNS repopulates.
As for the familial thing, my uncle Mike (who posted the first comment here) has left a highly successful dental practice in the Midwest to go teach dental students in Cambodia as part of a religious mission. They’ve got a blog discussing it, and if I can ever get the URL I’ll post it.
–cynthia