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To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Watson & Crick (never Crick & Watson, though - not that I'm implying egomania on anyone's part, of course) discovering the double-helical structure of DNA, and of we and our collaborators sequencing the human genome, conquering the world, squaring the circle and finding a listenable Madge Manson song, the Sanger's having an open day on July the 3rd. Details are at http://www.sanger.ac.uk/openday, and you'll need to register there, apparently, if you want to come along. I probably won't still be here, but if you're in the area you may conceivably find it interesting.
Apr. 28th, 2003
Interestingly, this word (as used by Gibson in his new one) is real enough, but doesn't appear in the OED - not even the online one - in spite of having been in use since the late fifties. I guess that it must have been in fairly restricted use. That's a shame, because it's a great word that I would have used in anger at least several times by now if I'd known it.
And the meaning? Spotting apparent (but illusory) patterns in random data or events.
And the meaning? Spotting apparent (but illusory) patterns in random data or events.
If you're ever trying to persuade me to do something over a weekend, and you're after making me an offer I can't refuse, then you should aim at including events of this sort of calibre:
1. Dropping in on a geographically-distanced ex-flatmate.
2. Visiting Macclesfield cemetery to see Ian Curtis' little memorial stone (flowers, incidentally. And a few notes. And a couple of photographs. And an eight-inch plastic Batman. No, really)
3. Chumbawamba. Then the Alabama 3. And two other bands.
4. Jodrell Bank. Preferably at a time when they're turning the big telescope around a lot, because a 250-foot radio telescope doing a complete and stately 180 is quite impressive.
1. Dropping in on a geographically-distanced ex-flatmate.
2. Visiting Macclesfield cemetery to see Ian Curtis' little memorial stone (flowers, incidentally. And a few notes. And a couple of photographs. And an eight-inch plastic Batman. No, really)
3. Chumbawamba. Then the Alabama 3. And two other bands.
4. Jodrell Bank. Preferably at a time when they're turning the big telescope around a lot, because a 250-foot radio telescope doing a complete and stately 180 is quite impressive.