The little bastards still haven't shown their heads.

Yeah, so the brocciflour has been up for three or four days at least, and the artichokes have yet to show up. This is fairly annoying. While I am interested in brocciflower, artichokes are what I'm excited about.
Still haven't heardfrom Ball State about the advisor position. That is a little disconcerting since it starts in very late May very early June. I need to send out some other applications. Anyone got any suggestions? (I'd really like to work for a university.) I guess there's always Peace Corps.
Well, I apparently didn't fix the Trillian makes random noises problem, I just changed the noises it makes. At least the noises aren't close enough that I mistake them for eachother.
Mom just got a bunch (I mean a LOT) of American Elm seedlings all of which come from an old healthy tree. This is exciting, though I am more leary of it than she is. I'm afraid that it could have just been an isolated tree, but time will tell. For those of you who don't know, American Elms almost died off a while back due to Dutch Elm disease. They had no immunities and the disease killed them quickly. American elms used to be one of the most common cityscaping trees, so much so that most towns to this day have an Elm Street which used to be planted with Elms. The Dutch Elm disease killed pretty much all of them. Sort of like (I think this is it) Chestnut Blight which came over with Chinese Chestnuts and killed off most of the native ones.
OOh, I was looking through a farm catalog and I saw a morell growing kit! Morells are wild mushrooms that are a fairly big buisness in this part of the world (so much so that there are problems on farms with morell poachers.) Well, when last I heard (more than a decade ago) no one had managed to cultivate them under controlled settings. If you wanted morells, you had to go wandering in forests looking for them. Apparently in the last decade someone figured out what was keeping them from growing. (I suspect that it was probably a case of there being some microbe that morells require in their environment to live. That's a major problem in mycology and microbiology. The basic tennents of the science include a requirement for Pure Cultures for research and growing, but in real life many organisims can't be cultured alone. Sure you can seperate them but they aren't going to grow. (Thank you microbial ecology)
The man who discovered the bacteria that causes ulcers ran into that problem. No one could culture a bacterium that caused ulcers so no one believed that ulcers had a bacterial cause (it failed Koch's postulates)
(1. The specific organism should be shown to be present in all cases of animals suffering from a specific disease but shold not be found in healthy animals.

2. The specific microorganism should be isolated from the diseased animal and grown in pure culture on artificial laboratory media.

3. This freshly isolated microorganism, when inoculated into a healthy laboratory animal, should cause the same disease seen in the original animal.

4. The microorganism should be reisolated in pure culture from the experimental infection. )

Well, the guy took a sample of his suspected materials and drank them and immediately developed ulcers. Talk about saccrifices for science. I guess that it did add the possibility of antibiotics to treat ulcers though.