Celebrations

Tonight is my symbiant's bachelor party. We're going to make sure that he never forgets the freedom of being single before he is thrust into the jaws of marriage.

The Negablog of 3 is unlikely to publish tomorrow due to an intensive recovery period from large amounts of toxin ingestion.

Interludes

Figured I'd take a break from my usual ranting to post some humorous pics.

And, an old classic.

Peaches and cream

I found out yesterday evening (Sunday) that Peter Jennings had died. Apparently he died of lung cancer.

As I lay in bed falling asleep that night, I stroked my wife's hair for a few minutes. I wondered how many people would never get the chance to do that again, and how many people had seen the sun rise on Sunday morning, but had not seen the sunset. I wondered how I would handle the loss of someone I love so much, and how long it would be before I was able to sleep again. I wondered if I would ever be free of the feeling of emptiness and of longing, and I hoped that I would never have to deal with it (being the male in the relationship, odds are I'll shove off first).

It's interesting how random events can make me feel philosophical.

Here, doggy doggy doggy...

So, now there's been a successful cloning of a dog in South Korea. Interesting. Kinda reminds me of something called RePet from The Sixth Day - when your dog died, you could get an exact copy of it cloned from RePet. Another interesting thing is the number of attempts required to get this one clone:

In order to create Snuppy -- short for Seoul National University Puppy -- the team had to create 1,095 canine embryos that were transferred into 123 surrogate bitches resulting in three successful pregnancies.

One foetus miscarried but two others were delivered, including Snuppy on April 24. The other cloned dog died after 22 days from pneumonia.

Seems like there's definitely room for improvement, which is to be expected with a first generation (or regeneration) technology. A lot of this article also talks about the possibility of human cloning - I'm willing to bet that, somewhere on this planet, there will be a clone of a human created at some point in the next five years, laws or no laws.