Friday, January 22, 2021
i'm finding this methionine + cysteine thing to be kind of confusing.
methionine seems to really only act as a methyl donor or a source of sulfur for serine, which is the actual precursor to cysteine. cysteine is very important, in the production of taurine, glutathione and various other things. but, the two amino acids don't seem to play related roles at all. so, why does the rdi combine methionine + cysteine? it seems to be strictly as a source of sulfur...
serine seems to be synthesized in multiple ways, but what i want to find is some measurement for how much i need in my diet, as it seems to be the actual thing i need for cysteine, taurine and glutathione, not methionine. but, there seems to be a deficit of information on the topic.
i'm getting enough of both methioine & cysteine to meet the rdis, i'm just not convinced that the rdis actually mean anything, as they don't seem to have much to do with each other.
no, really - that's my guess as to what's coming.
you'll log on to blogger in the future, and you'll get a feed of other blogs you've connected to. this will really just be an excuse to serve ads to you, but it will be the central part of the site. if you want to post, yourself, you'll be able to utilize a standard cross-site template with default gadgets built in as shared functionality; every blog will look the same, and you'll have essentially no control over it.
i get the impression that they want to convert blogger into social media - they want to force us back into the feed, and serve us ads. this is going to look like twitter, in the end. and, i'm going to have to find a way out.
substack doesn't seem to have the functionality i want, either.
so, i'm throwing this out there - somebody has an opportunity here to essentially clone this interface, which has been the greatest thing on the internet for years. maybe it's substack that does it, but it's gotta get a move on it, to make more flexible uis. because this is slowly dying, clearly.
fuck.
ok, i've been a little distracted, but i got all of the things i needed to do outside done and should be in until the end of the month, when i'll need to go out to scavenge for more estrogen. i've got a dent out of a huge pile of laundry...
i'm going to finish a post on essential amino acids and then do some legal stuff next week.
“Some premiers want to go to war” with the United States over the cancellation, aides of those who participated in the meeting said.
....because it's our prerogative to make those decisions. what arrogance.
why not just cut the pipeline open at the border and pump the oil into the fields? why not dump it on the crops, agent orange style? you will have our oil whether you want it or not!
while i'm not convinced that this is over yet (we'll need to wait until the court process finishes, and i suspect that biden's successor flip-flops, if they allow for it; there's just no political value in maintaining the permit so long as construction is halted, anyways), the truth is that the western provinces have known this is coming for decades and have sat on their hands and let their economies rot. things are legitimately bad right now, but they only have themselves to blame for it.
they will need to transition to a clean economy like everybody else - and that is the value of supporting this. hopefully it wakes them up a little, once they've stopped crying like the overgrown children that they are.
and, if they won't grow up, let them throw their tantrums while they freeze in the dark.
i'm not sure if this is propaganda meant as a distraction, or if he's legitimately so ignorant and stupid that he thinks that transmission is being driven by travel, despite all of the science stating the opposite.
it's what happens when you put an english major in office.
the guy can barely spell his own name. and, we're left with an ignorant, unscientific policy that you'd expect from donald trump, rather than the liberal party of canada.
if i want to edit a random post from 2013, i can find that post using the tree on the side (until they take that away, i guess - at which point i'm leaving, instantly. that's a red line.), open it, copy two or three sentences from the article, paste it into the search engine and it will come up to edit.
but, what an utterly moronic way to design a system...
i'm not particularly invested in or interested in proving anything regarding these backposts. my concerns are twofold:
1) i want a complete narrative of all of my writing.
2) i want a coherent narrative of all of my writing - something you can read from start to finish without holes.
there's no ads, here. i don't make money by posting here, and i don't want to, either. i want a gai and to not have to worry about it beyond that. and, i kind of have it, on disability.
but, there are going to be times when i'm using this interface to do creative writing, as well. obviously, my posts from 1996 are not from 1996, and i'm not pretending that they are. i'm calling it creative writing - if you want to accuse me of lying, you should grow up a little and stop taking the platform so seriously. yes - when i do the alter-realty, i'll be consciously backdating posts that were not written at that time. that's the mechanism, and to accuse me of "lying" about it is absurd.
i'm going to be doing massive backposting for 2014--->2016 soon, and i'm going to need to find a way to edit and modify posts over that period. if i can't do it here, i'll have to do it elsewhere.
you've been warned, google - if you're going to remove functionality like this, i'm going to get up and leave.
to clarify the point about heron v euclid as the source of the "royal road to geometry" quote, which was just thrown into the review as banter...
the source for the euclid/ptolemy discussion is proclus, and it is probably apocryphal, there. i have a copy of proclus' commentary on the shelf; he was an important (neo-)platonist near the end of the classical period (traditionally ending when justinian closed the academy), but this is very late for a source about euclid - it was nearly 1000 years later. i know that we tend to blur the classical period together, but 1000 years is a long, long time. it's very hard to take a story like that about anybody seriously at so far removed a date.
when i said "i remembered it as being heron", i was referencing something i learned in a course on non-euclidean geometry (70.427 at carleton) many years ago. there's a text called the non-euclidean revolution by richard trudeau that's a pretty gentle intro, so gentle that it's a probably better called a philosophy text than a math text, and it might be in there, but i don't remember entirely. what i remember is a comment by the professor (brian mortimer) that the whole euclid thing was presented in proclus from an earlier reference to heron, probably because euclid is fucking euclid and heron was...you've never heard of him, have you? he was important, but he wasn't euclid. apparently, the story was also sometimes told with archimedes as the geometer, rather than euclid.
i'm pretty knowledgeable about the period, and i might suspect that the story isn't even greek, let alone egyptian. heron actually lived in the roman period, so he wouldn't be talking to a greek pharoah named ptolemy, he'd have been taking to a roman governor. but, the use of the term royal road suggests a potentially earlier persian reference, as the royal road was the road that ran through the persian empire from the greek regions of asia minor (modern day turkey), and back to the elamite capital of susa (shush, in modern day iran), which the persians used as an administrative capital (they had multiple capitals in their empire, essentially a collection of the capitals of the constituent civilizations that they very rapidly conquered). so, if the earliest references that we have point to heron being the author, it may have gotten merged with an earlier story about the persian king of kings, or adapted from it.
something else to note is that proclus may have even been killed for treason if he had told a story that glorified the then iranian/parthian monarch in too great detail, as the romans were in the midst of a thousand year war with the iranians. that might be the motive in telling the story about euclid & ptolemy, rather than about the persian monarch.
but, my statement stems from a vague recollection of something i learned in class that was intended to debunk the euclid reference, which is at virtually every site, due to the importance of proclus. you'd only find it in specialist literature, and i've entirely forgotten where, if i ever read it rather than heard it at all.
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