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-XKCD quote: "Because the future is an adventure! Come on!"-

No memorable dreams this week, mostly due to sleep deprivation.

I did have a somewhat dreamlike morning, however. I am getting ready to take a shower, when I hear a sound from the neighbor's house - sort of a rhythmic, grinding whoosh sound. Now, I would later discover that this sound was coming from his push reel lawnmower, but at the time it sounded uncannily like a

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materializing.

Reality check. I have a strong desire to get a manual push mower just for this reason.

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-Latin quote: "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?"-

Ah, dreams. Ah, dreams, and their capacity to induce one to have casual conversations with people who are perched on dumpsters.

Let's see, what did I do this week that was interesting..? Oh yeah, I went to see the plastinated cadavers at the Body Worlds exhibit. I think the best part of the setup they have is that they pose the cadavers in all sorts of athletic positions, like balancing on balls or dancing. Also, they have a bunch of water tanks with delicate vein patterns suspended in them, like the full vein pattern of a human foot. Oh and they have a progression of human fetuses suspended in water (which, they hasten to tell visitors, are from old collections before people started worrying about how ethical plastinating fetuses would be).

Of course, I also got a chance to wander around the Denver museum, which was interesting in itself because I've tended to visit space or experimentally-oriented museums, whereas the DMNS has a more animals and biology bent. I was kind of surprised to realize I haven't been to many museums with a dinosaur skeleton collection, for example.

Reality check. Although it should be said that no matter what the theme of a museum, the gift shop always has the same stuff.