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The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants (free eBook since the original went out of print): http://algorithmicbotany.org/papers/abop/abop.pdf

Good luck HD! I hope you don't need any luck, and can rely on skill and dashingness instead.

Well maybe it could become the premier ethnobotanical preservation and conservation site of all of Australasia and the Pacific (if it isn't already).

That plant is so awesome.

This sounds awesome. Is there any constraints on land usage? Or is it mostly financial constraints?

Watership Down is utterly amazing - and I would rank it as my favourite novel (tie equal with others). Reading it did something to me that I can't put my finger on - but I would feel amiss without. It's just the best, end of story.

I have a Blenheim Peruvianus growing that I can propagate for next time I see you Nem. This applies for all the days: I dug the ****ing ground, and I'm so tired of digging, and I almost hate clay (if it weren't for the fact that a small amount makes the soil superior - I would hate clay).

Tissue Culture

Salt should do it. But it will be treating the symptoms - and not the cause. Do you know the cause of your low blood pressure?

Sometimes I get plants that are getting scorched by the sun, and I rotate them to let the other side of the cactus get burned too

Times like these you wish you bought the glow-in-the-dark ones. I reckon she probably pulled it off and ate it, in the hopes of getting a child. (please note, this is a bad-taste joke)

Where do we meet for the crazy monkey sex?

I just watered my cacti, as I haven't been watering them enough. A couple of new pups here and there, and not much new growth. Basically I think they're playing it safe, as the amount of water they get (not heaps), isn't enough to turn into full-on veg mode. I hope that I can get them to go nuts, and finish my garden before winter hits.

Was driving to work this morning, and spotted a big ol' Pachanoi bush growing in a yard. Seems to be the day to find big plants. I'm betting that there must be a garden somewhere, just maybe one - that has a ginormous Trichocereus Terscheckii, or just a beautiful golden-spined dragon of a plant, and then I ask them "what about the plant?", and they say "Oh, that thing? I hate it - you can have it". And then i wake up, and there's drool all over the pillow

My advice: **Always break the problem into stages, or chunks - and keep breaking the chunks into smaller chunks. Maybe something like (this is just a general example - not R code): A] Data input (read from file) B] Data sorting (place into a data structure) C] Data analysis (run the various statistics) D] Display results then A1] Check if the file is there A2] Attempt to open the file A3] Read the file into a vector of strings A4] Close the file So the idea is to break everything up - as the first thing you always do. This is arguably the most basic and fundamental job of a programmer - breaking a problem into discrete chunks. **Google your questions to find out how other people did it (on good coding days, I might read anywhere from 30-100 webpages - not cover-to-cover, but to find what I need). Often people have encountered and solved your exact problem before. Now the only way this works, is if you ask google something specific, i.e. "How do I reverse a vector?", as opposed to "How do I programme a mars rover?" It's actually a skill to be able to find help. More often than not, if you don't find anything - it's because you're not wording your question probably, than it not being encountered. This ties in with the first tip - if you don't chunk things down, you won't be able to ask for help (as the less specific your problem, the less help you will find). **Work out your code flow on paper, hand-working trivial examples, searching for counter-examples and difficult cases are brilliant techniques that will help you in the long run. It's easy to make code that works most of the time - but much more difficult to make code that works all the time, and isn't a mess. **When you're programming - keep regular backups of working scripts, and make and test changes incrementally. You're going to find huge trouble if you code big sections without testing them piece-by-piece. **Most important of all.... PRACTICE, and don't be afraid of repeated failures - the more you fail, the less ways there are to fail next time (assuming you learn from your mistakes).

Happy Birthday Mr Shruman! May your day be eponymous (bit of a stretch to use eponymous here, but it's okay ;) )

I heard that S. Jobs used acid, but never gave it a second mention once he became a figurehead (died with all his money in a white-knuckle grip too)

Okay - I did it in excel instead. Steps: 1) Import the text document into excel 2) Make a new column next to the websites (each website should fit into a single cell) 3) Insert this formula into the first cell of the new column you made 4) Replace A2 with the address of the first website cell (should be just next to the cell with this formula) 5) Highlight this cell with the formula, and drag it down through all the cells (this will copy the formula to the cells you drag to) 6) Highlight both columns (the website and the one with the formula, which you should hopefully see will catch just the TLD of each website) 7) Go to Data > Filter > Autofilter (a dropbox above the column with the formula will appear) 8) Select only the TLDs you wish to see, and only the websites with that TLD will be shown. Edit: fixed

Which OS are you running EG? It would be easy to write a program to do it: 1) Read file into vector of strings 2) Sort strings based on TLD extension into a dictionary (key = TLD) of vectors (of websites) 3) Save into a new text file, with rudimentary formatting I could probably write one for you (would be good practice for me).

One thing I noticed, was that my seedlings initially have no spiders on them, and then sooner or later - the baby spiders come and select a plant, and as the plant grows bigger, so do the spiders. ...but when I repot my seedlings, I usually dunk their roots in water, and the spider can get freaked out and fall in the water (and then I feel guilty for evicting the spider - because he's a good tenant, pays his rent on-time, not far off having his first few thousand children, poor guy/girl) :/

Aiight - I will invest in some gypsum then.

I watched it a few weeks ago (I was intrigued by the YT thumbnail ). It was pretty fuckin' nuts - but I must say, that never before have I seen an example of so much entheogen usage resulting in so much self-delusion. I think the self-delusion is actually rather common - that entheogen usage does not preclude it by any means.

Good ideas mutant... except that I am the poorer but better fit friend of all my other friends, hahaha. I think I have heard that now that you mention it. But I still would have to dig it up, to have an even layer of pumice and compost everywhere. I think I'll just have to keep digging, and eating lots of protein so that I'm fully healed each day. Alternatively I could borrow my brother's meat grinder and grind the clay up that way

I'm so sick of digging (for now, perhaps forever). I've been digging my garden so that it's a not just good soil in the bottom corner - but good soil to a depth of about half a metre everywhere - and it's just going painfully slow, digging out lumps of clay, bashing them full-force with the back of the spade, and digging it back into the pile of loose soil. I've been digging so much that it's started entering my dreams. I'll be imagining something else while drifting to sleep (like playing guitar), and all of a sudden - I'll feel the jolt of the spade meeting hard ground - running up my arm - I'll actually jerk in real-life, and be awake again. Now that I don't have any more days off - it's going to mean a lot more digging at odd hours too. :|