fragments from Okazaki
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This whole airplane-riding business has gotten so out of hand lately, that if I in fact got on a wrong flight (distinct possibility), I won’t admit to that at this point. Suffice to say though, the Paper Boat will be broadcasting from the other end of the Pacific for the next little while. Captain of the ship has seen fit to take a brief shore leave somewhere where there are fewer things to hassle with. and really, no better place than an obscure industrial town like Okazaki, Japan.
(when its 3am for you East Coast types, the sky here is such)
If you are a biologist who has taken Genetics 101 along the way, the word “Okazaki” can’t help but conjure the image of short, incomplete double-strands }{{{ of DNA floating in a cell, known as “Okazaki fragments.” The exam on DNA replication would have given 3 points each to correctly answering that those incomplete bits are (rather diminishingly) referred to be on the “lagging” strand of DNA, rather than the ”leading” strand.
Whether they were discovered here, or by a dude named Okazaki (much more likely), I find myself hoping on Holism over the fragmentary. still ambivalent about what it should mean to be 'leading' rather than 'lagging' exactly, let's assume the lead.
...
It has been a couple years since I was on this end of things, continentally speaking. but so far it is feeling much the same. and this includes the Good List.
For there are a lot of great things about a place like Japan, and in terms of small details, these include that fact that:
1 - the stationary supplies are of surgical quality
2 - the smaller cars are and the larger insects share a lot in common
3 - rice balls in *crisp* seaweed for purchase in any random 7-11
4 - you can find people still wearing driving gloves
(and yet/accordingly):
5 - you can walk and bike all kinds of everywhere, feeling unbeholden to cars.
(they don’t bully. however they do drive on the other side of the road, which is good for keeping one attentive about crossing the street)
The list is longer, sure. and of course a list of things not-so-very-cool also exists. For the moment though, let’s look to the nice; it tempers the jet lag.
ho
This whole airplane-riding business has gotten so out of hand lately, that if I in fact got on a wrong flight (distinct possibility), I won’t admit to that at this point. Suffice to say though, the Paper Boat will be broadcasting from the other end of the Pacific for the next little while. Captain of the ship has seen fit to take a brief shore leave somewhere where there are fewer things to hassle with. and really, no better place than an obscure industrial town like Okazaki, Japan.
(when its 3am for you East Coast types, the sky here is such)
If you are a biologist who has taken Genetics 101 along the way, the word “Okazaki” can’t help but conjure the image of short, incomplete double-strands }{{{ of DNA floating in a cell, known as “Okazaki fragments.” The exam on DNA replication would have given 3 points each to correctly answering that those incomplete bits are (rather diminishingly) referred to be on the “lagging” strand of DNA, rather than the ”leading” strand.
Whether they were discovered here, or by a dude named Okazaki (much more likely), I find myself hoping on Holism over the fragmentary. still ambivalent about what it should mean to be 'leading' rather than 'lagging' exactly, let's assume the lead.
...
It has been a couple years since I was on this end of things, continentally speaking. but so far it is feeling much the same. and this includes the Good List.
For there are a lot of great things about a place like Japan, and in terms of small details, these include that fact that:
1 - the stationary supplies are of surgical quality
2 - the smaller cars are and the larger insects share a lot in common
3 - rice balls in *crisp* seaweed for purchase in any random 7-11
4 - you can find people still wearing driving gloves
(and yet/accordingly):
5 - you can walk and bike all kinds of everywhere, feeling unbeholden to cars.
(they don’t bully. however they do drive on the other side of the road, which is good for keeping one attentive about crossing the street)
The list is longer, sure. and of course a list of things not-so-very-cool also exists. For the moment though, let’s look to the nice; it tempers the jet lag.
posted by andrew s.yang at Thursday, May 26, 2005
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