Adele’s Aerie

I found myself in a strange situation a couple weeks ago, of needing to define the term “sysadmin” for a new friend who is not computer-inclined. I’ve surrounded myself too much over the past few years with people who exclusively live, eat and breathe IT buzzword and acronym bingo, a situation I intend to bring to a close as quickly as is convenient.

Here’s how I explained what I do for a living to an interested, intelligent, non-computer-inclined person:

You were curious about my work…
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From CNN, Scientists look for elusive ‘moon trees’

Apparently some seeds went up and around the moon with Apollo 14, and then came back to earth. And no one has comprehensive records of where they were all planted. Hee, hee…

Once again, we relearn the lesson that it’s easier to document something as it happens than to research what happened later and reconstruct the data!

Oh, and if you want to know more, check out this site, which has locations and more history about the moon trees… and a section on second genearation moon trees, seedlings or cuttings from the original moon trees. Interesting!