Welcome back to the odd and whimsical poetery of the Peeps related to holidaze! Let’s investigate what today is, because we need all the holidaze we can celebrate, right? Even immediately after V Day followed by P Day. Furtunately, our country is back to more or less normality, about which all critters are very happy!
Still, every day seems to be many holidays. Which is good, because we all have our favorites. So I will pick out one or two, and you can click the link above if you’re curious about the rest. This is an Open Thread, so please feel free to add your favorite pomes and photoes and holidaze for today in the Comments!
Today is National Innovation Day
National Innovation Day exists "to encourage young people to be creative and innovative." While the day focuses on those in their formative years, innovation need not stop with maturity, and those who are older may both encourage the young and dabble in their own innovations today. Innovation deals with making changes to and introducing new ideas to things that already exist. It is a way of looking at what is, and imagining a new and better way of doing it.
There are many young people who have been innovative in the past and have given us things we use today. In 1873, Chester Greenwood, a teenager from Farmington, Massachusetts, was sick of having his ears freeze while he was ice skating. He made a wire frame and asked his grandma to sew animal skins to it. His creation was the earmuff.
Hmph. Seems to me it was their creation. Grandma does all the work and Chester gets all the credit! Typical. Grumph.
Anyway, this sounds like it could be a fun day for all ages! When things get back to normal, you might want to celebrate by giving your boss innovative reasons why you should have another day off right after Presidents’ Day! :-D
A Tale From The Deep Dark Web
by Mydriasis Aletheia
(Sometimes one can get a bit TOO innovative!
Thought y’all would find this fascinating though.
There are also other “innovation” pomes at the linky!)
substances, tracking research chemical vendors who had
the most up-to-date wares, drugs that were relatively
unknown, drugs so new they weren't illegal yet.
You couldn't imagine the range of products.
Stimulants, downers, 'noids, 'roids, *** drugs, study drugs, etc.
Not as many hallucinogens in these parts,
Sadly that's a different art. There was
your standard battery of illegal narcotics,
******* knockoffs of more popular drugs,
Drugs designed to evade tests but retain the effects.
Then there was the more experimental stuff. Suffice to say
this part of the internet is a strange and lawless world.
Not like the wild west, more like the backstreets of Seoul.
I spent many a night trawling through the listings
in search of the most recent pharmaceutical innovation,
I sought to keep up with the current affairs of
this rapidly evolving world. A couple of years ago
a certain vendor's listing flagged my attention
and, on an intuition, I acquired a mysterious assortment
of synthetic cannabinoids for far too little.
Thus, I found myself with several improperly labelled compounds.
It took me many months to even partially identify them
and the vendor went dark before the results came in.
However, that intuition was correct:
One compound
was entirely novel.
No mention of it online.
No IUPAC name. No history
of human use. No prior trace of
its existence. this particular arrangement of molecules
was new, it had never been seen on
the face of this planet
and it has just entered the wild human populace.
Imagine that, something new. You can't know anything
exactly, can you? From its structural name I guessed
it had been designed to circumvent whichever analogue act
while hopefully retaining enough activity to lend itself to abuse.
Today's synth'noids were part of a far more dangerous generation,
And likely taking part in an unregulated human trial.
It was made possible by the deep dark web,
And even darker forces of prohibition.
To identify them I had submitted
anonymous samples to a laboratory
and asked they inform the correct authority.
I retained a tiny sample of the identified chemicals
for my own experimentation, and destroyed the remainder.
A matter of safety.
Many a psychonaut dreams of being the first
to experience unknown effects from a novel chemical
like Hoffman or Shulgin before them.
It is a high honor, to explore
a configuration of consciousness
previously unknown to the human psyche.
When I try a novel compound it will be on my own terms
and the endeavor will be a worthy one.
