Paramecium santaclausii

gpmatthews · Post by **gpmatthews** » Sun Dec 12, 2004 4:05 pm

Season's Greetings to everyone on the forum.

By the way, I knew I had a use for that pink Paramecium!

oh, and I spotted the Plough or Big Dipper and Orion in your greeting, Ken...

Kenv · Post by **Kenv** » Sun Dec 12, 2004 4:24 pm

Deep frozen paramecium for Xmas Dinner! Seasons Greeting Graham.
Kenv

Ken Ramos · Post by **Ken Ramos** » Sun Dec 12, 2004 6:03 pm

Cool, Very Cool. Novel greeting Graham. All the best to you and yours

Oh, by the way. There is one constellation in there that does not really belong with the others because it is a northern hemisphere system. (W) The other two are equatorial and southern systems.

twebster · Post by **twebster** » Sun Dec 12, 2004 6:22 pm

Deep frozen paramecium for Xmas Dinner!

Do you have to use a microtome to slice these for dinner

Happy Holidays to one and all

Steve West · Post by **Steve West** » Sun Dec 12, 2004 6:45 pm

Totally radical dude!

Ken Ramos · Post by **Ken Ramos** » Sun Dec 12, 2004 6:46 pm

You know Tom, now that you have brought it up, we or should I say ya'all, have been discussing flash photography and so on but no one has addressed the critical preparation of specimens for photographing. I can carve a ham or a turkey but do a cs or ls of a plant stem or other tissue I have no idea. Anyone have any suggestions for a homemade microtome without "cutting out" the flash photography discussions (no pun intended)

twebster · Post by **twebster** » Sun Dec 12, 2004 6:54 pm

Hi ya' Ken

I can't carve a turkey or a Paramecium

I've used just about every hand microtome I could find for under $200 and I can't cut a section worth a darn. When the remainder of my "gain share" is paid to us in February I am going to purchase a used rotary microtome off of eBay. I've been wanting to prepare my own botanical and tissue samples since I got back into photomicrography. That was a big part of my job some 25+ years ago when I was a microscopist/forensic photographer for our county coroner's office.

Best regards as always,

Ken Ramos · Post by **Ken Ramos** » Sun Dec 12, 2004 7:09 pm

You were a photographer for the coroners office?? Hey guys! Don't let Tom take any pictures of ya. Guarantee they won't come out good!

twebster · Post by **twebster** » Sun Dec 12, 2004 7:24 pm

Hey ya' Ken

I just shot 'em like I found 'em

Hey

...Wait a minute

...I didn't shoot 'em

...I just photographed 'em

...Honest

...Somebody else shot 'em

...Really

...Take those handcuffs off me, officer

..."Shoot 'em" is just a figure of speach

...

Kenv · Post by **Kenv** » Sun Dec 12, 2004 11:34 pm

I love all this Tom - you are the best group of people I have ever come across on the internet!

Kenv

nzmacro · Post by **nzmacro** » Sun Dec 26, 2004 10:04 pm

Naaa KenV, Tom's just crazy

not sane like me (Gulp !!) He really did do the shooting M8t.

Well thanks Graham and all the best back at ya. Well done

Danny.