one of those shower thoughts

Once you're a few years past the age of sexual maturity, evolution is pretty much done with you: you've bred, you've raised your children to the point where they're likely to survive to breeding age; there's no need to optimize for you to live any longer. But we have this complicated intellectual structure on top of biological structure called "society", and it takes at 25-35 years to get to the point where you can really work in that. We're ready for breeding before we hit high school; we're not ready to navigate society until somewhere after college. We have a lot of tools to prop up the decay, but we're basically built to start deteriorating around thirty years.

So here's a bit of mad scientist thinking: What if we twiddled our genes to delay the onset of sexual maturity until we were likely to be equipped to have some measure of "success" in our current environment?

Even more mad-scientisty, what if someone built and released a virus that tweaked our genes to do that?

(Also, while in the shower, I washed off last night's wing test. I was sad to see it go!)

more show photos

These are plucked from the photos koogrr took at the show. As usual with lj-hosted stuff, bigger shots are a couple of clicks away.

If you missed the opening (Charles? Jill?), there's a group going to the gallery next Wednesday, the 10th. I'll be there.


People checking out the poster. And remember, if you'd like a copy of the poster yourself, you can wait until the end of the month for the remaining signed and numbered ones to come back from the gallery, or you can get one hot off tugrik's printer here...


That red hair sure does stand out in a crowd, doesn't it?


And it was pretty crowded.


Here's Anya Weber reading away. The deck she's using was purchased later that evening.


Me, my mom, and the show title!


There was a mini-bar way in the back. I just grabbed stuff like ginger ale. Some people obviously had much harder things.


I think these people mostly wanted to know what my medium was. I can't remember. I spent a lot of time talking to the viewers!