I had actually thought life began with birth and ended with death! I even thought I was real, but nope–turns out DNA is just using me as a figure of speech. And that old crusty saying, from “dust to dust”? How sod-brained is that—as I warble on, from haploid to haploid.

O.K., Bill, in a past life, then. I was of course thinking about when I was still at the “twinkle in your parents’ eye” stage.

David – Bottled water marketing is truly bizarre, isn’t it? I found the same kind of promos you describe when I was browsing the Deer Park website for a post here a year ago. I guess what I object to most of all is the pollution and energy use associated with all that plastic. If people must drink bottled water, they should get those home water dispensing units with refillable jugs.

Hey, at least that’s to the point! I recently found a small empty bottle, labled as an “Aquapod”, covered in slogans promising things like “fun shape!”. I had to examine the label carefully to discover that it was a bottle for Poland Springs water.

Yes, but those places were very close together, in the same cell. Two life’s back, then ” you” were much more in two places at once, two seperate haploid cells within two seperate diploid bodies.

Do you feel particularly haploidal? I do. Though I know I am one, what I’d give to really feel diploidal.

(just wanted to keep my comment equally brief)