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weiliiiiiii
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Re: Cool mushrooms and deer [Re: drama]
#9156185 - 10/29/08 08:10 PM (15 years, 3 months ago) |
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CureCat said: so if you pay for shipping, I'll overnight some fresh Honey Mushrooms to you when the season gets going and you can decide for yourself whether you like them.
CureCat, I wish more of your ilk populated today's society. Unfortunately, society is dominated by the ignorant, the conservative, the conformists, and the close minded. It is too bad I cannot grow the biggest CureCat mushroom on earth so upon ejaculation it would release CureCat spores the world over(!)
You are too few of a kind. Perhaps it is a trend among mycologists and mushroom lovers!? Certainly not a trend that permeates through other disciplines.
creepy 
No offense im just fuckin with you, that one caught me off guard
You dont see many posts like that around here
Edited by weiliiiiiii (10/29/08 08:13 PM)
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CureCat
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Re: Cool mushrooms and deer [Re: drama]
#9156235 - 10/29/08 08:21 PM (15 years, 3 months ago) |
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drama said: CureCat, I think Canada Customs would undoubtedly pass multiple kidney stones if they opened up a box of inbound mushrooms.
Oh, I somehow missed the fact that you were in Canada. I thought you were in the US. My bad. 
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drama said: I am reading Paul Stamets' book Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms and he actually used the term ejaculation in the context above. And, well, Paul Stamets can do no wrong ;-)
OH. Well that's your problem right there.
I shouldn't get started on a rant right now, suffice to say I've met Paul and we don't see eye to eye on matters of scientific validity.
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weiliiiiiii
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Re: Cool mushrooms and deer [Re: CureCat]
#9156277 - 10/29/08 08:30 PM (15 years, 3 months ago) |
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drama said: CureCat, I think Canada Customs would undoubtedly pass multiple kidney stones if they opened up a box of inbound mushrooms.
Oh, I somehow missed the fact that you were in Canada. I thought you were in the US. My bad. 
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drama said: I am reading Paul Stamets' book Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms and he actually used the term ejaculation in the context above. And, well, Paul Stamets can do no wrong ;-)
OH. Well that's your problem right there.
I shouldn't get started on a rant right now, suffice to say I've met Paul and we don't see eye to eye on matters of scientific validity.
I would love to hear about that, seriously
Im sure you dont want to but PM me the story, im very interested in what was said
ive heard several people say that about him, thats why
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gandalf579
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Re: Cool mushrooms and deer [Re: drama]
#9156343 - 10/29/08 08:42 PM (15 years, 3 months ago) |
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My bad, man. When I seen your location listed as North eastern North America, I just assumed that you was in the U.S.A., sorry about that. With you living in Nova Scotia you won't find any right now. That far north the season is already over, sorry about that. But try looking for them next year starting around the middle of summer and you should find them.
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CureCat
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Re: Cool mushrooms and deer [Re: weiliiiiiii]
#9156407 - 10/29/08 08:55 PM (15 years, 3 months ago) |
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Well that is because it is true. I'm not holding a grudge, I just don't like hippies masquerading as scientists.
My friend who worked for him was all "Oh yeah, if you move up to Olympia let me know and I'll hook you up with a job with Paul". My reply was along the lines of "Eehehehe.... Yeeeaaah, I don't know if that is such a good idea. You see, Paul has a hard time with scrutiny. He lets his ego get in the way of his objectivity. I think the guy is extremely creative and I really admire his work and ingenuity in the field, but I don't think I could work with him." After explaining, my friend was something like "Oh. Yeah, sounds like you have a grasp of his disposition... You probably wouldn't want to work with him, it might drive you crazy."
Let me dig up a post from last year....
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CureCat
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Re: Cool mushrooms and deer [Re: CureCat]
#9156456 - 10/29/08 09:05 PM (15 years, 3 months ago) |
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CureCat said: I showed up a bit later than i had intended today, on account of falling asleep before i could set my alarm clock. Never the less, I had fun. Showed up around 2:30-3pm, just in time for Pauls presentation on Hallucinogenic Mushrooms. It was a very amusing lecture, though much of the info was familiar. One comment he made (and subsequently referred to later into the speech) had alan, suimish, peter and i squirm a little. I wrote down what he said right away, so that I would not forget and accidentally misrepresent what he said. I am confident that this quote is an accurate dictation. If peter, suimish, alan, or laska disagree, please speak up.
He was showing a photo of his hat with Ps. cubensis spore printing on the brim, and explaining the purpose of dispersing Psilocybe spores in this manner, when taking long trips such as those that would require an airplane.
"To this day 10 years ago, I came to the Fungus Fair after having hunted cyanofibrillosa in Washington State. In 2002 someone found cyanofibrillosa growing here at the Oakland Museum, and it has since spread all over the Bay Area, and is quite common."
We stuck around for the audience questions. Accordingly, Peter raised the fact that the mushrooms recently being found in the Bay Area are NOT Ps. cyanofibrillosa as originally suspected. Paul interrupted with "Yes, but you said they were semilanceata", Peter said that he never said that, and Paul insisted that he did. Peter was interrupted with "Yes, and you told me that they looked like semilanceata" about 5 or 6 times while he was trying to explain to Paul his reasons for concluding that they were not Ps. cyanofibrillosa, and was finally able to include that microscopically, they resemble Ps. cyanescens. Needless to say, Paul was surprising terse and almost hostile in his response, in contrast with how he addressed other audience members.
As expected, the fibs looking like semis deal stemmed from a misunderstanding or foggy memory of what Peter had communicated to Paul, mentioning that he noticed at least a superficial similarity between the microscopic characteristics of Ps. semilanceata and Ps. cyanofibrillosa (the real one, relative to the type specimens).
It was suggested that the discourteous counter most likely resulted from being questioned/disputed publicly. However, I excuse that as irrelevent, as anyone should be able to back up the assertions they make publicly, ESPECIALLY when they are in a position of high regard and influence. I worry that we will be hearing this unsettled Psilocybe species increasingly described as Ps. cyanofibrillosa in the Bay Area, as a result of this anecdote.
 It's frustrating.
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drama
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Re: Cool mushrooms and deer [Re: CureCat]
#9158032 - 10/30/08 04:45 AM (15 years, 3 months ago) |
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Morning Gandalf, no problems whatsoever. As long as Americans elect a good president then I have no problems being called an American. I pray that God protects him from the fanatics and extremists out there intent on harming him. America has an unforunate history of losing good presidents and future presidents . I have now changed my location to claim I live in Omega Centauri, the famed Globular Star Cluster ;-)
Hey Weil at least it was not boring =) You must admit, the offer to send a stranger mushrooms in the mail because he is curious about how delightful they taste is rather amazing. One does not encounter such people often, especially in a world containing a large fraction of individuals who decided George Bush should be elected twice. Those are the folks one most often has the unfortunate pleasure of having to interact with on a daily basis. I guess I understand why people live out on islands, or why Henry David Thoreau went out to Walden pond.
Hey CureCat, I would always choose a man of kind character and gentle demeanor, rather than a man who knows his science and is an asshole. Unfortunately, it is typically the latter type that promulgate academia and sadly: they most often do not understand the science and are endemically egotistic and entrenched in their own dogma.
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