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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/11/2025 04:30,
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com">spike@rainier66.com</a> wrote:<br>
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Zaiboc <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:ben@zaiboc.net"><ben@zaiboc.net></a> <br>
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We like neat stories about some lone genius making a
world-changing discovery, but it rarely happens like that…<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Ben meaningless but fun aside: I went down
to Moss Landing today to look around where that big battery
fire was, thinking of strategies for investment (more on that
later perhaps.)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">As I was heading down HW 101, the flags
were at half mast. Who perished? Dick Cheney, but it is
dubious that they would half-mast flags for Dick Cheney.
Suddenly it hit me: Watson! The co-discoverer of the
structure of DNA.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Approximately three seconds after the
Watson realization, I passed a sign: Watsonville.<o:p></o:p></p>
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Good example<br>
RIP one-half of the alleged discoverers of DNA<br>
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To be fair, it could be considered more of a 'team effort', with the
main contributor originally marginalised, but I doubt it's as simple
as that in reality<br>
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(was Watsonville actually named after /that/ Watson, or someone
else, farther back in history? I don't imagine Watson is a very rare
name)<br>
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Ben</pre>
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