A few days ago I found out about the corpse flower, the closely related elephant foot yam plant, and the fact that there a few (of the former) nearby that flowered recently. Quite a few attempts have been made at recording all the flowerings in captivity: jlbg.org, wisc.edu and wikipedia.

In honor of the corpse flower, I created an OpenAI (of ChatGPT fame) account and tasked it with creating a haiku and a short poem using certain keywords. Here are the results:

Corms are stinky
Festering in the ground
Morty and Audrey

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Elvira and Uncle Fester,
Morty and Putrella too,
Gathered 'round the Titan Arum,
To witness a sight so new.

The corpse flower, Reekie and Stinky,
A smell so foul and rank,
A sight so strange and eerie,
It made them all shrink.


Today, CBC's Day 6 Episode 635 mentioned Genaro García Luna's trial which just started a few days ago in US. It is fascinating that from 2006 to 2012, Mexico's drug tzar was very likely on the take for the Sinaloa Cartel and that the guy lived in the US for 7 years with impunity after his retirement at age 44. This early retirement brings to mind similar public and union official retirements elsewhere (e.g. US, RO).

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