Ci-dessous, pt. 2

Bumblebee Unlimited - Lady BugDid you know that bees are able to deal with something close to the traveling salesman problem? They have not, however, reached a level of civilization where they are producing their own automobiles (like the Mercedes Bee mentioned in the song), just FYI in case you think this song is non-fiction. Did you also know there is a book of commonplaces from the late 17th-early 18th century called "The Beehive," which was written by Francis Daniel Pastorius (the founder of Germantown, Pennsylvania, and no doubt the ancestor in some arcane way to legendary bassist Jaco Pastorius, also from PA)? [I received a grant from the NEH recently, so now some percentage of every post has to be educational in nature.][Buy Sting Like A Bee]

AMB: sweetest cycloptrix

This is how we did things long ago