Hazards of modern life

[redbird]

cattitude called a little while ago, to say he was on his way home, and would be taking the 1 train because the A isn't running this far north right now. And before I could ask him to pick something up at the store, he told me that he was staring at a billboard advertising Lindenmayer systems. To which I said, "Isn't that an abstraction?"

It is. The ad asked "How does your garden grow?" and included something about a fertilizer that was safe, organic, and context-free. Which sounds like another in the long line of people misusing scientific technology to sell nostrums.

There was, of course, an URL. In the course of asking Cattitude for it, him saying he didn't have enough paper to write down the whole slogan, and getting him to give me the URL, I completely forgot that we need toilet paper. I did, however, confirm that the URL was valid, and that they are not selling fertilizer, organic or otherwise.

[Cattitude took a photo of the billboard with his cellphone. If it's good, I'll edit this post to add it.]