[Leica] Rare Event - Corrected typo

[Nathan Wajsman]

I am not sure I want that much life in my cookies…

Nathan Wajsman
photo at frozenlight.eu

http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws
http://www.greatpix.eu
http://www.frozenlight.eu
@nwajsman.bsky.social

Слава Україні! Героям слава!







> On 5 Feb 2026, at 15:13, Don Dory via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote:
> 
> Life always finds a way 😁
> 
> On Wed, Feb 4, 2026 at 3:38 PM Aram Langhans via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
> wrote:
> 
>> It has been pointed out to me that I made a typo.  Of course, I have not
>> eaten cookies only 17 years.  That would be ridiculous. That was suppose
>> to be 75 years.  The rest is all true.
>> 
>> Aram
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -------- Forwarded Message --------
>> Subject:        Rare Event
>> Date:   Wed, 4 Feb 2026 13:05:51 -0800
>> From:   Aram Langhans <leica_r8 at hotmail.com>
>> To:     LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> In my 60 years of being a scientist and my 17 years of being a cookie
>> eater, I have never seen this in the wild.  Cookie Mitosis.  Actually
>> dividing before my eyes.  I have eaten a lot of bags of cookies and this
>> is a first.  I, of course, have seen this in the laboratory of home
>> baking, but thought it might just be an artifact due to the controlled
>> environment of the laboratory.  But no, not true.  There was an example
>> of cookie mitosis in another bag earlier this week but  my wife ate it
>> before I could document it.  I did not think I would ever see it again,
>> then low and behold, the bag we opened today had the dividing cookies
>> there for me to capture it.  I did so before the cookie monster (My
>> wife) got hold of this one.
>> 
>> Now, I am still waiting to see an amoeba in the wild.  Been looking for
>> 60 years.  I am convinced they only exist in the labs of Carolina
>> Biological Supply that they sell to classrooms.
>> 
>> 
>> Cookie Mitosis-1005968
>> <
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/misc/m/Cookie+Mitosis-1005968.jpg.html
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Aram
>> 
>> --
>> Aram Langhans
>> (Semi) Retired Science Teacher
>> & Unemployed photographer
>> 
>> “The Human Genome Project has proved Darwin more right than Darwin himself
>> would ever have dared dream.”   James D. Watson
>> 
>> _______________________________________________
>> Leica Users Group.
>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Don
> don.dory at gmail.com
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Leica Users Group.
> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information