A Snip­pet and an Ad­um­bra­tion by Roberto — I could not help my­self. As I be­gin an­other year of blog­ging at STC, I had to start with this re­cur­ring theme of ele­phants. It does have the feel­ing of a blogger's equiv­a­lent to a composer's os­ti­nato (think ob­sti­nate) – a mo­tif that per­sis­tently re­peats. Oh, but what won­der­fully al­lur­ing mo­tif, E. coli and Ele­phants!