John L's Complete Site Outline

featuring items at
www.jlindquist.com and www.splammo.net

Note: The domain jlindquist.net went off-line in December, 2016, and the websites on that domain were transferred from the latest file copies to jlindquist.com. The sites so transferred include the "retired" Microbiology 102 site, Selected General Microbiology Topics and the Bread site.

"During the night a severe thunder storm came up... The lightning was incessant and vivid, the thunder was loud and reverberated in a sublime manner over the vast prairies, and was finally lost down the river in a distant roar." (A sublime quote from a diary of an expedition in one of the history pages.)

"Responding to a vision or two, the Mad Hatter (DJ at KZEV-FM in Clear Lake, Iowa) decided a tribute to Buddy Holly was in order on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of his fatal plane crash just north of town. Holly, Ritchie Valens and J. P. Richardson died along with pilot Roger Peterson shortly after 1 AM on February 3, 1959 after their show at the Surf Ballroom. And so it came to pass that The Tribute to Buddy Holly Concert was held on Saturday night, February 3, 1979." (What evolved from this is covered here.)

This is an image of a hypothetical roadside marker from the Bread site. The dedication ceremony for James Griffin's actual "marker" on Beale Street begins here.

Home and Related Pages:

• Home Page  (2 pages with index of YouTube videos, rants about bad bacteriology teaching, and a statement how retirement sucks)
  
• Blair School, My Alma Mater
  
• Family Photos:  Mom
  
• The Cat Page
  
• Photos of Hailstones and Associated Bacteria
  
• Roadtrip Photos  (with index of travel photo pages)
  
• Washington Island Photos
  
• Black River Falls Photos
  
• Miscellaneous Photos – more clouds, contrails, animals, etc.
  
• Miscellaneous Links

JOHN L's OLD MAP COLLECTION and Associated Info & Photos on the History & Geography:

• Old Maps – centering on Northwestern Wisconsin
  
• References (with literature reviews)
  
• Evolution of the Territories and States from the old Northwest Territory
  
• Photos of Trains, Tracks and Trails
  
• Photos of the Source of the Brule and St. Croix Rivers
  
• Photos of the Ultimate Sources of the Mississippi River:
  
  • Page One – illustrating the three main feeders of Lake Itasca plus Beltrami's Lake Julia
    
  • Page Two – featuring the lower part of the "Nicollet Creek System" plus Hernando de Soto Lake
    
  • Page Three – featuring the upper part of the "Nicollet Creek System" including Whipple Lake, Floating Moss Lake and the Mississippi Springs
    
  • Page Four – including some revisits to the above plus the excursion to Howard Creek
    
  • Page Five – featuring Nicollet Creek (per se) from springs to outlet
• Views of the Apostle Islands:
  
  • Maps by Schoolcraft & Bayfield; History & Geology-Related Photos
    
  • Lighthouses and Geography of Long & Raspberry Islands
    
  • Lighthouse and Geography of Outer Island
    
  • Lighthouses and Geography of Michigan and Sand Islands
    
  • Island Tours & Ferry Rides with a Little Manitou Island "Featurette" and Some Madeline Island Photos
    
  • Madeline Island – October, 2004
    
  • Madeline Island Ice Road & Winter Photos (with an ice road movie!)
    
  • Shoreline Photos
    
  • Distant Views of Gull & Eagle Islands
    
  • Devil's Island
    
  • Stockton Island
    
  • More Photos – especially Sand & Raspberry Islands
• The Legendary Steamboat Island
  
• The Coppermine Dam on the St. Croix River
  
• Morgan Falls and St. Peter's Dome

More History:

• Captain Allen's 1844 Expedition to the Source of the Des Moines River
  
• 1862 Report of the USDA Commissioner
  
• John L's Trip to Dealey Plaza

Things Mathematical, Calendrical and Astronomical:

• My Astronomy Page which consists of very amateurish photos of comets, eclipses and transits plus a collection of links which have become quite popular.
  
• A Special Mathematical Formula which got its inspiration from seeing 2 + 2 = 2 × 2 way back in grade school and wondering about other such occurrences.
  
• Senator Moynihan's "Year 2000 Time Bomb" Letter to President Clinton – written in July, 1996
  
• Senator Moynihan's Y2K Timeline

Botany:

• The Carnivorous Pitcher Plants:
  
  • Index Page
    
  • Bacteria Associated with Sarracenia purpurea
    
  • Literature Review
    
  • Photos
• The Mullein Page (with 3-D image!)

Concert Photos and Noteworthy Musicians:

• Events at the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa (concert photos, stories, etc.):
  
  • Yearly "Tributes" and Winter Dance Parties (1979-2002) are on jlindquist.com and have their home page here.
    
  • A special 2002 tribute to Buddy Holly and his associates.
    
  • More-recent yearly events (2003 and beyond) are sampled on splammo.net and have their home page here.
• More concert photos are collected here and include Frank Black in Madison, Roy Orbison, Rick Nelson and Bobby Vee in concert and some shots from the 2007 Green Bay rockabilly event.
  
• John L's Breadsite started out in 1997 as an HTML table-making exercise and has become a multi-page celebration of what really should not be catagorized as a just a 13-hit soft-rock group, despite what the chart-oriented commercial radio stations would have us believe. Photos from a 1997 reunion concert in Arlington, Texas are included.
  
• The Crickets – a rough list of personnel through the years plus (just added) photos of their final public performance which occured at the Surf Ballroom in 2016.

Splammo:

• The World Wide Web's very first Splammo Page! (Now, according to a Google search, there are dozens – perhaps hundreds – of pages that utilize this magic word.)
  
• splammo.net and splammo.com

SELECTED GENERAL MICROBIOLOGY TOPICS:  Most are probably applicable to any general microbiology lab course. General index page is here.

• Nutrition and Cultivation of Bacteria
  
• General Overview of Catabolism
  
• Review of the Cycles of Elements
  
• Proper Usage of Terms and Scientific Names
  
• Selected Aseptic Technique Procedures (with movies!)
• Dilution Theory:
  
  • Dilution-Plating
    
  • The MPN Method (with 3-Tube MPN Table)
    
  • A 5-Tube MPN Table
    
  • Practice Dilution-Plating Problems ("for the general public") and their Solutions
    
  • Practice Dilution-Plating and MPN Problems ("for the general public") and their Solutions

  "A differential medium can be formulated ('programmed') to exploit the characteristics of one or more particular physiological types of organisms, and the net result from competing alkaline and acidic reactions can assist greatly in the detection and differentiation of such organisms." (A field of classical microbiology that is still fully viable and exploitable. This thought continues here.)

  "Rather than (or in addition to) using 'oxygen relationships' as descriptive terms – however they may be determined or defined – we can characterize and classify bacteria more consistently and comprehensively by applying the method(s) of energy generation of which an organism is capable: aerobic respiration anaerobic respiration fermentation anoxygenic phototrophy oxygenic phototrophy" (One of the foundations of microbiology examined in Bacteriology 102. More about this is here.)

  "      To isolate a certain kind of organism from a natural source, we always try to duplicate the original habitat of the organisms in the laboratory as much as possible." (One of our true/false questions that is most certainly false. If this could actually be accomplished, it would not get us anywhere. More about this concept is covered here.)

  My long-promised page on "ET Agar" for the isolation of Edwardsiella tarda is finally on the web here. This is essentially a distillation of various poster sessions (and their handouts) on the subject which were given publicly in the 1990s.

• The Differential Media Site:
  
  • Main Index Page
    
  • General Principles of pH-Based Differential Media
    
  • Glucose Fermentation Broth and O/F Medium
    
  • Thioglycollate Medium and the Concept of Oxygen Relationships
    
  • Motility Medium
    
  • Starch Agar: Amylase Test
    
  • Blood Agar: Hemolytic Reactions and the CAMP Test
    
  • Enteric Isolation Media (MacConkey, Hektoen Enteric, Brilliant Green and XLD Agars)
    
  • More Enteric Isolation Media:  EMB Agar for the isolation of coliforms and ET Agar for the isolation of Edwardsiella tarda
    
  • Multipurpose Enteric Screening Media (KIA, TSI, LIA and MIO)
    
  • Special Pages, some of which may be suitable as handouts: Programming an Enteric Plating Medium, KIA and MIO, TSI and LIA, Thioglycollate Medium, Glucose Fermentation Broth, and Glucose O/F Medium
• Bacterial Identification:
  
  • General Concepts
    
  • The API-20E Identification System
    
  • Genotypic Identification
    
  • A Comparison of 16S rRNA Gene Sequences – for IFRAME-capable browsers and older browsers
• Applied Food Microbiology:
  
  • Water Availability for Microbes in Foods
    
  • Laboratory Exercise in Sauerkraut Fermentation
    
  • Laboratory Exercise in Sausage Fermentation and Greening
• The Beta-Galactosidase Page
  

The Archived / "Semi-Retired" Microbiology 102 Website for Spring Semester, 2014:

• Home Page (Course Updates and Links to General Information)
  
• Site contents include:
  
  • Lab Lecture Notes and Course Information for the Current Semester
    
  • Virtual Laboratory Experiments and Explanations of General Concepts which are not found on other sites

The Archived / "Semi-Retired" Bacteriology 102 Website for Fall Semester, 2006:

• Home Page (Course Introduction, Grading System, Study Hints & Answer Keys, Links and More Links)
  
• Instructions and Guidelines for Lab Assistants in Bacteriology 102
  
• Regarding Course Content and Lab Manual:
  
  • List of Topics Covered in the Course
    
  • Manual Table of Contents with Links
    
  • "Index" of Important Items in Manual
    
  • Procedures for First Six Days of Lab
• Some Special Things to Think About:
  
  • Flow Charts and Tables
    
  • Dichotomous Keys
    
  • Overview of Catabolism and Oxygen Relationships
    
  • Reasons Why an Organism May Grow Anaerobically
    
  • Terms and Concepts Needing Further Explanation
    
  • A Special Set of General Review Questions
    
  • Review Questions on Media Formulation
    
  • A Special Review of Kligler Iron Agar (KIA)
    
  • A "Programming" Exercise for KIA-like Media
• Selected Microbial Groups and the Enrichment & Isolation Experiments:
  
  • General Overview of Bacterial Enrichment and Isolation
    
  • Supplemental Review Page for the Enrichment and Isolation Experiments
    
  • Sample Lab Report
    
  • Exps. 9.3, 10.2 & 11 – Additional Notes & Photos
    
  • Index of Selected Microbial Groups
    
  • Purple non-sulfur photosynthetic bacteria
    
  • Bacillus
    
  • Salmonella
    
  • Coliforms
    
  • Bioluminescent bacteria
    
  • Iron bacteria
• More Lab-related Items:
  
  • The CFU Page
    
  • Explanation of Scientific Notation
    
  • Some Aseptic Transfer Procedures
    
  • Review of Microscope Technique
    
  • Directions for the Phase-Contrast Microscope
    
  • Exp. 5.4 – The Growth Curve
    
  • Exp. 8 – Review of Mutation and Recombination
    
  • Exps. 12, 13 & 14 – Review
    
  • Enteric Test Media Reactions (other than KIA)
• Answer Keys:
  
  • Answer Key to Old Quiz Questions in Manual
    
  • Answer Key to Old Final Exam in Manual
    
  • Solutions to Sample Dilution Problems: Set 1, Set 2 and Set 3

More Archived Courses:

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• Farm Microbiology Short Course Website for Spring Term, 2008 (archived):
  
  • Home Page
    
  • Lecture Outlines with Notes (downloadable pdf files)
• Bacteriology 304 Website for Fall Semester, 2003 (archived):
  
  • Home Page (Course Introduction, Useful Links, etc.)
    
  • The Three Quizzes Given This Semester
    
  • Some Aseptic Transfer Procedures
    
  • Review of Microscope Technique
    
  • Directions for the Phase-Contrast Microscope
• Bacteriology/Food Science 324 Website for Fall Semester, 1999 (archived):
  
  • Home Page (Course Introduction, Useful Links, etc.)
    
  • Old Quiz Questions and Answer Keys
    
  • Sample Problems and Answer Keys
    
  • Old Final Exams and Answer Key

E. B. Fred Hall:

• The Oct. 30, 2002 Acid Spill
  
• The Demolition of Fred Hall (presently 16 pages of photos including the Nov. 7, 2004 aurora display)

Items listed on this site outline are the authorized and perpetually updated sites and pages that are intended for the web.

All of my web efforts are presently on private domains, having been moved from the UW-Madison web servers. Around 2000, these private domains were providing a place to put "mirror sites" for my bacteriology-related web pages, and – as I found these servers to be ultra-secure, reliable and easy to work with – I wound up putting virtually everything there exclusively. These web pages will always remain free and accessible 24/7, and they are immune to hackers and the vagaries of the local power supply.

There exist certain publicly-funded, non-UW .edu sites which copy old editions (circa 2000) of many of the above-listed pages without authorization. Improvements and changes in our teaching methods, course content and personal information are not reflected. Links are broken and images are missing. Unfortunately these useless "resource" sites rank high with search engines but happily they are easily detected as just described. Draining the web of its cesspool of piracy and plagiarism is long overdue.

Bacteriological and Other Email:
jlindquist001 @ gmail.com
or
lindquis @ bact.wisc.edu

This page has been on the web since 5/12/97
and was originally titled "WHAT  SNEW."
Updated on 5/26/18 at 7:15 PM, CDT.
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