This guy has a fine review of Starcraft. This one is much better though.
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Based on posts to a Grid Computing mailing list, I got a call from an editor at bioinform asking if she could speak with me about this ensembl project I’ve been hacking at for the past year. I said “sure,” and we talked for an hour or so. It’s turned into a one page . . . → Read More: Fame! Fortune! In the category of “that’s really, really gross,” Jen called (from work) yesterday at around dinnertime and asked me to bring her a new pair of shoes. She had to throw away the ones she was wearing. I’ll skip the details. Since I posted my gripe-o-gram about the laptop repair here, It seems only fair to post the follow up. I got first an email and then a phone call from the guy who owns the Apple stores for all of Minnesota. He seems a nice enough fellow, and I was completely impressed that my complaint . . . → Read More: Fair’s fair We ate the first meal out of the garden today. I picked spinach and radishes, which, garnished with the rest of a meal, was a fine meal. 🙂 The spinach was everything I had hoped and dreamed. Dark, leafy, green, and crunchy. The Marigolds appear to be working, since the spinach and lettuce are now . . . → Read More: Spinach So, I feel slightly, but not completely boned. I got my laptop back and ended up . . . → Read More: Laptop What’s the best Linux distribution right now? What are people using and why? We have to choose to stay with Redhat (and move to Fedora), pay for RHEL, do whatever it is that SUSE needs, build BSD locally, or something else. I received the “Creative Activities” booklet from the MN state fair today. Having entered pickles in last year’s competition, I apparently qualify for the mailed-out, paper version of the rules. Were I to enter this year (God willing, we’ll live in Rhode Island by August), I would enter the following “premiums:” (For the uninitiated, a . . . → Read More: State Fair We went to see The Magic Flute at the Ordway theatre in Saint Paul last night. It was the first really positive artistic experience I’ve had in a while, so . . . → Read More: Opera |
