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“Life’s short and hard, like a bodybuilding elf.” (“Lift your head up high” – The Bloodhound Gang) We had a nice chat at journal club about the ethics of biotechnology. Like most conversations about ethics, very little was resolved. One thing that’s pretty clear is that scientists have an ever increasing obligation to share their . . . → Read More: My lyrical fortune for the day 1. Go into your LJ’s archives. 2. Find your 23rd post (or closest to). 3. Find the fifth sentence (or closest to). 4. Post the text of the sentence in your blog along with these instructions. “Oh well.” So there. -C I’ve been captured on the web: A talk I gave on Thursday the 29th of April, Cluster computers for bioinformatics, will be available as a Realplayer stream for two weeks from half a week ago. There’s about 9 minutes of dead space at the front. Things I learned from listening to excerpts of my talk: . . . → Read More: Webcast Today is shaping up okay. I think we finally have designees to pick up the projects that I’m leaving behind at my current job. This helps assuage the feeling that the last four years have been a total waste. People seem to be coming to terms with the fact that my to-do list is of . . . → Read More: Good day, sunshine Ouch. That said, I succeeded. Today I rode the Minnesota Ironman, and (so far) have lived to tell about it. It’s just a bike ride (not the other kind of ironman, which usually involves swimming and some other athletic activity). The “ironman” bit comes from the fact that the weather at this time of year . . . → Read More: Ironman My very first robot became autonomous last night. I’ve been chipping away at it (ha ha) on and off for several months now, and at long last it can roll under its own power, directed by a C program compiled and flashed down to the processor. It’s still blind (no sensors), but there was still . . . → Read More: Nugget! I read the news item in Science about this Gravity Probe satellite. I’ve also heard vague hand waving from amnesiadust about how “frame dragging” works. I’m not ashamed to say that I’m stumped. I’ve got the basic, broad strokes of relativity down…but every time I start to think seriously about frame dragging, my brain starts . . . → Read More: General Relativity You know, The Punisher wasn’t all that bad a movie. Admittedly, I’m not trying to wrap my brain around any of the characters, and I hope to God there isn’t a sequel attempt…but it was what I was in the mood for. The bad guys were bad. One of them was even gay (this is . . . → Read More: Punisher I got trapped in my own bathroom last night. Got up around 1:30 to get a drink of water. When I tried to open the door, I felt the sickening “give” of a metal tab giving up the ghost inside the doorknob mechanism. Motion of the knob was no longer related to motion of . . . → Read More: On a sligtly less dignified note… |
