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Ego death
Dear LJ,
I suppose I feel like processing a bit. Here goes:
I'm a little addicted to this video
Probably because it's cheerful yet soothing. That chanty monotone I suppose. And then there's the sutra whose meaning is the subject of some thought lately ( Read more... ) -
FB Suicide
I didn't unfriend you, I just deleted my Facebook account because... well I'm not sure why. It just seemed bad that I felt like I couldn't. -
On being a professional
Yesterday I found this pdf: on being a successful graduate student in the sciencesA few sections resonate quite a bit ( Read more... ) -
Free flow essay time
I'm stuck. Let's try to unstuck. ( Read more... ) -
Final Draft
Here it is. I pooped out in the end. There's so much more I could have said regarding Craig Venter, who started shit talking the Human Genome Project in the same issue of science as he published the first bacterial genome. He's arguably as big a character as Watson, but damn it, I've been here all night. I'm calling this thing done and handing ( Read more... ) -
Essay! GAH!
Ok so I have this essay. I don't want to do the essay. BUT I HAVE TO ( Read more... ) -
rimming for your health
Scientific background: There are several studies out there that say that obesity is caused in part by the resident gut flora you got. Chubby people and chubby mice both foster bacteria that helps us get more out of our food ( Read more... ) -
Dude, seriously?
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use warnings; use strict;
my %hash;
$hash{''}="dude, seriously?\n";
print $hash{''};
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Are you kidding me Perl?! You let me key a hash with the empty string?! WTF. This humble newb thinks that really should make an error. I don't want to accidentally key stuff with the empty string. Rrr. -
Another Rad Day
Breakfast was well made eggs and great company with a sharp-minded person who was NOT a scientist and made lecherous British noises at me.
Then I went to my cube and finished my presentation on evolution of bacteria.
Just my lab's weekly meeting, I had nominated myself for journal club because I was sick of coding.
The paper was a review of some ( Read more... )
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