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Therapeutic Birding
Last weekend it was dealing with my 2007 Canadian taxes (they weren't due until April 30th) and the weekend before that was an annotation jamboree with the Phenoscape people - we gathered together with three invited fish morphologists and a couple of observers from other OBO projects (you can read about it on the project blog: Read more... ) -
Final 4 madness
KU is in the NCAA final and as you might expect, Lawrence is sounding like a cross between New Years and the fourth of July - actually a lot more amateur fireworks then I remember from New Years - of course it's 50F tonight, so a lot more people are milling around outside. I expected this after the late afternoon fireworks last sunday when KU beat -
Kansas Caucus
Kansas Democrats had their caucus meetings last night. We literally had an overflow crowd at my designated site, one of three in Lawrence. They shuffled us a couple of blocks away to a local theater. As in the rest of Kansas, Obama won by a wide margin. This wasn't surprising, Obama visited the state, got the endorsement from Kathleen Sebelius ( Read more... ) -
Forgot Mesquite
The Maddisons decided to bump Mesquite's version to 2.0. It's been out for a couple of ( Read more... ) -
Life with the fish (ontologies)
The last six weeks have really focused on ontologies, job search (for next year ( Read more... ) -
I've been in Lawrence for 2 weeks now
I'm settled in, started work - which means more or less continuing the same things, and ( Read more... ) -
Changes coming
As many of you know, I'll be moving to Kansas at the end of the month. I don't ( Read more... ) -
Farewell to Berlin
I return to (rainy) Vancouver from sunny, hot Berlin tomorrow. It's been ( Read more... ) -
Back from Norway, Sweden
Got back from Trondheim and our road trip to Ostersund and Lit Sweden ( Read more... ) -
Back in Berlin
Last fall I got to spend a month in Berlin because W, the guy I'm working ( Read more... )