Slowly and surely I hope to increase the frequency of my entries. This weekend was a profound experiment in contrasts. On Saturday, elderchang and I started to renovate the facade of his family business. The two tiered entry way consists of an upper planter region of 37 ft by 2.5 ft flanking either side of the entrance. The bottom tier consisted of ( Read more... )

Well I started to do my cell transfection when lo and behold bacteria had stricken my poor insect cells. The fatalities ran in the millions, the flask a complete wasteland of cellular debris, the experiment a debacle. Now I am left with taken some previously frozen down stocks and renurture them back to health ( Read more... )

Well here goes the bimonthly update of my live journal. It seems the Fates favor me becuase work is fairing quite well. I am focusing on the misexpression of my protein in neural cells and I am getting nice results. I seem to be inhibiting endogenous ligands in the larval brain and thus preventing proper localization of some proteins in the neurons ( Read more... )

Indeed it has been a very long time since my last post. Unfortunately (or fortunately) work has been consuming more and more time. Life in the lab is strenuous and fatigues me mentally each and every day, moreso when i botch an experiment. Besides the usual water changes and feedings, I haven't interacted much with my fish, though natural selection ( Read more... )

This morning I was observing my saltwater tank as I fed some enriched brine shrimp to Checkers. Lo and behold, two nassarius snails emerged from the sandbed, sensing food was in the air, err water. They caught a feel of each other, and started to "wrestle". I am keeping this rated G for now. I don't think it was mating , more like playing. In any ( Read more... )

On October 29th, I decided to relocate the tanks back upstairs since the heat of the summer no longer laps us. The last few weeks have been nice weather-wise, cool enough where I do not have to worry about the tanks overheating and slowly boiling my fish. I decided to place the freshwater tank at the end of the hallway. This tank is a little louder ( Read more... )

Well I finished reading some of elderchang's short story about the coming formic invasion and have added a new perspective to the imminent battles that steadily approach each and every one of us. Since 95% of my life is on a rinse and repeat cycle, I have decided to use this cyber real estate as a means to exercise my creative (or lack thereof in ( Read more... )