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Site visit runup
Yeah, sorry for the lack of posts (or, for that matter, talking to people lately). We're in the last stages of site visit craziness. The committee gets here on Wednesday, then we get to pull an all nighter, then presentations, and then done. So at least it'll be over soon... -
Geek humor
The head VMD programmer loaned me Peter van der Linden's Expert C Programming. The cover is just such a classic case of geek humor; I see at least three levels ( Read more... ) -
NIH Funding and such
(Tangentially related to a_napoleon's post from earlier)
While I was at the Biophysical Society meeting, aside from the usual science related presentations, there was a talk by Ken Dill on the need for what he calls "Deep Innovation Grants" (slides from one of his other talks -- couldn't find the exact set he showed at BPS) for forward-thinking ( Read more... ) -
Guilt meme
Guilt What is yours? Explain yourself Culinary: Fish & Chips with Guinness
I'm just going to pretend that these are the only three food items every created on the British Isles, and then I can look at people as if they're insane when they mock British food. Honestly though, deep fried fish and beer; I don't think this needs too much ( Read more... ) -
Ugh
Back for one day, and apparently I have a nasty case of gastroenteritis (at least they're pretty sure it isn't appendicitis). What a shiny happy week. I'm gonna go lay down... -
Whee P S
(Tried to post this late last night, but the hotel internet cut out. Which might explain the incoherence ;-)
Oops, I mean BPS.
I'm off at the Biophysical Society Annual Meeting. Just like last year, there's sort of a weird mixture of intimidation and coolness about being here; it's fun to see all the work people are doing, but there's just so ( Read more... ) -
Song letter meme
(via tdapenguin)
The rules are: I post my favorite ten songs starting with "C" (which was assigned to me). Anyone who is interested can comment and will get assigned a letter by me.
So...
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Song meme
Forgot to post this yesterday, but since Brett started it up again...
First two lines of the first 20 non-instrumental non-repeating-artist songs from my Amarok playlist (some more obscure than others):
1. So you sailed away into a grey sky morning
Now I'm here to stay, love can be so boring Best I ever had - Vertical Horizon (robynjade13)
2. Don't you ( Read more... ) -
Surrealism
And this time I'm not talking about a fish ( Read more... )