My hair sucks, being both really thick and not quite wavy enough to leave as is. I need a stylist recommendation. I've tried two folks at "orbits" near UAB with limited success. If you know anyone who has a good track record cutting difficult hair, please let me know. Atlanta recommendations are welcome too.

For my own sanity, I need to start a protein relational database. I'd really like to be able to output the data into something like this (maybe) with each protein being linked back to a list of A) citations B) characteristics (tertiary structure, active domains, etc). Most importantly I need it to be easily updatable. Wolfram alpha sucks for ( Read more... )

I knew Wash (from Firefly) reminded me of someone!

Tonight, I figured out who:


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I am attempting to make Kimchi.

We'll see how it turns out in 3-5 days.

My father has been in Iraq for the last several months, and today he sent out pictures of his office. I'm not sure why it's so amusing to me. The mixture of diet coke/coke lite/iraqi coke juxtaposed with the US map and walgreens lens wipes my mother shipped to him is part of it. (My father had perfect vision until his 50's and only reluctantly ( Read more... )

I'm actually lovable

Dear Logitech,

You are awesome. New mouse in less than five minutes, don't even have to send the broken one back.

Best customer service ever.

After dealing repeatedly with Dell and AT&T I'm so happy I could cry.

Bless you.

Amanda.

Yeah, I know I haven't been keeping up with it, but there's a new post up at Cellular Memory

Vista and I had come to an armistice. After SPI it seemed to work OK. Took a long time to boot, took up too much of my disk space and was a memory glutton, but not evil enough for me to go through the pain of loading Ubuntu or some such ( Read more... )

I wish I had gone back to school when I was younger, knew less about biology and had more patience for bullshit.