Paging epi-lj (or anyone else who knows about MIDI and digital music creation):

I have a digital piano (a Technics SXP-50). I have a laptop computer (well, two actually - a semi-antique Toshiba Satellite 1410 from late 2002, and a 2 year old Dell XPS m1710, both running WinXP Pro). I have recently acquired a USB to MIDI cable to connect the two, so that ( Read more... )

Shansu's a strange cat ( Read more... )

I just sent the following email to my supervisor ( Read more... )

I thought I had a nice busy week ahead of me, with almost every slot in my schedule full of data collection sessions. But such was not to be ( Read more... )

You may recall my post of a couple of months ago enthusing about the triops I had raised from eggs I bought off the Intarweb. I've been meaning to post about their progress, but, well, I haven't. :-7 ( Read more... )

One of the things I really like about my local supermarket is that the fruit and veg section tends to stock a few uncommon fruit and veg as well as the regular sort. If I see something new there that I've not encountered before, it's become my habit to grab one or two of the unfamiliar thing, and then when I get home google them to find out how to ( Read more... )

When they said that Endler's livebearers are prolific breeders, they weren't kidding! I've had a little group of them in my aquarium for less than 24 hours and already they're producing babies ( Read more... )

So by popular demand {*koff*), I would like to present to you the sequel to my last video opus ("Stuff From My Aquarium: Blobules I Have Known"):

Stuff From My Aquarium 2: Return of the Rotifers

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And to up the ante, this time I did a voiceover track for it. So prepare to be awed by my fabulous microscopy video skills and dazzled by my insightful

Still plugging away at the seemingly never-ending data collection, and trying to keep on top of the commentary transcriptions and data prep as I do so. I sent a quick progress report off to my supervisor yesterday, and got a response from her that included the following:

...the fact that you're keeping a lid on the transcription/data prep stuff ( Read more... )

I've been having a lot of fun over the last week or two with The Sims 3 (in between all the mad dashing about that data collection entails, anyway). I'm finding it sufficiently amusing that I'm going to inflict pics of the Sim family I'm currently playing with upon you all, but in the interests of at least a modicum of awareness that not everyone ( Read more... )