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Good luck
Best of luck to the NASA and JPL teams on the Mars Phoenix lander, due to enter the Mars atmosphere and land tomorrow evening. They need a success. But I'm crossing my fingers, because landing on Mars is hard.
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Who knew?
Okay, no making fun of me for this, but I watched Bridget Jones's Diary for the very first time last night.
I had no idea Bridget Jones hung out with Gaius Baltar!
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*celebrity love*
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More odd whiteboard figures
I'm in a classroom in the Siebel Computer Science building today. Filling the whiteboards are many protein and cell biology diagrams. One is kind of fascinating because it seems to be showing the step by step action of kinesin "walking" along a microtubule. Or at least the drawing seems to well match this tutorial video. It looked like this as ( Read more... ) -
Recycling
Pretty cool. For $6 and ten minutes in a VERY muddy recycle/junk yard, I got rid of every single piece of old, broken, and useless electronics and computers in the house. And I didn't have to throw it in the trash, either. -
Scanners
Well, my old Canon bed scanner has bitten the dust. Upon attempting to calibrate, it either runs the scan head way off the end of the bed and starts making alarming gear-grinding noises until I unplug it, or it makes somewhat reasonable calibrate-y sounds for a minute or two, and then the driver takes a fatal error. I'd be upset, but the thing *is ( Read more... ) -
Breaking the fourth wall of technology
The city buses fairly recently got scrolling signs and recorded announcements of upcoming stops, sourced from some kind of positioning data (which surprisingly does not appear to be GPS). It's all kind of neat to see the stops rolling by on the sign as the bus travels, but today the sign on my bus repeatedly interrupted itself with bright red ( Read more... ) -
Earthquake!
Wow, that was a thing to wake up to. I just snapped awake to the entire bed shaking. My first thought was, that was some loud thunder. But there is no storm going on, so it had to have been seismic. It was quite strong, way stronger than any of the other rare little tremors we have experienced here in the midwest. Definitely shook the whole house ( Read more... ) -
Vitamins
Does anyone know why most multivitamins have a vaguely pleasant, yeasty, bread-y kind of smell to them? Does one of the nutrients in a vitamin also contribute to the smell of bread, or something?
