I’ve arrived at the Berkeley City Club , and pretty soon will be going over to a lecture on campus before dinner. Meet another student from Cornell, and she’ll be putting pictures up on facebook, so I should have some visual aids after the fact. So far San Fransisco looks grey and foggy, but hopefully [...]
Posts from ‘January, 2008’
A Grim Beginning
A least my bad lucks are overlapping rather than combining additively or multiplicatively. 10 minutes before I was supposed to leave my apartment (at 4 AM) I thought to check my camera which I had thought was suffering from uncharged batteries and for which I had bought a new charger so I could photograph this [...]
The Day of the Thousand Interviews
Well five actually, but everything in due course. Actually I’m just going to hit the major high lights: The computer support they’ve got is amazing. On our tour of one of the facilities we walked into a room built for pure computational biologists. There where giant metal sleeves of cables running up from the center [...]
First Night In Minneapolis
Arrived at University of Minnesota. Today was within the range of cold I’m used to back home, but on Saturday, the day I’m leaving, the high temperature is a negative number. My planned route to the hotel where they are putting us up turned out to have me crossing the bridge that collapsed last summer. [...]
Creative Free Stuff
I’m still at my parents, and my dad just got home from back to back conferences in San Diego and New Orleans. He brought back a number of free give aways although my favorite for creativity is a shot-glass attached to a lanyard. I guess if you wore it at parties you wouldn’t have to [...]
I’m here
I’ve just finished moving various files from the site I was testing them on to my new domain. Maybe it all looks cheesy to you, but I LIKE cheesy.