A late night snack consisting of a thanksgiving roll, turkey, and cranberry sauce. If your meal produced the leftovers requires to assemble this, your thanksgiving was officially a success .
Posts from ‘November, 2008’
The Triffids are Coming Back
The BBC has announced they’ll be releasing a new version of Day of the Triffids next year! “Set in 2011, millions of people are blinded when they observe a meteor shower, leading to a breakdown in civilisation. The Triffids, an oil-producing plant crop, escape captivity and begin to breed rapidly and attack people. It is up to [...]
New Host
After work today I moved this blog to a new website. It was actually surprisingly complicated to copy the SQL database over, but now everything seems to be working successfully. Drop a comment if you notice any broken features on the site.
California Gas
What you are seeing is real. A gas station on my drive home from PGEC was selling gas at a 1.99 a gallon… in California! This depression/recession/economic ennui/whatever-else-you-want-to-call-it is not going to do good things for renewable fuels. (Though it may be good for the short term financial solvency of grad students on stipends.)
If you can do PCR, you can bake…
I’ve heard the reverse statement plenty of times in labs I’ve worked it. “If you can bake (/cook) you can do PCR.” I even used it once myself when I was training a girl at the Danforth Center. And it’s true. Today I performed rtPCR which required mixing a lot of different chemicals in little [...]
Who’d Have Guessed?
These guys think there’s a 75% chance that the author of this blog (me) is male.
Another Good Day
This week has been more the way I pictured grad school. Up at seven AM again. Worked a nine hour day at the PGEC. I got my badge today. It’s always a cool feeling to be associated with a powerful organization. It was one thing when it was a major corporation, but now I’m connected [...]
Stuffed Burgers
I finished my first rotation on Friday. It was a lot of fun working in the lab, and at the end I gave a reasonable presentation. And on Monday, my next rotation starts. So this weekend I have no science related responsibilities… what could I possibly do with my new free time? The answer is [...]
From The Daily Californian
“Groups of students moved along Bancroft Way, Telegraph Avenue and Durant Avenue, and rallied on Sproul Plaza, shouting cheers of “USA, USA” and “Obama”. At one point, a group of several hundred that had assembled on Bancroft near Wells Fargo broke into a rendition of the Star Spangled Banner.” We’re somewhere in that crowd.