There are two common problems that a music lover faces in the digital age. (Well a lot more than two.) Keeping access to music across multiple computers, and the fact that music libraries can grow to enormous sizes, which can be problematic when your primary computer is a laptop with limited ability to increase your [...]
Posts from ‘January, 2009’
Graduate Admissions
I’m one of eight graduate students Berkeley admitted to their plant biology program last year. We come from a range of schools with a range of strengths and interests. But lets say you wanted to squash all that down to a couple of numbers. One approach is to look solely at what undergraduate schools we [...]
Vilsack’s First Week
My old governor is my new boss (at least for two more weeks). There’s an interesting summary over at La Vida Locavore. To me it sounds like he’s doing everything right, and it appears the organic/local food/etc movement can get behind every action he’s taken as well (even if they dreamed of a secretary of [...]
Chinese New Year
Lots of new photos up on Flickr. On Saturday I went down into San Francisco to see Chinatown in the weekend before Chinese New Year (which is today: 新年快乐 ! <– I theorize this means happy new year, given it’s appearance on so many people’s facebook statuses over the past few days) Lots of pictures. That [...]
Well That Didn’t Take Long
The answer to the mystery vegetable: Well, I thought it was a mysterious vegetable.
Vegetables and More
I was originally going to post this yesterday afternoon, but instead I had a crises with my Linux box which I’ve just now resolved. I’m just lucky I bought so many 500 gig hard drives back in undergrad that I had an unused spare on hand when the Operating System drive in my computer suddenly [...]
Flags
I’m not sure if I’ll be able to figure out a way to fly a flag from my apartment, but I’d urge any of you who are able to, to display an American flag on the 20th. I’ll be attending the screening of the inauguration that UC Berkeley will be hosting Sproul Plaza, a block from where [...]
A day in the life
Many people ask me what it is I do in grad school. Well a few people anyway. I never have a good answer. Without further introduction… When I was home for new years, my dad was really excited about this group he’d found online where people would film their day and edit it into [...]
More travel
Apparently a 2 TB hard drive looks very suspicous on an xray machine . Who knew? We’ve just heard that the plane from my flight hasn’t left Denver yet and is grounded with mechanical problems so they have no idea how long the delay will be.