Category Archives: life
secrecy and biological research
It is becoming increasingly clear to me that my ideal picture of “doing science” is following the fate of all ideals: death at the hands of reality. While I was working away at WashU, preparing for graduate school, I imagined … Continue reading
rights of CSS modification
For the low-low fee of $15/year, you can have your very own custom CSS document to make your WordPress blog exactly the way you want it! A CSS file is just a text file, at MOST a few kilobytes. In … Continue reading
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Post in Progress
UPDATE: ohdeargod I finally finished it. Quite a beast, at 1 table, 7 figures, and 2300 words… I’m working on a post on the awesomeness of Regular Expressions, specifically in Notepad++ and for use on FASTA sequence data. Check back … Continue reading
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Life Achievement: marriage, first home
I’ve been back in Grinnell for a week, and have another week left before moving to Dallas and into my first real home. My now-fiancee (then-wife) will be joining me, and will be going back to medical school as I … Continue reading
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Where the hell have I been?
I haven’t posted here for a long time. My brothers and I attempted to throw together another joint blog, but it has proved too difficult to maintain at the moment. I moved over my few posts from there to here today, and … Continue reading
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Interviews
I went to UChicago last weekend for my first round of grad school interviews. It went great, and the grad school environment seems like a great fit for me. However, I’m going to spare details on the schools until I’ve … Continue reading
Homeopathy: Belly Flop to a Cure!
Homeopathy says essentially this: Something that causes disease can be made to cure that same ailment if the something is diluted into water so much that it is no longer present. For example, if you were to take one molecule … Continue reading
dinosaurs aren’t animals!
Yeah. I heard that on the radio when driving into Grinnell on Friday. As I was flipping through stations, I overheard a radio “personality” declaring that, in fact, dinosaurs are not animals. Two of her fellow radio people agreed, though … Continue reading
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The Boiling Point
I have now totaled 96,000 views (mostly on the companion cube cake post, followed at a distance by the LaTeX posts) over 194 posts and received 212 comments. Every time I see that number, 212, I immediately think of boiling water (it is, after … Continue reading →
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