I haven’t whined much about the shoulder lately, because there hasn’t been much to say. Every day it hurts a little less, and every day I surprise myself by using it to lift something slightly heavier than the day before. On the other hand, every…
Check out my quad architecture binary: sh-3.2# file common/bin/dsh common/bin/dsh: Mach-O universal binary with 4 architectures common/bin/dsh (for architecture ppc7400): Mach-O executable ppc common/bin/dsh (for architecture i386): Mach-O executable i386 common/bin/dsh (for architecture ppc64): Mach-O 64-bit executable ppc64 common/bin/dsh (for architecture x86_64): Mach-O 64-bit executable…
I spoke at the Bio-IT World Expo last week. It was pretty good. The conference was much larger than last year. As usual, it struggles between being a trade show with vendor talks and an academic forum. Personally, I like the struggle. If it were…
One of the scientists that I’ve worked with for a few years just got elected to the National Academy of Sciences. I think that’s pretty sweet. Also, jwz just summed up in a sentence my core point in many, many technical arguments: Excuses for why…
Just to get this out of the way: 23andme. There. Google has been fed Welcome, news-hungry bloggers with constantly running searches. I finally got my data yesterday, a full 11 weeks after my tube of spit was received. My whining was noticed, and eventually there…
I picked up A Fighter’s Heart by Sam Sheridan at the airport on the way back from VA. I’m nearly through it already, a quick and easy read. Sheridan has fought in several different styles over the last decade or so. He attaches himself to…
A friend asked my opinion on forgiveness. My answer was long and sufficiently general that I figure I’ll share it here: I very much feel that some kind of contrition has to occur for there to be forgiveness. I don’t buy into the Christian form…
I just sent a tube of spit to 23 and me. 23 and me are one of three companies already up and running with “personal genomics,” and I’m getting what passes for a thousand bucks worth of my genome analyzed. You give them a credit…
It’s time to iterate on the year in review traditions. I’m open to any and all of these … and I expect that I’ll do a bunch of them. This one is the “copy and paste the first sentence that you posted in each month…
Went to a meeting of the greythumb group this evening. Cool stuff. Smart people, in many different ways. This month’s speaker talked about synthetic biology and designing organisms from scratch. I’m next month’s speaker. Among the other people there, I met Virgil, the guy who…