My company is actually looking for two sorts of people. The first is that hourly type that I mentioned earlier. Yes, I would actually pay a generous wage for that, for the right person. The second is another “principal investigator,” kinda like me. Here’s the…
Here’s the first sentence from my first post of each month this year. Jan 1, 2:10am: “Help…”Feb 1, 1:10am: “Good times watching the state of the union address.”Mar 1, 3:59pm: “** bleary ** Is it the weekend yet?”Apr 1, 7:51am: “I was watering the seedlings…
Every few years I try to organize my library. On Tuesday, I tried to explain it to technolope and capital_l as a test to see if I’m enlightened yet. It seems to me that an enlightened human being would, at least as a start, have…
FARK is an alternative news source, with funny headlines for stories that he finds online. This one stood out for me: Spanish judge wants to question U.S. troops. In other news, people in hell want refreshing Mike’s Hard Lemonade Also in the news, Monks can…
I’m at a speech by J. Craig Venter. My heart is filled with envy, because he’s so damn smart. How smart? Well, he’s making scientific history by sailing the world (in his tax deductible yacht). He takes environmental samples (from the Sargasso sea, for example)…
Below are the first sentences from the first post of each month in 2004 (except for Jan and Feb, in which I did not have a journal). This idea was stolen from too many people to count. It seems to me that art has two…
For the pathologically interested, here’s about 40 mega-bytes of the powerpoint slides I created for various training sessions available in two PDF documents: Intro to genomic biology and bioinformatics Intro to high performance computing and clustering
In this week’s Science, there’s a decent milestone in where we’re at in terms of integrating our molecular biology knowledge into classical genetics. If you subscribe, a summary is available here. Otherwise, use the “free sample issue” link. Basically, this group of scientists went back…
More geekage. I’m writing a web service interface to my company’s tools. The idea of web services is to provide a way of remotely invoking methods that can be transparently streamed through any wire protocol you want to use. This idea is far from new,…