Monday, February 12, 2007
Happy Birthday, Charles
Hey, today is Charles Darwin’s 198th Birthday! So happy Darwin Day to all. There’s events all around, including at our own Redpath museum. Meanwhile, I’ll be trying to think of an appropriate caption for this image, and trying to write a review of last night’s Midlake show.
Thursday, February 01, 2007
Oh You Yeasties, You Frightening Beasties , Sleep Tight In Your YPD
How easy it is to let half a month go by without adding anything here! Here are some scattered thoughts from a Thursday night in the lab, spent stealing DNA from yeast.
• When I walk to work, it’s about 1.8km. When I ski, which I’ve been able to do just about every day for the last few weeks, it’s around 2km, but seems to take a while longer because of the long underwear involved.
• Note to any roving ninja gangs: please don’t use that information to ambush me.
• My Morning Jacket’s studio albums are great, but are really only just a set-up for their live shows. This is something I hope to come back to, but for now I’ll just say that Jim James really knows the value of a well-placed random scream.
• I’ve started anthropomorphizing my yeast populations, and now sing them lullabies before letting them grow overnight. I’m not sure what this means.
• I picked up Jeff Tweedy’s recent live DVD “Sunken Treasure: Live In The Pacific Northwest” the other day. It’s pretty great, needless to say, but one thing I thought was cool was that the DVD had a special link to the Wilco website that lets you download MP3s of all the songs on the DVD, and some extra ones as well. Cool.
• I’ve decided to steal an idea I first saw at Neil Gaiman’s place, and start giving all these posts labels, which seems to be a newish Blogger feature.
• That is all
• When I walk to work, it’s about 1.8km. When I ski, which I’ve been able to do just about every day for the last few weeks, it’s around 2km, but seems to take a while longer because of the long underwear involved.
• Note to any roving ninja gangs: please don’t use that information to ambush me.
• My Morning Jacket’s studio albums are great, but are really only just a set-up for their live shows. This is something I hope to come back to, but for now I’ll just say that Jim James really knows the value of a well-placed random scream.
• I’ve started anthropomorphizing my yeast populations, and now sing them lullabies before letting them grow overnight. I’m not sure what this means.
• I picked up Jeff Tweedy’s recent live DVD “Sunken Treasure: Live In The Pacific Northwest” the other day. It’s pretty great, needless to say, but one thing I thought was cool was that the DVD had a special link to the Wilco website that lets you download MP3s of all the songs on the DVD, and some extra ones as well. Cool.
• I’ve decided to steal an idea I first saw at Neil Gaiman’s place, and start giving all these posts labels, which seems to be a newish Blogger feature.
• That is all
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