From 6c950d116bc395a97fcbdc99f05095aa26761cb9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Don Armstrong <don@donarmstrong.com>
Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2011 13:40:10 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] add missing newlines

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 ..._day_another_dollar_or_so_they_say_of.mdwn |  8 ++-
 ..._day_has_come_and_gone_wandered_on_to.mdwn |  6 ++-
 posts/diary/another_time_another_place.mdwn   |  4 +-
 ...ticipation_of_an_impending_laceration.mdwn |  9 +++-
 posts/diary/asbestos_flamesuit.mdwn           |  4 +-
 ...238_got_a_mathmatician_s_introduction.mdwn |  6 ++-
 posts/diary/back_from_burning_man.mdwn        |  9 +++-
 posts/diary/back_from_the_farm.mdwn           |  6 ++-
 posts/diary/back_to_the_grind.mdwn            |  6 ++-
 .../beats_meet_another_insane_freak.mdwn      |  7 ++-
 posts/diary/birthday.mdwn                     | 10 +++-
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 posts/diary/contemplating_fridays.mdwn        | 12 ++++-
 ...ued_studying_bio200a_read_some_papers.mdwn |  4 +-
 ...me_more_of_the_statistics_involved_in.mdwn |  8 ++-
 posts/diary/devils_tower_wy.mdwn              | 34 +++++++++++-
 ..._more_work_on_my_reference_system_and.mdwn |  6 ++-
 ...from_sf_on_the_5_early_in_the_morning.mdwn |  8 ++-
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 ...nown_reason_i_m_actually_going_to_try.mdwn |  6 ++-
 ...hawed_nmr_samples_and_worked_out_some.mdwn |  8 ++-
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 ...ished_off_the_work_on_the_nmr_spectra.mdwn |  4 +-
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 ...ling_put_in_by_the_dentist_today_came.mdwn |  4 +-
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 ..._interesting_april_fools_day_or_so_it.mdwn |  4 +-
 ...ets_see_the_lawn_got_mowed_today_it_s.mdwn |  8 ++-
 ...ll_didn_t_quite_manage_to_do_anything.mdwn |  8 ++-
 ...quite_write_what_i_have_in_my_mind_to.mdwn |  8 ++-
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 ...mayday_lots_of_events_going_on_in_the.mdwn |  4 +-
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 ...awn_today_watched_some_tv_and_started.mdwn |  4 +-
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 ...hristmas_presents_from_my_parents_who.mdwn |  6 ++-
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 ...paul_and_sophie_from_lax_got_to_drive.mdwn |  6 ++-
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 ...e_pkc_assay_today_worked_with_dr_z_on.mdwn |  4 +-
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 posts/diary/rocket_to_bliss.mdwn              |  6 ++-
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 ...of_the_day_in_bed_hopefully_i_ll_kill.mdwn |  4 +-
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 ...t_of_today_working_on_stuff_in_my_lab.mdwn |  8 ++-
 ...undary_between_reality_and_fantasy_is.mdwn | 10 +++-
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 ...ome_things_that_in_my_quest_to_obtain.mdwn |  6 ++-
 ..._i_took_care_of_mowing_and_edging_the.mdwn |  6 ++-
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 ...wandered_around_depositing_money_into.mdwn |  6 ++-
 ...doing_some_of_the_gene_array_analysis.mdwn |  4 +-
 ...f_getting_my_room_semi_clean_went_and.mdwn |  8 ++-
 ...of_some_random_stuff_in_the_lab_today.mdwn |  8 ++-
 ..._final_today_yeay_and_seemed_to_do_ok.mdwn |  6 ++-
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 ..._classes_gets_more_and_more_difficult.mdwn |  6 ++-
 ..._down_to_fry_s_to_replace_my_3_button.mdwn |  6 ++-
 ...me_to_work_on_the_table_some_more_got.mdwn |  6 ++-
 ...to_the_library_in_the_morning_to_pick.mdwn |  6 ++-
 ...nto_campus_and_dealt_with_some_random.mdwn |  4 +-
 ...to_hb_today_and_spent_the_majority_of.mdwn |  8 ++-
 ...us_making_nmr_samples_for_most_of_the.mdwn |  8 ++-
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 ...lly_i_try_to_make_my_entries_before_i.mdwn |  8 ++-
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 ...iscussion_and_heard_about_rop_and_ras.mdwn |  4 +-
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 ...lass_this_morning_for_bio200a_learned.mdwn |  6 ++-
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 ...t240_in_the_morning_took_care_of_some.mdwn |  8 ++-
 ...nd_marc_this_morning_and_took_care_of.mdwn |  6 ++-
 ...y_s_party_at_randy_s_parents_house_in.mdwn |  8 ++-
 ..._lab_to_do_some_more_work_on_the_gene.mdwn |  8 ++-
 ...monthly_cmdb_lunch_right_after_i_woke.mdwn |  6 ++-
 ...re_not_quite_sure_exactly_what_you_re.mdwn |  4 +-
 ..._to_much_stuff_got_done_today_i_think.mdwn |  6 ++-
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 ...set_up_and_cut_the_door_for_the_guest.mdwn |  4 +-
 ...p_got_new_memory_slapped_into_my_main.mdwn |  4 +-
 ...nt_to_class_ran_around_taking_care_of.mdwn |  4 +-
 ...nt_to_hear_a_good_talk_on_engineering.mdwn |  4 +-
 ...p_with_a_nasty_head_cold_today_always.mdwn |  4 +-
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 ...more_on_the_gene_array_analysis_had_a.mdwn | 10 +++-
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 ...hink_these_diary_things_are_built_for.mdwn |  6 ++-
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 ...r_thursday_and_a_semi_painfull_one_at.mdwn |  4 +-
 ...u_could_call_me_dr_don_but_why_bother.mdwn | 33 +++++++++++-
 ...ow_what_can_happen_when_you_snap_back.mdwn |  8 ++-
 142 files changed, 998 insertions(+), 142 deletions(-)

diff --git a/posts/diary/a_time_of_wandering.mdwn b/posts/diary/a_time_of_wandering.mdwn
index cfd5a2d..0ae146c 100644
--- a/posts/diary/a_time_of_wandering.mdwn
+++ b/posts/diary/a_time_of_wandering.mdwn
@@ -1 +1,9 @@
-[gal://2003/05_may/niagra_falls_05152003/dandelions_2.jpg][gal://2003/05_may/cnn_paul_war_on_terror_05182003.jpg]\nI spent a good part of the past few weeks traveling around NY once again. [http://www.paulzugnoni.com|Paul Zugnoni] visited me in NY for a bit, so we went to see Niagra Falls, and then later took in NYC. On the way to visiting Niagra Falls, we checked out a rather neat [http://gallery.donarmstrong.com/2003/05_may/niagra_falls_05152003/collapsed_building|dilapidated building] that had totally collapsed some time in the past. It's construction is rather odd, built totally out of [http://gallery.donarmstrong.com/2003/05_may/niagra_falls_05152003/collapsed_building/collapsed_building_wall.jpg|orientated stones]. Unfortunatly, it seems that rebar was at a premium when it was built, or the pitch of the roof wasn't steep enough to support the snow one year. While we were there, I shot the dandelions to the left.\n\nThat weekend, we flew to NYC on [http://www.jetblue.com|Jet Blue], landing in JFK. Nicely, the NYC subway has a free shuttle from the terminals to the nearest subway, and it's a straight shot from the A line into downtown NYC. We ended up staying at [http://www.hotel31.com|Hotel 31], which is a really inexpensive european style hotel, that was once a SRO, aka wellfare hotel. [For the uninitiated, that means really small rooms with a bath down the hall. But since we weren't there to spend time in a room, who cares?]\n\n\n[gal://2003/05_may/art_o_mat_product_05262003.jpg][gal://2003/05_may/mark_grant_05142003/mark_grant_2_05142003.jpg]While we were in NYC I got to check out the New Contemporary while Paul was off looking at the statue of liberty and the empire state building. They had a few neat exhibits, which will end up in my image gallery eventually, and an [http://www.artomat.org/|art-o-mat.] What's an art-o-mat? It's a retired cigarette vending machine that has been converted to vend art (compatible with pack dimensions, of course.) I ended up deciding to pick up a bit of art myself, and buy into the concept. (Just found out that there actually is an art-o-mat in Rochester, at the [http://www.rochestercontemporary.org/|Rochester Contemporary]\n\nAnyway, back in Rochester, I also got to check out Mark Grant who was at the Bug Jar about a week ago, playing an incredible deep house set that really got the crowd moving. I ended up blowing out my left shoe sometime during the night while dancing... that doesn't happen every day.
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+[gal://2003/05_may/niagra_falls_05152003/dandelions_2.jpg][gal://2003/05_may/cnn_paul_war_on_terror_05182003.jpg]
+I spent a good part of the past few weeks traveling around NY once again. [http://www.paulzugnoni.com|Paul Zugnoni] visited me in NY for a bit, so we went to see Niagra Falls, and then later took in NYC. On the way to visiting Niagra Falls, we checked out a rather neat [http://gallery.donarmstrong.com/2003/05_may/niagra_falls_05152003/collapsed_building|dilapidated building] that had totally collapsed some time in the past. It's construction is rather odd, built totally out of [http://gallery.donarmstrong.com/2003/05_may/niagra_falls_05152003/collapsed_building/collapsed_building_wall.jpg|orientated stones]. Unfortunatly, it seems that rebar was at a premium when it was built, or the pitch of the roof wasn't steep enough to support the snow one year. While we were there, I shot the dandelions to the left.
+
+That weekend, we flew to NYC on [http://www.jetblue.com|Jet Blue], landing in JFK. Nicely, the NYC subway has a free shuttle from the terminals to the nearest subway, and it's a straight shot from the A line into downtown NYC. We ended up staying at [http://www.hotel31.com|Hotel 31], which is a really inexpensive european style hotel, that was once a SRO, aka wellfare hotel. [For the uninitiated, that means really small rooms with a bath down the hall. But since we weren't there to spend time in a room, who cares?]
+
+
+[gal://2003/05_may/art_o_mat_product_05262003.jpg][gal://2003/05_may/mark_grant_05142003/mark_grant_2_05142003.jpg]While we were in NYC I got to check out the New Contemporary while Paul was off looking at the statue of liberty and the empire state building. They had a few neat exhibits, which will end up in my image gallery eventually, and an [http://www.artomat.org/|art-o-mat.] What's an art-o-mat? It's a retired cigarette vending machine that has been converted to vend art (compatible with pack dimensions, of course.) I ended up deciding to pick up a bit of art myself, and buy into the concept. (Just found out that there actually is an art-o-mat in Rochester, at the [http://www.rochestercontemporary.org/|Rochester Contemporary]
+
+Anyway, back in Rochester, I also got to check out Mark Grant who was at the Bug Jar about a week ago, playing an incredible deep house set that really got the crowd moving. I ended up blowing out my left shoe sometime during the night while dancing... that doesn't happen every day.
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diff --git a/posts/diary/another_day_another_dollar_or_so_they_say_of.mdwn b/posts/diary/another_day_another_dollar_or_so_they_say_of.mdwn
index 3d7c556..08658d5 100644
--- a/posts/diary/another_day_another_dollar_or_so_they_say_of.mdwn
+++ b/posts/diary/another_day_another_dollar_or_so_they_say_of.mdwn
@@ -1 +1,7 @@
-Another day, another dollar, or so they say. Of course, now days, you're not doing to hot if your only getting a dollar a day. $365.25/year isn't going to cut it any more.\n\nOn to more pressing matters, loads of people called me today, as it looks like GM is having issues with one of their computers hard drives. I'm planning on going there in about an hour to deal with it. (Lucky me). Once again, I'm in my wierd 12 hours of sleep, 20 hours of awake mode, which I really don't understand, but hey, whatever. I finished with most of the NMR spectra on felix, there were a couple that were slightly tweaked, and Z will have to take a look at\n\nBeyond that, I continued doing work on my reference system, and it now goes from a pubmed id to a full blown reference. I need to get the journal tie in working, as it's not finished yet, but that won't take too long. Next step is to get the full-text and pdf uploads working with my proxy. That will be a couple of days worth of work.\n\nWell, hopefully I'll get some sleep later on today. We'll see about that.
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+Another day, another dollar, or so they say. Of course, now days, you're not doing to hot if your only getting a dollar a day. $365.25/year isn't going to cut it any more.
+
+On to more pressing matters, loads of people called me today, as it looks like GM is having issues with one of their computers hard drives. I'm planning on going there in about an hour to deal with it. (Lucky me). Once again, I'm in my wierd 12 hours of sleep, 20 hours of awake mode, which I really don't understand, but hey, whatever. I finished with most of the NMR spectra on felix, there were a couple that were slightly tweaked, and Z will have to take a look at
+
+Beyond that, I continued doing work on my reference system, and it now goes from a pubmed id to a full blown reference. I need to get the journal tie in working, as it's not finished yet, but that won't take too long. Next step is to get the full-text and pdf uploads working with my proxy. That will be a couple of days worth of work.
+
+Well, hopefully I'll get some sleep later on today. We'll see about that.
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diff --git a/posts/diary/another_day_has_come_and_gone_wandered_on_to.mdwn b/posts/diary/another_day_has_come_and_gone_wandered_on_to.mdwn
index 6835867..15c8425 100644
--- a/posts/diary/another_day_has_come_and_gone_wandered_on_to.mdwn
+++ b/posts/diary/another_day_has_come_and_gone_wandered_on_to.mdwn
@@ -1 +1,5 @@
-Another day has come and gone. Wandered on to campus to get some more books on natural langage parsing. Still trying to figure out what I am going to do as far as that is concerned.\n\nStarted reading LotR again, just so I can refresh it in my mind. I'll probably end up getting the history of middle earth books relatively soon, assuming my tax bills aren't outrageous.\n\nAnyway, off to sleep. Hopefully I'll pick up some more books and go to free thinking tomorrow.
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+Another day has come and gone. Wandered on to campus to get some more books on natural langage parsing. Still trying to figure out what I am going to do as far as that is concerned.
+
+Started reading LotR again, just so I can refresh it in my mind. I'll probably end up getting the history of middle earth books relatively soon, assuming my tax bills aren't outrageous.
+
+Anyway, off to sleep. Hopefully I'll pick up some more books and go to free thinking tomorrow.
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diff --git a/posts/diary/another_time_another_place.mdwn b/posts/diary/another_time_another_place.mdwn
index 9d07254..1eb05dd 100644
--- a/posts/diary/another_time_another_place.mdwn
+++ b/posts/diary/another_time_another_place.mdwn
@@ -1 +1,3 @@
-[gal://2003/06_june/backyard_funk_06202003/dancers_2_06202003.jpg]Last night, Dave, Chyna and a bunch of other house heads put together an awesome party, both to listen to awesome house tracks spun by some impressive local dj's, and to wish Marcus McGowan and myself a safe and happy trip wherever to Florida and California, respectively. I had a great time, and I think everyone else there had fun. Unfortunatly, it managed to rain lightly around midnight, and started to really pick up at around 1:30, so everyone got a mite bit damp, but no one stopped dancing.\n\n[gal://2003/06_june/backyard_funk_06202003/james_revival_2_06202003.jpg] I also was handing out some tracks from my new mix cd. I'll probably ogg's of it up on this server once I get around to encoding them, so those of you who haven't yet hit me up for a copy can get one.
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+[gal://2003/06_june/backyard_funk_06202003/dancers_2_06202003.jpg]Last night, Dave, Chyna and a bunch of other house heads put together an awesome party, both to listen to awesome house tracks spun by some impressive local dj's, and to wish Marcus McGowan and myself a safe and happy trip wherever to Florida and California, respectively. I had a great time, and I think everyone else there had fun. Unfortunatly, it managed to rain lightly around midnight, and started to really pick up at around 1:30, so everyone got a mite bit damp, but no one stopped dancing.
+
+[gal://2003/06_june/backyard_funk_06202003/james_revival_2_06202003.jpg] I also was handing out some tracks from my new mix cd. I'll probably ogg's of it up on this server once I get around to encoding them, so those of you who haven't yet hit me up for a copy can get one.
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diff --git a/posts/diary/anticipation_of_an_impending_laceration.mdwn b/posts/diary/anticipation_of_an_impending_laceration.mdwn
index 5223273..5a44e5e 100644
--- a/posts/diary/anticipation_of_an_impending_laceration.mdwn
+++ b/posts/diary/anticipation_of_an_impending_laceration.mdwn
@@ -1 +1,8 @@
-Stubling around in my usual semi-awake stupor at the start of my day, I go to slice a bagel in half with a butter knife. Applying force as required to the handle and the bagel I proceed to slice it in half, almost all the way to the end. However, the last few milimeters of the bagel slipped by like butter and I soon found the knife wedged in my left hand. Ow. "What a great start to my day" I think, as I search for something to staunch the blood and chuck the now supiciously pliant bagel into the toaster. "I wonder what else the day has in store for me?"\n\nAs I run through sheets of toilet paper stained a beautiful red, I finish getting ready and manage to make a sandwich of something else besides blood. I go outside, clear 4 inches of snow of my valiant steed, and proceed to start on the slippery roads to work. As I reach work, panic strikes me. I seem to have forgotten my ID somewhere. Searching through my pockets, I hear a strange crackle and pop. Out of my left jacket pocket comes 4 pieces of my ID that was once whole. To my chagrin, an ID in 4 pieces doesn't operate the magstripe reader. Luckily, someone came upon me who had a key, and let me into the parking lot. "Well, that sucked. I wonder how the hell I'm going to get to the 6th floor with my busted ID card?"\n\nSo, I try my luck again at the elevator, and manage to ride it up to the 5th floor because someone called it, and stubled up the stairs to my little desk on the 6th. "At least I'm in the office now. Things won't deteriorate much here."\n\nLuckily for me they didn't. Although in restrospect, it's not wise to tempt fate like that. I kept to myself, and completed the random things that required my eclectic expertise, and continued working on the various projects that I've gone on about at length.\n\n
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+Stubling around in my usual semi-awake stupor at the start of my day, I go to slice a bagel in half with a butter knife. Applying force as required to the handle and the bagel I proceed to slice it in half, almost all the way to the end. However, the last few milimeters of the bagel slipped by like butter and I soon found the knife wedged in my left hand. Ow. "What a great start to my day" I think, as I search for something to staunch the blood and chuck the now supiciously pliant bagel into the toaster. "I wonder what else the day has in store for me?"
+
+As I run through sheets of toilet paper stained a beautiful red, I finish getting ready and manage to make a sandwich of something else besides blood. I go outside, clear 4 inches of snow of my valiant steed, and proceed to start on the slippery roads to work. As I reach work, panic strikes me. I seem to have forgotten my ID somewhere. Searching through my pockets, I hear a strange crackle and pop. Out of my left jacket pocket comes 4 pieces of my ID that was once whole. To my chagrin, an ID in 4 pieces doesn't operate the magstripe reader. Luckily, someone came upon me who had a key, and let me into the parking lot. "Well, that sucked. I wonder how the hell I'm going to get to the 6th floor with my busted ID card?"
+
+So, I try my luck again at the elevator, and manage to ride it up to the 5th floor because someone called it, and stubled up the stairs to my little desk on the 6th. "At least I'm in the office now. Things won't deteriorate much here."
+
+Luckily for me they didn't. Although in restrospect, it's not wise to tempt fate like that. I kept to myself, and completed the random things that required my eclectic expertise, and continued working on the various projects that I've gone on about at length.
+
diff --git a/posts/diary/asbestos_flamesuit.mdwn b/posts/diary/asbestos_flamesuit.mdwn
index 5eef1e5..52fe81c 100644
--- a/posts/diary/asbestos_flamesuit.mdwn
+++ b/posts/diary/asbestos_flamesuit.mdwn
@@ -1 +1,3 @@
-Over the past 24 hours, an interesting set of threads has been going on in [http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel|debian-devel] and [http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal|debian-legal] about the possible inclusion of [http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/|mplayer] in Debian. Well, actually, it was much more of a flamewar that only occasionally touched on the actually inclusion, and spent more time dealing with anciliary name calling and pointless unreferenced performance information. Not like that is all that big of a surprise, considering the [http://216.239.57.100/search?q=cache:ma_D0T3sFhoC:mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-flame/2001-December/000160.html+mplayer+developers+flaming&hl=en&ie=UTF-8|track] [http://www.linuxworld.com/site-stories/2001/1214.mplayer.html|record] of [http://freshmeat.net/projects/mplayer/?topic_id=127%2C128|abuse] leveled at users.\n\nSo that was interesting, until it links to the thread get pasted to [http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/|mplayer's website], and then finally, [http://www.slashdot.org/|slashdot], and the hordes of trolls are unleashed upon debian-devel and debian-legal. One wonders what the ftp masters are going to do considering that the packages have been uploaded to incomming.
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+Over the past 24 hours, an interesting set of threads has been going on in [http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel|debian-devel] and [http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal|debian-legal] about the possible inclusion of [http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/|mplayer] in Debian. Well, actually, it was much more of a flamewar that only occasionally touched on the actually inclusion, and spent more time dealing with anciliary name calling and pointless unreferenced performance information. Not like that is all that big of a surprise, considering the [http://216.239.57.100/search?q=cache:ma_D0T3sFhoC:mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-flame/2001-December/000160.html+mplayer+developers+flaming&hl=en&ie=UTF-8|track] [http://www.linuxworld.com/site-stories/2001/1214.mplayer.html|record] of [http://freshmeat.net/projects/mplayer/?topic_id=127%2C128|abuse] leveled at users.
+
+So that was interesting, until it links to the thread get pasted to [http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/|mplayer's website], and then finally, [http://www.slashdot.org/|slashdot], and the hordes of trolls are unleashed upon debian-devel and debian-legal. One wonders what the ftp masters are going to do considering that the packages have been uploaded to incomming.
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diff --git a/posts/diary/attended_cs_238_got_a_mathmatician_s_introduction.mdwn b/posts/diary/attended_cs_238_got_a_mathmatician_s_introduction.mdwn
index becb399..930a2d2 100644
--- a/posts/diary/attended_cs_238_got_a_mathmatician_s_introduction.mdwn
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@@ -1 +1,5 @@
-Attended CS 238, got a mathmatician's introduction to molecular biology and genetics (not like I needed it), then ate lunch, then went to GNT 240B where linkage maps and the methods of obtaining them were discussed in rather loose fashion.\n\nI also prepared two NMR samples to hopefully put the finishing touches on the BBRC paper before coming home, and working on some of the [http://www.grandmarc.com|Grand Marc] issues. Then I wandered out to starbucks, and hit up alberto's too.\n\nNow more LotR and sleep becons me.
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+Attended CS 238, got a mathmatician's introduction to molecular biology and genetics (not like I needed it), then ate lunch, then went to GNT 240B where linkage maps and the methods of obtaining them were discussed in rather loose fashion.
+
+I also prepared two NMR samples to hopefully put the finishing touches on the BBRC paper before coming home, and working on some of the [http://www.grandmarc.com|Grand Marc] issues. Then I wandered out to starbucks, and hit up alberto's too.
+
+Now more LotR and sleep becons me.
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diff --git a/posts/diary/back_from_burning_man.mdwn b/posts/diary/back_from_burning_man.mdwn
index 6fec03f..704c395 100644
--- a/posts/diary/back_from_burning_man.mdwn
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@@ -1 +1,8 @@
-[gal://2004/09_september/burning_man/big_time/021_sunset_20040901.jpg] I recently got back from a really exciting trip to the Black Rock Desert in Nevada, just outside of Gerlach, for Burning Man. Chris Martin and myself left from San Fransisco early Sunday morning, and got into camp at Big Time (9:30 and Sedna) a few hours before the sun started to set, which was really awesome. Along the way, we had a bit of fun with my car, as I managed to tweak the left front control arm pretty hard against a bank on a dirt road. Luckily, the car was still driveable, albeit badly, after that incident.\n\n[gal://2004/09_september/burning_man/temple/007_scrollwork_on_the_arms_20040904.jpg] The first few days we helped set up the camp, and spent the nights wandering around the playa checking out the parties and the various installations. This was my first time at Burning Man, and the lengths to which people go to present themselves, their artwork, their camp, and to just have a great time are astounding. Almost everyone is dressed up, or has lights, or is having a great time. It doesn't matter when, day or night, someone is up and wandering around in great spirits.\n\n[gal://2004/09_september/burning_man/art_projects/049_reflections_of_the_walls_20040904.jpg] Many of the art installations that I happened across were absolutely fantastic. Observer Observed, which the picture on the left (and it's reflections belong to) was an absolutely fantastic cube of half silvered lexan in the middle of the desert that picked up the reflections all around, both of the temple and of the setting sun in the background. From inside, you can actually see out, although a shadowy reflection of yourself is also projected on whatever is outside.\n\n\n[gal://2004/09_september/burning_man/man_burning/010_fire_creeping_up_on_the_man_20040904.jpg] Of course, the man itself burning on saturday night is a really important part of the festivities. I'm told that the man wasn't as impressive this year as it has been in the past, but still, the concept of a huge structure that is only built to be burned in a celebration is rather impressive, even if the flames only reached a few hundred feet into the air instead of thousands.
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+[gal://2004/09_september/burning_man/big_time/021_sunset_20040901.jpg] I recently got back from a really exciting trip to the Black Rock Desert in Nevada, just outside of Gerlach, for Burning Man. Chris Martin and myself left from San Fransisco early Sunday morning, and got into camp at Big Time (9:30 and Sedna) a few hours before the sun started to set, which was really awesome. Along the way, we had a bit of fun with my car, as I managed to tweak the left front control arm pretty hard against a bank on a dirt road. Luckily, the car was still driveable, albeit badly, after that incident.
+
+[gal://2004/09_september/burning_man/temple/007_scrollwork_on_the_arms_20040904.jpg] The first few days we helped set up the camp, and spent the nights wandering around the playa checking out the parties and the various installations. This was my first time at Burning Man, and the lengths to which people go to present themselves, their artwork, their camp, and to just have a great time are astounding. Almost everyone is dressed up, or has lights, or is having a great time. It doesn't matter when, day or night, someone is up and wandering around in great spirits.
+
+[gal://2004/09_september/burning_man/art_projects/049_reflections_of_the_walls_20040904.jpg] Many of the art installations that I happened across were absolutely fantastic. Observer Observed, which the picture on the left (and it's reflections belong to) was an absolutely fantastic cube of half silvered lexan in the middle of the desert that picked up the reflections all around, both of the temple and of the setting sun in the background. From inside, you can actually see out, although a shadowy reflection of yourself is also projected on whatever is outside.
+
+
+[gal://2004/09_september/burning_man/man_burning/010_fire_creeping_up_on_the_man_20040904.jpg] Of course, the man itself burning on saturday night is a really important part of the festivities. I'm told that the man wasn't as impressive this year as it has been in the past, but still, the concept of a huge structure that is only built to be burned in a celebration is rather impressive, even if the flames only reached a few hundred feet into the air instead of thousands.
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diff --git a/posts/diary/back_from_the_farm.mdwn b/posts/diary/back_from_the_farm.mdwn
index 53e11ef..9a74087 100644
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@@ -1 +1,5 @@
-[gal://2004/07_july/farm_trip_07_2004/landscape/007_even_more_wildflowers_20040704.jpg] I spent an extended Fourth of July weekend in Ottowa, IL at the family farm learning about what was going on and who the major players were. It's always quite interesting to see how the food that is eaten gets produced and the technology that goes into making it all happen.\n\n[gal://2004/07_july/farm_trip_07_2004/junk_in_pasture/015_more_burned_stuff_20040702.jpg] We looked at the farm house itself and the old corn crib besides it and checked out what the renters were doing and looked at some of the repairs that had to be made to the farm house as well. We also ended up walking the perimeter of the farm to check the fences and make sure no one had been dumping in the land (and the stuff that had been dumped earlier was being cleaned up.)\n\n[gal://2004/07_july/farm_trip_07_2004/grand_rapids.jpg]
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+[gal://2004/07_july/farm_trip_07_2004/landscape/007_even_more_wildflowers_20040704.jpg] I spent an extended Fourth of July weekend in Ottowa, IL at the family farm learning about what was going on and who the major players were. It's always quite interesting to see how the food that is eaten gets produced and the technology that goes into making it all happen.
+
+[gal://2004/07_july/farm_trip_07_2004/junk_in_pasture/015_more_burned_stuff_20040702.jpg] We looked at the farm house itself and the old corn crib besides it and checked out what the renters were doing and looked at some of the repairs that had to be made to the farm house as well. We also ended up walking the perimeter of the farm to check the fences and make sure no one had been dumping in the land (and the stuff that had been dumped earlier was being cleaned up.)
+
+[gal://2004/07_july/farm_trip_07_2004/grand_rapids.jpg]
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diff --git a/posts/diary/back_to_the_grind.mdwn b/posts/diary/back_to_the_grind.mdwn
index 90311b7..991c5f3 100644
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-[gal://2003/08_august/brugge_08152003/005_canal_in_brugge_again_08142003.jpg]I recently got back from my trip all around the baltic on Oceana Cruises. We started in Stockholm, Sweden and ended in Dover, England. Along the way I got to see Finland, Russia, Aaland, Estonia, Belgium, Holland, and Norway. Life on board the ship was pretty nice, and the food was excelent. However, I'm not quite sure if I fit in all to well with the average occupant of a cruise ship. I travel to experience, not to see things. Of course, like any other traveller, there are certain things that I would really like to see along my way. Yet, to live and travel in a glass enclosed box looking down on residents living their lives is not for me. I want to be with the people, walk amoungst them, eat what they eat, see what they see. I want to try to catch a glipse of the gestalt through which they view the world.[gal://2003/08_august/brugge_08152003/044_houses_in_the_canals_08152003.jpg]\n\nFor the most part, I was able to do that. My parents, while not as extreeme as myself, also enjoy seeing things through their own eyes, not necessarily just seeing what the preprogrammed tour guides think is important. In fact, only in Russia were we unable to be almost completely on our own in the cities which we visited.[gal://2003/08_august/amsterdamn_08142003/014_chime_toy_on_kid_08142003.jpg]\n\nThere were so many interesting things to see throughout the trip, that there is no way that I'll possibly recound all of them in a single entry here. Suffice it to say that the experience changed once again how I view the planet, probably as much as my drive through the US changed the way I view the US itself.[gal://2003/08_august/kobenhavn_0811_122003/012_walking_man_with_huge_pants_08102003.jpg]
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+[gal://2003/08_august/brugge_08152003/005_canal_in_brugge_again_08142003.jpg]I recently got back from my trip all around the baltic on Oceana Cruises. We started in Stockholm, Sweden and ended in Dover, England. Along the way I got to see Finland, Russia, Aaland, Estonia, Belgium, Holland, and Norway. Life on board the ship was pretty nice, and the food was excelent. However, I'm not quite sure if I fit in all to well with the average occupant of a cruise ship. I travel to experience, not to see things. Of course, like any other traveller, there are certain things that I would really like to see along my way. Yet, to live and travel in a glass enclosed box looking down on residents living their lives is not for me. I want to be with the people, walk amoungst them, eat what they eat, see what they see. I want to try to catch a glipse of the gestalt through which they view the world.[gal://2003/08_august/brugge_08152003/044_houses_in_the_canals_08152003.jpg]
+
+For the most part, I was able to do that. My parents, while not as extreeme as myself, also enjoy seeing things through their own eyes, not necessarily just seeing what the preprogrammed tour guides think is important. In fact, only in Russia were we unable to be almost completely on our own in the cities which we visited.[gal://2003/08_august/amsterdamn_08142003/014_chime_toy_on_kid_08142003.jpg]
+
+There were so many interesting things to see throughout the trip, that there is no way that I'll possibly recound all of them in a single entry here. Suffice it to say that the experience changed once again how I view the planet, probably as much as my drive through the US changed the way I view the US itself.[gal://2003/08_august/kobenhavn_0811_122003/012_walking_man_with_huge_pants_08102003.jpg]
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diff --git a/posts/diary/beats_meet_another_insane_freak.mdwn b/posts/diary/beats_meet_another_insane_freak.mdwn
index effc32d..314b0fe 100644
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-I continued my journey into the realm of attempting to label samples, and worked more and more on developing a technique to determine pathways or at least illuminate possible targets from a list of genes using gene ontology. crito, the SQL server spent most of the day crunching on a few million records that were entered into the database. Some of these are most likely duplicates, but hopefully I'll be able to figure them out sometime tomorrow.\n\nAfter cooking and eating chorizo and eggs, I spent a little bit of time tweaking the new diary system for donarmstrong.com, which hopefully you'll be reading these entries from soon, and then wandered off to Dicky's. At Dicky's a group was starting to thspin old skool hip-hop/funk tracks before they started a live funk/jazz set that was pretty jamming. Dicky's is a nice intimate place, and it would have been nice to hear the crew on a real sound system, but still, it was\ndefinetly worth listening to.\n\nI'm continuing reading the book of lost tales part one. Hopefully I get a bit farther into it before I cease thinking for this evening.
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+I continued my journey into the realm of attempting to label samples, and worked more and more on developing a technique to determine pathways or at least illuminate possible targets from a list of genes using gene ontology. crito, the SQL server spent most of the day crunching on a few million records that were entered into the database. Some of these are most likely duplicates, but hopefully I'll be able to figure them out sometime tomorrow.
+
+After cooking and eating chorizo and eggs, I spent a little bit of time tweaking the new diary system for donarmstrong.com, which hopefully you'll be reading these entries from soon, and then wandered off to Dicky's. At Dicky's a group was starting to thspin old skool hip-hop/funk tracks before they started a live funk/jazz set that was pretty jamming. Dicky's is a nice intimate place, and it would have been nice to hear the crew on a real sound system, but still, it was
+definetly worth listening to.
+
+I'm continuing reading the book of lost tales part one. Hopefully I get a bit farther into it before I cease thinking for this evening.
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diff --git a/posts/diary/birthday.mdwn b/posts/diary/birthday.mdwn
index f42e112..b7b2d68 100644
--- a/posts/diary/birthday.mdwn
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@@ -1 +1,9 @@
-Yerp. It was my birthday today. Getting old. At work they brought lunch for raphael and myself along with a cake, which was excellent. Of course, raphael and I both disapeared as lunch was being procured, raphael to eat at the very place they were bringing lunch from, and myself to deal with yet another figure in powerpoint issue. [You'd think after having so many problems with the figures they'd learn. My bailing them out every time must not be enforcing the lesson with enough clarity.] Anyway, I had fun.\n\nThen I wandered home and worked on some random stuff before deciding to head out and catch a flick. As luck would have it, I went to go see [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0292506|The Recruit], which was a moderately decent movie. Unfortunatly, as with many movies that have any technology or computers in them, they're buzzword ladden, but anyone who knows anything about computers or cryptogrophy or mathematics knows that it's all garbage.\n\nApplied linear cryptography? A wireless webcast that takes over other monitors <b>And non radio emitting crt's</b>! A virus that is hardware agnostic that infects through electrical outlets? HAHAHAHA! I almost died laughing in the movie. Unfortunatly, I don't think anyone else who was watching the movie understood what was so funny. \n\nEver since Hackers: "<i>Hack the GIBSON!</i>" and Jurassic Park's "It's UNIX!" (NOT!), writers and directors have consistently shown computers in the most implausible ways. What's worse, is there are many extreemely cool and crazy things out there, but some writers just aren't aware of them, because they write in a buble, without doing the appropriate background research behind their topic. Of films in my memory, only [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0086567|WarGames] showed computers in a relatively correct situation, although the whole WOPR thing was a bit out there.\n\nIf any writers out there are reading this, here's one geek who will glady volunteer to help remove the technical problems from your scripts. Directors, same goes for you too. You wouldn't do a film about horse jockeys with unicorns in it, now would you? [Those of you who would, no, you're not shooting Stile from Piers Anthony's <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0345349342/">Juxtaposition</a>.]
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+Yerp. It was my birthday today. Getting old. At work they brought lunch for raphael and myself along with a cake, which was excellent. Of course, raphael and I both disapeared as lunch was being procured, raphael to eat at the very place they were bringing lunch from, and myself to deal with yet another figure in powerpoint issue. [You'd think after having so many problems with the figures they'd learn. My bailing them out every time must not be enforcing the lesson with enough clarity.] Anyway, I had fun.
+
+Then I wandered home and worked on some random stuff before deciding to head out and catch a flick. As luck would have it, I went to go see [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0292506|The Recruit], which was a moderately decent movie. Unfortunatly, as with many movies that have any technology or computers in them, they're buzzword ladden, but anyone who knows anything about computers or cryptogrophy or mathematics knows that it's all garbage.
+
+Applied linear cryptography? A wireless webcast that takes over other monitors <b>And non radio emitting crt's</b>! A virus that is hardware agnostic that infects through electrical outlets? HAHAHAHA! I almost died laughing in the movie. Unfortunatly, I don't think anyone else who was watching the movie understood what was so funny. 
+
+Ever since Hackers: "<i>Hack the GIBSON!</i>" and Jurassic Park's "It's UNIX!" (NOT!), writers and directors have consistently shown computers in the most implausible ways. What's worse, is there are many extreemely cool and crazy things out there, but some writers just aren't aware of them, because they write in a buble, without doing the appropriate background research behind their topic. Of films in my memory, only [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0086567|WarGames] showed computers in a relatively correct situation, although the whole WOPR thing was a bit out there.
+
+If any writers out there are reading this, here's one geek who will glady volunteer to help remove the technical problems from your scripts. Directors, same goes for you too. You wouldn't do a film about horse jockeys with unicorns in it, now would you? [Those of you who would, no, you're not shooting Stile from Piers Anthony's <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0345349342/">Juxtaposition</a>.]
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diff --git a/posts/diary/burning_in_the_desert.mdwn b/posts/diary/burning_in_the_desert.mdwn
index 5cd2de9..134cae1 100644
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-[gal://2004/06_june/desert_party_20040605/004_everyone_dancing_20040605.jpg]Yesterday I got to wander out into the desert with Addy, Chris, Josh,\nTish, and the rest of the mad people and their soundsystems who were 7\nmiles off the 15 before Zzyzx. 110F in the sun, a few miles of\nridiculously deep gravel which ate cars for lunch, yours truely\nimpersonating Peter Solberg in his subaru, and it's a desert party\nwith all the trappings.\n\n[gal://2004/06_june/desert_party_20040605/013_make_with_the_dancing_20040605.jpg]To recuperate from the multi-day no-sleep exuberance that a true\ndesert party entails, I spent most of last night and today asleep,\nuntil I woke up to finish grading stuff for Bio5B. Yes, terribly\nexciting, no?
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+[gal://2004/06_june/desert_party_20040605/004_everyone_dancing_20040605.jpg]Yesterday I got to wander out into the desert with Addy, Chris, Josh,
+Tish, and the rest of the mad people and their soundsystems who were 7
+miles off the 15 before Zzyzx. 110F in the sun, a few miles of
+ridiculously deep gravel which ate cars for lunch, yours truely
+impersonating Peter Solberg in his subaru, and it's a desert party
+with all the trappings.
+
+[gal://2004/06_june/desert_party_20040605/013_make_with_the_dancing_20040605.jpg]To recuperate from the multi-day no-sleep exuberance that a true
+desert party entails, I spent most of last night and today asleep,
+until I woke up to finish grading stuff for Bio5B. Yes, terribly
+exciting, no?
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diff --git a/posts/diary/contemplating_fridays.mdwn b/posts/diary/contemplating_fridays.mdwn
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--- a/posts/diary/contemplating_fridays.mdwn
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@@ -1 +1,11 @@
-Started out the day with yet another meeting, this time on the gene discovery at socratech, and discussed how the samples are going to be labeled along with the assays that are going to be run.\n\nI spent most of the rest of the day working with gene ontology and with the sample insertion portion of hemlock, with a brief break for lunch at Pelligrinos, which has probably the best collection of subs in rochester.\n\nThe [http://www.lugor.org/|LUGOR] meeting was at 7P EST this evening, and I was late to it as usual. heard a bit about apt-get for redhat (blech) and then discussed various things with different people before talking about using spamassasin with spamc|d and milters within sendmail.\n\nDinner at my appartment with ye olde standard chicken and rice before spending the rest of the night working on the diary system. I've decided to chuck out support for the mini calendars in the diary section since it was making the page generation crawl.\n\nI also answered a bunch of questions on #debian before calling it an evening.\n\nTomorrow I'll be playing at the Rocket Cafe on 171 Monroe from 6-11ish along with Mighty, Kevin, and whoever else shows up before I head over to tilt for bliss. Not sure who is playing at bliss, but hopefully it will be good.
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+Started out the day with yet another meeting, this time on the gene discovery at socratech, and discussed how the samples are going to be labeled along with the assays that are going to be run.
+
+I spent most of the rest of the day working with gene ontology and with the sample insertion portion of hemlock, with a brief break for lunch at Pelligrinos, which has probably the best collection of subs in rochester.
+
+The [http://www.lugor.org/|LUGOR] meeting was at 7P EST this evening, and I was late to it as usual. heard a bit about apt-get for redhat (blech) and then discussed various things with different people before talking about using spamassasin with spamc|d and milters within sendmail.
+
+Dinner at my appartment with ye olde standard chicken and rice before spending the rest of the night working on the diary system. I've decided to chuck out support for the mini calendars in the diary section since it was making the page generation crawl.
+
+I also answered a bunch of questions on #debian before calling it an evening.
+
+Tomorrow I'll be playing at the Rocket Cafe on 171 Monroe from 6-11ish along with Mighty, Kevin, and whoever else shows up before I head over to tilt for bliss. Not sure who is playing at bliss, but hopefully it will be good.
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diff --git a/posts/diary/continued_studying_bio200a_read_some_papers.mdwn b/posts/diary/continued_studying_bio200a_read_some_papers.mdwn
index 1c97930..e4da164 100644
--- a/posts/diary/continued_studying_bio200a_read_some_papers.mdwn
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@@ -1 +1,3 @@
-Continued studying bio200a, read some papers, finished up the last two remaining figures for a paper which I am a middle author (helical wheel), went to albertos for the first time in quite a long time with paul. Talked with angela and mandee on the phone, both of whom I haven't seen in quite some time.\n\nIt's flipping freezing around here, and it's time to go to sleep.
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+Continued studying bio200a, read some papers, finished up the last two remaining figures for a paper which I am a middle author (helical wheel), went to albertos for the first time in quite a long time with paul. Talked with angela and mandee on the phone, both of whom I haven't seen in quite some time.
+
+It's flipping freezing around here, and it's time to go to sleep.
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diff --git a/posts/diary/dealt_with_some_more_of_the_statistics_involved_in.mdwn b/posts/diary/dealt_with_some_more_of_the_statistics_involved_in.mdwn
index 4541dc6..2dab78a 100644
--- a/posts/diary/dealt_with_some_more_of_the_statistics_involved_in.mdwn
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@@ -1 +1,7 @@
-Dealt with some more of the statistics involved in running a proper evaluation of microarray experiments, still not totally settled, but getting there. (Statistics really isn't my field, but I'm picking it up faster and faster.)\n\nTalked with Mandee for the first time in quite a long time. Hopefully I'll get to see her tomorrow in LB or HB.\n\nWandered out with Paul to getaway for some beer and onion rings... pretty decent... lost to him at air hockey for the first time in quite some time. (My skills must be slipping... ;-)) Patrick was also at getaway, so I got to chat with him for a bit.. ought to get more in touch with the rest of the graduate scene instead of spending most of my life off doing my own thing. (It's not that I don't enjoy the company of other people, I just don't always go out of my way to seek it... and in a lot of cases, I need the time alone to sort out my own thoughts and remember who I am and what I'm doing.)\n\nGoing to go to HB to work on the fibonacci table again tomorrow. Hopefully I'll get its legs finished and put paint on it... but we'll see.
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+Dealt with some more of the statistics involved in running a proper evaluation of microarray experiments, still not totally settled, but getting there. (Statistics really isn't my field, but I'm picking it up faster and faster.)
+
+Talked with Mandee for the first time in quite a long time. Hopefully I'll get to see her tomorrow in LB or HB.
+
+Wandered out with Paul to getaway for some beer and onion rings... pretty decent... lost to him at air hockey for the first time in quite some time. (My skills must be slipping... ;-)) Patrick was also at getaway, so I got to chat with him for a bit.. ought to get more in touch with the rest of the graduate scene instead of spending most of my life off doing my own thing. (It's not that I don't enjoy the company of other people, I just don't always go out of my way to seek it... and in a lot of cases, I need the time alone to sort out my own thoughts and remember who I am and what I'm doing.)
+
+Going to go to HB to work on the fibonacci table again tomorrow. Hopefully I'll get its legs finished and put paint on it... but we'll see.
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diff --git a/posts/diary/devils_tower_wy.mdwn b/posts/diary/devils_tower_wy.mdwn
index 776295b..25c46a3 100644
--- a/posts/diary/devils_tower_wy.mdwn
+++ b/posts/diary/devils_tower_wy.mdwn
@@ -1 +1,33 @@
-[gal://2003/07_july/devils_tower_07032003/30_terra_cotta_at_devils_tower_07032003.jpg]Well, it's now day four of my trip. Everything seems to be going\nwell. I had pancakes for dinner tonight, with real live maple syrup,\nwhich hopefully will last the rest of the trip home. For some reason,\nmy powerbook seems not to be charging off of the power supply in my\ncar... I'll have to check that one out again... could be some polarity\nissue, or just the fact that square wave power doesn't agree with it.\n\n[gal://2003/07_july/devils_tower_07032003/04_devils_tower_07032003.jpg]Devil's Tower is really, really neat. The monument just raises out\nfrom nowhere like a gigantic pillar of hexagon shaped granite, almost\nlike a gigantic Atari symbol. Quite a few touristas were around\nwalking around the tower on the short trail... I ended up walking\naround the entire close trail, and then the farther loop... actually,\nwhen all is said and done, I hiked (well, walked really) almost all of\nthe trails in the park in less than 3 hours.\n\n[gal://2003/07_july/devils_tower_07032003/22_devils_tower_07032003.jpg]Hopefully some of the multitude of pictures I took came out. The tower\nitself is really impressive, and I'm going to try to get a few shots\nwhen I drive out of this place.\n\n[gal://2003/07_july/devils_tower_07032003/01_badlands_north_of_wounded_knee_07032003.jpg]Before I forget, on the way here I stopped at Wounded Knee, and\nbriefly drove by the massacre site. Eventually I think I come back,\nbut not until I have a better understanding of the events surrounding\nthat event, and can appreciate it more. I drove a bit through the\nbadlands, and saw some of the more interesting geological\nformations... some of those pictures ought to be worth looking at.\n\n[gal://2003/07_july/devils_tower_07032003/31_thistle_07032003.jpg]If I had actually wanted to, I could have gone through sundance, but\nI'm not so sure that I do... that film festival has completely\novershadowed the town.\n\nAnyway, the campsites here are pretty nice, the bugs have all been\nshot (or mostly so) and so long as the cows stay quiet, I'll be all\nright tonight. MOOOOO!!!!
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+[gal://2003/07_july/devils_tower_07032003/30_terra_cotta_at_devils_tower_07032003.jpg]Well, it's now day four of my trip. Everything seems to be going
+well. I had pancakes for dinner tonight, with real live maple syrup,
+which hopefully will last the rest of the trip home. For some reason,
+my powerbook seems not to be charging off of the power supply in my
+car... I'll have to check that one out again... could be some polarity
+issue, or just the fact that square wave power doesn't agree with it.
+
+[gal://2003/07_july/devils_tower_07032003/04_devils_tower_07032003.jpg]Devil's Tower is really, really neat. The monument just raises out
+from nowhere like a gigantic pillar of hexagon shaped granite, almost
+like a gigantic Atari symbol. Quite a few touristas were around
+walking around the tower on the short trail... I ended up walking
+around the entire close trail, and then the farther loop... actually,
+when all is said and done, I hiked (well, walked really) almost all of
+the trails in the park in less than 3 hours.
+
+[gal://2003/07_july/devils_tower_07032003/22_devils_tower_07032003.jpg]Hopefully some of the multitude of pictures I took came out. The tower
+itself is really impressive, and I'm going to try to get a few shots
+when I drive out of this place.
+
+[gal://2003/07_july/devils_tower_07032003/01_badlands_north_of_wounded_knee_07032003.jpg]Before I forget, on the way here I stopped at Wounded Knee, and
+briefly drove by the massacre site. Eventually I think I come back,
+but not until I have a better understanding of the events surrounding
+that event, and can appreciate it more. I drove a bit through the
+badlands, and saw some of the more interesting geological
+formations... some of those pictures ought to be worth looking at.
+
+[gal://2003/07_july/devils_tower_07032003/31_thistle_07032003.jpg]If I had actually wanted to, I could have gone through sundance, but
+I'm not so sure that I do... that film festival has completely
+overshadowed the town.
+
+Anyway, the campsites here are pretty nice, the bugs have all been
+shot (or mostly so) and so long as the cows stay quiet, I'll be all
+right tonight. MOOOOO!!!!
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diff --git a/posts/diary/did_a_bit_more_work_on_my_reference_system_and.mdwn b/posts/diary/did_a_bit_more_work_on_my_reference_system_and.mdwn
index fb4b753..3dca3e6 100644
--- a/posts/diary/did_a_bit_more_work_on_my_reference_system_and.mdwn
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@@ -1 +1,5 @@
-Did a bit more work on my reference system, and caught up on some of the house finances.\n\nEarly in the evening, Amy, Amy's Sister, and Angela dropped by for a bit... talked for a bit, and then they took off.\n\nI spent most of the rest of the night doing random stuff on my computer.
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+Did a bit more work on my reference system, and caught up on some of the house finances.
+
+Early in the evening, Amy, Amy's Sister, and Angela dropped by for a bit... talked for a bit, and then they took off.
+
+I spent most of the rest of the night doing random stuff on my computer.
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diff --git a/posts/diary/drove_home_from_sf_on_the_5_early_in_the_morning.mdwn b/posts/diary/drove_home_from_sf_on_the_5_early_in_the_morning.mdwn
index f6b4a92..941ad69 100644
--- a/posts/diary/drove_home_from_sf_on_the_5_early_in_the_morning.mdwn
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@@ -1 +1,7 @@
-Drove home from SF on the 5 early in the morning. Got in at around 1P to riverside.\n\nAngela D came out to riverside from LA (after being in FL and DC) and I got to see pictures of her trip to DC, and some of the friends she made while out there.\n\nRandy also came with his girlfriend and we (along with paul, brian, and wendy) went to korean bbq for dinner (which was good, although I can't handle eating there all that often...)\n\nThen I wandered back home, watched some TV, and continued reading Silmarillion.
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+Drove home from SF on the 5 early in the morning. Got in at around 1P to riverside.
+
+Angela D came out to riverside from LA (after being in FL and DC) and I got to see pictures of her trip to DC, and some of the friends she made while out there.
+
+Randy also came with his girlfriend and we (along with paul, brian, and wendy) went to korean bbq for dinner (which was good, although I can't handle eating there all that often...)
+
+Then I wandered back home, watched some TV, and continued reading Silmarillion.
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diff --git a/posts/diary/exploring_rochester.mdwn b/posts/diary/exploring_rochester.mdwn
index dbd7763..6c57069 100644
--- a/posts/diary/exploring_rochester.mdwn
+++ b/posts/diary/exploring_rochester.mdwn
@@ -1 +1,5 @@
-[gal://2003/april/04052003/falling_building_4_04052003.jpg] I've been indulging a bit in one of my more intersting pastimes: looking at old dilapidated buildings, and buildings in various states of disrepair all around Rochester. There's something magical about buildings which have been abandoned whom the environment is slowly reclaiming brick and beam by brick and beam. This building is one on Cliff St. off Upper Falls Blvd. in Rochester, NY. which I ran across on saturday.\n\n[gal://2003/april/04062003/honeyo/honeyo_falls_2_04062003.jpg]On sunday, I was comming back from Nate's barn below bristol mountain, taking a rather circuitous route back to rochester, when I passed through a town that I haven't been through before, called Honeyo <b>Falls</b> (Thanks Steve!), which has a small water fall that used to power a saw mill. All around the waterfall were little individually iced blades of grass and tree bits which had slowly build up a countoured layer of ice from the mist of the falls. Definetly pretty interesting to see arrayed on the ground and in the trees like mini stalagmites. [gal://2003/april/04062003/honeyo/bristles_at_honeyo_04062003.jpg]\n\nI then wandered around Rochester's High Falls, which I hadn't bothered to really look at before, even though I've played pool right by it on numerous occasions. There are quite a large number of industrial buildings in the area, and it seems that RG&E owns ever third one of them, and almost all of the ones facing the gorge. Regardless, it was definitely interesting to check out and see one of the larger waterfalls in an industrial area. [gal://2003/april/04062003/high_falls/falls_6_04062003.jpg]
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+[gal://2003/april/04052003/falling_building_4_04052003.jpg] I've been indulging a bit in one of my more intersting pastimes: looking at old dilapidated buildings, and buildings in various states of disrepair all around Rochester. There's something magical about buildings which have been abandoned whom the environment is slowly reclaiming brick and beam by brick and beam. This building is one on Cliff St. off Upper Falls Blvd. in Rochester, NY. which I ran across on saturday.
+
+[gal://2003/april/04062003/honeyo/honeyo_falls_2_04062003.jpg]On sunday, I was comming back from Nate's barn below bristol mountain, taking a rather circuitous route back to rochester, when I passed through a town that I haven't been through before, called Honeyo <b>Falls</b> (Thanks Steve!), which has a small water fall that used to power a saw mill. All around the waterfall were little individually iced blades of grass and tree bits which had slowly build up a countoured layer of ice from the mist of the falls. Definetly pretty interesting to see arrayed on the ground and in the trees like mini stalagmites. [gal://2003/april/04062003/honeyo/bristles_at_honeyo_04062003.jpg]
+
+I then wandered around Rochester's High Falls, which I hadn't bothered to really look at before, even though I've played pool right by it on numerous occasions. There are quite a large number of industrial buildings in the area, and it seems that RG&E owns ever third one of them, and almost all of the ones facing the gorge. Regardless, it was definitely interesting to check out and see one of the larger waterfalls in an industrial area. [gal://2003/april/04062003/high_falls/falls_6_04062003.jpg]
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diff --git a/posts/diary/finished_cleaning_the_house_drove_with_chris_to.mdwn b/posts/diary/finished_cleaning_the_house_drove_with_chris_to.mdwn
index 7d0e120..b779690 100644
--- a/posts/diary/finished_cleaning_the_house_drove_with_chris_to.mdwn
+++ b/posts/diary/finished_cleaning_the_house_drove_with_chris_to.mdwn
@@ -1 +1,5 @@
-Finished cleaning the house, drove with chris to SF, and dropped chris off at the lions club, and picked up a neat bag at [http://www.yakpak.com|Yak Pak] on haight near masonic.\n\nThen more chilling at the lion's club, an awesome bit of food somewhere on divisidero, and hanging out with justin, doc, rachael, jen, and some other people at justin, doc and rachael's apartment. Got to play GTA3 and hear justin's new track. (GTA3 is such a great game... totally without any redeming social qualities.)\n\nDropped chris off at his place and I'm going to crash at seth's apartment for a bit before I drive back to Rside.
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+Finished cleaning the house, drove with chris to SF, and dropped chris off at the lions club, and picked up a neat bag at [http://www.yakpak.com|Yak Pak] on haight near masonic.
+
+Then more chilling at the lion's club, an awesome bit of food somewhere on divisidero, and hanging out with justin, doc, rachael, jen, and some other people at justin, doc and rachael's apartment. Got to play GTA3 and hear justin's new track. (GTA3 is such a great game... totally without any redeming social qualities.)
+
+Dropped chris off at his place and I'm going to crash at seth's apartment for a bit before I drive back to Rside.
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diff --git a/posts/diary/finished_making_an_nmr_sample_today_picked_up.mdwn b/posts/diary/finished_making_an_nmr_sample_today_picked_up.mdwn
index 1d961d7..97d82a1 100644
--- a/posts/diary/finished_making_an_nmr_sample_today_picked_up.mdwn
+++ b/posts/diary/finished_making_an_nmr_sample_today_picked_up.mdwn
@@ -1 +1,5 @@
-Finished making an NMR sample today, picked up some stuff from target and kmart (new lamp, socks, etc) and also went to see spiderman, hung out at starbucks, and then went to sleep.\n\nSpiderman was pretty impressive with relatively decent acting (albiet a bit rough in places) with appropriate level writing for the story, and awesome effects. For the most part, the webslinging looked pretty lifelike, although in a couple of cases they hid the shortcommings of their CG in darkness and quick cuts, which are annoying. The opening soundtrack was also a bit weak, and the remainder of the soundtrack was merely unobtrusive, pleasantly transparent, but not awe inspiring and momentous like we've come to expect from good orchestreal scores. (Although, I suspect Episode II will once again have a high quality score.)\n\nSpent some time as well looking for a book called Permanent : Design is Kinky. Too bad amazon doesn't seem to have it in stock anymore. (What a bummer.)
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+Finished making an NMR sample today, picked up some stuff from target and kmart (new lamp, socks, etc) and also went to see spiderman, hung out at starbucks, and then went to sleep.
+
+Spiderman was pretty impressive with relatively decent acting (albiet a bit rough in places) with appropriate level writing for the story, and awesome effects. For the most part, the webslinging looked pretty lifelike, although in a couple of cases they hid the shortcommings of their CG in darkness and quick cuts, which are annoying. The opening soundtrack was also a bit weak, and the remainder of the soundtrack was merely unobtrusive, pleasantly transparent, but not awe inspiring and momentous like we've come to expect from good orchestreal scores. (Although, I suspect Episode II will once again have a high quality score.)
+
+Spent some time as well looking for a book called Permanent : Design is Kinky. Too bad amazon doesn't seem to have it in stock anymore. (What a bummer.)
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diff --git a/posts/diary/finished_reading_the_silmarillion_by_tolkien_and.mdwn b/posts/diary/finished_reading_the_silmarillion_by_tolkien_and.mdwn
index 1e3f8b1..4438650 100644
--- a/posts/diary/finished_reading_the_silmarillion_by_tolkien_and.mdwn
+++ b/posts/diary/finished_reading_the_silmarillion_by_tolkien_and.mdwn
@@ -1 +1,7 @@
-Finished reading the silmarillion by tolkien and radio albemuth by philip k. dick today. Also tried to fix the leaky tub facet in the shower/tub bathroom, and the leaky valves in the other shower.\n\nUnfortunatly, my attempts at their replacement was a futile gesture, as it looks that they were improperly installed to begin with. (The bonnet is not accesible without a really oddly shaped wrench which I do not posess... if I had infinite resources, I imagine that I could modify a wrench to work, but I dont have said resources available.)\n\nAngela wandered by also to pick up the rest of her stuff, now that she has found and moved into a place of her own.\n\nI'm also trying to figure out exacly what to make of the new affymetrix algorithms that I have at my disposal. I gather that I'll wander through them some more sometime tomorrow, and hopefully come up with a semi-working analysis protocol.
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+Finished reading the silmarillion by tolkien and radio albemuth by philip k. dick today. Also tried to fix the leaky tub facet in the shower/tub bathroom, and the leaky valves in the other shower.
+
+Unfortunatly, my attempts at their replacement was a futile gesture, as it looks that they were improperly installed to begin with. (The bonnet is not accesible without a really oddly shaped wrench which I do not posess... if I had infinite resources, I imagine that I could modify a wrench to work, but I dont have said resources available.)
+
+Angela wandered by also to pick up the rest of her stuff, now that she has found and moved into a place of her own.
+
+I'm also trying to figure out exacly what to make of the new affymetrix algorithms that I have at my disposal. I gather that I'll wander through them some more sometime tomorrow, and hopefully come up with a semi-working analysis protocol.
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diff --git a/posts/diary/for_some_unknown_reason_i_m_actually_going_to_try.mdwn b/posts/diary/for_some_unknown_reason_i_m_actually_going_to_try.mdwn
index 80602b4..c61a46b 100644
--- a/posts/diary/for_some_unknown_reason_i_m_actually_going_to_try.mdwn
+++ b/posts/diary/for_some_unknown_reason_i_m_actually_going_to_try.mdwn
@@ -1 +1,5 @@
-For some unknown reason, I'm actually going to try and write down what I've done in a given day. (And hopefully what I've been thinking about.) I spent most of the first part of the day listening to discussions in bio200a about nuclear associated protiens, and then learned about cMyc and Mad<->Myc<->Max issues. I then got to hear from computing and communications briefly, while I was trying to codify my thoughts on a ideal form of government to replace the current system in this country. (I'm not succeding.)\n\nI also went through and dealt with the PKC assay that was run on wednesday. Quite horrible, really. Not much that can be done about it but run it again. Then there were more e-mails to attend to and read the paper for the talk that I am giving on wednesday evening. (NO and NGF). One of these days I'll get the reference system working for my papers, so I can actually begin to remember what in the world I've read about these things scientificaly, but for now, I'll have to deal with my clearly inadequate brain.\n\nI'm still trying to figure out exactly what I'm going to do once I'm out of grad school. I'll probably go into industry or something, but there are so many holes in my life to be taken care of before then. Maybe I'll be lucky soon, and some of the larger ones will be filled in. (I finished reading Aldris' Galaxies like grains of sand as well, and am working on space ship. Definetly not the most literary or science based SF writer, but occasionally he has interesting ideas that he sort of stumbles upon as if by accident.)
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+For some unknown reason, I'm actually going to try and write down what I've done in a given day. (And hopefully what I've been thinking about.) I spent most of the first part of the day listening to discussions in bio200a about nuclear associated protiens, and then learned about cMyc and Mad<->Myc<->Max issues. I then got to hear from computing and communications briefly, while I was trying to codify my thoughts on a ideal form of government to replace the current system in this country. (I'm not succeding.)
+
+I also went through and dealt with the PKC assay that was run on wednesday. Quite horrible, really. Not much that can be done about it but run it again. Then there were more e-mails to attend to and read the paper for the talk that I am giving on wednesday evening. (NO and NGF). One of these days I'll get the reference system working for my papers, so I can actually begin to remember what in the world I've read about these things scientificaly, but for now, I'll have to deal with my clearly inadequate brain.
+
+I'm still trying to figure out exactly what I'm going to do once I'm out of grad school. I'll probably go into industry or something, but there are so many holes in my life to be taken care of before then. Maybe I'll be lucky soon, and some of the larger ones will be filled in. (I finished reading Aldris' Galaxies like grains of sand as well, and am working on space ship. Definetly not the most literary or science based SF writer, but occasionally he has interesting ideas that he sort of stumbles upon as if by accident.)
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diff --git a/posts/diary/freeze_thawed_nmr_samples_and_worked_out_some.mdwn b/posts/diary/freeze_thawed_nmr_samples_and_worked_out_some.mdwn
index 7ac26ee..c19851e 100644
--- a/posts/diary/freeze_thawed_nmr_samples_and_worked_out_some.mdwn
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-Freeze thawed nmr samples, and worked out some more of the details of the microarray analysis routine.\n\nLooks like the baysian t-test analysis is really the way to go, and incorporates all of the things that we need it to incorporate. Of course, I'm still not totally satisfied, but at lesat I've got something that I can start with and go from there.\n\nZ has been working on the grant that is due Feb. 1st like mad. Hopefully he'll get it completed sometime soon.\n\nIn a fit of madness, I managed to complete all of Idoru in a single laying (split between an odd bout of trying to sleep, which didn't come until 6A in the morning). Quite an interesting story, which once again got me thinking heavily about the second of two things that I have a great interest in, mainly the development of systems that enable knowledge to be codified, searched, linked, and noded. [The first is the modelling of biological systems <i>in silico</i>]. Dreams are all I've got for it right now, but eventually I'll start to implement some things that are more and more advanced.
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+Freeze thawed nmr samples, and worked out some more of the details of the microarray analysis routine.
+
+Looks like the baysian t-test analysis is really the way to go, and incorporates all of the things that we need it to incorporate. Of course, I'm still not totally satisfied, but at lesat I've got something that I can start with and go from there.
+
+Z has been working on the grant that is due Feb. 1st like mad. Hopefully he'll get it completed sometime soon.
+
+In a fit of madness, I managed to complete all of Idoru in a single laying (split between an odd bout of trying to sleep, which didn't come until 6A in the morning). Quite an interesting story, which once again got me thinking heavily about the second of two things that I have a great interest in, mainly the development of systems that enable knowledge to be codified, searched, linked, and noded. [The first is the modelling of biological systems <i>in silico</i>]. Dreams are all I've got for it right now, but eventually I'll start to implement some things that are more and more advanced.
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diff --git a/posts/diary/fun_fun_and_more_fun.mdwn b/posts/diary/fun_fun_and_more_fun.mdwn
index 1b23244..6435901 100644
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-Rather interesting week. I probably should have updated this sooner, but you can sue me if you really care. Anyway, went to dicky's as usual on tuesday, played some more with my camera after eating Raphael's cake, [gal://new_camera_pictures/raphael_party_02042003/raphael_cutting_cake_02042002.jpg]  and in general enjoyed myself.\n\nHowever, on thursday, I managed to explode the vinyl pipe leading to my shower head. Obviously, it had been setup by an amateur who thought that unbraided vinyl pipe was appropriate for use in a shower where people take showers at a temperature greater than 10C. [gal:///misc_pictures/broken_tubing_02062003/broken_tubing_2_02062003.jpg] Yes, ladies and gentlemen, you should be using vinyl <b>braid</b> pipe or better yet, copper for those high temperature runs. Of course, I, being lazy, just cut out the offending section, and proceeded to use the same vinyl tube, after replacing the tube clamp with a new one that actually clamped.\n\nOnto friday. I picked up a few bottles of an awesome champagne from century liquuor along with a few bottles of wine along with Raphael. I then went to Rockets and spun for a bit, and played some chess. [gal://parties_clubs/2003/february/rocket_02072003/jerry_thinking_of_chess_at_rocket_02072003.jpg] I probably should be carefull playing chess, since I play by brute force. A 30 minute game is extremely draining, as I don't have the skill to open or analyze from experience. That, and I hate to loose.\n\n[gal://parties_clubs/2003/february/tonic_02072003/dave_and_greg_dancing_at_tonic_02072003.jpg]\nAnyway, after rocket, I was able to borrow Dave and Chyna's shower (as I didn't get to fix it until today) before going to tonic to hear Marty McFly spin breaks. His track selection was pretty awesome, and people seemed to be having fun, although, the transitions were absolute crap. I'm not sure if the monitors were bad, or if he was too drunk, but I'm sensitive to transitions. I intensly dislike trainwrecks. Anyway, Dave, Greg, and myself had a great time on the floor, even though some people seemed to just want to stand around, oogle girls [or take pictures of them without film] instead of dance.\n\nOn saturday, I played pool with Hassan at Jillian's, and then proceeded to watch Escaflowne in a marathon. Mmm... Escaflowne. Folken and Dryden are quite awesome. [Yes, I know. I do look like Dryden.]\n\nToday, I checked out snowboard boots at Gallyan's, fixed the shower, and kept reading the Glass Bead Game at a coffee shop near downtown. Exciting, no?
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+Rather interesting week. I probably should have updated this sooner, but you can sue me if you really care. Anyway, went to dicky's as usual on tuesday, played some more with my camera after eating Raphael's cake, [gal://new_camera_pictures/raphael_party_02042003/raphael_cutting_cake_02042002.jpg]  and in general enjoyed myself.
+
+However, on thursday, I managed to explode the vinyl pipe leading to my shower head. Obviously, it had been setup by an amateur who thought that unbraided vinyl pipe was appropriate for use in a shower where people take showers at a temperature greater than 10C. [gal:///misc_pictures/broken_tubing_02062003/broken_tubing_2_02062003.jpg] Yes, ladies and gentlemen, you should be using vinyl <b>braid</b> pipe or better yet, copper for those high temperature runs. Of course, I, being lazy, just cut out the offending section, and proceeded to use the same vinyl tube, after replacing the tube clamp with a new one that actually clamped.
+
+Onto friday. I picked up a few bottles of an awesome champagne from century liquuor along with a few bottles of wine along with Raphael. I then went to Rockets and spun for a bit, and played some chess. [gal://parties_clubs/2003/february/rocket_02072003/jerry_thinking_of_chess_at_rocket_02072003.jpg] I probably should be carefull playing chess, since I play by brute force. A 30 minute game is extremely draining, as I don't have the skill to open or analyze from experience. That, and I hate to loose.
+
+[gal://parties_clubs/2003/february/tonic_02072003/dave_and_greg_dancing_at_tonic_02072003.jpg]
+Anyway, after rocket, I was able to borrow Dave and Chyna's shower (as I didn't get to fix it until today) before going to tonic to hear Marty McFly spin breaks. His track selection was pretty awesome, and people seemed to be having fun, although, the transitions were absolute crap. I'm not sure if the monitors were bad, or if he was too drunk, but I'm sensitive to transitions. I intensly dislike trainwrecks. Anyway, Dave, Greg, and myself had a great time on the floor, even though some people seemed to just want to stand around, oogle girls [or take pictures of them without film] instead of dance.
+
+On saturday, I played pool with Hassan at Jillian's, and then proceeded to watch Escaflowne in a marathon. Mmm... Escaflowne. Folken and Dryden are quite awesome. [Yes, I know. I do look like Dryden.]
+
+Today, I checked out snowboard boots at Gallyan's, fixed the shower, and kept reading the Glass Bead Game at a coffee shop near downtown. Exciting, no?
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diff --git a/posts/diary/getting_older.mdwn b/posts/diary/getting_older.mdwn
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@@ -1 +1,5 @@
-I spent the first part of today cleaning up stuff around my apartment and answering random e-mails before heading over to Raphael and Florence's house to celebrate Raphael's (today) and my (tomorrow) birthday. Raphael made an excellent hot and pungent soup, and Florence baked awesome turkey legs. Two bottles of nice champagne, and all was well with the world.\n\nIt's always interesting when you get older to look back at how much you've changed over your life. It's a strange thing about birthdays, that unlike any other day of the year, they almost force you to confront both your mortality, and the fact and circumstances of your meager existance. I'm not sure if I recognize who I was 2 years, or even 1 year ago. Let alone 5 or 6 years ago when I was still in high school. I suppose when every year isn't such a large fraction of the whole, it becomes less of an issue, but at least for someone at my age, the changes are still comming fast and frequent.\n\nWe'll see what happens tomorrow on my birthday.
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+I spent the first part of today cleaning up stuff around my apartment and answering random e-mails before heading over to Raphael and Florence's house to celebrate Raphael's (today) and my (tomorrow) birthday. Raphael made an excellent hot and pungent soup, and Florence baked awesome turkey legs. Two bottles of nice champagne, and all was well with the world.
+
+It's always interesting when you get older to look back at how much you've changed over your life. It's a strange thing about birthdays, that unlike any other day of the year, they almost force you to confront both your mortality, and the fact and circumstances of your meager existance. I'm not sure if I recognize who I was 2 years, or even 1 year ago. Let alone 5 or 6 years ago when I was still in high school. I suppose when every year isn't such a large fraction of the whole, it becomes less of an issue, but at least for someone at my age, the changes are still comming fast and frequent.
+
+We'll see what happens tomorrow on my birthday.
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diff --git a/posts/diary/got_enrolled_in_the_classes_that_i_needed_to_be.mdwn b/posts/diary/got_enrolled_in_the_classes_that_i_needed_to_be.mdwn
index 8299b30..59994a2 100644
--- a/posts/diary/got_enrolled_in_the_classes_that_i_needed_to_be.mdwn
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@@ -1 +1,5 @@
-Got enrolled in the classes that I needed to be enrolled in, and took care of getting keys to the scintilation room and the grad student mailroom, so I'll actually be able to receive mail that comes there. (ugh... just what I need, more junk mail...)\n\nI also did some more work on understanding the statistics and mathematics of the baysian microarray approach. I'm going to need to do alot more work on it before I am totally happy with it, but I'm getting started.\n\nAlso remade the calcium chloride buffer and magnesium cloride buffer for the PKC assay. Not sure if that was causing the lackluster results that we were getting recently, but it might have been. (Posit that Ca2+ is sticking to the glass, lowering the Ca2+ concentration availble in an unmixed stock 0.01M CaCl2 solution.)
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+Got enrolled in the classes that I needed to be enrolled in, and took care of getting keys to the scintilation room and the grad student mailroom, so I'll actually be able to receive mail that comes there. (ugh... just what I need, more junk mail...)
+
+I also did some more work on understanding the statistics and mathematics of the baysian microarray approach. I'm going to need to do alot more work on it before I am totally happy with it, but I'm getting started.
+
+Also remade the calcium chloride buffer and magnesium cloride buffer for the PKC assay. Not sure if that was causing the lackluster results that we were getting recently, but it might have been. (Posit that Ca2+ is sticking to the glass, lowering the Ca2+ concentration availble in an unmixed stock 0.01M CaCl2 solution.)
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diff --git a/posts/diary/got_stuff_ready_to_run_a_pkc_assay_today.mdwn b/posts/diary/got_stuff_ready_to_run_a_pkc_assay_today.mdwn
index 9a94845..27af108 100644
--- a/posts/diary/got_stuff_ready_to_run_a_pkc_assay_today.mdwn
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@@ -1 +1,9 @@
-Got stuff ready to run a PKC assay today. Unfortunatly, the hot atp wasn't ordered until today, so it wont arrive until thursday or so, so I'm not running tomorrow (well, today now).\n\nDid some more work on the ADvsAD control, realized that the Z-test isn't going to work because the SEM is overcompensating for the sample size. (A intersample parwise compare does not directly indicate a sample size of m*n). So I'm either going to go back to the t-tests that I was running or do something else.\n\nI wandered into starbucks and talked with Mitra Abbaspour (art 17C ta from last year) and patrick, who is a english (iirc) masters (or phd) student at UCR. Seem to run into them every now and then... probably would be fun to hang out with them, but I run around in such a different croud.\n\nRandy showed up as well to starbucks, and I finaly gave back his gundam cd's and the infamous RCC picture that I had stolen from him (well, he actually let me borrow them... but not for 3 years).\n\nThen more reading and glorious sleep.
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+Got stuff ready to run a PKC assay today. Unfortunatly, the hot atp wasn't ordered until today, so it wont arrive until thursday or so, so I'm not running tomorrow (well, today now).
+
+Did some more work on the ADvsAD control, realized that the Z-test isn't going to work because the SEM is overcompensating for the sample size. (A intersample parwise compare does not directly indicate a sample size of m*n). So I'm either going to go back to the t-tests that I was running or do something else.
+
+I wandered into starbucks and talked with Mitra Abbaspour (art 17C ta from last year) and patrick, who is a english (iirc) masters (or phd) student at UCR. Seem to run into them every now and then... probably would be fun to hang out with them, but I run around in such a different croud.
+
+Randy showed up as well to starbucks, and I finaly gave back his gundam cd's and the infamous RCC picture that I had stolen from him (well, he actually let me borrow them... but not for 3 years).
+
+Then more reading and glorious sleep.
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diff --git a/posts/diary/got_to_sleep_some_today_went_to_my_nrsc_seminar.mdwn b/posts/diary/got_to_sleep_some_today_went_to_my_nrsc_seminar.mdwn
index a6aa6c2..117da1f 100644
--- a/posts/diary/got_to_sleep_some_today_went_to_my_nrsc_seminar.mdwn
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@@ -1 +1,3 @@
-Got to sleep some today. Went to my NRSC seminar, and then went out to LA to listen to cade, and luis fs. Pretty decent time, got to talk with some people that I haven't talked with in some time.\n\nGot back home sometime around 5.
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+Got to sleep some today. Went to my NRSC seminar, and then went out to LA to listen to cade, and luis fs. Pretty decent time, got to talk with some people that I haven't talked with in some time.
+
+Got back home sometime around 5.
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diff --git a/posts/diary/got_up_finished_off_the_work_on_the_nmr_spectra.mdwn b/posts/diary/got_up_finished_off_the_work_on_the_nmr_spectra.mdwn
index 51fb6e8..1af1dd6 100644
--- a/posts/diary/got_up_finished_off_the_work_on_the_nmr_spectra.mdwn
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@@ -1 +1,3 @@
-Got up, finished off the work on the NMR spectra that needed to be taken care of. The scd plots are now complete.\n\nDid some more work on my reference application, and reduced the backlog of my references.
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+Got up, finished off the work on the NMR spectra that needed to be taken care of. The scd plots are now complete.
+
+Did some more work on my reference application, and reduced the backlog of my references.
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diff --git a/posts/diary/had_a_discussion_for_bio200a_learned_about.mdwn b/posts/diary/had_a_discussion_for_bio200a_learned_about.mdwn
index 4363549..69a860d 100644
--- a/posts/diary/had_a_discussion_for_bio200a_learned_about.mdwn
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@@ -1 +1,5 @@
-Had a discussion for bio200a, learned about whatever was talked about. (I'll definetly have to review the talks... think it was something about something or other... my brain is kind of fried.) Then came home and wrote and read and wrote some more.\n\nEnded up wandering into back to the grind... they had a band there called Roxy that was semi-ok. Typical under trained band, crappy PA. The songs sounded like they definetly had potential to be good if they were well produced. (The bassist might have been good, but it sounded like he was content to just chill on the root instead of being slightly inventive, even in the bridge... drummist didn't realize how to switch stick heads to keep the volume at a level were he wouldn't be out competing the singer, but eh... those are all things that get taken care of when you have a semi-decent production crew running your shows... or you become an anal perfectionist audiophile who cringes at the sound of just about every system and band they hear. [Yes... I know, I should just enjoy the music and take a laxative or something...])\n\nThen more reading, more writing, more reading, and more writing. I'm definetly headed for the nut farm.
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+Had a discussion for bio200a, learned about whatever was talked about. (I'll definetly have to review the talks... think it was something about something or other... my brain is kind of fried.) Then came home and wrote and read and wrote some more.
+
+Ended up wandering into back to the grind... they had a band there called Roxy that was semi-ok. Typical under trained band, crappy PA. The songs sounded like they definetly had potential to be good if they were well produced. (The bassist might have been good, but it sounded like he was content to just chill on the root instead of being slightly inventive, even in the bridge... drummist didn't realize how to switch stick heads to keep the volume at a level were he wouldn't be out competing the singer, but eh... those are all things that get taken care of when you have a semi-decent production crew running your shows... or you become an anal perfectionist audiophile who cringes at the sound of just about every system and band they hear. [Yes... I know, I should just enjoy the music and take a laxative or something...])
+
+Then more reading, more writing, more reading, and more writing. I'm definetly headed for the nut farm.
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diff --git a/posts/diary/had_a_filling_put_in_by_the_dentist_today_came.mdwn b/posts/diary/had_a_filling_put_in_by_the_dentist_today_came.mdwn
index 43eb881..c03df53 100644
--- a/posts/diary/had_a_filling_put_in_by_the_dentist_today_came.mdwn
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@@ -1 +1,3 @@
-Had a filling put in by the dentist today, came back out to riverside, did some work at home, and then wandered onto campus. I ran into Tim while on campus and chatted for a bit about what was going on... then I went back to my lab to continue working on the assignments that I had to take care of, and discuss the results of the biophysical society meeting with my major professor.\n\nAfter startbucks, I came back to the house, made dinner, did some more work, and watched a flick. I also scored some more books earlier in the day from the library.
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+Had a filling put in by the dentist today, came back out to riverside, did some work at home, and then wandered onto campus. I ran into Tim while on campus and chatted for a bit about what was going on... then I went back to my lab to continue working on the assignments that I had to take care of, and discuss the results of the biophysical society meeting with my major professor.
+
+After startbucks, I came back to the house, made dinner, did some more work, and watched a flick. I also scored some more books earlier in the day from the library.
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diff --git a/posts/diary/hard_drive_surgery.mdwn b/posts/diary/hard_drive_surgery.mdwn
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--- a/posts/diary/hard_drive_surgery.mdwn
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@@ -1 +1,3 @@
-[gallery://2004/03_march/powerbook_hd_replacement_20040304/006_old_harddrive_going_into_fw_enclosure_20040304.jpg] I recently had to do a wee bit of hard drive replacement surgery on my venerable powerbook g4 400MHz which has served me well for quite some time. Unfortunatly, the 10G drive that it came with has been filled with various amounts of junk almost since I had the thing installed... originally I had left OS 9 on the thing, but as I almost exclusively use Debian these days, my original partitioning scheme was leaving me with little choice but to completely replace the drive.\n\n[gallery://2004/03_march/powerbook_hd_replacement_20040304/001_powerbook_hd_out_20040304.jpg] I settled on a 30G Hitachi drive (used to be IBM) which I had shipped to me along with a FW enclosure so I could easily <tt>dd</tt> the data back and forth from the current drive to the it's replacement. Unfortunatly, it took a bit for the FW enclosure to get drop shipped from whoever made the silly thing, and so I was sitting staring at a nice 30G drive with no way to install it. The installation went pretty smoothly, and as I type this, the drive is purring away inside the  laptop. It's way quieter than the previous drive (even though I thought the previous drive was really quiet compared to the others I've used previously.)
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+[gallery://2004/03_march/powerbook_hd_replacement_20040304/006_old_harddrive_going_into_fw_enclosure_20040304.jpg] I recently had to do a wee bit of hard drive replacement surgery on my venerable powerbook g4 400MHz which has served me well for quite some time. Unfortunatly, the 10G drive that it came with has been filled with various amounts of junk almost since I had the thing installed... originally I had left OS 9 on the thing, but as I almost exclusively use Debian these days, my original partitioning scheme was leaving me with little choice but to completely replace the drive.
+
+[gallery://2004/03_march/powerbook_hd_replacement_20040304/001_powerbook_hd_out_20040304.jpg] I settled on a 30G Hitachi drive (used to be IBM) which I had shipped to me along with a FW enclosure so I could easily <tt>dd</tt> the data back and forth from the current drive to the it's replacement. Unfortunatly, it took a bit for the FW enclosure to get drop shipped from whoever made the silly thing, and so I was sitting staring at a nice 30G drive with no way to install it. The installation went pretty smoothly, and as I type this, the drive is purring away inside the  laptop. It's way quieter than the previous drive (even though I thought the previous drive was really quiet compared to the others I've used previously.)
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diff --git a/posts/diary/hrm_an_interesting_april_fools_day_or_so_it.mdwn b/posts/diary/hrm_an_interesting_april_fools_day_or_so_it.mdwn
index 7d084a3..614459a 100644
--- a/posts/diary/hrm_an_interesting_april_fools_day_or_so_it.mdwn
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@@ -1 +1,3 @@
-Hrm... an interesting april fools day, or so it seems. It was the first day of classes today, and in classic form, I wasn't on campus until 10P or so. I spent most of the day dealing with random stuff, and pulling a book list of books that I want to pick up. As is usual, two of them were not in the shelves, so I stuck a search out on them... who knows if they'll be found at all.\n\nChatted with paul at starbucks for quite a while about his spring break, and some of his plans for the future. Then wandered back home to read some more before sleeping.
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+Hrm... an interesting april fools day, or so it seems. It was the first day of classes today, and in classic form, I wasn't on campus until 10P or so. I spent most of the day dealing with random stuff, and pulling a book list of books that I want to pick up. As is usual, two of them were not in the shelves, so I stuck a search out on them... who knows if they'll be found at all.
+
+Chatted with paul at starbucks for quite a while about his spring break, and some of his plans for the future. Then wandered back home to read some more before sleeping.
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diff --git a/posts/diary/hrm_lets_see_the_lawn_got_mowed_today_it_s.mdwn b/posts/diary/hrm_lets_see_the_lawn_got_mowed_today_it_s.mdwn
index 5d73d32..255752b 100644
--- a/posts/diary/hrm_lets_see_the_lawn_got_mowed_today_it_s.mdwn
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@@ -1 +1,7 @@
-Hrm. Lets see. The lawn got mowed today... it's absolutely amazing how quickly grass is able to grow. I think I'm going to skip having grass in front of any houses that I design in the future. It doesn't seem to be worth the hassel.\n\nBeyond that, had a fish taco at rubios, and went out to the freethinking two year aniversary (which is kind of odd, because I think I went to one of the first freethinkings.) Collette's set wasn't as good as she was at release. It didn't look like she had gotten in to a stable groove, or was expending too much effort battling the system rather than inducing a flow. Luckily, the night was saved in famous style by an awesome set by Diz, who rarely fails to provide quality music with a flowing story. A couple of tracks were a bid out of touch, and stopped the build throughout the night, but other than that people were dancing and grooving hard.\n\nTalked again with Nick, and met Alecks, who I believe is Zoki's sister, but I'm not sure about that. (I'm totally out of touch with what is going on in that small part of the house scene, since I don't have enough time to go out every week anymore.)\n\nTime read some more LotR, and then sleep.
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+Hrm. Lets see. The lawn got mowed today... it's absolutely amazing how quickly grass is able to grow. I think I'm going to skip having grass in front of any houses that I design in the future. It doesn't seem to be worth the hassel.
+
+Beyond that, had a fish taco at rubios, and went out to the freethinking two year aniversary (which is kind of odd, because I think I went to one of the first freethinkings.) Collette's set wasn't as good as she was at release. It didn't look like she had gotten in to a stable groove, or was expending too much effort battling the system rather than inducing a flow. Luckily, the night was saved in famous style by an awesome set by Diz, who rarely fails to provide quality music with a flowing story. A couple of tracks were a bid out of touch, and stopped the build throughout the night, but other than that people were dancing and grooving hard.
+
+Talked again with Nick, and met Alecks, who I believe is Zoki's sister, but I'm not sure about that. (I'm totally out of touch with what is going on in that small part of the house scene, since I don't have enough time to go out every week anymore.)
+
+Time read some more LotR, and then sleep.
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diff --git a/posts/diary/hrm_well_didn_t_quite_manage_to_do_anything.mdwn b/posts/diary/hrm_well_didn_t_quite_manage_to_do_anything.mdwn
index a0f9ebd..9732c29 100644
--- a/posts/diary/hrm_well_didn_t_quite_manage_to_do_anything.mdwn
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-Hrm. Well, didn't quite manage to do anything today.\n\nTried to work some more on the statistics for the microarrays, and didn't get to it.\n\nAbout all I managed to do succesfully was wash my car, which hadn't been washed in quite some time. Luckily, it spends almost all of it's life in the garage, so it was relatively clean, but it still needed to be debugged from my trip to SF and some other jaunts around SC.\n\nWas planning on spending some time hanging out with Mandee, but she didn't end up calling me after she got out from work. Anyway, onto some reading and then glorious sleep.
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+Hrm. Well, didn't quite manage to do anything today.
+
+Tried to work some more on the statistics for the microarrays, and didn't get to it.
+
+About all I managed to do succesfully was wash my car, which hadn't been washed in quite some time. Luckily, it spends almost all of it's life in the garage, so it was relatively clean, but it still needed to be debugged from my trip to SF and some other jaunts around SC.
+
+Was planning on spending some time hanging out with Mandee, but she didn't end up calling me after she got out from work. Anyway, onto some reading and then glorious sleep.
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diff --git a/posts/diary/i_cannot_quite_write_what_i_have_in_my_mind_to.mdwn b/posts/diary/i_cannot_quite_write_what_i_have_in_my_mind_to.mdwn
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--- a/posts/diary/i_cannot_quite_write_what_i_have_in_my_mind_to.mdwn
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@@ -1 +1,7 @@
-I cannot quite write what I have in my mind to say. Something far to powerful for a language built of mere words. Too powerful to be read and easily understood, or at least, too powerful to be within my feeble grasp of language and writing to be able to express it. In fact, I'm only really aware of its power, and barely glimsp at it's edges, not yet seeing the whole structure in it's entirerity. Perhaps with a period of dreaming, this phantom in my mind will become clear enough for me to verbalize it, or at least begin to convey it's message.\n\nMet with raphael and johana (a grad student who is joining us in the lab), and went to lunch at dragon house. Discussed the bioinformatics core of socratech, and I began to visualize a method of data collection that is quite powerfull, part of which is involved in the powerfull vision that I alluded to earlier.\n\nThe heater at [http://www.5045kensington.com|5045 Kensington] got repaired, and is now working reasonable succesfully. I also have been reading Snow Crash in one of my marathon reading sessions. I'll probably finish reading it before I am able to go to sleep.\n\nHopefully I'll be able to hash out this idea and the visualization/data storage system that I am thinking about when I sleep, and tomorrow, when I go to pick up paul and sophie from the airport.
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+I cannot quite write what I have in my mind to say. Something far to powerful for a language built of mere words. Too powerful to be read and easily understood, or at least, too powerful to be within my feeble grasp of language and writing to be able to express it. In fact, I'm only really aware of its power, and barely glimsp at it's edges, not yet seeing the whole structure in it's entirerity. Perhaps with a period of dreaming, this phantom in my mind will become clear enough for me to verbalize it, or at least begin to convey it's message.
+
+Met with raphael and johana (a grad student who is joining us in the lab), and went to lunch at dragon house. Discussed the bioinformatics core of socratech, and I began to visualize a method of data collection that is quite powerfull, part of which is involved in the powerfull vision that I alluded to earlier.
+
+The heater at [http://www.5045kensington.com|5045 Kensington] got repaired, and is now working reasonable succesfully. I also have been reading Snow Crash in one of my marathon reading sessions. I'll probably finish reading it before I am able to go to sleep.
+
+Hopefully I'll be able to hash out this idea and the visualization/data storage system that I am thinking about when I sleep, and tomorrow, when I go to pick up paul and sophie from the airport.
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diff --git a/posts/diary/i_ended_up_arriving_at_around_midnight_when_ltj.mdwn b/posts/diary/i_ended_up_arriving_at_around_midnight_when_ltj.mdwn
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--- a/posts/diary/i_ended_up_arriving_at_around_midnight_when_ltj.mdwn
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@@ -1 +1,7 @@
-I ended up arriving at around midnight, when LTJ was supposedly going on. Little Chris was doing battle with the system, and trying to keep people interested and on the dancefloor while waiting for LTJ (I don't feel right commenting on Little Chris's set, as I arrived after he was                                                      supposed to have stopped playing...). I hadn't been to the factory before, but the venue seemed relatively well setup with a copious dancefloor (save for the kind of anoying drink rail towards the wall).\n\nUnfortunatly, the sound system was absolutely atrocious. One set of subs was stuck directly underneath the stage, and even the flying tables couldn't eliminate the bass feedback. Whoever was (or wasn't) running the sound also seemed to have left one of the stage mics on for part of the night that was ocasionally giving trebble feedback. [Note to anyone who uses that venue. Bring your own system, and your own professional soundpeople... or your own professional soundpeople at the very least.]   \n\nFinally, after getting worried that LTJ wasn't going to show up at all, he arrived at 1A... instantly the dancefloor was packed. LTJ dropped some awsome tracks that had me dancing for most of the rest of the evening, although in a couple of places MC Conrad (someone correct me if that wasn't MC Conrad... I don't know him that well) overuse of a delay->echo in his mcing was really anoying and detracted from what both he and LTJ were doing... \n\nAll in all, besides the sound system (which became better throughout the night), and the fact that LTJ only was able to play for 2 hours instead of the 3 that I thought he would, I had a relatively good time. (And a damn good time for a thursday night.)
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+I ended up arriving at around midnight, when LTJ was supposedly going on. Little Chris was doing battle with the system, and trying to keep people interested and on the dancefloor while waiting for LTJ (I don't feel right commenting on Little Chris's set, as I arrived after he was                                                      supposed to have stopped playing...). I hadn't been to the factory before, but the venue seemed relatively well setup with a copious dancefloor (save for the kind of anoying drink rail towards the wall).
+
+Unfortunatly, the sound system was absolutely atrocious. One set of subs was stuck directly underneath the stage, and even the flying tables couldn't eliminate the bass feedback. Whoever was (or wasn't) running the sound also seemed to have left one of the stage mics on for part of the night that was ocasionally giving trebble feedback. [Note to anyone who uses that venue. Bring your own system, and your own professional soundpeople... or your own professional soundpeople at the very least.]   
+
+Finally, after getting worried that LTJ wasn't going to show up at all, he arrived at 1A... instantly the dancefloor was packed. LTJ dropped some awsome tracks that had me dancing for most of the rest of the evening, although in a couple of places MC Conrad (someone correct me if that wasn't MC Conrad... I don't know him that well) overuse of a delay->echo in his mcing was really anoying and detracted from what both he and LTJ were doing... 
+
+All in all, besides the sound system (which became better throughout the night), and the fact that LTJ only was able to play for 2 hours instead of the 3 that I thought he would, I had a relatively good time. (And a damn good time for a thursday night.)
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diff --git a/posts/diary/improvements_and_weather.mdwn b/posts/diary/improvements_and_weather.mdwn
index 412c16e..cbf809c 100644
--- a/posts/diary/improvements_and_weather.mdwn
+++ b/posts/diary/improvements_and_weather.mdwn
@@ -1 +1,5 @@
-I nearly forgot that a few days ago I found an interesting cart floating around in the office, with the text "Property of General Thou Shall Not Steal" in dymo marker.[gal://misc_pictures/thou_shalt_not_steal_this_cart_02052003/thou_shalt_not_steal_cart.jpg] Since I don't work in general, nor general dentistry, I assume that someone had managed to steal this cart somehow anyway. Possibly multiple pictures. And then, the hapless person to whom this cart at one time belonged had the audacity to quote the ten commandments in hopes of shaming some poor fool into returning the cart.\n\nA few minutes later, I had improved the labeling of the cart to fit its current status as an obviously "liberated" piece of equipment. "Thou shalt not steal this cart and get caught." [gal://misc_pictures/thou_shalt_not_steal_this_cart_02052003/thou_shalt_not_steal_and_get_caught_cart.jpg] The significance of this change is probably lost on everyone in the office. Oh well.\n\nIt also looks like the squirrels that were living in the attic here have finally made their way out, and hopefully I won't be hearing from them again. It also managed to snow pretty heavily today, which was subsequently followed by high winds. Seeing the snow being blowed around reminded me of the dunes that fine sand forms in the desert.
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+I nearly forgot that a few days ago I found an interesting cart floating around in the office, with the text "Property of General Thou Shall Not Steal" in dymo marker.[gal://misc_pictures/thou_shalt_not_steal_this_cart_02052003/thou_shalt_not_steal_cart.jpg] Since I don't work in general, nor general dentistry, I assume that someone had managed to steal this cart somehow anyway. Possibly multiple pictures. And then, the hapless person to whom this cart at one time belonged had the audacity to quote the ten commandments in hopes of shaming some poor fool into returning the cart.
+
+A few minutes later, I had improved the labeling of the cart to fit its current status as an obviously "liberated" piece of equipment. "Thou shalt not steal this cart and get caught." [gal://misc_pictures/thou_shalt_not_steal_this_cart_02052003/thou_shalt_not_steal_and_get_caught_cart.jpg] The significance of this change is probably lost on everyone in the office. Oh well.
+
+It also looks like the squirrels that were living in the attic here have finally made their way out, and hopefully I won't be hearing from them again. It also managed to snow pretty heavily today, which was subsequently followed by high winds. Seeing the snow being blowed around reminded me of the dunes that fine sand forms in the desert.
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diff --git a/posts/diary/interesting_mayday_lots_of_events_going_on_in_the.mdwn b/posts/diary/interesting_mayday_lots_of_events_going_on_in_the.mdwn
index 6dc8edd..8fdcf43 100644
--- a/posts/diary/interesting_mayday_lots_of_events_going_on_in_the.mdwn
+++ b/posts/diary/interesting_mayday_lots_of_events_going_on_in_the.mdwn
@@ -1 +1,3 @@
-Interesting mayday. Lots of events going on in the wide, wide world, but not too much recognition of Labor Day in the US. I personally spent most of the day running an experiment and taking some stuff for the BBRC paper that we are going to be submitting in the near future.\n\nAfter that, I got my tables set up and spun for the first time in quite some time. I need to start buying records en mass again. More work on my links setup, and sleep is definetly beckoning.
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+Interesting mayday. Lots of events going on in the wide, wide world, but not too much recognition of Labor Day in the US. I personally spent most of the day running an experiment and taking some stuff for the BBRC paper that we are going to be submitting in the near future.
+
+After that, I got my tables set up and spun for the first time in quite some time. I need to start buying records en mass again. More work on my links setup, and sleep is definetly beckoning.
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diff --git a/posts/diary/joshua_tree.mdwn b/posts/diary/joshua_tree.mdwn
index 46d4743..eb0f6d5 100644
--- a/posts/diary/joshua_tree.mdwn
+++ b/posts/diary/joshua_tree.mdwn
@@ -1 +1,46 @@
-[gal://2008/joshua_tree_06_07_2008/022_mark_and_don_20080607.jpg] Mark\nand I took a trip to Joshua Tree over the previous weekend. We hiked\nin towards Pine City on Friday night and set up the tent near the edge\nof the day use area. It took us about 10 minutes of wandering in the\ndark with head lamps to find an area that was far enough off the trail\nand appeared to be flat and rock-free enough to set up a tent. Mark\nhappened to find a miniature cholla cactus in the dark and of course\nmanaged to stab himself with it, which added to the excitement of\nsetting up the tent.\n\n[gal://2008/joshua_tree_06_07_2008/panorama_1.jpg] When the sun came\nup the next day, we were finally able to see where we had actually set\nup camp. A series of amazing bolders were to the south east of our\ncampsite, and we spent some time in the morning exploring them as we\nfinished off our slightly smushed pop tarts.\n\n[gal://2008/joshua_tree_06_07_2008/040_trees_and_rocks_20080607.jpg]\nWe then packed up the tent and our bags and took off to see Pine City\nitself (which is in the day use area). It appears to be called that\nbecause of a few ancient conifers which have managed to survive in the\ndesert, though I'm only guessing based on what I saw.\n\n[gal://2008/joshua_tree_06_07_2008/066_our_campsite_20080608.jpg]\nFrom Pine City, we took off cross country heading north-west towards\nQueen Mountain, where we wandered around through a ton of gullies and\ndry washes. (Note of caution: be very careful in areas like this\nduring the rainy season. Rain miles away can cause flash floods.)\nEventually we found a neat place to camp around noon a bit south east\nof Queen Mountain.\n\n\n[gal://2008/joshua_tree_06_07_2008/058_mark_squeezing_through_20080607.jpg]\nWe set up the tent, dropped off the packs and then went wandering\naround to boulder some of the neat rock formations and lollygag about\nlooking at the neat scenery. During this entire time, the only\nevidence of humans we had seen were a few footprints on the trail into\nPine City, a couple balloons in advanced decomposition, and a single\nglint off a car windshield more than 10 miles in the distance.\n\nThe next day, we hiked back to the car, and drove back into\nciviliation. It's been a while since I've been to Joshua Tree, but\nI've remembered now why I like the place. It's really hard to beat for\ngetting away from human presence into a relatively pristine\nenvironment. [The closer to summer you go, the harder it is to handle,\nand consequently, the fewer people you're going to see.]\n\n
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+[gal://2008/joshua_tree_06_07_2008/022_mark_and_don_20080607.jpg] Mark
+and I took a trip to Joshua Tree over the previous weekend. We hiked
+in towards Pine City on Friday night and set up the tent near the edge
+of the day use area. It took us about 10 minutes of wandering in the
+dark with head lamps to find an area that was far enough off the trail
+and appeared to be flat and rock-free enough to set up a tent. Mark
+happened to find a miniature cholla cactus in the dark and of course
+managed to stab himself with it, which added to the excitement of
+setting up the tent.
+
+[gal://2008/joshua_tree_06_07_2008/panorama_1.jpg] When the sun came
+up the next day, we were finally able to see where we had actually set
+up camp. A series of amazing bolders were to the south east of our
+campsite, and we spent some time in the morning exploring them as we
+finished off our slightly smushed pop tarts.
+
+[gal://2008/joshua_tree_06_07_2008/040_trees_and_rocks_20080607.jpg]
+We then packed up the tent and our bags and took off to see Pine City
+itself (which is in the day use area). It appears to be called that
+because of a few ancient conifers which have managed to survive in the
+desert, though I'm only guessing based on what I saw.
+
+[gal://2008/joshua_tree_06_07_2008/066_our_campsite_20080608.jpg]
+From Pine City, we took off cross country heading north-west towards
+Queen Mountain, where we wandered around through a ton of gullies and
+dry washes. (Note of caution: be very careful in areas like this
+during the rainy season. Rain miles away can cause flash floods.)
+Eventually we found a neat place to camp around noon a bit south east
+of Queen Mountain.
+
+
+[gal://2008/joshua_tree_06_07_2008/058_mark_squeezing_through_20080607.jpg]
+We set up the tent, dropped off the packs and then went wandering
+around to boulder some of the neat rock formations and lollygag about
+looking at the neat scenery. During this entire time, the only
+evidence of humans we had seen were a few footprints on the trail into
+Pine City, a couple balloons in advanced decomposition, and a single
+glint off a car windshield more than 10 miles in the distance.
+
+The next day, we hiked back to the car, and drove back into
+civiliation. It's been a while since I've been to Joshua Tree, but
+I've remembered now why I like the place. It's really hard to beat for
+getting away from human presence into a relatively pristine
+environment. [The closer to summer you go, the harder it is to handle,
+and consequently, the fewer people you're going to see.]
+
diff --git a/posts/diary/label_my_pathway_would_you.mdwn b/posts/diary/label_my_pathway_would_you.mdwn
index c07ae09..0abf730 100644
--- a/posts/diary/label_my_pathway_would_you.mdwn
+++ b/posts/diary/label_my_pathway_would_you.mdwn
@@ -1 +1,9 @@
-Discussed the new labelling methodoloyg with the scientific meeting at socratech way early this morning (well, early for me anyway). They seemed to like the concept, so it looks like we'll be able to roll it out, assuming we can get budgetary approval of the label printer. Have I mentioned yet that I hate justifying fundage? Just show me the money already!\n\nI then spent the rest of the day at working alternating between trying to get GO Ontology's perl API to work and reading papers on Cholesterol and NMR. For some reason, they've coded the thing up like a bunch of twelfth graders. But whatever. It looks like it might become semi-usefull in a bit. Hopefully I'll be able to get that straightened out sometime tomorrow if someone else doesn't try to monopolize my time.\n\nAfter a bit more reading, I came home and cooked up some chicken while continuing work on the new backend for donarmstrong.com. It's comming along swimingly, although, the diary section (arguably the most complex component) has a bit more work required before I'm ready to roll it on on donarmstrong.com. However, I did manage to get the ELikeUrls filter working in TemplateToolkit, and currently am working on getting the display_month function to be called correctly. [It displays the neat little calendars that everyone has become so used to seeing on my sites.]\n\nI also managed to run across a copy of Design is Kinky, the book that I forgot I was looking for so long ago. But I have yet to order it, because it's from some stone age non-online store. [Well, sorta-online, but with a hard copy order process. I'll probably end up sending them a check in a bit.]\n\nTomorrow I should be able to get the diary stuff finished up enough to be able to post them on donarmstrong.com so you call can see whatever I've been up to.
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+Discussed the new labelling methodoloyg with the scientific meeting at socratech way early this morning (well, early for me anyway). They seemed to like the concept, so it looks like we'll be able to roll it out, assuming we can get budgetary approval of the label printer. Have I mentioned yet that I hate justifying fundage? Just show me the money already!
+
+I then spent the rest of the day at working alternating between trying to get GO Ontology's perl API to work and reading papers on Cholesterol and NMR. For some reason, they've coded the thing up like a bunch of twelfth graders. But whatever. It looks like it might become semi-usefull in a bit. Hopefully I'll be able to get that straightened out sometime tomorrow if someone else doesn't try to monopolize my time.
+
+After a bit more reading, I came home and cooked up some chicken while continuing work on the new backend for donarmstrong.com. It's comming along swimingly, although, the diary section (arguably the most complex component) has a bit more work required before I'm ready to roll it on on donarmstrong.com. However, I did manage to get the ELikeUrls filter working in TemplateToolkit, and currently am working on getting the display_month function to be called correctly. [It displays the neat little calendars that everyone has become so used to seeing on my sites.]
+
+I also managed to run across a copy of Design is Kinky, the book that I forgot I was looking for so long ago. But I have yet to order it, because it's from some stone age non-online store. [Well, sorta-online, but with a hard copy order process. I'll probably end up sending them a check in a bit.]
+
+Tomorrow I should be able to get the diary stuff finished up enough to be able to post them on donarmstrong.com so you call can see whatever I've been up to.
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diff --git a/posts/diary/last_bit_of_studying_for_my_final_happened_today.mdwn b/posts/diary/last_bit_of_studying_for_my_final_happened_today.mdwn
index 952a3f9..fcc237c 100644
--- a/posts/diary/last_bit_of_studying_for_my_final_happened_today.mdwn
+++ b/posts/diary/last_bit_of_studying_for_my_final_happened_today.mdwn
@@ -1 +1,7 @@
-Last bit of studying for my final happened today. Finished making up the outline and stuff like that.\n\nI'll probably post it in a new section for work that I have done somewhere on this website, well after the final. (There are some other things that I want to take care of before that.)\n\nGot to talk with Abe, one of the members of one infinity, hopefully I'll get to talk with the whole group soon... missed them when they were down in LA unfortunatly...\n\nDogs didn't seem to like it too much when it oddly started hailing today. Can't say that I blame them. (They went into their dogloo to hide... but came out a couple of times because they seemed to be curious about the hail...) After the hail, it was bitterly cold. (It's 37F outside right now... will probably be near freezing soon...)
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+Last bit of studying for my final happened today. Finished making up the outline and stuff like that.
+
+I'll probably post it in a new section for work that I have done somewhere on this website, well after the final. (There are some other things that I want to take care of before that.)
+
+Got to talk with Abe, one of the members of one infinity, hopefully I'll get to talk with the whole group soon... missed them when they were down in LA unfortunatly...
+
+Dogs didn't seem to like it too much when it oddly started hailing today. Can't say that I blame them. (They went into their dogloo to hide... but came out a couple of times because they seemed to be curious about the hail...) After the hail, it was bitterly cold. (It's 37F outside right now... will probably be near freezing soon...)
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diff --git a/posts/diary/last_time_at_dickys.mdwn b/posts/diary/last_time_at_dickys.mdwn
index 8339049..e213614 100644
--- a/posts/diary/last_time_at_dickys.mdwn
+++ b/posts/diary/last_time_at_dickys.mdwn
@@ -1 +1,3 @@
-[gal://2003/06_june/dickies_06242003/0615.jpg]Well, tonight was my last time at one of my favorite hangouts in Rochester, NY. I can't remember how many times I've been to Dicky's or how many Guinesses I've drunk there. I played for a bit tonight, and hung out for a bit longer; passed my new CD out to some people who I hadn't given it to yet, and said good by to people who I probably won't see again. Ugh. Such an interesting year, filled with so many wonderfull and fun people.\n\n[gal://2003/06_june/dickies_06242003/0591.jpg] I've been trying to get everything squared away for my long drive back to california. Some things are falling into place, I've now got my tent ready; I've got racks for my bikes, but other things are lagging far behind. Oh well. The 30th is rapidly approaching. Whatever isn't dealt with by then will just naturally be taken care of by attrition.
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+[gal://2003/06_june/dickies_06242003/0615.jpg]Well, tonight was my last time at one of my favorite hangouts in Rochester, NY. I can't remember how many times I've been to Dicky's or how many Guinesses I've drunk there. I played for a bit tonight, and hung out for a bit longer; passed my new CD out to some people who I hadn't given it to yet, and said good by to people who I probably won't see again. Ugh. Such an interesting year, filled with so many wonderfull and fun people.
+
+[gal://2003/06_june/dickies_06242003/0591.jpg] I've been trying to get everything squared away for my long drive back to california. Some things are falling into place, I've now got my tent ready; I've got racks for my bikes, but other things are lagging far behind. Oh well. The 30th is rapidly approaching. Whatever isn't dealt with by then will just naturally be taken care of by attrition.
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diff --git a/posts/diary/learning_how_to_type_again.mdwn b/posts/diary/learning_how_to_type_again.mdwn
index ebe7bff..470144e 100644
--- a/posts/diary/learning_how_to_type_again.mdwn
+++ b/posts/diary/learning_how_to_type_again.mdwn
@@ -1 +1,3 @@
-Since I seem to be using a keyboard now more than ever before, I started to get slightly worried about the type of keyboard that I've been using (Ye olde standard plank). To that end, I've been looking around at the various different styles of ergonomic keyboards out there, of which the nicest seemed to be the data  hand series, and settled on the Kinesis Ergo Advantage Pro.[gal://2003/04_april/kinesis_04092003.jpg]\n\nWhile it means that I'll be able to continue typing for a lot longer, it also means that I've had to spend the past few days learning how to type all over again. (For someone who normally types well over 80wpm with few errors, it's quite frustrating.) I've mapped the shift key to the foot pedal that comes with the machine, and have moved a few of the other keys around, so hopefully I'll be able to figure it out well enough to type at at least half of my original speed. (Although it's likely that within a bit I'll even surpass that.)
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+Since I seem to be using a keyboard now more than ever before, I started to get slightly worried about the type of keyboard that I've been using (Ye olde standard plank). To that end, I've been looking around at the various different styles of ergonomic keyboards out there, of which the nicest seemed to be the data  hand series, and settled on the Kinesis Ergo Advantage Pro.[gal://2003/04_april/kinesis_04092003.jpg]
+
+While it means that I'll be able to continue typing for a lot longer, it also means that I've had to spend the past few days learning how to type all over again. (For someone who normally types well over 80wpm with few errors, it's quite frustrating.) I've mapped the shift key to the foot pedal that comes with the machine, and have moved a few of the other keys around, so hopefully I'll be able to figure it out well enough to type at at least half of my original speed. (Although it's likely that within a bit I'll even surpass that.)
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diff --git a/posts/diary/leaving_rochester.mdwn b/posts/diary/leaving_rochester.mdwn
index 4387691..8ce31b0 100644
--- a/posts/diary/leaving_rochester.mdwn
+++ b/posts/diary/leaving_rochester.mdwn
@@ -1 +1,5 @@
-[gal://2003/06_june/brainfroot_06282003/26_waldo_mary_ellen_travis_and_erin.jpg]Well, my time in Rochester, NY is coming to and end. I'm sitting right now in my apartment that is almost completely devoid of stuff; my car is packed to the brim; even my bikes are on top. I went to brainfroot #9 over the weekend, and saw so many people that I had spent fun times with over the year; I'm going to miss every one of them.\n\n[gal://2003/06_june/brainfroot_06282003/21_the_masses.jpg]Waldo just showed up and picked up my microwave and computer chair (thanks!) and so now I'm typing lying on the floor. Lemme link up two pictures, and then it's time to figure out where in rochester Time Warner Cable's office is so I can return this cable modem.\n\nWell, it's time to hit the road. I'll put up my adventures in about 10 days once I'm plugged back into the information stream again.
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+[gal://2003/06_june/brainfroot_06282003/26_waldo_mary_ellen_travis_and_erin.jpg]Well, my time in Rochester, NY is coming to and end. I'm sitting right now in my apartment that is almost completely devoid of stuff; my car is packed to the brim; even my bikes are on top. I went to brainfroot #9 over the weekend, and saw so many people that I had spent fun times with over the year; I'm going to miss every one of them.
+
+[gal://2003/06_june/brainfroot_06282003/21_the_masses.jpg]Waldo just showed up and picked up my microwave and computer chair (thanks!) and so now I'm typing lying on the floor. Lemme link up two pictures, and then it's time to figure out where in rochester Time Warner Cable's office is so I can return this cable modem.
+
+Well, it's time to hit the road. I'll put up my adventures in about 10 days once I'm plugged back into the information stream again.
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diff --git a/posts/diary/let_s_see_went_to_the_last_bio200a_class_before.mdwn b/posts/diary/let_s_see_went_to_the_last_bio200a_class_before.mdwn
index 47eb37f..d225596 100644
--- a/posts/diary/let_s_see_went_to_the_last_bio200a_class_before.mdwn
+++ b/posts/diary/let_s_see_went_to_the_last_bio200a_class_before.mdwn
@@ -1 +1,5 @@
-Let's see... went to the last Bio200a class before the final on tuesday. Learned about protein chip mass-spec, the last little bit on snares and copII (sec13/31, sec23/24, and sec1). Then I hydrated the NMR samples, attended a talk on trimeric G protiens in fillamentous fungae (N. crassa).\n\nFinished the samples, and got one started, then came home and started to do some reading, finished CH Cheryh's Dreamstone, and kept the NMR samples going, and tried to figure out how to pull XML data from pubmed using only GET requests. (Couldn't figure it out, so I e-mailed their helpdesk.)\n\nOh yeah... almost forgot. Today when I was riding to campus on my bike, I almost got hit by a car sized tumbleweed. Yerp. There it was comming down canyon crest. I was riding upwind in what must have been gusts to around 30-40mph, and here it came, barreling down the middle of the street in my direction. Lukily, I was far enough along so I was able to avoid it by speeding up a bit, but it ended up carreeming into the sidewalk/curb about 5 feet behind me. It probably wouldn't have hurt to much to be hit by it, but it definetly would have been embarrassing to be riding down the street with a gigantic tumbleweed attached to you.
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+Let's see... went to the last Bio200a class before the final on tuesday. Learned about protein chip mass-spec, the last little bit on snares and copII (sec13/31, sec23/24, and sec1). Then I hydrated the NMR samples, attended a talk on trimeric G protiens in fillamentous fungae (N. crassa).
+
+Finished the samples, and got one started, then came home and started to do some reading, finished CH Cheryh's Dreamstone, and kept the NMR samples going, and tried to figure out how to pull XML data from pubmed using only GET requests. (Couldn't figure it out, so I e-mailed their helpdesk.)
+
+Oh yeah... almost forgot. Today when I was riding to campus on my bike, I almost got hit by a car sized tumbleweed. Yerp. There it was comming down canyon crest. I was riding upwind in what must have been gusts to around 30-40mph, and here it came, barreling down the middle of the street in my direction. Lukily, I was far enough along so I was able to avoid it by speeding up a bit, but it ended up carreeming into the sidewalk/curb about 5 feet behind me. It probably wouldn't have hurt to much to be hit by it, but it definetly would have been embarrassing to be riding down the street with a gigantic tumbleweed attached to you.
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diff --git a/posts/diary/lets_see_i_ended_up_spending_some_time_driving.mdwn b/posts/diary/lets_see_i_ended_up_spending_some_time_driving.mdwn
index 43327d4..f123f46 100644
--- a/posts/diary/lets_see_i_ended_up_spending_some_time_driving.mdwn
+++ b/posts/diary/lets_see_i_ended_up_spending_some_time_driving.mdwn
@@ -1 +1,7 @@
-Lets see, I ended up spending some time driving about riverside today, getting my car's oil changed, picking up a socket set to try to fix the leaky tub spigot in the back bathroom, and some thrift store shopping at the salvation army, where I picked up a really neat 70's overcoat type thingie.\n\nThen I wandered out to LA to hang out with Seth and Chris who had just come down from SF to meet with some companies. Chilled at Baja Fresh, and the coffee shop in the Virgin Megastore plaza on sunset. Drank some 40's and played foosball with chris and justin (I got *worked*) at Justin's house.\n\nThen off to release (which is at atlas now) to hear Dj. Collette. Mmmm... A string of great tracks got layed down for most of the night, kept me moving until 2 or so. Only 2-3 questionable tracks the whole night, most decent, and a couple that were pretty banging. None that were absolutely incredible, but still, the quality was definetly there. Angela was also there (C). In retrospect, I probably should have called her to see what she was up to, but I suspected that she was busy with school.\n\nAn aweseome time, nevertheless. Then I drove the long, boring drive back to riverside, for sleep, and another day of madness.
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+Lets see, I ended up spending some time driving about riverside today, getting my car's oil changed, picking up a socket set to try to fix the leaky tub spigot in the back bathroom, and some thrift store shopping at the salvation army, where I picked up a really neat 70's overcoat type thingie.
+
+Then I wandered out to LA to hang out with Seth and Chris who had just come down from SF to meet with some companies. Chilled at Baja Fresh, and the coffee shop in the Virgin Megastore plaza on sunset. Drank some 40's and played foosball with chris and justin (I got *worked*) at Justin's house.
+
+Then off to release (which is at atlas now) to hear Dj. Collette. Mmmm... A string of great tracks got layed down for most of the night, kept me moving until 2 or so. Only 2-3 questionable tracks the whole night, most decent, and a couple that were pretty banging. None that were absolutely incredible, but still, the quality was definetly there. Angela was also there (C). In retrospect, I probably should have called her to see what she was up to, but I suspected that she was busy with school.
+
+An aweseome time, nevertheless. Then I drove the long, boring drive back to riverside, for sleep, and another day of madness.
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diff --git a/posts/diary/lets_see_i_took_paul_and_sophie_to_ontario.mdwn b/posts/diary/lets_see_i_took_paul_and_sophie_to_ontario.mdwn
index f356cc8..9f88274 100644
--- a/posts/diary/lets_see_i_took_paul_and_sophie_to_ontario.mdwn
+++ b/posts/diary/lets_see_i_took_paul_and_sophie_to_ontario.mdwn
@@ -1 +1,9 @@
-Lets see... I took paul and sophie to ontario airport so they could get on a plane to go to sunny florida. Then I came back, looked up some more thrift stores, and wandered to LA to go thrift store shoping. Found three shirts that were usefull, but not the overcoat that I was realling looking for. Seems like I'm going to have to look for and pick up a sewing machine to make the clothes that I want to wear. Oh well.\n\nOne of the shirts is an antique christian dior, with a semi-decent conservative design. One is a crappy (but cheap) long sleeve velvet-like thingie, and the other was a cheap (and nice) Ecko shirt. Kind of sad that the selection of mens clothing in thrift stores is so minimalistic. Solution: Men need to begin to exert some pressure on the fashion industry to make better design decisions for males. {Yes, gay men, this means you! As well as the couple of us hetero males who like quality, innovative clothing.}\n\nAfter that, I wandered around trying to find a locale to void my bladder. I made the mistake of pulling into a K-Mart that was clearly exceeding its parking lot's capabilities. Realizing my innocent mistake, I fled the scene of the crime, but not before ome idiot in a large SUV actually had the audacity to honk at me for not making a right hand turn in the front of oncomming traffic. (He was stuck behind me, and had to wait an extra 10 seconds while I let a car go that would have slammed into the back of me had I gone.) I eventually went, but I should have let the inner dick in me out. My parking brake should have suddenly lept from it's off position to the fully on, the car should have turned off, and the hazards come on. For effect, I should have popped the hood, and proceeded to the front, swearing loudly, and waited for the car behind me to back up against traffic and try to exit using another route. Then, in a coupe de gras, closed the hood, jumped inside, and speed off. But I kept the dick in me under control, and merely decided that the car behind me clearly needed to have a better interface placed between the seat and the steering wheel, as its current design is liable to cause the car undue stress and damage.\n\nI did eventually void my bladder, and managed to travel to my parents home without engaging my postal tendencies against any other drivers. (I try to be a peacfull person, and in my peacefullness, sometimes it is necessary to dispatch people from society so that their logical end does not involve any innocent (or at least not heinously guilty) bystanders (or by-drivers).)\n\nMore watching of boring movies, and finally I'm going to sleep.
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+Lets see... I took paul and sophie to ontario airport so they could get on a plane to go to sunny florida. Then I came back, looked up some more thrift stores, and wandered to LA to go thrift store shoping. Found three shirts that were usefull, but not the overcoat that I was realling looking for. Seems like I'm going to have to look for and pick up a sewing machine to make the clothes that I want to wear. Oh well.
+
+One of the shirts is an antique christian dior, with a semi-decent conservative design. One is a crappy (but cheap) long sleeve velvet-like thingie, and the other was a cheap (and nice) Ecko shirt. Kind of sad that the selection of mens clothing in thrift stores is so minimalistic. Solution: Men need to begin to exert some pressure on the fashion industry to make better design decisions for males. {Yes, gay men, this means you! As well as the couple of us hetero males who like quality, innovative clothing.}
+
+After that, I wandered around trying to find a locale to void my bladder. I made the mistake of pulling into a K-Mart that was clearly exceeding its parking lot's capabilities. Realizing my innocent mistake, I fled the scene of the crime, but not before ome idiot in a large SUV actually had the audacity to honk at me for not making a right hand turn in the front of oncomming traffic. (He was stuck behind me, and had to wait an extra 10 seconds while I let a car go that would have slammed into the back of me had I gone.) I eventually went, but I should have let the inner dick in me out. My parking brake should have suddenly lept from it's off position to the fully on, the car should have turned off, and the hazards come on. For effect, I should have popped the hood, and proceeded to the front, swearing loudly, and waited for the car behind me to back up against traffic and try to exit using another route. Then, in a coupe de gras, closed the hood, jumped inside, and speed off. But I kept the dick in me under control, and merely decided that the car behind me clearly needed to have a better interface placed between the seat and the steering wheel, as its current design is liable to cause the car undue stress and damage.
+
+I did eventually void my bladder, and managed to travel to my parents home without engaging my postal tendencies against any other drivers. (I try to be a peacfull person, and in my peacefullness, sometimes it is necessary to dispatch people from society so that their logical end does not involve any innocent (or at least not heinously guilty) bystanders (or by-drivers).)
+
+More watching of boring movies, and finally I'm going to sleep.
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diff --git a/posts/diary/listened_to_my_alarm_ring_then_rode_to_campus.mdwn b/posts/diary/listened_to_my_alarm_ring_then_rode_to_campus.mdwn
index af036ac..ba99f3d 100644
--- a/posts/diary/listened_to_my_alarm_ring_then_rode_to_campus.mdwn
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@@ -1 +1,9 @@
-Listened to my alarm ring, then rode to campus. It's a good thing that I live so close to campus, otherwise I would never bother to go to my classes at all. I'd just spend all of my time at home in bed dreading moving.\n\nListened to some discussino on microarrays, heard some more about the spotted microarrays, and some of the technology behind making the microarrays. It still surprises me that some of the photomask techniques from asic and microchip manufacturing aren't being used in in situ synthesis, but maybe that's just too obvious for people to see.\n\nRunning NMR samples while making PKC samples, and working on my GNT 240 assignment while doing some microarray analysis and NMR figure preparation on the side. Got to love my life.\n\nWandered out with Z to P.H. Woods and ate dinner there, ran into Aaron while I was there. (Had a pretty decent heffewiesen... I'm partial to wiess beer.) Then wandered back home and fixed the dining room table with my new ryobi cordless drill before going out with paul to starcrack.\n\nThen more work on GNT240 and finishing up the NMR samples before sleep.
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+Listened to my alarm ring, then rode to campus. It's a good thing that I live so close to campus, otherwise I would never bother to go to my classes at all. I'd just spend all of my time at home in bed dreading moving.
+
+Listened to some discussino on microarrays, heard some more about the spotted microarrays, and some of the technology behind making the microarrays. It still surprises me that some of the photomask techniques from asic and microchip manufacturing aren't being used in in situ synthesis, but maybe that's just too obvious for people to see.
+
+Running NMR samples while making PKC samples, and working on my GNT 240 assignment while doing some microarray analysis and NMR figure preparation on the side. Got to love my life.
+
+Wandered out with Z to P.H. Woods and ate dinner there, ran into Aaron while I was there. (Had a pretty decent heffewiesen... I'm partial to wiess beer.) Then wandered back home and fixed the dining room table with my new ryobi cordless drill before going out with paul to starcrack.
+
+Then more work on GNT240 and finishing up the NMR samples before sleep.
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diff --git a/posts/diary/living_in_squalor.mdwn b/posts/diary/living_in_squalor.mdwn
index 50f4338..1c94987 100644
--- a/posts/diary/living_in_squalor.mdwn
+++ b/posts/diary/living_in_squalor.mdwn
@@ -1 +1,4 @@
-After reading a few of the articles linked from [http://boingboing.net|Boing Boing] about people living in [http://www.citypages.com/databank/18/849/article3322.asp|garbage dumps ne houses], I decided that it was high time to clean out my little studio. No, I'm not living in a moldy environment, but I'm a guy, and I tend to get a bit cluttered. <div style="float:left"><a href="http://gallery.donarmstrong.com/new_camera_pictures/rochester_laptop_table_01272003_2.jpg"><img src="http://gallery.donarmstrong.com/new_camera_pictures/.cache/100x75-rochester_laptop_table_01272003_2.jpg" border="0"></a></div>So 2 trash bags later, I felt much better about the state of my affairs and satisfied that I wasn't one of these people trying to add a literal meaning to the term white trash.\n\nThen I spent some more time reading random things online, including checking out some new pictures on the [http://blogs.salon.com/0001437/|Reverse Cowgirl's Blog] of [http://gallery.donarmstrong.com/clippings/reverse_cowgirls_pictures|Hollywood Boulevard.] (Susannah Breslin consistently blogs some impressive things, and her appreciation of the oddball nature of Los Angeles is quite refreshing. Reminds me of how much I've been missing LA in the 6 months I've been away.)\n\n
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+After reading a few of the articles linked from [http://boingboing.net|Boing Boing] about people living in [http://www.citypages.com/databank/18/849/article3322.asp|garbage dumps ne houses], I decided that it was high time to clean out my little studio. No, I'm not living in a moldy environment, but I'm a guy, and I tend to get a bit cluttered. <div style="float:left"><a href="http://gallery.donarmstrong.com/new_camera_pictures/rochester_laptop_table_01272003_2.jpg"><img src="http://gallery.donarmstrong.com/new_camera_pictures/.cache/100x75-rochester_laptop_table_01272003_2.jpg" border="0"></a></div>So 2 trash bags later, I felt much better about the state of my affairs and satisfied that I wasn't one of these people trying to add a literal meaning to the term white trash.
+
+Then I spent some more time reading random things online, including checking out some new pictures on the [http://blogs.salon.com/0001437/|Reverse Cowgirl's Blog] of [http://gallery.donarmstrong.com/clippings/reverse_cowgirls_pictures|Hollywood Boulevard.] (Susannah Breslin consistently blogs some impressive things, and her appreciation of the oddball nature of Los Angeles is quite refreshing. Reminds me of how much I've been missing LA in the 6 months I've been away.)
+
diff --git a/posts/diary/loads_of_coding_dealing_with_trying_to_get_my.mdwn b/posts/diary/loads_of_coding_dealing_with_trying_to_get_my.mdwn
index 9166066..7b92f1a 100644
--- a/posts/diary/loads_of_coding_dealing_with_trying_to_get_my.mdwn
+++ b/posts/diary/loads_of_coding_dealing_with_trying_to_get_my.mdwn
@@ -1 +1,5 @@
-Loads of coding dealing with trying to get my reference software to interact with pubmed.\n\nLooks like I'm going to have to duplicate some php code in perl, as php just isn't powerfull enough, nor multi-thread capable enough to deal with pubmed's slow generation of sgml. (I'm going to multiplex to pubmed almost 100 connections, and doing it syncronously isn't going to work.)\n\nGot to take care of making the jacked figures for this paper. Will happen very shortly.
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+Loads of coding dealing with trying to get my reference software to interact with pubmed.
+
+Looks like I'm going to have to duplicate some php code in perl, as php just isn't powerfull enough, nor multi-thread capable enough to deal with pubmed's slow generation of sgml. (I'm going to multiplex to pubmed almost 100 connections, and doing it syncronously isn't going to work.)
+
+Got to take care of making the jacked figures for this paper. Will happen very shortly.
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diff --git a/posts/diary/made_nmr_sample_today_and_did_a_whole_lot_more.mdwn b/posts/diary/made_nmr_sample_today_and_did_a_whole_lot_more.mdwn
index ff3d8a4..562af9b 100644
--- a/posts/diary/made_nmr_sample_today_and_did_a_whole_lot_more.mdwn
+++ b/posts/diary/made_nmr_sample_today_and_did_a_whole_lot_more.mdwn
@@ -1 +1,9 @@
-Made nmr sample today, and did a whole lot more work on getting reliable statistical analysis for gene arrays.\n\nTomorrow I am going to have to begin to write out the protocol for analyzing genetic arrays, and testing for genetic diversity among the control and disease populations.\n\nI also did a whole lot more checking into endpoint analysis (where you have more than one comparison test) ala Bonferonni corrections. More work needs to be done on it, but I think i'll get there eventually.\n\nBeyond that, I also went to GNT 240A, and we had a small discussion on the papers that were assigned to be read in class, and wandered over to the sproul computer lab to work on the computers there. I need to take care of my assignment for that class soon, before I run out of time to do it.\n\nNow it's time for glorious sleep.
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+Made nmr sample today, and did a whole lot more work on getting reliable statistical analysis for gene arrays.
+
+Tomorrow I am going to have to begin to write out the protocol for analyzing genetic arrays, and testing for genetic diversity among the control and disease populations.
+
+I also did a whole lot more checking into endpoint analysis (where you have more than one comparison test) ala Bonferonni corrections. More work needs to be done on it, but I think i'll get there eventually.
+
+Beyond that, I also went to GNT 240A, and we had a small discussion on the papers that were assigned to be read in class, and wandered over to the sproul computer lab to work on the computers there. I need to take care of my assignment for that class soon, before I run out of time to do it.
+
+Now it's time for glorious sleep.
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diff --git a/posts/diary/madness_as_i_wake_myself.mdwn b/posts/diary/madness_as_i_wake_myself.mdwn
index 384c0a7..07c5b83 100644
--- a/posts/diary/madness_as_i_wake_myself.mdwn
+++ b/posts/diary/madness_as_i_wake_myself.mdwn
@@ -1 +1,5 @@
-You never know what sort of madness the day has in store, or the side effects a single choice might contain. The beginning of the day today, was one not unlike many others. I spent it working on problems that affect my research into many different areas. Progress was made upon them, in some areas progress that was unexpected.\n\nYet today, a subtle decision to go see a movie, obstensibly about orchids, brought with it a whole other side of life stories. A man struggling to find identity in his own pathetic little life, albiet in show business where no one really knows who he is exactly, finds himself rediscovering the life that he thought he lost through the resurgence of passion in those around him.\n\nObviously I was extremly impressed by Adaptation, one of the new filmes by Charlie Kaufman. If you haven't yet seen it, you definetly should.
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+You never know what sort of madness the day has in store, or the side effects a single choice might contain. The beginning of the day today, was one not unlike many others. I spent it working on problems that affect my research into many different areas. Progress was made upon them, in some areas progress that was unexpected.
+
+Yet today, a subtle decision to go see a movie, obstensibly about orchids, brought with it a whole other side of life stories. A man struggling to find identity in his own pathetic little life, albiet in show business where no one really knows who he is exactly, finds himself rediscovering the life that he thought he lost through the resurgence of passion in those around him.
+
+Obviously I was extremly impressed by Adaptation, one of the new filmes by Charlie Kaufman. If you haven't yet seen it, you definetly should.
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diff --git a/posts/diary/meetings_figuratively_speaking.mdwn b/posts/diary/meetings_figuratively_speaking.mdwn
index dac6d36..acf6c28 100644
--- a/posts/diary/meetings_figuratively_speaking.mdwn
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@@ -1 +1,5 @@
-I spent the first part of work working on a set of figures that are going to go into a grant. Granted, they're not figures that I've developed the data for, so the figures are in powerpoint, word, and all sorts of other crappy formats. It's no surpise that people can't make their figures in something semi-intelligent like illustrator, and then export the figure into their word processor. Or even better, write like I do, and generate the figures appropriately, and then chuck them into LaTeX, so LaTeX can deal with moving the figures about and labeling them appropriately.\n\nOh well. They're only biologists, not physisists or mathematicians.\n\nI also took care of my laundry for the first time in a long time, and spent some time checking out some random blogs out in the blogosphere. The [http://tardblog.com/|tard blog] dare I say it, is quite hilarious. It saddens me that the children involved in Riti Sped's stories have such crappy parental involvement, but at lesat the people who are helping to teach them are able to keep their sanity while providing amusement for the rest of us who are just normally retarded.
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+I spent the first part of work working on a set of figures that are going to go into a grant. Granted, they're not figures that I've developed the data for, so the figures are in powerpoint, word, and all sorts of other crappy formats. It's no surpise that people can't make their figures in something semi-intelligent like illustrator, and then export the figure into their word processor. Or even better, write like I do, and generate the figures appropriately, and then chuck them into LaTeX, so LaTeX can deal with moving the figures about and labeling them appropriately.
+
+Oh well. They're only biologists, not physisists or mathematicians.
+
+I also took care of my laundry for the first time in a long time, and spent some time checking out some random blogs out in the blogosphere. The [http://tardblog.com/|tard blog] dare I say it, is quite hilarious. It saddens me that the children involved in Riti Sped's stories have such crappy parental involvement, but at lesat the people who are helping to teach them are able to keep their sanity while providing amusement for the rest of us who are just normally retarded.
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diff --git a/posts/diary/merry_new_years.mdwn b/posts/diary/merry_new_years.mdwn
index ea009df..b0d9b7b 100644
--- a/posts/diary/merry_new_years.mdwn
+++ b/posts/diary/merry_new_years.mdwn
@@ -1 +1,3 @@
-Merry New Years!\n\nAttempted to recover from the previous evening, ate at Mary's pizza shack and watched Human Traffic before seccumbing to sleep.
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+Merry New Years!
+
+Attempted to recover from the previous evening, ate at Mary's pizza shack and watched Human Traffic before seccumbing to sleep.
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diff --git a/posts/diary/met_with_the_undergrads_who_are_going_to_be.mdwn b/posts/diary/met_with_the_undergrads_who_are_going_to_be.mdwn
index 4d3f9a8..36012a0 100644
--- a/posts/diary/met_with_the_undergrads_who_are_going_to_be.mdwn
+++ b/posts/diary/met_with_the_undergrads_who_are_going_to_be.mdwn
@@ -1 +1,5 @@
-Met with the undergrads who are going to be working in my lab again this quarter... looks like they had a good winter break.\n\nI attended the first GNT 240A course at 1P, promises to be somewhat interesting, although the second quarter of instruction interests me more than the first quarter.\n\nFigured out what I need to do in order to apply for a leave of absence, and came back home, to do more work before sleep.
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+Met with the undergrads who are going to be working in my lab again this quarter... looks like they had a good winter break.
+
+I attended the first GNT 240A course at 1P, promises to be somewhat interesting, although the second quarter of instruction interests me more than the first quarter.
+
+Figured out what I need to do in order to apply for a leave of absence, and came back home, to do more work before sleep.
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diff --git a/posts/diary/moving_on_slowly.mdwn b/posts/diary/moving_on_slowly.mdwn
index bdc3079..9a60f45 100644
--- a/posts/diary/moving_on_slowly.mdwn
+++ b/posts/diary/moving_on_slowly.mdwn
@@ -1 +1,6 @@
-Considering that the last entry here was for 2004, I obviously haven't\nbeen updating this much.\n\nLots of things have happened since then, but I'll probably actually\nget around to describing them once I've finished the email->diary\ninterface that I'd planned on writing a long time ago.\n
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+Considering that the last entry here was for 2004, I obviously haven't
+been updating this much.
+
+Lots of things have happened since then, but I'll probably actually
+get around to describing them once I've finished the email->diary
+interface that I'd planned on writing a long time ago.
diff --git a/posts/diary/mowed_the_lawn_today_watched_some_tv_and_started.mdwn b/posts/diary/mowed_the_lawn_today_watched_some_tv_and_started.mdwn
index 1f22e9a..5c62f9f 100644
--- a/posts/diary/mowed_the_lawn_today_watched_some_tv_and_started.mdwn
+++ b/posts/diary/mowed_the_lawn_today_watched_some_tv_and_started.mdwn
@@ -1 +1,3 @@
-Mowed the lawn today, watched some tv, and started working on a new backend to donarmstrong.com.\n\nHung out with paul and brian at in-n-out for a bit. Mmm.. food.
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+Mowed the lawn today, watched some tv, and started working on a new backend to donarmstrong.com.
+
+Hung out with paul and brian at in-n-out for a bit. Mmm.. food.
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diff --git a/posts/diary/my_alarm_clock_will_die.mdwn b/posts/diary/my_alarm_clock_will_die.mdwn
index a21be32..98f21fb 100644
--- a/posts/diary/my_alarm_clock_will_die.mdwn
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@@ -1 +1,9 @@
-My alarm clock will die.\n\nIt's amazing how this civilization runs on such a rigid concept of time. I totally don't fit into it. As you can tell, not much sleep going on here lately. Got samples made in my lab today for PKC assay.\n\nThe lab's dual p4 showed up, so that was a great timesuck. It seems to be working pretty well, and I've actually got it setup so I can almost use it do do something or other. Hopefully I'll get to processing the gene array data soon.\n\nFigured out what seems to be happening with the NMR data that seemed to be getting choked by the converter. Probably a fortran library issue or similar, but it works under linux. I'll probably have to play with it some more... ooo joy.\n\nHopefully I'll get around to updating my reading list. I've read a whole lot of books recently, almost none of which I've bothered to list.... but that will happen one of these days.
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+My alarm clock will die.
+
+It's amazing how this civilization runs on such a rigid concept of time. I totally don't fit into it. As you can tell, not much sleep going on here lately. Got samples made in my lab today for PKC assay.
+
+The lab's dual p4 showed up, so that was a great timesuck. It seems to be working pretty well, and I've actually got it setup so I can almost use it do do something or other. Hopefully I'll get to processing the gene array data soon.
+
+Figured out what seems to be happening with the NMR data that seemed to be getting choked by the converter. Probably a fortran library issue or similar, but it works under linux. I'll probably have to play with it some more... ooo joy.
+
+Hopefully I'll get around to updating my reading list. I've read a whole lot of books recently, almost none of which I've bothered to list.... but that will happen one of these days.
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diff --git a/posts/diary/my_insanity_is_increasing_daily_i_worked_a_bit_on.mdwn b/posts/diary/my_insanity_is_increasing_daily_i_worked_a_bit_on.mdwn
index 97799f9..f168e1d 100644
--- a/posts/diary/my_insanity_is_increasing_daily_i_worked_a_bit_on.mdwn
+++ b/posts/diary/my_insanity_is_increasing_daily_i_worked_a_bit_on.mdwn
@@ -1 +1,3 @@
-My insanity is increasing daily. I worked a bit on my grant proposal for bio200a. It's comming extreemly slowly, partly because I'm stuck just getting started with the background. Hopefully it will work itself out sometime tomorrow.\n\nWas hopeing to do something else besides work in the house today, but this rain agrees with working. Tomorrow it's time to make samples for a pkc assay, and I have nmr time over night on wednesday. Isn't life wonderful?
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+My insanity is increasing daily. I worked a bit on my grant proposal for bio200a. It's comming extreemly slowly, partly because I'm stuck just getting started with the background. Hopefully it will work itself out sometime tomorrow.
+
+Was hopeing to do something else besides work in the house today, but this rain agrees with working. Tomorrow it's time to make samples for a pkc assay, and I have nmr time over night on wednesday. Isn't life wonderful?
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diff --git a/posts/diary/once_in_a_lifetime.mdwn b/posts/diary/once_in_a_lifetime.mdwn
index 21d7fcf..c88447d 100644
--- a/posts/diary/once_in_a_lifetime.mdwn
+++ b/posts/diary/once_in_a_lifetime.mdwn
@@ -1 +1,18 @@
-Once in a lifetime, \na measure of time that's been spent.\nToughts that have come to me, and dwelt within me give pause to me.\nTo do with them naught, I have I.\n\nNot quite sure exactly what I'm supposed to be doing in this life that I have to spend, but I'm trying to figure it out day by day.\n\nI wandered with paul, wendy, and brian to In-N-Out today for a pseudo-breakfast at my lately time rising of 2 pm. Double double animal style and fries well done are a fitting start to just about any day. While we were there, and blabbing about LotR and some of the different invented languages of tolkien, we chance espised a group of teenagers, once could guess they were in High School, wandering, posse like, through the parking lot of In-N-Out.\n\nThey tried so hard to exude cool and self-assuredness in their teen-magazine approved fashion, as they hung out like little minurature grownups, well, minurature not in stature but shall we say, minurature in experience. It was kind of odd, harkening back to those experiences of high school that I never really had.\n\nToo bad that we noticed it, and pointed it out. And discussed it. We, our odd group of people, four nerds discussing languages and a completely made up story, passing judgement on a group of teens who apprently didn't know any better. Too bad we couldn't hold up a mirror to ourselves, our posse, exuding the coolness and self-assuredness of our college experience in our starving student approved fashion, hangning out like little grownups, well, littile, not in stuature, but shall we say, little in experience. Quite odd that.\n\nAfter that bit of introspection, I continued working on a method of analysing microarrays. Since statsitics is not my forte, I'm still doing battle with some of the terminology, but I'm getting there.\n\nWandered into ralph's later as well to pick up some food so I'll be able to eat throughout the week. (Yes... eating is kind of important to me... at least I guess it is.) At the checkstand, I was once again speaking far too quietly to be overheard... but that's nothing particularly new or exciting.\n\nAnyway, it's late, and there is much work to be done tomorrow. (Well, today, since it's already well past midnight.)
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+Once in a lifetime, 
+a measure of time that's been spent.
+Toughts that have come to me, and dwelt within me give pause to me.
+To do with them naught, I have I.
+
+Not quite sure exactly what I'm supposed to be doing in this life that I have to spend, but I'm trying to figure it out day by day.
+
+I wandered with paul, wendy, and brian to In-N-Out today for a pseudo-breakfast at my lately time rising of 2 pm. Double double animal style and fries well done are a fitting start to just about any day. While we were there, and blabbing about LotR and some of the different invented languages of tolkien, we chance espised a group of teenagers, once could guess they were in High School, wandering, posse like, through the parking lot of In-N-Out.
+
+They tried so hard to exude cool and self-assuredness in their teen-magazine approved fashion, as they hung out like little minurature grownups, well, minurature not in stature but shall we say, minurature in experience. It was kind of odd, harkening back to those experiences of high school that I never really had.
+
+Too bad that we noticed it, and pointed it out. And discussed it. We, our odd group of people, four nerds discussing languages and a completely made up story, passing judgement on a group of teens who apprently didn't know any better. Too bad we couldn't hold up a mirror to ourselves, our posse, exuding the coolness and self-assuredness of our college experience in our starving student approved fashion, hangning out like little grownups, well, littile, not in stuature, but shall we say, little in experience. Quite odd that.
+
+After that bit of introspection, I continued working on a method of analysing microarrays. Since statsitics is not my forte, I'm still doing battle with some of the terminology, but I'm getting there.
+
+Wandered into ralph's later as well to pick up some food so I'll be able to eat throughout the week. (Yes... eating is kind of important to me... at least I guess it is.) At the checkstand, I was once again speaking far too quietly to be overheard... but that's nothing particularly new or exciting.
+
+Anyway, it's late, and there is much work to be done tomorrow. (Well, today, since it's already well past midnight.)
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diff --git a/posts/diary/opened_christmas_presents_from_my_parents_who.mdwn b/posts/diary/opened_christmas_presents_from_my_parents_who.mdwn
index d2db3b3..bfea9a6 100644
--- a/posts/diary/opened_christmas_presents_from_my_parents_who.mdwn
+++ b/posts/diary/opened_christmas_presents_from_my_parents_who.mdwn
@@ -1 +1,5 @@
-Opened christmas presents from my parents, who picked up a tool set from sears for me. Then I laid about before going to covina hills where my late grandfather's wife prepared yet another dinner for us. It was quite good, and I got to visit with Alexander, who is working on getting his pilot's license in tulsa, oklahoma.\n\nLater, we wandered back to riverside, and me and my brother went to see Lord Of The Rings for the second time. (It's going to be quite a long and painful wait for the next LotR.)\n\nMore work, reading, and then hopefully, sleep.
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+Opened christmas presents from my parents, who picked up a tool set from sears for me. Then I laid about before going to covina hills where my late grandfather's wife prepared yet another dinner for us. It was quite good, and I got to visit with Alexander, who is working on getting his pilot's license in tulsa, oklahoma.
+
+Later, we wandered back to riverside, and me and my brother went to see Lord Of The Rings for the second time. (It's going to be quite a long and painful wait for the next LotR.)
+
+More work, reading, and then hopefully, sleep.
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diff --git a/posts/diary/passing_quals.mdwn b/posts/diary/passing_quals.mdwn
index e0617c1..2de1dd4 100644
--- a/posts/diary/passing_quals.mdwn
+++ b/posts/diary/passing_quals.mdwn
@@ -1 +1,3 @@
-Today I managed to pass my qualification exams for PhD with my proposal on Cholesterol and Sphingomyelin enrichment of lipid bilayers and the effect on membrane structure and signal transduction. Now I get to spend the next few years getting the research for my thesis ready so I can actually graduate.\n\nI'll link to my proposal in a bit in case anyone wants to look at it for any reason.
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+Today I managed to pass my qualification exams for PhD with my proposal on Cholesterol and Sphingomyelin enrichment of lipid bilayers and the effect on membrane structure and signal transduction. Now I get to spend the next few years getting the research for my thesis ready so I can actually graduate.
+
+I'll link to my proposal in a bit in case anyone wants to look at it for any reason.
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diff --git a/posts/diary/patina_of_snow.mdwn b/posts/diary/patina_of_snow.mdwn
index ef01832..32d5dd7 100644
--- a/posts/diary/patina_of_snow.mdwn
+++ b/posts/diary/patina_of_snow.mdwn
@@ -1 +1,4 @@
-[gal://new_camera_pictures/monday_of_snow_02102003/white_parking_lot_3_02102003.jpg] I almost forgot to put up the pictures I shot of the snow from yesterday that totally blanketed the parking lot. And ideed, as I write this, it's started to come down again. It's much nicer when everything is covered in a layer of white. (At least, it's better than when the snow starts melting and turns grey and black.)\n\n[gal://misc_pictures/snowy_subaru_02112003.jpg]\nAnyway, I worked for a while at work, then ended up playing at dicky's from 12-1. One of these days I'll have to get around to cutting a demo cd that I can hand out. On the way back, I had some fun sliding around in my car... driving on icy roads is definetly one of the more exciting things to do here.
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+[gal://new_camera_pictures/monday_of_snow_02102003/white_parking_lot_3_02102003.jpg] I almost forgot to put up the pictures I shot of the snow from yesterday that totally blanketed the parking lot. And ideed, as I write this, it's started to come down again. It's much nicer when everything is covered in a layer of white. (At least, it's better than when the snow starts melting and turns grey and black.)
+
+[gal://misc_pictures/snowy_subaru_02112003.jpg]
+Anyway, I worked for a while at work, then ended up playing at dicky's from 12-1. One of these days I'll have to get around to cutting a demo cd that I can hand out. On the way back, I had some fun sliding around in my car... driving on icy roads is definetly one of the more exciting things to do here.
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diff --git a/posts/diary/picked_up_paul_and_sophie_from_lax_got_to_drive.mdwn b/posts/diary/picked_up_paul_and_sophie_from_lax_got_to_drive.mdwn
index 5659d04..137ce05 100644
--- a/posts/diary/picked_up_paul_and_sophie_from_lax_got_to_drive.mdwn
+++ b/posts/diary/picked_up_paul_and_sophie_from_lax_got_to_drive.mdwn
@@ -1 +1,5 @@
-Picked up paul and sophie from LAX, got to drive like a maniac around LA. I swear, you've got to have half a death wish to drive in LAX on a friday evening around 8. I probably cut off 20 cars,, and I only went from terminal 1 to parking lot 2A (about 300 yards).\n\nAfter fun in LAX, we stopped at [http://www.dogfriendly.com/server/travel/uscities/pages/Los_Angeles___Hollywood/Restaurant/siterela3.shtml|eat-a-pita ] on fairfax and ate dinner. I love fallafel and hummus. The restaurant was a lot less jumping than it normally is, but it was kind of late, and the night was getting cold.\n\nThen home, more work on my reference system, and time spent washing clothes. I still haven't ironed out my vision, but the reference software is going to be part of it, and it is coming along nicely.
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+Picked up paul and sophie from LAX, got to drive like a maniac around LA. I swear, you've got to have half a death wish to drive in LAX on a friday evening around 8. I probably cut off 20 cars,, and I only went from terminal 1 to parking lot 2A (about 300 yards).
+
+After fun in LAX, we stopped at [http://www.dogfriendly.com/server/travel/uscities/pages/Los_Angeles___Hollywood/Restaurant/siterela3.shtml|eat-a-pita ] on fairfax and ate dinner. I love fallafel and hummus. The restaurant was a lot less jumping than it normally is, but it was kind of late, and the night was getting cold.
+
+Then home, more work on my reference system, and time spent washing clothes. I still haven't ironed out my vision, but the reference software is going to be part of it, and it is coming along nicely.
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diff --git a/posts/diary/progress_in_development.mdwn b/posts/diary/progress_in_development.mdwn
index 3a0b188..452321a 100644
--- a/posts/diary/progress_in_development.mdwn
+++ b/posts/diary/progress_in_development.mdwn
@@ -1 +1,4 @@
-For those of you who follow my cvs and svn trees, I've moved things around slightly. [http://www.donarmstrong.com/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/?root=Da+DB|da_db], [http://www.donarmstrong.com/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/?root=Class+Modular|da_class_modular], and [http://www.donarmstrong.com/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/?root=Reference|da_reference] are now in their own separate SVN trees instead of being stuck in the don_perl module of don_cvs.\n\nI've also been doing a bit of work on the engine that runs this entire site, so I should have the cvs and svn commit tracker working shortly along with a few other improvements.\n\n
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+For those of you who follow my cvs and svn trees, I've moved things around slightly. [http://www.donarmstrong.com/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/?root=Da+DB|da_db], [http://www.donarmstrong.com/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/?root=Class+Modular|da_class_modular], and [http://www.donarmstrong.com/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/?root=Reference|da_reference] are now in their own separate SVN trees instead of being stuck in the don_perl module of don_cvs.
+
+I've also been doing a bit of work on the engine that runs this entire site, so I should have the cvs and svn commit tracker working shortly along with a few other improvements.
+
diff --git a/posts/diary/ran_a_pkc_assay_today_ed_helped_to_troubleshoot.mdwn b/posts/diary/ran_a_pkc_assay_today_ed_helped_to_troubleshoot.mdwn
index 3eb3063..7248810 100644
--- a/posts/diary/ran_a_pkc_assay_today_ed_helped_to_troubleshoot.mdwn
+++ b/posts/diary/ran_a_pkc_assay_today_ed_helped_to_troubleshoot.mdwn
@@ -1 +1,5 @@
-Ran a PKC assay today, Ed helped to troubleshoot the assay for os, and it looks like it was a pH issue. I'll check the results tomorrow, and we'll see how it went. Hopefully it was something like that that was causing the problem, so we can start making repeatable assays once more.\n\nI also went out to [http://www.deep-la.com/| Deep] which is held at vynyl, in hollywood. (It was the first week back after the [http://www.cnn.com/2002/SHOWBIZ/Music/03/31/wmc/index.html|miami WMC]...) Marques Wyatt played some nice grooves, that pretty much had people moving all night long.\n\nThen the long drive back, and now I'm going to read some more LotR before I go to sleep. 
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+Ran a PKC assay today, Ed helped to troubleshoot the assay for os, and it looks like it was a pH issue. I'll check the results tomorrow, and we'll see how it went. Hopefully it was something like that that was causing the problem, so we can start making repeatable assays once more.
+
+I also went out to [http://www.deep-la.com/| Deep] which is held at vynyl, in hollywood. (It was the first week back after the [http://www.cnn.com/2002/SHOWBIZ/Music/03/31/wmc/index.html|miami WMC]...) Marques Wyatt played some nice grooves, that pretty much had people moving all night long.
+
+Then the long drive back, and now I'm going to read some more LotR before I go to sleep. 
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diff --git a/posts/diary/ran_a_pkc_assay_today_with_the_undergraduates_in.mdwn b/posts/diary/ran_a_pkc_assay_today_with_the_undergraduates_in.mdwn
index 08e42e3..64072cc 100644
--- a/posts/diary/ran_a_pkc_assay_today_with_the_undergraduates_in.mdwn
+++ b/posts/diary/ran_a_pkc_assay_today_with_the_undergraduates_in.mdwn
@@ -1 +1,3 @@
-Ran a PKC assay today with the undergraduates in my lab. Looks like it went fairly well. I'll really only know the results on friday. Hopefully it turned out.\n\nI also did some more writing for my paper in Bio200a, trying to work out some more of the background information. I'm basically wading through some more of the papers that I need to do the background, and hopefully will have that and a good portion of the experimental part done by saturday. At least, that's the plan.
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+Ran a PKC assay today with the undergraduates in my lab. Looks like it went fairly well. I'll really only know the results on friday. Hopefully it turned out.
+
+I also did some more writing for my paper in Bio200a, trying to work out some more of the background information. I'm basically wading through some more of the papers that I need to do the background, and hopefully will have that and a good portion of the experimental part done by saturday. At least, that's the plan.
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diff --git a/posts/diary/ran_a_pkc_assay_wandered_into_the_lunch_meeting.mdwn b/posts/diary/ran_a_pkc_assay_wandered_into_the_lunch_meeting.mdwn
index 55253c3..8407214 100644
--- a/posts/diary/ran_a_pkc_assay_wandered_into_the_lunch_meeting.mdwn
+++ b/posts/diary/ran_a_pkc_assay_wandered_into_the_lunch_meeting.mdwn
@@ -1 +1,3 @@
-Ran a pkc assay. Wandered into the lunch meeting, and heard about Al3+ toxicity in plants, and one of the genes that is thought to be involved in the reduction of aluminum toxicity.\n\nCame home, and took care of some randomness before sleeping.
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+Ran a pkc assay. Wandered into the lunch meeting, and heard about Al3+ toxicity in plants, and one of the genes that is thought to be involved in the reduction of aluminum toxicity.
+
+Came home, and took care of some randomness before sleeping.
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diff --git a/posts/diary/ran_pkc_assay_today_and_attended_seminar_on_glial.mdwn b/posts/diary/ran_pkc_assay_today_and_attended_seminar_on_glial.mdwn
index 9fd8462..ebd6e69 100644
--- a/posts/diary/ran_pkc_assay_today_and_attended_seminar_on_glial.mdwn
+++ b/posts/diary/ran_pkc_assay_today_and_attended_seminar_on_glial.mdwn
@@ -1 +1,3 @@
-Ran PKC assay today, and attended seminar on glial cells. Afterwords I actually got to socialize with some of the people in the class... some of which I've never talked with before... one of the graduate students (now graduated) who is doing postdoc work at USC dropped by after listening to a friends defense, and there was food for people.\n\nThen finished up the assay, froze as I rode my bike home, and took care of a little bit of stuff before sleep. Odly, I had a venti coffe at starbucks, and I can barely feel the effects. I'm definetly a caffeine addict.
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+Ran PKC assay today, and attended seminar on glial cells. Afterwords I actually got to socialize with some of the people in the class... some of which I've never talked with before... one of the graduate students (now graduated) who is doing postdoc work at USC dropped by after listening to a friends defense, and there was food for people.
+
+Then finished up the assay, froze as I rode my bike home, and took care of a little bit of stuff before sleep. Odly, I had a venti coffe at starbucks, and I can barely feel the effects. I'm definetly a caffeine addict.
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diff --git a/posts/diary/ran_pkc_assay_today_loads_of_work.mdwn b/posts/diary/ran_pkc_assay_today_loads_of_work.mdwn
index f226dcc..cfa1291 100644
--- a/posts/diary/ran_pkc_assay_today_loads_of_work.mdwn
+++ b/posts/diary/ran_pkc_assay_today_loads_of_work.mdwn
@@ -1 +1,3 @@
-Ran PKC assay today. Loads of work.\n\nWandered up to the cabin in big bear with my parents, and read and slept while I was there. Ate dinner at a carl's jr. (In general, I try to avoid fast food, but I'm also very lazy... oh well...)
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+Ran PKC assay today. Loads of work.
+
+Wandered up to the cabin in big bear with my parents, and read and slept while I was there. Ate dinner at a carl's jr. (In general, I try to avoid fast food, but I'm also very lazy... oh well...)
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diff --git a/posts/diary/ran_the_pkc_assay_today_worked_with_dr_z_on.mdwn b/posts/diary/ran_the_pkc_assay_today_worked_with_dr_z_on.mdwn
index 8c14e79..3242383 100644
--- a/posts/diary/ran_the_pkc_assay_today_worked_with_dr_z_on.mdwn
+++ b/posts/diary/ran_the_pkc_assay_today_worked_with_dr_z_on.mdwn
@@ -1 +1,3 @@
-Ran the PKC assay today, worked with Dr.Z on putting together a story for our NMR paper, figuring out what figures needed to be done. Attended my NRSC seminar, and then came home to read.\n\nAll in all, a highly productive day.
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+Ran the PKC assay today, worked with Dr.Z on putting together a story for our NMR paper, figuring out what figures needed to be done. Attended my NRSC seminar, and then came home to read.
+
+All in all, a highly productive day.
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diff --git a/posts/diary/read_slept_ate_watched_tv_read_slept.mdwn b/posts/diary/read_slept_ate_watched_tv_read_slept.mdwn
index db8c3f6..950d18f 100644
--- a/posts/diary/read_slept_ate_watched_tv_read_slept.mdwn
+++ b/posts/diary/read_slept_ate_watched_tv_read_slept.mdwn
@@ -1 +1,3 @@
-Read. Slept. Ate. Watched TV. Read. Slept.\n\nAhh... Work+Relaxation.
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+Read. Slept. Ate. Watched TV. Read. Slept.
+
+Ahh... Work+Relaxation.
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diff --git a/posts/diary/restraining_the_dogs_of_war.mdwn b/posts/diary/restraining_the_dogs_of_war.mdwn
index c1261f7..5d67799 100644
--- a/posts/diary/restraining_the_dogs_of_war.mdwn
+++ b/posts/diary/restraining_the_dogs_of_war.mdwn
@@ -1 +1,51 @@
-[gal://parties_clubs/2003/february/dickys_02102003/dave_shooting_pool_02102003.jpg]\n[gal://parties_clubs/2003/february/gregs_02132003/raj_spinning_02132003.jpg] As much\nof the world braces itself for the seemingly imminent resumption of\nwar in the middle east, I went about my business much as I have for\nthe past few weeks. On Tuesday, I ended up spinning at dicky's for a\nbit, then on Thursday, I played at Greg's house with Raj and Greg.\n\n[gal://parties_clubs/2003/february/bliss_02142003/dancefloor_1_02142003.jpg]\nFriday was slightly more eventful as I ended up eating dinner with my\nRaphael and his family at their home. After a nice dinner, I went out\nto Tilt for Bliss, which, as always was fairly good, with James\nRevival and Al throwing some choice tracks throughout the night. After\nbliss I ate a late snack with Jerry, Dave and Chyna at some little\ndiner on East and Winton. As all decent diners go, the food was\ndecent, although not high quality.\n\n[gal://parties_clubs/2003/february/al_party_02152003/front_room_02152003.jpg]\nSaturday got out of control. I spent 6 hours playing pool at Jillians,\nwhich is has decent 8ft pool tables, and more importantly, an awesome\ndeal for pool before 6 PM. Yes, yours truly is becoming a pool\nnut. After that, I hung about for a bit at my apartment reading before\nheading over to Jerry's pad to run the circuit of parties on\nSaturday. We started out at Gee's place, and chilled there for a bit\n(I ran into a few people I've met before) then went to Al's house. The\nparty at Al's was going nicely, and I ended up killing the bottle of\nchampagne that I had brought with me in a little over an hour. Awesome\nFrench champagne from St. Hillarne's can't be beaten by anything\nwithin it's price range. People at the party were having a good time,\ngetting drunk as usual. Granted, the proclivity towards happy hardcore\nis not something that I like to hear, but having been through a happy\nhardcore phase in my own musical journey, I understand.\n\n[gal://clippings/anti_war_protest_02152003/6635325.jpg]\nMore importantly than my petty little experiences on Saturday, though,\nis what quite a few people in the rest of the nation did, protesting\nthe war against Iraq. Granted, a few people out there seem to think\nthat people protesting the war are the equivalent of supports of\nSaddam, but my troll meter continues to go off scale when I read\nmessages from them. \n\n[gal://clippings/anti_war_protest_02152003/6635353.jpg]\nIt's refreshing to see that millions of American citizens and people\nthroughout the globe are willing to take time to make their views\npublicly known in such a peaceful and powerful manner. Granted,\nthere were some instances of violence, both perpetrated by the police,\nand instigated by specific blocs of protesters, but by and large\npeople came, marched, rallied, and their views were noted. It almost\nmakes me sad that I wasn't able to participate in the marching on\nSaturday, being, as I am, out of the major metropolitan areas for the\ntime being. \n\n
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+[gal://parties_clubs/2003/february/dickys_02102003/dave_shooting_pool_02102003.jpg]
+[gal://parties_clubs/2003/february/gregs_02132003/raj_spinning_02132003.jpg] As much
+of the world braces itself for the seemingly imminent resumption of
+war in the middle east, I went about my business much as I have for
+the past few weeks. On Tuesday, I ended up spinning at dicky's for a
+bit, then on Thursday, I played at Greg's house with Raj and Greg.
+
+[gal://parties_clubs/2003/february/bliss_02142003/dancefloor_1_02142003.jpg]
+Friday was slightly more eventful as I ended up eating dinner with my
+Raphael and his family at their home. After a nice dinner, I went out
+to Tilt for Bliss, which, as always was fairly good, with James
+Revival and Al throwing some choice tracks throughout the night. After
+bliss I ate a late snack with Jerry, Dave and Chyna at some little
+diner on East and Winton. As all decent diners go, the food was
+decent, although not high quality.
+
+[gal://parties_clubs/2003/february/al_party_02152003/front_room_02152003.jpg]
+Saturday got out of control. I spent 6 hours playing pool at Jillians,
+which is has decent 8ft pool tables, and more importantly, an awesome
+deal for pool before 6 PM. Yes, yours truly is becoming a pool
+nut. After that, I hung about for a bit at my apartment reading before
+heading over to Jerry's pad to run the circuit of parties on
+Saturday. We started out at Gee's place, and chilled there for a bit
+(I ran into a few people I've met before) then went to Al's house. The
+party at Al's was going nicely, and I ended up killing the bottle of
+champagne that I had brought with me in a little over an hour. Awesome
+French champagne from St. Hillarne's can't be beaten by anything
+within it's price range. People at the party were having a good time,
+getting drunk as usual. Granted, the proclivity towards happy hardcore
+is not something that I like to hear, but having been through a happy
+hardcore phase in my own musical journey, I understand.
+
+[gal://clippings/anti_war_protest_02152003/6635325.jpg]
+More importantly than my petty little experiences on Saturday, though,
+is what quite a few people in the rest of the nation did, protesting
+the war against Iraq. Granted, a few people out there seem to think
+that people protesting the war are the equivalent of supports of
+Saddam, but my troll meter continues to go off scale when I read
+messages from them. 
+
+[gal://clippings/anti_war_protest_02152003/6635353.jpg]
+It's refreshing to see that millions of American citizens and people
+throughout the globe are willing to take time to make their views
+publicly known in such a peaceful and powerful manner. Granted,
+there were some instances of violence, both perpetrated by the police,
+and instigated by specific blocs of protesters, but by and large
+people came, marched, rallied, and their views were noted. It almost
+makes me sad that I wasn't able to participate in the marching on
+Saturday, being, as I am, out of the major metropolitan areas for the
+time being. 
+
diff --git a/posts/diary/rocket_to_bliss.mdwn b/posts/diary/rocket_to_bliss.mdwn
index 8565cae..f503cac 100644
--- a/posts/diary/rocket_to_bliss.mdwn
+++ b/posts/diary/rocket_to_bliss.mdwn
@@ -1 +1,5 @@
-At work today I dealt with the final revisions to a set of figures for the grant that had to be fedex'ed out overnight. Not that big of a deal, but it took some time to make all of the corrections. I then spent the rest of the day dealing with random issues before heading home to pick up records before going to Rocket.\n\n<div style="float:left; padding:8px"><a href="http://gallery.donarmstrong.com/parties_clubs/rocket_01312003/matt_at_rocket_01312003.jpg"><img border=0 src="http://gallery.donarmstrong.com/parties_clubs/rocket_01312003/.cache/150x200-matt_at_rocket_01312003.jpg"></a></div>While at rocket, I met matt who was spinning when I walked in the door, along with Jerry who was there and a few other people. It was kind of chill and not particularly crowded until a band arrived at around 8 and began to setup for their set at 9. I closed out at around 8:50 and then helped jerry tear down his setup and brought it back to his place, where we ate dinner. I ended up playing Tom Clancy's current rainbow six style game for a bit, before we headed over to bliss.\n\n<div style="float:right; padding:8px"><a href="http://gallery.donarmstrong.com/parties_clubs/bliss_01312003/bliss_dance_floor_01312003.jpg"><img border=0 src="http://gallery.donarmstrong.com/parties_clubs/bliss_01312003/.cache/200x150-bliss_dance_floor_01312003.jpg"></a></div>At bliss, [http://gallery.donarmstrong.com/parties_clubs/bliss_01312003/bliss_james_revival_01312003.jpg|James Revival] was spinning some nice tracks, albiet a little bit harder and more chicago than I like [being a west-coast freak] but definetly banging. A whole bunch of people were there dancing their brains out, which is always good to see, although an even larger population of people were at the bar area away from the dancefloor watering themselves. Can you tell that I prefer people who dance?
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+At work today I dealt with the final revisions to a set of figures for the grant that had to be fedex'ed out overnight. Not that big of a deal, but it took some time to make all of the corrections. I then spent the rest of the day dealing with random issues before heading home to pick up records before going to Rocket.
+
+<div style="float:left; padding:8px"><a href="http://gallery.donarmstrong.com/parties_clubs/rocket_01312003/matt_at_rocket_01312003.jpg"><img border=0 src="http://gallery.donarmstrong.com/parties_clubs/rocket_01312003/.cache/150x200-matt_at_rocket_01312003.jpg"></a></div>While at rocket, I met matt who was spinning when I walked in the door, along with Jerry who was there and a few other people. It was kind of chill and not particularly crowded until a band arrived at around 8 and began to setup for their set at 9. I closed out at around 8:50 and then helped jerry tear down his setup and brought it back to his place, where we ate dinner. I ended up playing Tom Clancy's current rainbow six style game for a bit, before we headed over to bliss.
+
+<div style="float:right; padding:8px"><a href="http://gallery.donarmstrong.com/parties_clubs/bliss_01312003/bliss_dance_floor_01312003.jpg"><img border=0 src="http://gallery.donarmstrong.com/parties_clubs/bliss_01312003/.cache/200x150-bliss_dance_floor_01312003.jpg"></a></div>At bliss, [http://gallery.donarmstrong.com/parties_clubs/bliss_01312003/bliss_james_revival_01312003.jpg|James Revival] was spinning some nice tracks, albiet a little bit harder and more chicago than I like [being a west-coast freak] but definetly banging. A whole bunch of people were there dancing their brains out, which is always good to see, although an even larger population of people were at the bar area away from the dancefloor watering themselves. Can you tell that I prefer people who dance?
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diff --git a/posts/diary/saw_lotr_again_third_time_now.mdwn b/posts/diary/saw_lotr_again_third_time_now.mdwn
index f7910b8..9afeb1d 100644
--- a/posts/diary/saw_lotr_again_third_time_now.mdwn
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@@ -1 +1,5 @@
-Saw LotR again. (Third time now.)\n\nAte at a semi-ok mexican/american restaurant. Food was safe, but not authentic. Definetly missing the zing that real, authentic mexican food has.\n\nCame back to the cabin, and read/slept some more.
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+Saw LotR again. (Third time now.)
+
+Ate at a semi-ok mexican/american restaurant. Food was safe, but not authentic. Definetly missing the zing that real, authentic mexican food has.
+
+Came back to the cabin, and read/slept some more.
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diff --git a/posts/diary/school_started_today_ooo_exciting.mdwn b/posts/diary/school_started_today_ooo_exciting.mdwn
index 80ab3a6..56e55fc 100644
--- a/posts/diary/school_started_today_ooo_exciting.mdwn
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@@ -1 +1,9 @@
-School started today. Ooo. Exciting.\n\nI wandered into my lab at around noon, and took care of some residual work that needed to be done. (Scd plots, amoungst other things.) After a while I started a sample in the NMR, and the biked home.\n\nAngela and milan came over, and we wandered over to shawn's house (he lives off of central) and chilled there watching cspan. Got to hear Daschle's speech on the republican tax cut. Although he claims that the tax cut is responsible for the economic downturn, and the republicans are claiming that the tax cut is helping to alliviate the tax cut, it sounds to me more like the answer lies somewhere in the middle. Of course, as always, everyone in government is using static models to analyze the budget surplus/deficit. Even 12 months ago, those of us with eyes to see could tell that there was a recession comming, and the landmark surplus would not be there when congressional pundits claimed it would be.\n\nWhat will become of the economy in the next 6-12 months is far to difficult to state. But we'll definetly here more partisan bickering before this is over.\n\nWe also wandered over to the KA house and hung out for a while. I guess a small get together was happening there, and it looked like people were having fun... at least, I think that's what was happening. Then back home, and sleep.
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+School started today. Ooo. Exciting.
+
+I wandered into my lab at around noon, and took care of some residual work that needed to be done. (Scd plots, amoungst other things.) After a while I started a sample in the NMR, and the biked home.
+
+Angela and milan came over, and we wandered over to shawn's house (he lives off of central) and chilled there watching cspan. Got to hear Daschle's speech on the republican tax cut. Although he claims that the tax cut is responsible for the economic downturn, and the republicans are claiming that the tax cut is helping to alliviate the tax cut, it sounds to me more like the answer lies somewhere in the middle. Of course, as always, everyone in government is using static models to analyze the budget surplus/deficit. Even 12 months ago, those of us with eyes to see could tell that there was a recession comming, and the landmark surplus would not be there when congressional pundits claimed it would be.
+
+What will become of the economy in the next 6-12 months is far to difficult to state. But we'll definetly here more partisan bickering before this is over.
+
+We also wandered over to the KA house and hung out for a while. I guess a small get together was happening there, and it looked like people were having fun... at least, I think that's what was happening. Then back home, and sleep.
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diff --git a/posts/diary/searching_for_something.mdwn b/posts/diary/searching_for_something.mdwn
index e8f1e6b..ed8fa15 100644
--- a/posts/diary/searching_for_something.mdwn
+++ b/posts/diary/searching_for_something.mdwn
@@ -1 +1,5 @@
-[gal://parties_clubs/2003/05_may/metro_05102003/jen_and_jerry_metro_05102003.jpg]I just got back this evening from a pretty dang nice time at Metro where Jen (Dove) was singing on top of Jerry's (Mighty) set. Pretty nice.atmosphere at an awesome location, although the drinks are a bit pricey.\n\nThis morning I was rudely reminded why it's a good thing I don't own any conventional or non-conventional weapons. For some reason, some high school band took it upon themselves to warmup for their performance at the [http://www.lilacfestival.com/|Lilac festival] right in front of my aparment at 9 in the morning. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, for someone who had just gone to sleep at 4 or 5 that morning, waking up to a rather pathetic drumline who is just learning to keep time and can't do anyting more complicated than a sixteenth note, coupled with a bunch of trumpets and horns doing scales badly qualifies as justifiable homicide. There would have been dead bandos littering the streets... but at least I would be able to get back to sleep. [Now, normally, if this were to happen when I have appropriate equipment, I'd just pull out the multi-kW system and play rotterdam or deathcore. Hrm. Deathcore at 9A in the morning is lovely.]\n\n[gal://2003/05_may/3dim_city_pictures_05102003/32.jpg]Once I got unhungover from my unholy awakening, I went with Chyna, Dave and Marcus to shoot pictures for an article about the cd that we've recently done in the city magazine (the local throwaway entertainment 'zine.) We took a few interesting shots up and down university near goodman, where there are a few neat benches and sculptures. The pictures turned out reasonably ok.
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+[gal://parties_clubs/2003/05_may/metro_05102003/jen_and_jerry_metro_05102003.jpg]I just got back this evening from a pretty dang nice time at Metro where Jen (Dove) was singing on top of Jerry's (Mighty) set. Pretty nice.atmosphere at an awesome location, although the drinks are a bit pricey.
+
+This morning I was rudely reminded why it's a good thing I don't own any conventional or non-conventional weapons. For some reason, some high school band took it upon themselves to warmup for their performance at the [http://www.lilacfestival.com/|Lilac festival] right in front of my aparment at 9 in the morning. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, for someone who had just gone to sleep at 4 or 5 that morning, waking up to a rather pathetic drumline who is just learning to keep time and can't do anyting more complicated than a sixteenth note, coupled with a bunch of trumpets and horns doing scales badly qualifies as justifiable homicide. There would have been dead bandos littering the streets... but at least I would be able to get back to sleep. [Now, normally, if this were to happen when I have appropriate equipment, I'd just pull out the multi-kW system and play rotterdam or deathcore. Hrm. Deathcore at 9A in the morning is lovely.]
+
+[gal://2003/05_may/3dim_city_pictures_05102003/32.jpg]Once I got unhungover from my unholy awakening, I went with Chyna, Dave and Marcus to shoot pictures for an article about the cd that we've recently done in the city magazine (the local throwaway entertainment 'zine.) We took a few interesting shots up and down university near goodman, where there are a few neat benches and sculptures. The pictures turned out reasonably ok.
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diff --git a/posts/diary/smith_falls_ne.mdwn b/posts/diary/smith_falls_ne.mdwn
index f4e22e7..4494af0 100644
--- a/posts/diary/smith_falls_ne.mdwn
+++ b/posts/diary/smith_falls_ne.mdwn
@@ -1 +1,49 @@
-[gal://2003/07_july/to_smith_falls_NE_07022003/04_smith_falls_07022003.jpg]I finally made it to Smith Falls, NE on what is my longest planned\ndrive of the trip. I left Pikes Peak, IA at 6A CDT this morning, and\ndrove for almost 11 hours to get here. Quite a long drive, but at the\nend of it, Smith Falls is pretty dang impressive. But first, before I\nforget, I should talk slightly about Pikes Peak.\n\n[gal://2003/07_july/to_pikes_peak_IA_07012003/14_bridal_veil_falls_07012003.jpg]Pikes Peak is a pretty interesting place right on the IA side of the\nMississippi river where the Wisconson river comes in. It's about 8\nmiles south of the Mounds National Monument, and there are a few\nmounds inside the state park as well. The mounds are rather\ninteresting. I suppose if you were to suddenly come upon one, you\nprobably wouldn't even know it, as they're pretty unassuming for the\nmost part. In fact, untill I saw more than one of them, I thought it\nwas just a interesting coincidence. Unfortunatly, I didn't actually\nget to go to the National park's mounds, as I was pressed for time,\nand it was nearing dusk when I arrived. However, I took a pretty\ndecent panorama of the Wisconson side from the Iowa side, so it will\nbe interesting to see how that turns out.\n\n[gal://2003/07_july/to_pikes_peak_IA_07012003/06_wisconsin_river_joining_mississippi_07012003.jpg]One of the other pictures is of a deer that was watching me watch it\nas I wandered over to a minature falls called Bridal Veil. For those\nof you who have seen the big Bridal Veil falls at Yosemite, this was\nits midget third cousin. (But still neat in its own little way.)\n[Interesting (or depressing?) side note: Mosquitoes in Pikes Peak are\nnasty. I think I got bit about 20 times, most of them look pretty\nugly. Worse, the dumb mosquitoes were so huge that their anesthetic\ndoesn't work very well, so I spent most of the time while cooking\ntrying to beat the buggers off while avoiding blowing up my stove.]\nAfter leaving Pikes Peak, I drove, and drove, and drove, and\ndrove. 600 miles in single day is alot of driving, especially when\nmost of it is done at 55-60mph (US 20 for about 450 of those\nmiles). But arrive here safely I did. [There are a few pictures of the\ndrive... US 20 adroitly avoids most property lines, but for miles on\nend it is arrow straight (although it does go up and down hills.)]\n\n[gal://2003/07_july/to_smith_falls_NE_07022003/11_don_armstrong_at_smith_falls_07022003.jpg]Smith Falls itself is about 14 miles East of Valentine, NB on NB\n12. It's a small park with about 12 or so car acessible spots, and\nabout 20 primitive sites. I got slotted into one of the car spots,\nwhich is ok... although it really didn't matter to me. The Niobrara\nriver burbles away right behind me (and a few canoeists have floated\nbuy in the time I've been typing this.)\n\n[gal:///2003/07_july/to_smith_falls_NE_07022003/09_smith_falls_07022003.jpg]The falls itself are pretty impressive, apparently the largest falls\nin all of Nebraska. No where near as tall as the falls in my favorite\nplace, Havasupai, but still pretty nice, and definetly more than I was\nexpecting.\n\nAnyway, I'm going stick the pictures on this machine, and then close\nup shop; I need both hands free to stave of flies.\n
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+[gal://2003/07_july/to_smith_falls_NE_07022003/04_smith_falls_07022003.jpg]I finally made it to Smith Falls, NE on what is my longest planned
+drive of the trip. I left Pikes Peak, IA at 6A CDT this morning, and
+drove for almost 11 hours to get here. Quite a long drive, but at the
+end of it, Smith Falls is pretty dang impressive. But first, before I
+forget, I should talk slightly about Pikes Peak.
+
+[gal://2003/07_july/to_pikes_peak_IA_07012003/14_bridal_veil_falls_07012003.jpg]Pikes Peak is a pretty interesting place right on the IA side of the
+Mississippi river where the Wisconson river comes in. It's about 8
+miles south of the Mounds National Monument, and there are a few
+mounds inside the state park as well. The mounds are rather
+interesting. I suppose if you were to suddenly come upon one, you
+probably wouldn't even know it, as they're pretty unassuming for the
+most part. In fact, untill I saw more than one of them, I thought it
+was just a interesting coincidence. Unfortunatly, I didn't actually
+get to go to the National park's mounds, as I was pressed for time,
+and it was nearing dusk when I arrived. However, I took a pretty
+decent panorama of the Wisconson side from the Iowa side, so it will
+be interesting to see how that turns out.
+
+[gal://2003/07_july/to_pikes_peak_IA_07012003/06_wisconsin_river_joining_mississippi_07012003.jpg]One of the other pictures is of a deer that was watching me watch it
+as I wandered over to a minature falls called Bridal Veil. For those
+of you who have seen the big Bridal Veil falls at Yosemite, this was
+its midget third cousin. (But still neat in its own little way.)
+[Interesting (or depressing?) side note: Mosquitoes in Pikes Peak are
+nasty. I think I got bit about 20 times, most of them look pretty
+ugly. Worse, the dumb mosquitoes were so huge that their anesthetic
+doesn't work very well, so I spent most of the time while cooking
+trying to beat the buggers off while avoiding blowing up my stove.]
+After leaving Pikes Peak, I drove, and drove, and drove, and
+drove. 600 miles in single day is alot of driving, especially when
+most of it is done at 55-60mph (US 20 for about 450 of those
+miles). But arrive here safely I did. [There are a few pictures of the
+drive... US 20 adroitly avoids most property lines, but for miles on
+end it is arrow straight (although it does go up and down hills.)]
+
+[gal://2003/07_july/to_smith_falls_NE_07022003/11_don_armstrong_at_smith_falls_07022003.jpg]Smith Falls itself is about 14 miles East of Valentine, NB on NB
+12. It's a small park with about 12 or so car acessible spots, and
+about 20 primitive sites. I got slotted into one of the car spots,
+which is ok... although it really didn't matter to me. The Niobrara
+river burbles away right behind me (and a few canoeists have floated
+buy in the time I've been typing this.)
+
+[gal:///2003/07_july/to_smith_falls_NE_07022003/09_smith_falls_07022003.jpg]The falls itself are pretty impressive, apparently the largest falls
+in all of Nebraska. No where near as tall as the falls in my favorite
+place, Havasupai, but still pretty nice, and definetly more than I was
+expecting.
+
+Anyway, I'm going stick the pictures on this machine, and then close
+up shop; I need both hands free to stave of flies.
diff --git a/posts/diary/sometimes_at_the_end_of_the_day_i_have_no_clue.mdwn b/posts/diary/sometimes_at_the_end_of_the_day_i_have_no_clue.mdwn
index 8400f6b..e08588a 100644
--- a/posts/diary/sometimes_at_the_end_of_the_day_i_have_no_clue.mdwn
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@@ -1 +1,5 @@
-Sometimes at the end of the day, I have no clue what I did during the day. Today was one of those days. Just millions of little tasks that had gotten piled up ontop of eachother... quite a few of them got taken care of today.\n\nMy room got cleaned slightly, and a whole bunch of loads of laundry got taken care of. My board got setup, and I started getting my papers for school organized. I know, it's already half way through the quarter, but I'm not really much for organization at all.\n\nI also finally got the diary scripts working correctly, and rebuild the diaries, so this is probably the first newly updated diary entry that anyone else besides me is seeing.
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+Sometimes at the end of the day, I have no clue what I did during the day. Today was one of those days. Just millions of little tasks that had gotten piled up ontop of eachother... quite a few of them got taken care of today.
+
+My room got cleaned slightly, and a whole bunch of loads of laundry got taken care of. My board got setup, and I started getting my papers for school organized. I know, it's already half way through the quarter, but I'm not really much for organization at all.
+
+I also finally got the diary scripts working correctly, and rebuild the diaries, so this is probably the first newly updated diary entry that anyone else besides me is seeing.
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diff --git a/posts/diary/sometimes_i_see_people_who_look_like_the_might_be.mdwn b/posts/diary/sometimes_i_see_people_who_look_like_the_might_be.mdwn
index 2a5c3d6..58c7dec 100644
--- a/posts/diary/sometimes_i_see_people_who_look_like_the_might_be.mdwn
+++ b/posts/diary/sometimes_i_see_people_who_look_like_the_might_be.mdwn
@@ -1 +1,3 @@
-Sometimes I see people who look like the might be like me. Lost in a world that is not of their creating, wandering through the land, finding personal meaning in the things and the people that they come across, seeking what cannot be sought.\n\nPerhaps I am just transfering my own desires upon other people who would not be so inclined, or reading far too much upon a chance meeting, a glance, a way of walking. I rarely if ever actually talk to these people, being too locked into my own reality, and not wishing to impinge on their privacy. But still I watch, and wait, and hope.
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+Sometimes I see people who look like the might be like me. Lost in a world that is not of their creating, wandering through the land, finding personal meaning in the things and the people that they come across, seeking what cannot be sought.
+
+Perhaps I am just transfering my own desires upon other people who would not be so inclined, or reading far too much upon a chance meeting, a glance, a way of walking. I rarely if ever actually talk to these people, being too locked into my own reality, and not wishing to impinge on their privacy. But still I watch, and wait, and hope.
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diff --git a/posts/diary/somewhere_in_il.mdwn b/posts/diary/somewhere_in_il.mdwn
index 783250f..6b3ed42 100644
--- a/posts/diary/somewhere_in_il.mdwn
+++ b/posts/diary/somewhere_in_il.mdwn
@@ -1 +1,16 @@
-[gal://2003/07_july/to_pikes_peak_IA_07012003/01_entering_chicago_07012003.jpg]I'm currently stoped at a Wendy's after having refilled my car at a\nlocal shell. For some ungodly reason I really like Wendy's\nhamburgers. I probably should stop eating fast food entirely\nthough. Anyway, I passed through Chicago very slowly, as the 90/94 was\ntotally jammed until well outside of Chicago (almost until\nO'hare). Chicago looks really interesting, but as I've got 480 miles\nto do today, I won't be spending any time there at all. [Perhaps in\nthe future?]\n\nI'm going to finish off my hamburger, and get back into the car to do\nthe last leg of today. I only have about 200 miles left. [Another 3\nhours or so.]\n\nAlmost forgot, I took a few shots of Chicago as I was driving through,\nbut I haven't really had a chance to check them out. Hopefully they\nturned out ok.
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+[gal://2003/07_july/to_pikes_peak_IA_07012003/01_entering_chicago_07012003.jpg]I'm currently stoped at a Wendy's after having refilled my car at a
+local shell. For some ungodly reason I really like Wendy's
+hamburgers. I probably should stop eating fast food entirely
+though. Anyway, I passed through Chicago very slowly, as the 90/94 was
+totally jammed until well outside of Chicago (almost until
+O'hare). Chicago looks really interesting, but as I've got 480 miles
+to do today, I won't be spending any time there at all. [Perhaps in
+the future?]
+
+I'm going to finish off my hamburger, and get back into the car to do
+the last leg of today. I only have about 200 miles left. [Another 3
+hours or so.]
+
+Almost forgot, I took a few shots of Chicago as I was driving through,
+but I haven't really had a chance to check them out. Hopefully they
+turned out ok.
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diff --git a/posts/diary/spent_most_of_the_day_in_bed_hopefully_i_ll_kill.mdwn b/posts/diary/spent_most_of_the_day_in_bed_hopefully_i_ll_kill.mdwn
index 277cfd6..f44b151 100644
--- a/posts/diary/spent_most_of_the_day_in_bed_hopefully_i_ll_kill.mdwn
+++ b/posts/diary/spent_most_of_the_day_in_bed_hopefully_i_ll_kill.mdwn
@@ -1 +1,3 @@
-Spent most of the day in bed. Hopefully I'll kill this stupid cold soon.\n\nWorked on some stuff for GM and my references suite, and read. Hopefully I'll get to campus tomorrow.
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+Spent most of the day in bed. Hopefully I'll kill this stupid cold soon.
+
+Worked on some stuff for GM and my references suite, and read. Hopefully I'll get to campus tomorrow.
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diff --git a/posts/diary/spent_most_of_today_grading_midterms_and_making_a.mdwn b/posts/diary/spent_most_of_today_grading_midterms_and_making_a.mdwn
index 6b5ceb6..ebe8400 100644
--- a/posts/diary/spent_most_of_today_grading_midterms_and_making_a.mdwn
+++ b/posts/diary/spent_most_of_today_grading_midterms_and_making_a.mdwn
@@ -1 +1,7 @@
-Spent most of today grading midterms and making a few adjustments to one of the scripts that I use to parse the analyzed array data. (There are some more changes that need to be made to it, but it is nearing completion.)\n\nHung out with angela for a bit at her place, sort of watched TV for a bit and had almond mochas (mmm..).\n\nI also finished up the final sample and stuck it into the freezer to freeze for a bit. I'll have to cycle it through freeze-thaw sometime tomorrow.\n\nNow it's time to go envelope myself in sleep.
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+Spent most of today grading midterms and making a few adjustments to one of the scripts that I use to parse the analyzed array data. (There are some more changes that need to be made to it, but it is nearing completion.)
+
+Hung out with angela for a bit at her place, sort of watched TV for a bit and had almond mochas (mmm..).
+
+I also finished up the final sample and stuck it into the freezer to freeze for a bit. I'll have to cycle it through freeze-thaw sometime tomorrow.
+
+Now it's time to go envelope myself in sleep.
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diff --git a/posts/diary/spent_most_of_today_grading_papers.mdwn b/posts/diary/spent_most_of_today_grading_papers.mdwn
index 1e3cd83..09a23e3 100644
--- a/posts/diary/spent_most_of_today_grading_papers.mdwn
+++ b/posts/diary/spent_most_of_today_grading_papers.mdwn
@@ -1 +1,5 @@
-Spent most of today grading papers.\n\nPaid some bills too.\n\nAlso finished reading book 2 in the thomas covenant, unbeliever series. But unfortunatly, I've also developed a nasty head cold, so most of the day (that I wasn't grading papers) I spent in bed. Still have a bit to go on the midterms that I have to grade... but I'll get there.
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+Spent most of today grading papers.
+
+Paid some bills too.
+
+Also finished reading book 2 in the thomas covenant, unbeliever series. But unfortunatly, I've also developed a nasty head cold, so most of the day (that I wasn't grading papers) I spent in bed. Still have a bit to go on the midterms that I have to grade... but I'll get there.
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diff --git a/posts/diary/spent_most_of_today_working_on_stuff_in_my_lab.mdwn b/posts/diary/spent_most_of_today_working_on_stuff_in_my_lab.mdwn
index 49370bc..c3f5195 100644
--- a/posts/diary/spent_most_of_today_working_on_stuff_in_my_lab.mdwn
+++ b/posts/diary/spent_most_of_today_working_on_stuff_in_my_lab.mdwn
@@ -1 +1,7 @@
-Spent most of today working on stuff in my lab, and an assignment for GNT 240a. I'm probably spending more time on the assignment than I should, but that's not really anything new. (If I'm interesting in learning something for a class, I tend to do much more work than is absolutely required. Course, I'm not really interested in the grade I get, I'm more interested in learning the information as thoroughly as possible.)\n\nAlso listened to some of the mSTART talks today, learned abit about Vitamin D and PKI and it's interaction with drips. Then heard some more about ABCA-1 and it's transcriptional regulation by LDL and cholesterol, but unfortunatly, very little about the function of ABCA-1 and the effect of downregulation of it on the cell and physiology of vascular system as a whole. (Just recently became interested in ABCA-1 for a reason that I will probably get into later.)\n\nHung out with paul and brian a bit at starbucks (after talking with Z for a bit about religion and the old testament). Brian has picked up a nice new BMW 325i from 1993, that is nearly immaculate (although it has 160K miles on it or so).\n\nThen back home for more work, and sleep.
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+Spent most of today working on stuff in my lab, and an assignment for GNT 240a. I'm probably spending more time on the assignment than I should, but that's not really anything new. (If I'm interesting in learning something for a class, I tend to do much more work than is absolutely required. Course, I'm not really interested in the grade I get, I'm more interested in learning the information as thoroughly as possible.)
+
+Also listened to some of the mSTART talks today, learned abit about Vitamin D and PKI and it's interaction with drips. Then heard some more about ABCA-1 and it's transcriptional regulation by LDL and cholesterol, but unfortunatly, very little about the function of ABCA-1 and the effect of downregulation of it on the cell and physiology of vascular system as a whole. (Just recently became interested in ABCA-1 for a reason that I will probably get into later.)
+
+Hung out with paul and brian a bit at starbucks (after talking with Z for a bit about religion and the old testament). Brian has picked up a nice new BMW 325i from 1993, that is nearly immaculate (although it has 160K miles on it or so).
+
+Then back home for more work, and sleep.
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diff --git a/posts/diary/the_boundary_between_reality_and_fantasy_is.mdwn b/posts/diary/the_boundary_between_reality_and_fantasy_is.mdwn
index 150f5a4..ebcecbb 100644
--- a/posts/diary/the_boundary_between_reality_and_fantasy_is.mdwn
+++ b/posts/diary/the_boundary_between_reality_and_fantasy_is.mdwn
@@ -1 +1,9 @@
-The boundary between reality and fantasy is constantly bluring, like the boundary between madness and sanity. Keeping them straight is the war, and sometimes I'm loosing. Perhaps it's because I can imagine very easily what I am reading in the same technicolor splendor as real life would have. Dreams and waking dreams hold the same measure of sway.\n\nI'm once again reading at a prodigious rate. Something on the order of 3 books a week, while taking care of doing some of the other things that I should be doing. I'm currently working on Lord Foul's Bane, the first book of the Thomas Covenant, Unbeliever series. Fairly decent. Hopefully the language in the story will end up being better described (although quite a large percentage of it smells like thinly vieled quenya.)\n\nI ended up picking up some shirts at a thrift store today, trying to find some interesting clothing to wear. Don't think I'll actually make it to the truely intersting stuff, but I can try. (I'm probably just going to have to start making my own clothes... of course, then my madness in design will begin to show outwardly.)\n\nI probably should also bother to get my scanner set up and working on the linux box again, now that I actually have enough space to have it setup somewhere under my desk. Hopefully it still works.\n\nAnyway, off to sleep before I wander to HB tomorrow to finish working on my table and complete the test grading that I need to do. Hopefully the table will be in a completed enough state to bring back to riverside on sunday (or late saturday.)
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+The boundary between reality and fantasy is constantly bluring, like the boundary between madness and sanity. Keeping them straight is the war, and sometimes I'm loosing. Perhaps it's because I can imagine very easily what I am reading in the same technicolor splendor as real life would have. Dreams and waking dreams hold the same measure of sway.
+
+I'm once again reading at a prodigious rate. Something on the order of 3 books a week, while taking care of doing some of the other things that I should be doing. I'm currently working on Lord Foul's Bane, the first book of the Thomas Covenant, Unbeliever series. Fairly decent. Hopefully the language in the story will end up being better described (although quite a large percentage of it smells like thinly vieled quenya.)
+
+I ended up picking up some shirts at a thrift store today, trying to find some interesting clothing to wear. Don't think I'll actually make it to the truely intersting stuff, but I can try. (I'm probably just going to have to start making my own clothes... of course, then my madness in design will begin to show outwardly.)
+
+I probably should also bother to get my scanner set up and working on the linux box again, now that I actually have enough space to have it setup somewhere under my desk. Hopefully it still works.
+
+Anyway, off to sleep before I wander to HB tomorrow to finish working on my table and complete the test grading that I need to do. Hopefully the table will be in a completed enough state to bring back to riverside on sunday (or late saturday.)
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diff --git a/posts/diary/the_leash_broke.mdwn b/posts/diary/the_leash_broke.mdwn
index 6662f2c..ec18d27 100644
--- a/posts/diary/the_leash_broke.mdwn
+++ b/posts/diary/the_leash_broke.mdwn
@@ -1 +1,22 @@
-[gal://2003/april/frosted_subaru_04042003.jpg]Just wandered though a rather wierd bout of freezing rain. I think\nfreezing rain is my current least favorite form of weather, due mainly\nto the thick layers of ice it deposits upon every surface. Much, much\nmore nasty than snow, and wet to boot.\n\n[gal://2003/march/making_of_3dim_xyz/19.jpg]Been extreemly busy doing all sorts of random things here and there. I\ncut the first part of a CD with Chyna and Marcus, which we are\ncurrently planning on calling 3 Dimensions: x,y & z. I still haven't\nheard the final mastered cut, (as it's still in production) but I'm\nassured that it's pretty decent. [Yes, I know I need to get unlazy and\ncut a demo of my own. I'll get around to it eventually.]\n\nStuff is, as expected, going to pot in Iraq. Not too terribly happy\nwith the direction that the war has taken, but of course, I was\nunhappy with the absolute total lack of planning and direction comming\nfrom the current administration before we undertook this rather\nslipshod operation. Since the start, my dissapointment has been\ngrowing geometrically. When will the US learn that it's HumInt\ncapability is the laughing stock of developed nations? Granted, our\nElInt is (in general) top notch, but not everyone is stupid enough to\nsend vital messages in the clear, or use cell phones. (Yes, my GnuPG\nkey is available at [http://pgp.mit.edu|pgp.mit.edu])
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+[gal://2003/april/frosted_subaru_04042003.jpg]Just wandered though a rather wierd bout of freezing rain. I think
+freezing rain is my current least favorite form of weather, due mainly
+to the thick layers of ice it deposits upon every surface. Much, much
+more nasty than snow, and wet to boot.
+
+[gal://2003/march/making_of_3dim_xyz/19.jpg]Been extreemly busy doing all sorts of random things here and there. I
+cut the first part of a CD with Chyna and Marcus, which we are
+currently planning on calling 3 Dimensions: x,y & z. I still haven't
+heard the final mastered cut, (as it's still in production) but I'm
+assured that it's pretty decent. [Yes, I know I need to get unlazy and
+cut a demo of my own. I'll get around to it eventually.]
+
+Stuff is, as expected, going to pot in Iraq. Not too terribly happy
+with the direction that the war has taken, but of course, I was
+unhappy with the absolute total lack of planning and direction comming
+from the current administration before we undertook this rather
+slipshod operation. Since the start, my dissapointment has been
+growing geometrically. When will the US learn that it's HumInt
+capability is the laughing stock of developed nations? Granted, our
+ElInt is (in general) top notch, but not everyone is stupid enough to
+send vital messages in the clear, or use cell phones. (Yes, my GnuPG
+key is available at [http://pgp.mit.edu|pgp.mit.edu])
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diff --git a/posts/diary/there_are_some_things_that_in_my_quest_to_obtain.mdwn b/posts/diary/there_are_some_things_that_in_my_quest_to_obtain.mdwn
index 10fac2e..3c37333 100644
--- a/posts/diary/there_are_some_things_that_in_my_quest_to_obtain.mdwn
+++ b/posts/diary/there_are_some_things_that_in_my_quest_to_obtain.mdwn
@@ -1 +1,5 @@
-There are some things that, in my quest to obtain knowledge, I have foolishly left unlearned, or unknown, because at the time I judged them to be less important, or knowledge that was beneath me. Odd, that for almost every single one of those things, it's knowledge that I now wish I had within me. Things that almost everyone else knows and can deal with automatically, sort of a requisite for being human fail me, and I'm only able to deal with them in the most artificial, shallow manner possible, because these things haven't been learned yet by experience... Too much stuff to know... Sometimes I trade my humanity for "knowing" more things that are in the end trivial. But such is my lot in life.\n\nHopefully I'll begin to learn and experience these things that up to this point I've been missing. But each and every moment is sacred... a moment never to be returned to again.\n\nI wandered out to LA with angela to visit angela and go to deep. However, richard (who was spinning at deep) forgot to put angela on the guest list, so we were relegated to trying to get ahold of him whilst he was spinning, and failed. Eventually, we wandered back to angela's appartment, and watched part of human traffic before milan came over, and we wandered back to rside. Somewhere in the midst of our adventure, we ate at one of the thousands of Los Burritos spread throughout Los Angeles. (This one was near the corner of Hollywood and Wilcox...)
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+There are some things that, in my quest to obtain knowledge, I have foolishly left unlearned, or unknown, because at the time I judged them to be less important, or knowledge that was beneath me. Odd, that for almost every single one of those things, it's knowledge that I now wish I had within me. Things that almost everyone else knows and can deal with automatically, sort of a requisite for being human fail me, and I'm only able to deal with them in the most artificial, shallow manner possible, because these things haven't been learned yet by experience... Too much stuff to know... Sometimes I trade my humanity for "knowing" more things that are in the end trivial. But such is my lot in life.
+
+Hopefully I'll begin to learn and experience these things that up to this point I've been missing. But each and every moment is sacred... a moment never to be returned to again.
+
+I wandered out to LA with angela to visit angela and go to deep. However, richard (who was spinning at deep) forgot to put angela on the guest list, so we were relegated to trying to get ahold of him whilst he was spinning, and failed. Eventually, we wandered back to angela's appartment, and watched part of human traffic before milan came over, and we wandered back to rside. Somewhere in the midst of our adventure, we ate at one of the thousands of Los Burritos spread throughout Los Angeles. (This one was near the corner of Hollywood and Wilcox...)
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diff --git a/posts/diary/this_morning_i_took_care_of_mowing_and_edging_the.mdwn b/posts/diary/this_morning_i_took_care_of_mowing_and_edging_the.mdwn
index 06381e9..e7a4eb8 100644
--- a/posts/diary/this_morning_i_took_care_of_mowing_and_edging_the.mdwn
+++ b/posts/diary/this_morning_i_took_care_of_mowing_and_edging_the.mdwn
@@ -1 +1,5 @@
-This morning I took care of mowing and edging the two front lawns. They haven't been edged in a while, so that took some time, but I think they turned out reasonably acceptably.\n\nAfter that, I did some more reading and talking with people at the house, and wandered off to Chicago Pasta House for dinner.\n\nAfter dinner, I went to the lab and continued working on the gene array experiments, and then came home and prepared to fall alseap.
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+This morning I took care of mowing and edging the two front lawns. They haven't been edged in a while, so that took some time, but I think they turned out reasonably acceptably.
+
+After that, I did some more reading and talking with people at the house, and wandered off to Chicago Pasta House for dinner.
+
+After dinner, I went to the lab and continued working on the gene array experiments, and then came home and prepared to fall alseap.
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diff --git a/posts/diary/thought.mdwn b/posts/diary/thought.mdwn
index 68b9761..02ecb4c 100644
--- a/posts/diary/thought.mdwn
+++ b/posts/diary/thought.mdwn
@@ -1 +1,6 @@
-[thought]\nAs I was walking, I found out that I could change the way that people around me thought of myself.\n\nThis was one of the most powerful revalations I had ever had.\n\nOf course, I didn't realize the nature of the transformation that had happened to me that day until much later. At the time, it scared me. It was only later that I realized that that really was the appropriate emotion. My transformation really would change my life for ever.
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+[thought]
+As I was walking, I found out that I could change the way that people around me thought of myself.
+
+This was one of the most powerful revalations I had ever had.
+
+Of course, I didn't realize the nature of the transformation that had happened to me that day until much later. At the time, it scared me. It was only later that I realized that that really was the appropriate emotion. My transformation really would change my life for ever.
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diff --git a/posts/diary/today_i_supervised_the_making_of_samples_for_the.mdwn b/posts/diary/today_i_supervised_the_making_of_samples_for_the.mdwn
index 2b88d2d..7630670 100644
--- a/posts/diary/today_i_supervised_the_making_of_samples_for_the.mdwn
+++ b/posts/diary/today_i_supervised_the_making_of_samples_for_the.mdwn
@@ -1 +1,9 @@
-Today I supervised the making of samples for the same PKC assay that we've been running for a while. For some strange reason, DO has not been cooperating with us at all, but hopefully now it will. At least that's the general idea.\n\nAttended GNT240 again, but unfortunatly, I lost a contact out of my good eye, and was for all intents and purposes, blind for the entire class. Luckily, Mark was nice enough to bring a set of contacts from home to me at school so I could see and continue my marathon day.\n\nI spent most of the rest of the day analysing the corralation between ApoeE types and genes of Alzheimer samples. Some interesting results, all of which will need to be verified using functional assays, of course, but still interesting never the less.\n\nThe rest of the time I spent working on my reference system, which now correctly allows for the inclusion of latex math formulas (well, actually, just about any latex formating) straight in the middle of normal html in the note section, which is extreemly usefull. [I can't stand complex formulae that are not formatted and typeset correctly... it makes them much more ugly, and extreemly dificult to understand.]\n\nThen home, and hopefully sleep will come to me again.
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+Today I supervised the making of samples for the same PKC assay that we've been running for a while. For some strange reason, DO has not been cooperating with us at all, but hopefully now it will. At least that's the general idea.
+
+Attended GNT240 again, but unfortunatly, I lost a contact out of my good eye, and was for all intents and purposes, blind for the entire class. Luckily, Mark was nice enough to bring a set of contacts from home to me at school so I could see and continue my marathon day.
+
+I spent most of the rest of the day analysing the corralation between ApoeE types and genes of Alzheimer samples. Some interesting results, all of which will need to be verified using functional assays, of course, but still interesting never the less.
+
+The rest of the time I spent working on my reference system, which now correctly allows for the inclusion of latex math formulas (well, actually, just about any latex formating) straight in the middle of normal html in the note section, which is extreemly usefull. [I can't stand complex formulae that are not formatted and typeset correctly... it makes them much more ugly, and extreemly dificult to understand.]
+
+Then home, and hopefully sleep will come to me again.
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diff --git a/posts/diary/today_i_wandered_around_depositing_money_into.mdwn b/posts/diary/today_i_wandered_around_depositing_money_into.mdwn
index 8af255c..953bdf2 100644
--- a/posts/diary/today_i_wandered_around_depositing_money_into.mdwn
+++ b/posts/diary/today_i_wandered_around_depositing_money_into.mdwn
@@ -1 +1,5 @@
-Today I wandered around, depositing money into bank accounts, visiting HB and picking up my board, watching garbage tv, then comming back out to Rside.\n\nI ended up seeing heist with my brother... it was a semi-decent movie, not terribly innovating. Some decent twists, acceptable acting, but nothing ground breaking, or especially worth seeing.\n\nAfter that, I ended up working on my diary submission script some more. Hopefully I'll end up getting it working to some semi-reasonable degree.
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+Today I wandered around, depositing money into bank accounts, visiting HB and picking up my board, watching garbage tv, then comming back out to Rside.
+
+I ended up seeing heist with my brother... it was a semi-decent movie, not terribly innovating. Some decent twists, acceptable acting, but nothing ground breaking, or especially worth seeing.
+
+After that, I ended up working on my diary submission script some more. Hopefully I'll end up getting it working to some semi-reasonable degree.
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diff --git a/posts/diary/took_care_of_doing_some_of_the_gene_array_analysis.mdwn b/posts/diary/took_care_of_doing_some_of_the_gene_array_analysis.mdwn
index 12be456..80fd9a6 100644
--- a/posts/diary/took_care_of_doing_some_of_the_gene_array_analysis.mdwn
+++ b/posts/diary/took_care_of_doing_some_of_the_gene_array_analysis.mdwn
@@ -1 +1,3 @@
-Took care of doing some of the gene array analysis today. In the middle of that, I went to GNT 240A, and listened to another lecture on an introduction to gene finding and sequence alignment. Still nothing deeply technical, mainly just overview, but still worth listening too.\n\nThen more gene array analysis, starbucks, home, and work before going to sleep.
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+Took care of doing some of the gene array analysis today. In the middle of that, I went to GNT 240A, and listened to another lecture on an introduction to gene finding and sequence alignment. Still nothing deeply technical, mainly just overview, but still worth listening too.
+
+Then more gene array analysis, starbucks, home, and work before going to sleep.
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diff --git a/posts/diary/took_care_of_getting_my_room_semi_clean_went_and.mdwn b/posts/diary/took_care_of_getting_my_room_semi_clean_went_and.mdwn
index 570c6c1..7054db1 100644
--- a/posts/diary/took_care_of_getting_my_room_semi_clean_went_and.mdwn
+++ b/posts/diary/took_care_of_getting_my_room_semi_clean_went_and.mdwn
@@ -1 +1,7 @@
-Took care of getting my room semi clean, went and picked up some food from ralph's so I could eat. Also went to walmart (the 24 hour one) and picked up some containers, a gift for randy's party, a paper towel holder, and a set of beer glasses. Tried to find wine glasses, but for some reason, they were totally out of plan, normal, boring red wine glasses. (Either that, or they didn't know that people should want to buy such things...)\n\nMore work done on the reference system, going to put the links into it soon so you can upload files, or link out to them. Also have to update the parsing routines there, so you can link to entries on other papers from within the note system.\n\nWill spend the next bit of time before I go to bed trying to figure out how to implement this knowlede base system that I keep envisioning inside of my head.\n\nI'll also have to do some work on the table that I have planned for the front room. Hopefully I'll get it finished in the near future.
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+Took care of getting my room semi clean, went and picked up some food from ralph's so I could eat. Also went to walmart (the 24 hour one) and picked up some containers, a gift for randy's party, a paper towel holder, and a set of beer glasses. Tried to find wine glasses, but for some reason, they were totally out of plan, normal, boring red wine glasses. (Either that, or they didn't know that people should want to buy such things...)
+
+More work done on the reference system, going to put the links into it soon so you can upload files, or link out to them. Also have to update the parsing routines there, so you can link to entries on other papers from within the note system.
+
+Will spend the next bit of time before I go to bed trying to figure out how to implement this knowlede base system that I keep envisioning inside of my head.
+
+I'll also have to do some work on the table that I have planned for the front room. Hopefully I'll get it finished in the near future.
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diff --git a/posts/diary/took_care_of_some_random_stuff_in_the_lab_today.mdwn b/posts/diary/took_care_of_some_random_stuff_in_the_lab_today.mdwn
index 543044b..d29b5e2 100644
--- a/posts/diary/took_care_of_some_random_stuff_in_the_lab_today.mdwn
+++ b/posts/diary/took_care_of_some_random_stuff_in_the_lab_today.mdwn
@@ -1 +1,7 @@
-Took care of some random stuff in the lab today.\n\nCame home and did some more work on the reference system, and also did some more reading. Managed to screw up an NMR sample. (Well, not really, there just wasn't enough BBPC).\n\nThen I drove with Angela out to Angela's to get ready and go to release with Sam. Release is now being held at Atlas. Nicely, angela, angela, and sam all got hooked up with free drinks and sam got us in before release started. Music was ok, there were about 5 tracks out of 50 or so that were good... the rest merely average, but danceable.\n\nThen a loooong drive back out to riverside, and glorious sleep.
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+Took care of some random stuff in the lab today.
+
+Came home and did some more work on the reference system, and also did some more reading. Managed to screw up an NMR sample. (Well, not really, there just wasn't enough BBPC).
+
+Then I drove with Angela out to Angela's to get ready and go to release with Sam. Release is now being held at Atlas. Nicely, angela, angela, and sam all got hooked up with free drinks and sam got us in before release started. Music was ok, there were about 5 tracks out of 50 or so that were good... the rest merely average, but danceable.
+
+Then a loooong drive back out to riverside, and glorious sleep.
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diff --git a/posts/diary/took_my_final_today_yeay_and_seemed_to_do_ok.mdwn b/posts/diary/took_my_final_today_yeay_and_seemed_to_do_ok.mdwn
index d21ff47..680801d 100644
--- a/posts/diary/took_my_final_today_yeay_and_seemed_to_do_ok.mdwn
+++ b/posts/diary/took_my_final_today_yeay_and_seemed_to_do_ok.mdwn
@@ -1 +1,5 @@
-Took my final today (yeay!) and seemed to do ok. Always difficult to take tests because they are always under sub-optimal conditions where you rarely have enough time and enough information. We'll see where my effort lets me end up.\n\nDid more work with Z on the NMR paper, got felix working, and dePaked some spectra. Looking good on that front. Discussed some other stuff, and listened to Dr. Franci Sladek present research on HNRF-4a iirc... interesting presentation, would have been more usefull if I could stay focused... I was thinking about the aplications of Markov Chains to literature mining, and haven't slept much recently, which isn't good for concentrating on a talk outside of your area.\n\nMore spectra processing and coffee, and then got the SGML search feature in my reference system to work with pubmed. Going to need some more work, but at least I found the information that was missing earlier.
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+Took my final today (yeay!) and seemed to do ok. Always difficult to take tests because they are always under sub-optimal conditions where you rarely have enough time and enough information. We'll see where my effort lets me end up.
+
+Did more work with Z on the NMR paper, got felix working, and dePaked some spectra. Looking good on that front. Discussed some other stuff, and listened to Dr. Franci Sladek present research on HNRF-4a iirc... interesting presentation, would have been more usefull if I could stay focused... I was thinking about the aplications of Markov Chains to literature mining, and haven't slept much recently, which isn't good for concentrating on a talk outside of your area.
+
+More spectra processing and coffee, and then got the SGML search feature in my reference system to work with pubmed. Going to need some more work, but at least I found the information that was missing earlier.
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diff --git a/posts/diary/waiting_for_writtens.mdwn b/posts/diary/waiting_for_writtens.mdwn
index 6ce52b2..f97acf0 100644
--- a/posts/diary/waiting_for_writtens.mdwn
+++ b/posts/diary/waiting_for_writtens.mdwn
@@ -1 +1,5 @@
-I've been spending the past three weeks preparing to take my written exams. Yerp. Three solid weeks of studying, with breaks for some of the reasearch that I'm doing and programming a bit on the side. It will be nice when I get these tests behind me on wednesday, and can concentrate on everything else that I am doing.\n\n[gal://5045kensington/backyard_09012003/001_messy_backyard_09012003.jpg]In the time that I haven't been studying, I've been trying to clean up the backyard here at the house. Seems that it was left to the dogs rather literally, and weeds have built up in the back, as well as a few problems with the sprinkler lines. I'll get around to cleaning that up sometime next week, so we'll see how it all looks in a month or so once the grass has had a chance to sprout and regrow in place of the weeds and everything else that is there now.\n\nMy research is progressing slowly, and I've also been spending a fair amount of time looking for contract work so I can pay for yet another year of grad school. Anyone who is looking for contract mod_perl programmers, or expert system administrators, I'm all ears.
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+I've been spending the past three weeks preparing to take my written exams. Yerp. Three solid weeks of studying, with breaks for some of the reasearch that I'm doing and programming a bit on the side. It will be nice when I get these tests behind me on wednesday, and can concentrate on everything else that I am doing.
+
+[gal://5045kensington/backyard_09012003/001_messy_backyard_09012003.jpg]In the time that I haven't been studying, I've been trying to clean up the backyard here at the house. Seems that it was left to the dogs rather literally, and weeds have built up in the back, as well as a few problems with the sprinkler lines. I'll get around to cleaning that up sometime next week, so we'll see how it all looks in a month or so once the grass has had a chance to sprout and regrow in place of the weeds and everything else that is there now.
+
+My research is progressing slowly, and I've also been spending a fair amount of time looking for contract work so I can pay for yet another year of grad school. Anyone who is looking for contract mod_perl programmers, or expert system administrators, I'm all ears.
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diff --git a/posts/diary/waking_up_for_classes_gets_more_and_more_difficult.mdwn b/posts/diary/waking_up_for_classes_gets_more_and_more_difficult.mdwn
index da030d8..38a36d5 100644
--- a/posts/diary/waking_up_for_classes_gets_more_and_more_difficult.mdwn
+++ b/posts/diary/waking_up_for_classes_gets_more_and_more_difficult.mdwn
@@ -1 +1,5 @@
-Waking up for classes gets more and more difficult the longer the quarter goes on. Luckily, we're already half way through the quarter, so I won't have much longer to hold out.\n\nI ended up seeing my professor's talk (quite decent) on chemokines and Eta signal transduction in primary brain endothelial cells, after going to my bio200a class earlier in the morning. Really need to get this paper for bio200a finished sometime today, but it's very slow going. At least I kind of know in which direction I should be heading now.\n\nWe'll see what sort of evils tomorrow brings to me.
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+Waking up for classes gets more and more difficult the longer the quarter goes on. Luckily, we're already half way through the quarter, so I won't have much longer to hold out.
+
+I ended up seeing my professor's talk (quite decent) on chemokines and Eta signal transduction in primary brain endothelial cells, after going to my bio200a class earlier in the morning. Really need to get this paper for bio200a finished sometime today, but it's very slow going. At least I kind of know in which direction I should be heading now.
+
+We'll see what sort of evils tomorrow brings to me.
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diff --git a/posts/diary/wandered_down_to_fry_s_to_replace_my_3_button.mdwn b/posts/diary/wandered_down_to_fry_s_to_replace_my_3_button.mdwn
index 9b375db..dfaee8e 100644
--- a/posts/diary/wandered_down_to_fry_s_to_replace_my_3_button.mdwn
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@@ -1 +1,5 @@
-Wandered down to fry's to replace my 3 button mouse that had crapped out on me. I hate that place, but when you need something electronic quick, where else are you going to go?\n\nMore work on GM's system, looks like it's working now. Got sleep working with benh-2.4.17 on my g4 powerbook.. it's nice. Found gkrellm and it's working really well (after finding bubblefishymon.. quite silly but kind of cute). More reading and stuff to take care of tomorrow. Hopefully the new dual p4 will show up. That will be kind of fun to play with.\n\nOh yeah... also went grocery shopping and picked up some food so I'll be able to eat and drink for the near future. Also looked at digital cameras. Maybe when I come into some more money I'll pick one up.
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+Wandered down to fry's to replace my 3 button mouse that had crapped out on me. I hate that place, but when you need something electronic quick, where else are you going to go?
+
+More work on GM's system, looks like it's working now. Got sleep working with benh-2.4.17 on my g4 powerbook.. it's nice. Found gkrellm and it's working really well (after finding bubblefishymon.. quite silly but kind of cute). More reading and stuff to take care of tomorrow. Hopefully the new dual p4 will show up. That will be kind of fun to play with.
+
+Oh yeah... also went grocery shopping and picked up some food so I'll be able to eat and drink for the near future. Also looked at digital cameras. Maybe when I come into some more money I'll pick one up.
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diff --git a/posts/diary/wandered_home_to_work_on_the_table_some_more_got.mdwn b/posts/diary/wandered_home_to_work_on_the_table_some_more_got.mdwn
index b9de637..76e5803 100644
--- a/posts/diary/wandered_home_to_work_on_the_table_some_more_got.mdwn
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@@ -1 +1,5 @@
-Wandered home to work on the table some more, got the legs completed, but not exactly as I envisioned them. (A 60 degree cut with a 4 degree angle is extreemly difficult to produce on just about any thing short of a band saw... and I wasn't using a band saw.\n\nThen I came back home to take care of some more grading. Ugh. I loathe grading exams. Some of the answers are so inane.\n\nOh yes. I'm also getting quite sick. Starting blowing the green snot today. Hopefully my immune system will kick in and attack my cold, but if not, off to the antibiotics it is.
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+Wandered home to work on the table some more, got the legs completed, but not exactly as I envisioned them. (A 60 degree cut with a 4 degree angle is extreemly difficult to produce on just about any thing short of a band saw... and I wasn't using a band saw.
+
+Then I came back home to take care of some more grading. Ugh. I loathe grading exams. Some of the answers are so inane.
+
+Oh yes. I'm also getting quite sick. Starting blowing the green snot today. Hopefully my immune system will kick in and attack my cold, but if not, off to the antibiotics it is.
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diff --git a/posts/diary/wandered_into_the_library_in_the_morning_to_pick.mdwn b/posts/diary/wandered_into_the_library_in_the_morning_to_pick.mdwn
index eb6ab14..d42eab1 100644
--- a/posts/diary/wandered_into_the_library_in_the_morning_to_pick.mdwn
+++ b/posts/diary/wandered_into_the_library_in_the_morning_to_pick.mdwn
@@ -1 +1,5 @@
-Wandered into the library in the morning to pick up some books (Do Androids dream of electric sheep, cryptonomicon, and a few others). After that, I left riverside for huntington beach, and christmas eve. My mother made rotkohl, roast, salad, and all the appropriate trimmings of a proper german christmas dinner. (I'm way to fond of rotkohl for my own good.) Then christmas presents, followed by midnight mass.\n\nIt's always unusual going to church when one is a determinist (in the modern sense of the word), and furthermore, a biologist by training. But I will speak no further of my quandries in that area.\n\nThen we wandered back home, and I took care of some work that had piled up between noon and midnight (although I still have some more to do).
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+Wandered into the library in the morning to pick up some books (Do Androids dream of electric sheep, cryptonomicon, and a few others). After that, I left riverside for huntington beach, and christmas eve. My mother made rotkohl, roast, salad, and all the appropriate trimmings of a proper german christmas dinner. (I'm way to fond of rotkohl for my own good.) Then christmas presents, followed by midnight mass.
+
+It's always unusual going to church when one is a determinist (in the modern sense of the word), and furthermore, a biologist by training. But I will speak no further of my quandries in that area.
+
+Then we wandered back home, and I took care of some work that had piled up between noon and midnight (although I still have some more to do).
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diff --git a/posts/diary/wandered_onto_campus_and_dealt_with_some_random.mdwn b/posts/diary/wandered_onto_campus_and_dealt_with_some_random.mdwn
index b92f244..a06e4db 100644
--- a/posts/diary/wandered_onto_campus_and_dealt_with_some_random.mdwn
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@@ -1 +1,3 @@
-Wandered onto campus, and dealt with some random stuff that needed to be dealt with.\n\nWent to drop of money at OCFCU in anaheim, and continued on home (HB) to make a new table that I have designed. I'll hopefully post pictures of it on my website soon.
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+Wandered onto campus, and dealt with some random stuff that needed to be dealt with.
+
+Went to drop of money at OCFCU in anaheim, and continued on home (HB) to make a new table that I have designed. I'll hopefully post pictures of it on my website soon.
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diff --git a/posts/diary/wandered_to_hb_today_and_spent_the_majority_of.mdwn b/posts/diary/wandered_to_hb_today_and_spent_the_majority_of.mdwn
index 3681840..cce8b2e 100644
--- a/posts/diary/wandered_to_hb_today_and_spent_the_majority_of.mdwn
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@@ -1 +1,7 @@
-Wandered to HB today, and spent the majority of the day working on my table.\n\nThe top is almost finished... it was cut out using a sabre saw, and the edges were rounded over using a 1/4" rounding over bit. It's out of particle board, and will need to be filled and sanded before I paint it, but for starters, it looks ok.\n\nI'm still trying to figure out exactly what I'm going to do for legs. I'm probably going to go simplistic, and maybe make some triangular necked legs for the table... but I'm not entirely sure what I want to do there. (It will come to me at some point in time, and there will then be no doubt as to the correct approach.)\n\nAfter that, I wandered back to riverside, and spent the remainder of the day reading and cleaning up some stuff around the house before sleep came over me.
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+Wandered to HB today, and spent the majority of the day working on my table.
+
+The top is almost finished... it was cut out using a sabre saw, and the edges were rounded over using a 1/4" rounding over bit. It's out of particle board, and will need to be filled and sanded before I paint it, but for starters, it looks ok.
+
+I'm still trying to figure out exactly what I'm going to do for legs. I'm probably going to go simplistic, and maybe make some triangular necked legs for the table... but I'm not entirely sure what I want to do there. (It will come to me at some point in time, and there will then be no doubt as to the correct approach.)
+
+After that, I wandered back to riverside, and spent the remainder of the day reading and cleaning up some stuff around the house before sleep came over me.
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diff --git a/posts/diary/was_on_campus_making_nmr_samples_for_most_of_the.mdwn b/posts/diary/was_on_campus_making_nmr_samples_for_most_of_the.mdwn
index bf20f42..a05fca1 100644
--- a/posts/diary/was_on_campus_making_nmr_samples_for_most_of_the.mdwn
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@@ -1 +1,7 @@
-Was on campus making NMR samples for most of the day, then spent the evening working on assignment 1 for GNT 240. It's going along pretty well, but there are some definite holes that need to be filled, which I will get around to later.\n\nAlso talked briefly with angela and milan as I was wandering back from getting something to drink from coffee shop on campus. (I'm a coffee fiend... well, perhaps I should say, a caffeine fiend.)\n\nLearning latex in the context of doing this assingment, which is going along pretty well. Although I can definetly see that I am going to need to purchase one of the books on the subject so I can progress a bit faster than I have been able to do recently.\n\nMore work, then sleep.
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+Was on campus making NMR samples for most of the day, then spent the evening working on assignment 1 for GNT 240. It's going along pretty well, but there are some definite holes that need to be filled, which I will get around to later.
+
+Also talked briefly with angela and milan as I was wandering back from getting something to drink from coffee shop on campus. (I'm a coffee fiend... well, perhaps I should say, a caffeine fiend.)
+
+Learning latex in the context of doing this assingment, which is going along pretty well. Although I can definetly see that I am going to need to purchase one of the books on the subject so I can progress a bit faster than I have been able to do recently.
+
+More work, then sleep.
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diff --git a/posts/diary/weee.mdwn b/posts/diary/weee.mdwn
index 6260cd6..f4720af 100644
--- a/posts/diary/weee.mdwn
+++ b/posts/diary/weee.mdwn
@@ -1 +1,7 @@
-[gallery://parties_clubs/2003/february/dickys_02172003/travis_and_aeryn_at_dickys_02172003.jpg]Well, once again, it's been a terribly long time since I've written anything, and a whole lot has happened to me. I've been to dicky's twice, both times had quite a bit of fun, and went to bliss and spun at the Rocket Cafe again.[gallery://parties_clubs/2003/february/bliss_02212003/susy_q_and_greg_at_bliss_02212003.jpg]\n\nOn saturday, I played pool (again) at Jillians, and went out to Jungle Bums to see some of the DJ's who were playing there. Unfortunatly, the sound system in the main room was really crappy. Bad balance between the tables and the MC's, no real base definition, and definetly no volume. However, the sound system downstairs was  out of control, and definetly banging. Granted it was a little bit boomy because it was in a solid brick wall basement backed by soil, and it could have used a few heavy base traps hidden throughout, it was still much better than upstairs.\n\nPeople were dancing their legs off most of the night to DJ Mighty, Owen the Soyboy, Richie, and quite a few others. Track selection was on tip, although a few times the mixes got a bit rough. But who cares? I danced, and had a great time.[gallery://parties_clubs/2003/february/jungle_bums_02222003/dancefloor_at_junglebums_3_02222003.jpg]\n\nOn sunday I ended up watching Rouge [of the Rougue, Blanc, and Bleu series]. Quite nice, although I must confess, of the two that I've seen, I like Blanc better. I'm also slowly introducing Raphael to Anime, as we watched a few more episodes of Escaflowne.[gallery://parties_clubs/2003/february/jungle_bums_02222003/jerry_at_junglebums_02222003.jpg]\n
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+[gallery://parties_clubs/2003/february/dickys_02172003/travis_and_aeryn_at_dickys_02172003.jpg]Well, once again, it's been a terribly long time since I've written anything, and a whole lot has happened to me. I've been to dicky's twice, both times had quite a bit of fun, and went to bliss and spun at the Rocket Cafe again.[gallery://parties_clubs/2003/february/bliss_02212003/susy_q_and_greg_at_bliss_02212003.jpg]
+
+On saturday, I played pool (again) at Jillians, and went out to Jungle Bums to see some of the DJ's who were playing there. Unfortunatly, the sound system in the main room was really crappy. Bad balance between the tables and the MC's, no real base definition, and definetly no volume. However, the sound system downstairs was  out of control, and definetly banging. Granted it was a little bit boomy because it was in a solid brick wall basement backed by soil, and it could have used a few heavy base traps hidden throughout, it was still much better than upstairs.
+
+People were dancing their legs off most of the night to DJ Mighty, Owen the Soyboy, Richie, and quite a few others. Track selection was on tip, although a few times the mixes got a bit rough. But who cares? I danced, and had a great time.[gallery://parties_clubs/2003/february/jungle_bums_02222003/dancefloor_at_junglebums_3_02222003.jpg]
+
+On sunday I ended up watching Rouge [of the Rougue, Blanc, and Bleu series]. Quite nice, although I must confess, of the two that I've seen, I like Blanc better. I'm also slowly introducing Raphael to Anime, as we watched a few more episodes of Escaflowne.[gallery://parties_clubs/2003/february/jungle_bums_02222003/jerry_at_junglebums_02222003.jpg]
diff --git a/posts/diary/well_at_8a_it_was_time_to_get_to_campus_to_stop.mdwn b/posts/diary/well_at_8a_it_was_time_to_get_to_campus_to_stop.mdwn
index c59c1d3..657ed52 100644
--- a/posts/diary/well_at_8a_it_was_time_to_get_to_campus_to_stop.mdwn
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@@ -1 +1,5 @@
-well, at 8A it was time to get to campus to stop the NMR so someone could start running their samples at 9A. Did that, then came back, tried to eat something resembling a breakfast, and went back to campus for my class as 11A.\n\nAfter class, I prepared samples for the PKC assay, and then started to read [http://www.actsofgord.com], a quite interesting website. Go me.\n\nThen home, finished asimov's prelude to foundation, and have started reading foundation's edge, the current end to the fountation series. (I already read the trilogy...)
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+well, at 8A it was time to get to campus to stop the NMR so someone could start running their samples at 9A. Did that, then came back, tried to eat something resembling a breakfast, and went back to campus for my class as 11A.
+
+After class, I prepared samples for the PKC assay, and then started to read [http://www.actsofgord.com], a quite interesting website. Go me.
+
+Then home, finished asimov's prelude to foundation, and have started reading foundation's edge, the current end to the fountation series. (I already read the trilogy...)
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diff --git a/posts/diary/well_i_m_another_year_older_today_paul_sophie.mdwn b/posts/diary/well_i_m_another_year_older_today_paul_sophie.mdwn
index 29e0e68..1358eab 100644
--- a/posts/diary/well_i_m_another_year_older_today_paul_sophie.mdwn
+++ b/posts/diary/well_i_m_another_year_older_today_paul_sophie.mdwn
@@ -1 +1,9 @@
-Well, I'm another year older today. Paul, Sophie, Wendy, Brian and Randy all went out with me to go Dimm Summing in Rowland Heights for lunch, and it was quite fun. I'll have to do it again soon.\n\nAfter lunch, we grabbed milk tea at lollicup, and then wandered back to riverside, where I sat at home for a while and watched the superbowl. Not quite sure what happened, as I can't ever remember the super bowl being this late in the year, but it was on my birthday. A semi-decent game, with the Rams loosing after tying it up to a last second field goal. While football isn't my favorite sport (it's too slow for me) it was still kind of fun to sit and watch.\n\nAfter the game, I went to huntington beach to eat dinner with my parents at the macaroni bar and grill. I had a pretty decent crepe plate with samon, shrimp, scallops, muscles, and a minced/pureed tomato based cream sauce. Quite good. (Followed of course by tier missu, one of the deserts that I absolutely adore.)\n\nThey gave me a ryobi cordless drill/circular saw set, which will be extreemly usefull when I start to take care of getting the upstairs renovated (hopefully soon). I was going to try it out by installing the paper towel holder that I've had for quite some time, but I realized (lukily) that the screws that came with it were too long for the cabinet that I was going to stick it in, and would have gone all of the way through. So soon, I'll have to stop by home depot and pick up some slightly shorter stainless round head screws (probably 1/2" #4's or similar if I remember correctly).\n\nNow it's time for sleep, glorious sleep.
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+Well, I'm another year older today. Paul, Sophie, Wendy, Brian and Randy all went out with me to go Dimm Summing in Rowland Heights for lunch, and it was quite fun. I'll have to do it again soon.
+
+After lunch, we grabbed milk tea at lollicup, and then wandered back to riverside, where I sat at home for a while and watched the superbowl. Not quite sure what happened, as I can't ever remember the super bowl being this late in the year, but it was on my birthday. A semi-decent game, with the Rams loosing after tying it up to a last second field goal. While football isn't my favorite sport (it's too slow for me) it was still kind of fun to sit and watch.
+
+After the game, I went to huntington beach to eat dinner with my parents at the macaroni bar and grill. I had a pretty decent crepe plate with samon, shrimp, scallops, muscles, and a minced/pureed tomato based cream sauce. Quite good. (Followed of course by tier missu, one of the deserts that I absolutely adore.)
+
+They gave me a ryobi cordless drill/circular saw set, which will be extreemly usefull when I start to take care of getting the upstairs renovated (hopefully soon). I was going to try it out by installing the paper towel holder that I've had for quite some time, but I realized (lukily) that the screws that came with it were too long for the cabinet that I was going to stick it in, and would have gone all of the way through. So soon, I'll have to stop by home depot and pick up some slightly shorter stainless round head screws (probably 1/2" #4's or similar if I remember correctly).
+
+Now it's time for sleep, glorious sleep.
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diff --git a/posts/diary/well_i_was_supposed_to_make_and_run_a_pkc_assay.mdwn b/posts/diary/well_i_was_supposed_to_make_and_run_a_pkc_assay.mdwn
index 1d10579..9bf6e2f 100644
--- a/posts/diary/well_i_was_supposed_to_make_and_run_a_pkc_assay.mdwn
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@@ -1 +1,3 @@
-Well, I was supposed to make and run a PKC assay today, but the samples ended up getting loused up, and so we had to remake them. No big loss. I continued working on some other stuff, and then came home to deal the most superficial way possible with my room and the new monitor card I got.\n\nUnfortunatly, the silly pci card won't softboot, even though it's neighbor farther up the chain will. I'm going to have to figure out what is going on with it eventually. (Hopefully someone will tell me what stuff I need to write to the pci card to get it to boot up, and then it will just magically work.)
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+Well, I was supposed to make and run a PKC assay today, but the samples ended up getting loused up, and so we had to remake them. No big loss. I continued working on some other stuff, and then came home to deal the most superficial way possible with my room and the new monitor card I got.
+
+Unfortunatly, the silly pci card won't softboot, even though it's neighbor farther up the chain will. I'm going to have to figure out what is going on with it eventually. (Hopefully someone will tell me what stuff I need to write to the pci card to get it to boot up, and then it will just magically work.)
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diff --git a/posts/diary/well_lately_i_have_been_neglecting_to_fill_out_my.mdwn b/posts/diary/well_lately_i_have_been_neglecting_to_fill_out_my.mdwn
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--- a/posts/diary/well_lately_i_have_been_neglecting_to_fill_out_my.mdwn
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@@ -1 +1,5 @@
-Well, lately I have been neglecting to fill out my diary entries, so I guess I'll start again now. Today I managed to fix the broken tub faucet in the rear bathroom that had been leaking water like a seive for the past few days, and had been causing problems for a few months. It turned out that the valve seat had a [http://gallery.5045kensington.com/faucet_repair/new_set_broken_seat2.jpg|large chunk] taken out of it. With the correct [http://gallery.5045kensington.com/faucet_repair/old_seat_stem_and_tool.jpg|tool], the replacement proceeded without incident. Now the house is strangely quiet without that anoying noise of running water.\n\nI also am contining to do more and more research into natural language parsing for multiple different projects that I am interested in. Of course, as is usual, it's difficult to get involved in a new field, but I'll figure it out soon.\n\nI was kind of planning on going to release tonight, but I never ended up making it there. Hopefully I'll go to moontribe ttomorrow, but I might end up staying in riverside and doing some more reading.
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+Well, lately I have been neglecting to fill out my diary entries, so I guess I'll start again now. Today I managed to fix the broken tub faucet in the rear bathroom that had been leaking water like a seive for the past few days, and had been causing problems for a few months. It turned out that the valve seat had a [http://gallery.5045kensington.com/faucet_repair/new_set_broken_seat2.jpg|large chunk] taken out of it. With the correct [http://gallery.5045kensington.com/faucet_repair/old_seat_stem_and_tool.jpg|tool], the replacement proceeded without incident. Now the house is strangely quiet without that anoying noise of running water.
+
+I also am contining to do more and more research into natural language parsing for multiple different projects that I am interested in. Of course, as is usual, it's difficult to get involved in a new field, but I'll figure it out soon.
+
+I was kind of planning on going to release tonight, but I never ended up making it there. Hopefully I'll go to moontribe ttomorrow, but I might end up staying in riverside and doing some more reading.
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diff --git a/posts/diary/well_looks_like_another_day_has_gone_by.mdwn b/posts/diary/well_looks_like_another_day_has_gone_by.mdwn
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--- a/posts/diary/well_looks_like_another_day_has_gone_by.mdwn
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@@ -1 +1,9 @@
-Well, looks like another day has gone by. Thousands of undergrads are finishing off their finals, hoping to pass classes and not get failed out of the university. I wish them loads of luck.\n\nFor myself, I spent the day (well, it was about sunset before I got up, but whatever) working on my reference system, and I finally got links working (well, I should say that I finally got around to getting links working) inside of the diary generation script, which I should probably post once I actually get around to it. (Or maybe I already [http://www.donarmstrong.com/inprogress/diary/diary.html|did]. ) Of course, I haven't posted the version with the working links. I'll do that later.\n\nFinally visited [http://wilwheaton.net/|wil wheaton dot net] tonight. Looks like he likes cake alot. I'll probably have to listen in on them so I can see what they're all about. I'm kind of behind on my music listening as of right now.\n\nAlso talked with blakem on [http://www.perlmonks.org|perl monks]. He's doing well, and is going to make a trip down to SD from SF. Told him about the harbor house cafe and some of the other places on PCH. (But I'm always wary of recommending places to go, because I'm never sure of people's tastes... and I like some pretty bizare things...) Also told me about [http://www.perldoc.com/cpan/Parallel/ForkManager.html|Fork Manager] which I'm going to use to speed up the SGML queries to pubmed which currently are sucky sloow. (I don't really understand why it takes them 10 seconds or more to generate a simple sgml query using a uid that should be in their table index. Even if they have 100 million, that lookup shouldn't take more than 32 comparisons...)\n\nContemplating a coffee table based on a fibonacci sequence for the living room. Probably go to HB or LA tomorrow and look at some wood to make it. (Possibly spar lumber in long beach, as it has really good wood selection, but unfortunatly, doesn't always have larger pieces... and I'm not sure if I can afford a 3.5'x5' piece of maple or walnut.. nor would I do what I'm thinking of doing to such a nice piece of wood...)
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+Well, looks like another day has gone by. Thousands of undergrads are finishing off their finals, hoping to pass classes and not get failed out of the university. I wish them loads of luck.
+
+For myself, I spent the day (well, it was about sunset before I got up, but whatever) working on my reference system, and I finally got links working (well, I should say that I finally got around to getting links working) inside of the diary generation script, which I should probably post once I actually get around to it. (Or maybe I already [http://www.donarmstrong.com/inprogress/diary/diary.html|did]. ) Of course, I haven't posted the version with the working links. I'll do that later.
+
+Finally visited [http://wilwheaton.net/|wil wheaton dot net] tonight. Looks like he likes cake alot. I'll probably have to listen in on them so I can see what they're all about. I'm kind of behind on my music listening as of right now.
+
+Also talked with blakem on [http://www.perlmonks.org|perl monks]. He's doing well, and is going to make a trip down to SD from SF. Told him about the harbor house cafe and some of the other places on PCH. (But I'm always wary of recommending places to go, because I'm never sure of people's tastes... and I like some pretty bizare things...) Also told me about [http://www.perldoc.com/cpan/Parallel/ForkManager.html|Fork Manager] which I'm going to use to speed up the SGML queries to pubmed which currently are sucky sloow. (I don't really understand why it takes them 10 seconds or more to generate a simple sgml query using a uid that should be in their table index. Even if they have 100 million, that lookup shouldn't take more than 32 comparisons...)
+
+Contemplating a coffee table based on a fibonacci sequence for the living room. Probably go to HB or LA tomorrow and look at some wood to make it. (Possibly spar lumber in long beach, as it has really good wood selection, but unfortunatly, doesn't always have larger pieces... and I'm not sure if I can afford a 3.5'x5' piece of maple or walnut.. nor would I do what I'm thinking of doing to such a nice piece of wood...)
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diff --git a/posts/diary/well_normally_i_try_to_make_my_entries_before_i.mdwn b/posts/diary/well_normally_i_try_to_make_my_entries_before_i.mdwn
index cdabfc1..3c5a3ba 100644
--- a/posts/diary/well_normally_i_try_to_make_my_entries_before_i.mdwn
+++ b/posts/diary/well_normally_i_try_to_make_my_entries_before_i.mdwn
@@ -1 +1,7 @@
-Well, normally I try to make my entries before I go to bed, but as it looks like I'm not going to bother with sleeping this morning, I'll write what I did today now.\n\nI did just about nothing today. Yep. That's it. Well, not quite. Did some work on the grand marc system, talked with a ton of people online. Went with paul to the mall on a mission that will be discused later, and saw aaron there, who I haven't talked with in a while. Got discusted at the prices for TriGun and Escaflowne ($30 for 4 episodes!!!!). I also tried to clean up my room, and got partway through with it. I'll probably clean up the rest of it in just a bit.\n\nAlso looked for a harddrive for this machine, which is getting ready to go belly up. (Either that, or the kernel version that it is running isn't very happy...) Talked with a brazilian on line, who showed me to a [http://www.rmc.eti.br/hobbies/fotografia/rmc_praias.htm|picture collection] of some interesting pictures of what I guess is his hometown. (Sorry, I don't have any nice pictures of riverside around, alhtough there is a nice picture of a riverside firehydrant in my bathroom...)\n\nUm yeah. Going to be taking paul and sophie to the airport in about 3 hours, which should be fun. (Or at least, they'll have fun when they get where they're going... orlando florida...;-)
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+Well, normally I try to make my entries before I go to bed, but as it looks like I'm not going to bother with sleeping this morning, I'll write what I did today now.
+
+I did just about nothing today. Yep. That's it. Well, not quite. Did some work on the grand marc system, talked with a ton of people online. Went with paul to the mall on a mission that will be discused later, and saw aaron there, who I haven't talked with in a while. Got discusted at the prices for TriGun and Escaflowne ($30 for 4 episodes!!!!). I also tried to clean up my room, and got partway through with it. I'll probably clean up the rest of it in just a bit.
+
+Also looked for a harddrive for this machine, which is getting ready to go belly up. (Either that, or the kernel version that it is running isn't very happy...) Talked with a brazilian on line, who showed me to a [http://www.rmc.eti.br/hobbies/fotografia/rmc_praias.htm|picture collection] of some interesting pictures of what I guess is his hometown. (Sorry, I don't have any nice pictures of riverside around, alhtough there is a nice picture of a riverside firehydrant in my bathroom...)
+
+Um yeah. Going to be taking paul and sophie to the airport in about 3 hours, which should be fun. (Or at least, they'll have fun when they get where they're going... orlando florida...;-)
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diff --git a/posts/diary/well_today_http_paulzugnoni_com_paul_managed.mdwn b/posts/diary/well_today_http_paulzugnoni_com_paul_managed.mdwn
index 5bbbfa1..4fde321 100644
--- a/posts/diary/well_today_http_paulzugnoni_com_paul_managed.mdwn
+++ b/posts/diary/well_today_http_paulzugnoni_com_paul_managed.mdwn
@@ -1 +1,3 @@
-Well, today [http://paulzugnoni.com|paul] managed to get a his first [http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/05/01/0523251&mode=thread&tid=141|article] posted to [http://slashdot.org/|slashdot].\n\nI got experiments ready to go, slept through my first class, attended the second, and tried to deal with some other issues that were beginning to affect my day.
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+Well, today [http://paulzugnoni.com|paul] managed to get a his first [http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/05/01/0523251&mode=thread&tid=141|article] posted to [http://slashdot.org/|slashdot].
+
+I got experiments ready to go, slept through my first class, attended the second, and tried to deal with some other issues that were beginning to affect my day.
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diff --git a/posts/diary/went_to_a_discussion_and_heard_about_rop_and_ras.mdwn b/posts/diary/went_to_a_discussion_and_heard_about_rop_and_ras.mdwn
index 288cf22..2bae3c4 100644
--- a/posts/diary/went_to_a_discussion_and_heard_about_rop_and_ras.mdwn
+++ b/posts/diary/went_to_a_discussion_and_heard_about_rop_and_ras.mdwn
@@ -1 +1,3 @@
-Went to a discussion and heard about Rop and Ras, proteins involved in signal transduction with GTPase activity. Too bad both papers were on virtually the same bit of the signal transduction patway and weren't terribly strong into a moduleation of the pathway via pharmacological agents.\n\nThen picked up my grant after it was graded... didn't get butchered too badly. Collected data, ordered Hot ATP, and then came home to do some more work on my reference collector (which seems to be working well.) Chilled at starbucks for a bit, worked some more, and slept.
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+Went to a discussion and heard about Rop and Ras, proteins involved in signal transduction with GTPase activity. Too bad both papers were on virtually the same bit of the signal transduction patway and weren't terribly strong into a moduleation of the pathway via pharmacological agents.
+
+Then picked up my grant after it was graded... didn't get butchered too badly. Collected data, ordered Hot ATP, and then came home to do some more work on my reference collector (which seems to be working well.) Chilled at starbucks for a bit, worked some more, and slept.
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diff --git a/posts/diary/went_to_class_this_morning_and_learned_about_the.mdwn b/posts/diary/went_to_class_this_morning_and_learned_about_the.mdwn
index fa65b71..3a822c5 100644
--- a/posts/diary/went_to_class_this_morning_and_learned_about_the.mdwn
+++ b/posts/diary/went_to_class_this_morning_and_learned_about_the.mdwn
@@ -1 +1,7 @@
-Went to class this morning and learned about the edit algorithm for sequence alignment, and rehashed some of the dynamic programming paradigm (which I am relatively familiar with, but haven't used before). After cleass I sat about in the commons area eating lunch and playing on the 802.11 network.\n\nAfter lunch I went out to LA to see the preliminary fashion show of angela's (and her clasemates) work, and some of it was really impressive. I have some pictures up (not very many, and they're not verry good) at [http://gallery.donarmstrong.com/angela_fashionshow/].\n\nAfter the show we went to the formosa hotel which is a pretty cool little place that from the outside doesn't look like much, but inside is quite amazing. Obviously someone with a clue did the interior decorating and design, as it has a cool mediteranian feel, and lots of neat little areas spread through out the lobby.\n\nAfter that we went to see a play that angela's boyfriend mike was acting in. A series of one act vignettes based on a set of two words drawn from a hat and written in 12 hours performed, and then later revisited and adjusted, some of them were quite fabulous. It's called [http://www.sacredfools.org/DarkNights/02/SlowAndTight/|Slow & Tight], and I highly recommend that people go check it out. It's playing at [http://www.sacredfools.org/SacredFools] for most of this month.
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+Went to class this morning and learned about the edit algorithm for sequence alignment, and rehashed some of the dynamic programming paradigm (which I am relatively familiar with, but haven't used before). After cleass I sat about in the commons area eating lunch and playing on the 802.11 network.
+
+After lunch I went out to LA to see the preliminary fashion show of angela's (and her clasemates) work, and some of it was really impressive. I have some pictures up (not very many, and they're not verry good) at [http://gallery.donarmstrong.com/angela_fashionshow/].
+
+After the show we went to the formosa hotel which is a pretty cool little place that from the outside doesn't look like much, but inside is quite amazing. Obviously someone with a clue did the interior decorating and design, as it has a cool mediteranian feel, and lots of neat little areas spread through out the lobby.
+
+After that we went to see a play that angela's boyfriend mike was acting in. A series of one act vignettes based on a set of two words drawn from a hat and written in 12 hours performed, and then later revisited and adjusted, some of them were quite fabulous. It's called [http://www.sacredfools.org/DarkNights/02/SlowAndTight/|Slow & Tight], and I highly recommend that people go check it out. It's playing at [http://www.sacredfools.org/SacredFools] for most of this month.
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diff --git a/posts/diary/went_to_class_this_morning_for_bio200a_learned.mdwn b/posts/diary/went_to_class_this_morning_for_bio200a_learned.mdwn
index 1d6463a..da9e52e 100644
--- a/posts/diary/went_to_class_this_morning_for_bio200a_learned.mdwn
+++ b/posts/diary/went_to_class_this_morning_for_bio200a_learned.mdwn
@@ -1 +1,5 @@
-Went to class this morning for bio200a, learned about the movement of chromosomes and the formation of asters via dynein and kinesin, then went into by lab to finish off my grant.\n\nI turned it in at 4:50, ten minutes before it was due, and then went home to attempt to deal with stuff that had been negleted during the writing of the grant. Managed to add the correct angle and an arrow head to my program that draws trans membrane helical wheels, so it's basically ready to produce journal quality figures. Also managed to talk to erik and some of the RCC's who are currently running the network that I adminstered over the past couple of years....\n\nContinued reading The Name of the Rose, which seems to be a relatively decent book, although there are some gaps in the literary style of the authos, and crashed.
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+Went to class this morning for bio200a, learned about the movement of chromosomes and the formation of asters via dynein and kinesin, then went into by lab to finish off my grant.
+
+I turned it in at 4:50, ten minutes before it was due, and then went home to attempt to deal with stuff that had been negleted during the writing of the grant. Managed to add the correct angle and an arrow head to my program that draws trans membrane helical wheels, so it's basically ready to produce journal quality figures. Also managed to talk to erik and some of the RCC's who are currently running the network that I adminstered over the past couple of years....
+
+Continued reading The Name of the Rose, which seems to be a relatively decent book, although there are some gaps in the literary style of the authos, and crashed.
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diff --git a/posts/diary/went_to_fix_one_of_my_mom_s_computers_in_her.mdwn b/posts/diary/went_to_fix_one_of_my_mom_s_computers_in_her.mdwn
index e9381fb..310eae5 100644
--- a/posts/diary/went_to_fix_one_of_my_mom_s_computers_in_her.mdwn
+++ b/posts/diary/went_to_fix_one_of_my_mom_s_computers_in_her.mdwn
@@ -1 +1,3 @@
-Went to fix one of my mom's computers in her school, ended up being a proprietary software issue that was pretty easy to take care of once you got into the mindset of it's developers.\n\nThen food, finished watching the shadow, and came home to do some more work on random stuff.
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+Went to fix one of my mom's computers in her school, ended up being a proprietary software issue that was pretty easy to take care of once you got into the mindset of it's developers.
+
+Then food, finished watching the shadow, and came home to do some more work on random stuff.
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diff --git a/posts/diary/went_to_gnt240_in_the_morning_took_care_of_some.mdwn b/posts/diary/went_to_gnt240_in_the_morning_took_care_of_some.mdwn
index 32d9cf2..5f02d95 100644
--- a/posts/diary/went_to_gnt240_in_the_morning_took_care_of_some.mdwn
+++ b/posts/diary/went_to_gnt240_in_the_morning_took_care_of_some.mdwn
@@ -1 +1,7 @@
-Went to GNT240 in the morning, took care of some more work on a perl script to display the output from affymetrix datafiles and link them to ncbi's website, before angela called me and asked me to go with her to south coast plaza to pick up foundation.\n\nAlways eager to do just about anything, I wandered with her down to SCP, and we went looking through Saks 5th Avenue, and then macy's looking for her foundation. Lukily, she found it (and they actually had the right color). It still amazes me that virtually a whole floor of most department stores is completely devoted to displaying cosmetics. A whole section of a store devoted to a product that I know almost nothing about. Obviousy people spend an awfull lot of money on it though...\n\nAfter that, ate dinner at wahoo's fish tacos (and I had a burrito), shopped for a bit at border's where I tried to find a copy in good condition of Tolkein's History of Middle Earth vol.1-13, but ended up getting Card's Shadow of the Hedgemon (which had *finally* come out in paperback). Card is one of the authors that I love to read, but his style isn't quite refined enough for me to justify spending $30 on a hardcover book when it first comes out.\n\nOnce I wandered home, I thougt I would go to sleep, but no... I spent the entire night reading SotH. It was decent, but not as good as I was hopeing. Some of the dialog between the characters left a bit to be desired, and the psychological aspects of the main characters, petra and bean, were not as well explored as I would have liked. Of course, I got hooked on the whole ender's series a long time ago, so I had no choice but to read every new book in the series. Maybe I'll write more about it later.
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+Went to GNT240 in the morning, took care of some more work on a perl script to display the output from affymetrix datafiles and link them to ncbi's website, before angela called me and asked me to go with her to south coast plaza to pick up foundation.
+
+Always eager to do just about anything, I wandered with her down to SCP, and we went looking through Saks 5th Avenue, and then macy's looking for her foundation. Lukily, she found it (and they actually had the right color). It still amazes me that virtually a whole floor of most department stores is completely devoted to displaying cosmetics. A whole section of a store devoted to a product that I know almost nothing about. Obviousy people spend an awfull lot of money on it though...
+
+After that, ate dinner at wahoo's fish tacos (and I had a burrito), shopped for a bit at border's where I tried to find a copy in good condition of Tolkein's History of Middle Earth vol.1-13, but ended up getting Card's Shadow of the Hedgemon (which had *finally* come out in paperback). Card is one of the authors that I love to read, but his style isn't quite refined enough for me to justify spending $30 on a hardcover book when it first comes out.
+
+Once I wandered home, I thougt I would go to sleep, but no... I spent the entire night reading SotH. It was decent, but not as good as I was hopeing. Some of the dialog between the characters left a bit to be desired, and the psychological aspects of the main characters, petra and bean, were not as well explored as I would have liked. Of course, I got hooked on the whole ender's series a long time ago, so I had no choice but to read every new book in the series. Maybe I'll write more about it later.
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diff --git a/posts/diary/went_to_grand_marc_this_morning_and_took_care_of.mdwn b/posts/diary/went_to_grand_marc_this_morning_and_took_care_of.mdwn
index ee5aade..ff6128e 100644
--- a/posts/diary/went_to_grand_marc_this_morning_and_took_care_of.mdwn
+++ b/posts/diary/went_to_grand_marc_this_morning_and_took_care_of.mdwn
@@ -1 +1,5 @@
-Went to grand marc this morning, and took care of some problems resulting from the failure of a hard drive. Also dealt with a modem issue, one that I haven't had to deal with in quite a long time. (Definetly very annoying!).\n\nThen I came back to the house, continued working on the reference system. You can now upload files correctly, and add links as appropriate.\n\nNext I need to get some icons for it so the add (blah) controls are smaller and easier to deal with. (Right now they are all text.)
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+Went to grand marc this morning, and took care of some problems resulting from the failure of a hard drive. Also dealt with a modem issue, one that I haven't had to deal with in quite a long time. (Definetly very annoying!).
+
+Then I came back to the house, continued working on the reference system. You can now upload files correctly, and add links as appropriate.
+
+Next I need to get some icons for it so the add (blah) controls are smaller and easier to deal with. (Right now they are all text.)
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diff --git a/posts/diary/went_to_randy_s_party_at_randy_s_parents_house_in.mdwn b/posts/diary/went_to_randy_s_party_at_randy_s_parents_house_in.mdwn
index ec6eb9b..7767c18 100644
--- a/posts/diary/went_to_randy_s_party_at_randy_s_parents_house_in.mdwn
+++ b/posts/diary/went_to_randy_s_party_at_randy_s_parents_house_in.mdwn
@@ -1 +1,7 @@
-Went to randy's party at randy's parents house in Bel Air. Really nice house. His parents definetly did a good job remodelling it from how it originally looked. Paul and sophie are heading up north to visit with paul's parents, and they wandered around behind me as I forgot where pinks was looking for somewhere to eat after the party.\n\nI really should learn how to drive around LA. (Which is sad, because I never really didn't know where I was, I just forgot where other things were...) \n\nBefore wandering into LA, I helped paul get [http://www.gnome.org|gdm] configured on his box. The symlink for his X server wasn't set right. (Not quite sure how debian screwed that one up, but whatever...) Also played for a bit with installing various neat toys, like some of the opengl servers. I'll have to get acceleration working on my multi-head display. Right now, no 3d is accelerated, which sort of sucks.\n\nMore work on a gift. Hopefully it will turn out ok.
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+Went to randy's party at randy's parents house in Bel Air. Really nice house. His parents definetly did a good job remodelling it from how it originally looked. Paul and sophie are heading up north to visit with paul's parents, and they wandered around behind me as I forgot where pinks was looking for somewhere to eat after the party.
+
+I really should learn how to drive around LA. (Which is sad, because I never really didn't know where I was, I just forgot where other things were...) 
+
+Before wandering into LA, I helped paul get [http://www.gnome.org|gdm] configured on his box. The symlink for his X server wasn't set right. (Not quite sure how debian screwed that one up, but whatever...) Also played for a bit with installing various neat toys, like some of the opengl servers. I'll have to get acceleration working on my multi-head display. Right now, no 3d is accelerated, which sort of sucks.
+
+More work on a gift. Hopefully it will turn out ok.
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diff --git a/posts/diary/went_to_the_lab_to_do_some_more_work_on_the_gene.mdwn b/posts/diary/went_to_the_lab_to_do_some_more_work_on_the_gene.mdwn
index 678b064..2a948f1 100644
--- a/posts/diary/went_to_the_lab_to_do_some_more_work_on_the_gene.mdwn
+++ b/posts/diary/went_to_the_lab_to_do_some_more_work_on_the_gene.mdwn
@@ -1 +1,7 @@
-Went to the lab to do some more work on the gene array analysis. Also, preparing to get stuff ready for the PKC experiment tomorrow. I've finished one of the possible methods of analysis, but I need to examine the process mroe carefully and see exactly what is going on and decide if I like it or not.\n\nTried to check out some more books from, and returned others to, the library today. Unforunatly, one of the books that I wanted was missing. (I've got about 5-7 books on hold that are missing that the shelf searchers are looking for. Hopefully the will be found.)\n\nGave Angela back the cd that I had copied from angela (and got stuck in my G4 when it didn't powerdown after copying the cd for some unknown reason. She'll give them to angela on friday I gather.\n\nGoing to take care of some more reading before I enter the dream realm for some glorious sleep.
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+Went to the lab to do some more work on the gene array analysis. Also, preparing to get stuff ready for the PKC experiment tomorrow. I've finished one of the possible methods of analysis, but I need to examine the process mroe carefully and see exactly what is going on and decide if I like it or not.
+
+Tried to check out some more books from, and returned others to, the library today. Unforunatly, one of the books that I wanted was missing. (I've got about 5-7 books on hold that are missing that the shelf searchers are looking for. Hopefully the will be found.)
+
+Gave Angela back the cd that I had copied from angela (and got stuck in my G4 when it didn't powerdown after copying the cd for some unknown reason. She'll give them to angela on friday I gather.
+
+Going to take care of some more reading before I enter the dream realm for some glorious sleep.
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diff --git a/posts/diary/went_to_the_monthly_cmdb_lunch_right_after_i_woke.mdwn b/posts/diary/went_to_the_monthly_cmdb_lunch_right_after_i_woke.mdwn
index 7100b86..939f45e 100644
--- a/posts/diary/went_to_the_monthly_cmdb_lunch_right_after_i_woke.mdwn
+++ b/posts/diary/went_to_the_monthly_cmdb_lunch_right_after_i_woke.mdwn
@@ -1 +1,5 @@
-Went to the monthly CMDB lunch right after I woke up, heard about Dr. Hyman's small project on mitochondrial dna recombination, and how a bit of serindipity and knowledge allowed him to bring down a bit of dogma.\n\nThen I spent some time freeze thawing the NMR sample before running it and wandering back home. After that, I sat and read some more work on natural language parsing, before going over to Angela's to go to club blue and free thinking.\n\nI haven't been to club blue before, and it was pretty decent, a nice location so long as either the doors are open or the air conditioning is on high (which it seemed not to be... quite annoying). Pretty decent set by Juan Nunez, a good set by Little Chris, followed by Metro Area, which was rather awesome. Unfortunatly, I'm not as fond of Doc Martin's style (tends to get a bit to hard for me) so I wandered across the street to free thinking for a bit before 2 and then heading back home. Interestingly, at free thinking, I was once again reminded of how rude guys can be... angela was bothered by a complete idiot who, for whatever reason, thought she would be interested in someone who didn't have the comon courtesy to introduce themselves without trying to touch. Luckily, that happens rarely... (and girls don't do that to me, ever...)
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+Went to the monthly CMDB lunch right after I woke up, heard about Dr. Hyman's small project on mitochondrial dna recombination, and how a bit of serindipity and knowledge allowed him to bring down a bit of dogma.
+
+Then I spent some time freeze thawing the NMR sample before running it and wandering back home. After that, I sat and read some more work on natural language parsing, before going over to Angela's to go to club blue and free thinking.
+
+I haven't been to club blue before, and it was pretty decent, a nice location so long as either the doors are open or the air conditioning is on high (which it seemed not to be... quite annoying). Pretty decent set by Juan Nunez, a good set by Little Chris, followed by Metro Area, which was rather awesome. Unfortunatly, I'm not as fond of Doc Martin's style (tends to get a bit to hard for me) so I wandered across the street to free thinking for a bit before 2 and then heading back home. Interestingly, at free thinking, I was once again reminded of how rude guys can be... angela was bothered by a complete idiot who, for whatever reason, thought she would be interested in someone who didn't have the comon courtesy to introduce themselves without trying to touch. Luckily, that happens rarely... (and girls don't do that to me, ever...)
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diff --git a/posts/diary/when_you_re_not_quite_sure_exactly_what_you_re.mdwn b/posts/diary/when_you_re_not_quite_sure_exactly_what_you_re.mdwn
index bd73983..75175c2 100644
--- a/posts/diary/when_you_re_not_quite_sure_exactly_what_you_re.mdwn
+++ b/posts/diary/when_you_re_not_quite_sure_exactly_what_you_re.mdwn
@@ -1 +1,3 @@
-When you're not quite sure exactly what you're doing, sometimes it's acceptable to do nothing at all. Sometimes it's not.\n\nMore work on the reference system, spent some time reading, and watching tv. Haven't really watched TV since sometime 3 weeks ago. Still a waste of time. (Although junkyard wars and battlebots was kind of interesting...) Um.. yeah. More eating, and stuff and working, and writing, and sleep. Yeah. Lots of sleep. (We're nearing the end of the quarter. One last week of instruction, then finals. Oooo... yippie.)
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+When you're not quite sure exactly what you're doing, sometimes it's acceptable to do nothing at all. Sometimes it's not.
+
+More work on the reference system, spent some time reading, and watching tv. Haven't really watched TV since sometime 3 weeks ago. Still a waste of time. (Although junkyard wars and battlebots was kind of interesting...) Um.. yeah. More eating, and stuff and working, and writing, and sleep. Yeah. Lots of sleep. (We're nearing the end of the quarter. One last week of instruction, then finals. Oooo... yippie.)
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diff --git a/posts/diary/whoa_way_to_much_stuff_got_done_today_i_think.mdwn b/posts/diary/whoa_way_to_much_stuff_got_done_today_i_think.mdwn
index c683e6f..18fdb77 100644
--- a/posts/diary/whoa_way_to_much_stuff_got_done_today_i_think.mdwn
+++ b/posts/diary/whoa_way_to_much_stuff_got_done_today_i_think.mdwn
@@ -1 +1,5 @@
-Whoa. Way to much stuff got done today. I think I'm going to have to become lazy for the next couple weeks to make up for it.\n\nRegistered for classes, took care of a hold on my registration (not in that order), made NMR samples, attended class, started running an NMR sample that I had made previously, got the felix converter working correctly for at least some of its imput set, and read a bit.\n\nStill got a big long push for my single final on tuesday, but I think I can make it until then. Hopefully.
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+Whoa. Way to much stuff got done today. I think I'm going to have to become lazy for the next couple weeks to make up for it.
+
+Registered for classes, took care of a hold on my registration (not in that order), made NMR samples, attended class, started running an NMR sample that I had made previously, got the felix converter working correctly for at least some of its imput set, and read a bit.
+
+Still got a big long push for my single final on tuesday, but I think I can make it until then. Hopefully.
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diff --git a/posts/diary/winter_won_t_stop.mdwn b/posts/diary/winter_won_t_stop.mdwn
index 102e1d9..7800f7a 100644
--- a/posts/diary/winter_won_t_stop.mdwn
+++ b/posts/diary/winter_won_t_stop.mdwn
@@ -1 +1,3 @@
-[gal://2003/april/04072003/subaru_snow_04072003.jpg]This winter just seems to want to keep right on going. Today there was about 3 inches of snow, which still seems to be falling even though it's almost 2A EDT. My car and the entire parking lot outside of the Eastman Dental Building was completely covered, as you can see to the left. This, added onto the nice bit of ice stormage over the weekend which cut of power to a large number of people, including Raphael and his family in Brighton. Oh well. I'd much rather have snow than an ice storm. [But I think I'm going to have to spend some serious time on the beach in FL or CA when I get back to thaw out a bit. Brrrr.]\n\n[gal://clippings/oakland_apl_police_brutality_04072003/capt.1049738719.war_iraq_us_protests_caps105.jpg]In other interesting bits, it seems that the Oakland police department has decided that it would be a great Public Relations move to fire upon relatively non-violent anti-war protesters who decided to protest APL, a shiping company that supposedly is a major DoD shipper. Regardless of whether you agree with the protesters or not, the usage of force against relatively non-violent protesters should not be tolerated in any city. The right to air one's grievances in a public maner is one of the liberties which all Americans hold dear, and must not be taken away by force or threat of force in all but the most dire circumstances. Frankly, I'm not quite sure how 1000 protesters who may or may not have been keeping longshoremen from work is a "dire circumstance" requiring much more than a police presence to make sure that the protesters refain from vandalizing property and avoid liability from not responding.
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+[gal://2003/april/04072003/subaru_snow_04072003.jpg]This winter just seems to want to keep right on going. Today there was about 3 inches of snow, which still seems to be falling even though it's almost 2A EDT. My car and the entire parking lot outside of the Eastman Dental Building was completely covered, as you can see to the left. This, added onto the nice bit of ice stormage over the weekend which cut of power to a large number of people, including Raphael and his family in Brighton. Oh well. I'd much rather have snow than an ice storm. [But I think I'm going to have to spend some serious time on the beach in FL or CA when I get back to thaw out a bit. Brrrr.]
+
+[gal://clippings/oakland_apl_police_brutality_04072003/capt.1049738719.war_iraq_us_protests_caps105.jpg]In other interesting bits, it seems that the Oakland police department has decided that it would be a great Public Relations move to fire upon relatively non-violent anti-war protesters who decided to protest APL, a shiping company that supposedly is a major DoD shipper. Regardless of whether you agree with the protesters or not, the usage of force against relatively non-violent protesters should not be tolerated in any city. The right to air one's grievances in a public maner is one of the liberties which all Americans hold dear, and must not be taken away by force or threat of force in all but the most dire circumstances. Frankly, I'm not quite sure how 1000 protesters who may or may not have been keeping longshoremen from work is a "dire circumstance" requiring much more than a police presence to make sure that the protesters refain from vandalizing property and avoid liability from not responding.
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diff --git a/posts/diary/woke_up_and_set_up_and_cut_the_door_for_the_guest.mdwn b/posts/diary/woke_up_and_set_up_and_cut_the_door_for_the_guest.mdwn
index ea574e5..6f651a2 100644
--- a/posts/diary/woke_up_and_set_up_and_cut_the_door_for_the_guest.mdwn
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@@ -1 +1,3 @@
-Woke up, and set up and cut the door for the guest room, got the door almost correct (still need to plane a bit off of it). Installed the lock hardware, and patched up the hole left from the previous lock hardware.\n\nKatie, the new occupant of the room, dropped off money and stuff. She'll be moving in on sunday. Ate at getaway with my aunt, came back and did some more work, prepared figures for a paper and fixed some problems with the helical wheel generator, and then went to bed.
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+Woke up, and set up and cut the door for the guest room, got the door almost correct (still need to plane a bit off of it). Installed the lock hardware, and patched up the hole left from the previous lock hardware.
+
+Katie, the new occupant of the room, dropped off money and stuff. She'll be moving in on sunday. Ate at getaway with my aunt, came back and did some more work, prepared figures for a paper and fixed some problems with the helical wheel generator, and then went to bed.
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diff --git a/posts/diary/woke_up_got_new_memory_slapped_into_my_main.mdwn b/posts/diary/woke_up_got_new_memory_slapped_into_my_main.mdwn
index d3a7b01..764da70 100644
--- a/posts/diary/woke_up_got_new_memory_slapped_into_my_main.mdwn
+++ b/posts/diary/woke_up_got_new_memory_slapped_into_my_main.mdwn
@@ -1 +1,3 @@
-Woke up, got new memory slapped into my main machine (1.5G), wandered onto campus to get NMR started, did some reading and work in the lab, and then talked with Z at starbucks, came back, made dinner, and then kept the NMR stuff going.\n\nGot to wake up at 8 to deal with it... (it's like 3A now...)
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+Woke up, got new memory slapped into my main machine (1.5G), wandered onto campus to get NMR started, did some reading and work in the lab, and then talked with Z at starbucks, came back, made dinner, and then kept the NMR stuff going.
+
+Got to wake up at 8 to deal with it... (it's like 3A now...)
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diff --git a/posts/diary/woke_up_went_to_class_ran_around_taking_care_of.mdwn b/posts/diary/woke_up_went_to_class_ran_around_taking_care_of.mdwn
index 75b5185..edda5eb 100644
--- a/posts/diary/woke_up_went_to_class_ran_around_taking_care_of.mdwn
+++ b/posts/diary/woke_up_went_to_class_ran_around_taking_care_of.mdwn
@@ -1 +1,3 @@
-Woke up, went to class. Ran around taking care of stuff for the lab (starting samples, survey meter calibration). Picked up a paper that I was missing for my grant, and then went home, wrote some more, took a nap, read more, wrote more, ate, read more, wrote more.\n\nIt's quite odd to be spending a large portion of your time reading and writing. Up until recently, I spent most of my time actually doing active things. It will take some getting used to.
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+Woke up, went to class. Ran around taking care of stuff for the lab (starting samples, survey meter calibration). Picked up a paper that I was missing for my grant, and then went home, wrote some more, took a nap, read more, wrote more, ate, read more, wrote more.
+
+It's quite odd to be spending a large portion of your time reading and writing. Up until recently, I spent most of my time actually doing active things. It will take some getting used to.
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diff --git a/posts/diary/woke_up_went_to_hear_a_good_talk_on_engineering.mdwn b/posts/diary/woke_up_went_to_hear_a_good_talk_on_engineering.mdwn
index b969f97..ee9ac16 100644
--- a/posts/diary/woke_up_went_to_hear_a_good_talk_on_engineering.mdwn
+++ b/posts/diary/woke_up_went_to_hear_a_good_talk_on_engineering.mdwn
@@ -1 +1,3 @@
-Woke up, went to hear a good talk on engineering salt water tolerant plants by increasing the copynumber of the vacuolar Na+/H+ antiport. Looks like it might allow plants to be able to be grown quite effectively in high-salt environments. I ate lunch with the presenter, Dr. Eduardo Blumwald, pretty neat guy, masters in israel, phd in berkely, professor in toronto, and now at UC Davis.\n\nThen it was back to my house for another round of writing and reading. I just about finished everything up before being unable to continue. (Sometime around 4A).
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+Woke up, went to hear a good talk on engineering salt water tolerant plants by increasing the copynumber of the vacuolar Na+/H+ antiport. Looks like it might allow plants to be able to be grown quite effectively in high-salt environments. I ate lunch with the presenter, Dr. Eduardo Blumwald, pretty neat guy, masters in israel, phd in berkely, professor in toronto, and now at UC Davis.
+
+Then it was back to my house for another round of writing and reading. I just about finished everything up before being unable to continue. (Sometime around 4A).
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diff --git a/posts/diary/woke_up_with_a_nasty_head_cold_today_always.mdwn b/posts/diary/woke_up_with_a_nasty_head_cold_today_always.mdwn
index bdbcf6f..9e58638 100644
--- a/posts/diary/woke_up_with_a_nasty_head_cold_today_always.mdwn
+++ b/posts/diary/woke_up_with_a_nasty_head_cold_today_always.mdwn
@@ -1 +1,3 @@
-Woke up with a nasty head cold today. Always annoying when that happens. Got the door finished for the room, wandered to home depot in the rain, got the white latex for the door, mark managed to spill some of it on his pant leg in the car with my help ;-(.\n\nAfter two coats of paint on the door, it looks like a door should. (I've realized that I really hate dealing with doors.) Then more cleanup in the room, and waiting for the paint to dry enough for the door hardware to go on. Probably will have to wait until tomorrow for that.
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+Woke up with a nasty head cold today. Always annoying when that happens. Got the door finished for the room, wandered to home depot in the rain, got the white latex for the door, mark managed to spill some of it on his pant leg in the car with my help ;-(.
+
+After two coats of paint on the door, it looks like a door should. (I've realized that I really hate dealing with doors.) Then more cleanup in the room, and waiting for the paint to dry enough for the door hardware to go on. Probably will have to wait until tomorrow for that.
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diff --git a/posts/diary/work_and_play.mdwn b/posts/diary/work_and_play.mdwn
index 18093a9..ae5e2a8 100644
--- a/posts/diary/work_and_play.mdwn
+++ b/posts/diary/work_and_play.mdwn
@@ -1 +1,7 @@
-I spent most of the day today working on implementing a procedure to determine the noise level present in the gene microarrays that we are using at socratech. I ended up implementing a method described in a paper by Rocke and Durbin in R. I've chucked the code up on [http://rzlab.ucr.edu/scripts/ma_error/|rzlab.ucr.edu]. Note that it works, but is not completely tested as of right now.\n<div style="float:left; padding:8px"><a href="http://gallery.donarmstrong.com/new_camera_pictures/dickys_01282003/chyna_on_tables.jpg"><img src="http://gallery.donarmstrong.com/new_camera_pictures/dickys_01282003/.cache/200x150-chyna_on_tables.jpg" border="0"></a></div>\n\nAfter leaving work, I went out to Dicky's Restaurant to listen to Chyna and Greg spin. Seems that I spend most tuesday evenings there playing pool and listening to awesome music.\n<div style="float:right; padding:8px"><a href="http://gallery.donarmstrong.com/new_camera_pictures/dickys_01282003/dave_looking_for_next_shot.jpg"><img src="http://gallery.donarmstrong.com/new_camera_pictures/dickys_01282003/.cache/200x150-dave_looking_for_next_shot.jpg" border="0"></a></div>\n\nOf course, I should definetly admit that I still suck at pool, but I am getting slightly better. At least, I can make shots from time to time.
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+I spent most of the day today working on implementing a procedure to determine the noise level present in the gene microarrays that we are using at socratech. I ended up implementing a method described in a paper by Rocke and Durbin in R. I've chucked the code up on [http://rzlab.ucr.edu/scripts/ma_error/|rzlab.ucr.edu]. Note that it works, but is not completely tested as of right now.
+<div style="float:left; padding:8px"><a href="http://gallery.donarmstrong.com/new_camera_pictures/dickys_01282003/chyna_on_tables.jpg"><img src="http://gallery.donarmstrong.com/new_camera_pictures/dickys_01282003/.cache/200x150-chyna_on_tables.jpg" border="0"></a></div>
+
+After leaving work, I went out to Dicky's Restaurant to listen to Chyna and Greg spin. Seems that I spend most tuesday evenings there playing pool and listening to awesome music.
+<div style="float:right; padding:8px"><a href="http://gallery.donarmstrong.com/new_camera_pictures/dickys_01282003/dave_looking_for_next_shot.jpg"><img src="http://gallery.donarmstrong.com/new_camera_pictures/dickys_01282003/.cache/200x150-dave_looking_for_next_shot.jpg" border="0"></a></div>
+
+Of course, I should definetly admit that I still suck at pool, but I am getting slightly better. At least, I can make shots from time to time.
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diff --git a/posts/diary/worked_more_on_the_gene_array_analysis_had_a.mdwn b/posts/diary/worked_more_on_the_gene_array_analysis_had_a.mdwn
index 6093f8b..cc66059 100644
--- a/posts/diary/worked_more_on_the_gene_array_analysis_had_a.mdwn
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@@ -1 +1,9 @@
-Worked more on the gene array analysis, had a conference call with betza, joe, and raphael on it.\n\nCollected and analized the pkc data... looks like a problem where the calcium is going to need to be remade. Quite exciting.\n\nI also signed up for NMR time on tuesday from 3- wednesday at 1, and went to GNT 240A again. I'll need to sign up for that class tomorrow, along with 2 addtional units of research.\n\nSpent some time playing with dancer-ircd... probably get that working at home in the next couple of days.\n\nAngela's package still hasn't arrived... looks like amazon straight up isn't going to ship it for whatever reason. Seems kind of lameo to me.
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+Worked more on the gene array analysis, had a conference call with betza, joe, and raphael on it.
+
+Collected and analized the pkc data... looks like a problem where the calcium is going to need to be remade. Quite exciting.
+
+I also signed up for NMR time on tuesday from 3- wednesday at 1, and went to GNT 240A again. I'll need to sign up for that class tomorrow, along with 2 addtional units of research.
+
+Spent some time playing with dancer-ircd... probably get that working at home in the next couple of days.
+
+Angela's package still hasn't arrived... looks like amazon straight up isn't going to ship it for whatever reason. Seems kind of lameo to me.
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diff --git a/posts/diary/worked_more_on_the_linking_part_of_the_reference.mdwn b/posts/diary/worked_more_on_the_linking_part_of_the_reference.mdwn
index 46514a6..c0274ba 100644
--- a/posts/diary/worked_more_on_the_linking_part_of_the_reference.mdwn
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@@ -1 +1,5 @@
-Worked more on the linking part of the reference system, cleaned up some more of the backyard that needed to be taken care of. Partook in the 2.99 combo special at carl's jr, and continued working on the reference system.\n\nI have to finish the rest of the in-note linking system soon.\n\nI also picked up a copy of the directors cut of Blade Runner, which is pretty good... however there still is some flutter in the digitization, that probably shouldn't have been there. Quite obvious that they used a projector to digitize it. (I wonder why they don't use a whole film scanner... but... )
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+Worked more on the linking part of the reference system, cleaned up some more of the backyard that needed to be taken care of. Partook in the 2.99 combo special at carl's jr, and continued working on the reference system.
+
+I have to finish the rest of the in-note linking system soon.
+
+I also picked up a copy of the directors cut of Blade Runner, which is pretty good... however there still is some flutter in the digitization, that probably shouldn't have been there. Quite obvious that they used a projector to digitize it. (I wonder why they don't use a whole film scanner... but... )
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diff --git a/posts/diary/worked_on_my_references_application_again_went_ot.mdwn b/posts/diary/worked_on_my_references_application_again_went_ot.mdwn
index 8b84bad..a7e3c84 100644
--- a/posts/diary/worked_on_my_references_application_again_went_ot.mdwn
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@@ -1 +1,9 @@
-Worked on my references application again, went ot the lab and finished up the figures that were messed up. Ended up not being able to make the NMR figures, but that's not a big deal.\n\nCame home, and had chorizo, and did some more work on the references, porting the sgml part to perl, then went to coffee depot and read some more about MarKov Chains and MonteCarlo simulations. Looking more and more interesting, but I'll have to see exactly how people are applying it to literature mining, as I'm not deep enough into the field to grok that aspect of it.\n\nBack home, got the wheel working on rzlab.ucr.edu, and put up some stuff there [http://rzlab.ucr.edu], not exactly exciting, but at least the reviewers can check the figures and the source code when they go over the paper.\n\nThen I spent some time trying to get mutt to work well with my setup, but unfortunatly, I've become way to entrenched in using pine to switch really easily to a new MUA. Once I figure out the folder filtering commands so I can actually wade through my e-mails, I'll probably begin to switch from pine to mutt, but I dind't have enough time to figure out the mbox-hook.\n\nWell, it's late, and time to go to sleep. Got lots of stuff to deal with tomorrow when I wake up. (Ooo... exciting...)
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+Worked on my references application again, went ot the lab and finished up the figures that were messed up. Ended up not being able to make the NMR figures, but that's not a big deal.
+
+Came home, and had chorizo, and did some more work on the references, porting the sgml part to perl, then went to coffee depot and read some more about MarKov Chains and MonteCarlo simulations. Looking more and more interesting, but I'll have to see exactly how people are applying it to literature mining, as I'm not deep enough into the field to grok that aspect of it.
+
+Back home, got the wheel working on rzlab.ucr.edu, and put up some stuff there [http://rzlab.ucr.edu], not exactly exciting, but at least the reviewers can check the figures and the source code when they go over the paper.
+
+Then I spent some time trying to get mutt to work well with my setup, but unfortunatly, I've become way to entrenched in using pine to switch really easily to a new MUA. Once I figure out the folder filtering commands so I can actually wade through my e-mails, I'll probably begin to switch from pine to mutt, but I dind't have enough time to figure out the mbox-hook.
+
+Well, it's late, and time to go to sleep. Got lots of stuff to deal with tomorrow when I wake up. (Ooo... exciting...)
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diff --git a/posts/diary/ya_know_i_think_these_diary_things_are_built_for.mdwn b/posts/diary/ya_know_i_think_these_diary_things_are_built_for.mdwn
index 0077111..6b0d1e8 100644
--- a/posts/diary/ya_know_i_think_these_diary_things_are_built_for.mdwn
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@@ -1 +1,5 @@
-Ya know, I think these diary things are built for people who keep normal daily schedules. I don't, at least, not any type of schedule that I can tell, so my entries are continually off base to what day it is. (I like working at night, but I sleep for about 12 hours at a time, and can easily stay up for 24. Seems like I keep rotating the day around piece by piece.\n\nOn to the point. I went to see Lord Of The Rings:Fellowship of the Ring. Really impressive. I think I'm going to go see it again. Some of the CG'd battle scenes are truely magnificent, rivendale and lothlorien are absolutely beautifully rendered and executed. Samaron's tower is really neat. I think I'm going to have to build a couple of those high backed slatted shairs for my room. (Not that anyone would ever be even slightly comfortable in them, but still... they are really cool.)\n\nI'll probably gush some more about it later. (Unfortunatly, it  wasn't shown digitally, and there are still the normal minor imperfections associated with film that is prepared chemically. I'm too much of a perfectionist, and the presence of occasional blotches on the film due to improper exposure of the film to developing agent and fixative is really annoying. I don't know of any duplicating group that is doing this correctly yet... of course, it's gotten a lot better... but I want perfection. On a brand new reel that has been shown less than 5 times, 4 1/64 frame size blotches is kind of annoying... plus the assortied squiglies and worms that you usually see....)
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+Ya know, I think these diary things are built for people who keep normal daily schedules. I don't, at least, not any type of schedule that I can tell, so my entries are continually off base to what day it is. (I like working at night, but I sleep for about 12 hours at a time, and can easily stay up for 24. Seems like I keep rotating the day around piece by piece.
+
+On to the point. I went to see Lord Of The Rings:Fellowship of the Ring. Really impressive. I think I'm going to go see it again. Some of the CG'd battle scenes are truely magnificent, rivendale and lothlorien are absolutely beautifully rendered and executed. Samaron's tower is really neat. I think I'm going to have to build a couple of those high backed slatted shairs for my room. (Not that anyone would ever be even slightly comfortable in them, but still... they are really cool.)
+
+I'll probably gush some more about it later. (Unfortunatly, it  wasn't shown digitally, and there are still the normal minor imperfections associated with film that is prepared chemically. I'm too much of a perfectionist, and the presence of occasional blotches on the film due to improper exposure of the film to developing agent and fixative is really annoying. I don't know of any duplicating group that is doing this correctly yet... of course, it's gotten a lot better... but I want perfection. On a brand new reel that has been shown less than 5 times, 4 1/64 frame size blotches is kind of annoying... plus the assortied squiglies and worms that you usually see....)
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diff --git a/posts/diary/yeay.mdwn b/posts/diary/yeay.mdwn
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--- a/posts/diary/yeay.mdwn
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@@ -1 +1,7 @@
-Well, I finally rolled out the new system. There are a few bugs here and there, so if you find them, please e-mail me and I'll probably correct them. I'll also hopefully get around to sticking the source for this attrocious piece of ware up sometime too, so you can check it out.\n\nI spent a good part of the day hacking on this site, but I took a break around 9P to go see Gangs of New York. Gangs of NY was a surprisingly decent film, although I perhaps wrongly expected much much more of Scorsese. At times the film was a bit more disjointed than it could be, with some scenes, while obviously intended to be distinct to impart the break in Amsterdam's emotions, were almost haphazardly strewn about. The soundtrack was also abysmal both in content, and in terms the mixdown, although the non-music portion of the audio track was spot on. DiCapro disapeared in his character, even though the love scenes in the movie were kind of childish.\n\nAll in all, it was a prety decent flick, and I enjoyed being forced to deploy the butcher at least initially, then beginning to see things from his point of view and pittying him, then once again disdaining his presence, and finally as he dies, identifying with his ultimate pitifullness and the tiny part he has to play in the life of New York around five points itself.\n\nAnyway, hopefully things are working. ;-)
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+Well, I finally rolled out the new system. There are a few bugs here and there, so if you find them, please e-mail me and I'll probably correct them. I'll also hopefully get around to sticking the source for this attrocious piece of ware up sometime too, so you can check it out.
+
+I spent a good part of the day hacking on this site, but I took a break around 9P to go see Gangs of New York. Gangs of NY was a surprisingly decent film, although I perhaps wrongly expected much much more of Scorsese. At times the film was a bit more disjointed than it could be, with some scenes, while obviously intended to be distinct to impart the break in Amsterdam's emotions, were almost haphazardly strewn about. The soundtrack was also abysmal both in content, and in terms the mixdown, although the non-music portion of the audio track was spot on. DiCapro disapeared in his character, even though the love scenes in the movie were kind of childish.
+
+All in all, it was a prety decent flick, and I enjoyed being forced to deploy the butcher at least initially, then beginning to see things from his point of view and pittying him, then once again disdaining his presence, and finally as he dies, identifying with his ultimate pitifullness and the tiny part he has to play in the life of New York around five points itself.
+
+Anyway, hopefully things are working. ;-)
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diff --git a/posts/diary/yet_another_day.mdwn b/posts/diary/yet_another_day.mdwn
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--- a/posts/diary/yet_another_day.mdwn
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-Yet another day has come and is going rapidly. Spent this one working on a presentation that I have to give on wednesday and getting stuff in order for a lab experiment that I have to get started on tuesday. When I was returning a few books to the library, I ran across a bit of political grafiti on the election... seems that at least some people think that arnold is going to be a problematic governer. [gal://2003/10_october/009_arnold_total_retard_10062003.jpg]\n\nSometime in the next few days we'll find out exactly who is going to win the California recall. Kind of disturbing really, that only 900,000 signatures are necessary to force a million dollar election. Oh well. I hope those 900,000 people really understood what they were getting themselves into when they signed the recall petitions.
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+Yet another day has come and is going rapidly. Spent this one working on a presentation that I have to give on wednesday and getting stuff in order for a lab experiment that I have to get started on tuesday. When I was returning a few books to the library, I ran across a bit of political grafiti on the election... seems that at least some people think that arnold is going to be a problematic governer. [gal://2003/10_october/009_arnold_total_retard_10062003.jpg]
+
+Sometime in the next few days we'll find out exactly who is going to win the California recall. Kind of disturbing really, that only 900,000 signatures are necessary to force a million dollar election. Oh well. I hope those 900,000 people really understood what they were getting themselves into when they signed the recall petitions.
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diff --git a/posts/diary/yet_another_thursday_and_a_semi_painfull_one_at.mdwn b/posts/diary/yet_another_thursday_and_a_semi_painfull_one_at.mdwn
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--- a/posts/diary/yet_another_thursday_and_a_semi_painfull_one_at.mdwn
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-Yet another thursday. (And a semi-painfull one at that, after a long night of dancing.) Angela's textbook showed up today, so she wandered by to pick it up, right as I was leaving for class. [She was nice enough to drop me off at my lab, so I actually got there early for a change.] More work on some of the microarray stuff, and then I took care of beginning to grade the immunology midterms. Oi. I'm definelty going to get sick of grading those midterms well before I am finished.\n\nThen I wandered home, and spent some more time grading midterms before I went to sleep.
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+Yet another thursday. (And a semi-painfull one at that, after a long night of dancing.) Angela's textbook showed up today, so she wandered by to pick it up, right as I was leaving for class. [She was nice enough to drop me off at my lab, so I actually got there early for a change.] More work on some of the microarray stuff, and then I took care of beginning to grade the immunology midterms. Oi. I'm definelty going to get sick of grading those midterms well before I am finished.
+
+Then I wandered home, and spent some more time grading midterms before I went to sleep.
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diff --git a/posts/diary/you_could_call_me_dr_don_but_why_bother.mdwn b/posts/diary/you_could_call_me_dr_don_but_why_bother.mdwn
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--- a/posts/diary/you_could_call_me_dr_don_but_why_bother.mdwn
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-[gal://2008/don_graduation_06_16_2008/01_don_standing.jpg] I've been\nin school as a student for almost all of my life up till now. While\nthat's a relatively normal thing for younger people, the older you\nget, the rarer and rarer it is.\n\n[gal://2008/don_graduation_06_16_2008/02_don_and_parents.jpg]\nFinally, on Monday I went through the ceremony which marked the end of\nmy tenure as a student who is actually enrolled in school, and the\nbeginning of my tenure as a student who happens to also contribute to\nand convey knowledge. That's right, I've finally managed to finish my\nPhD in Cell, Molecular, and Developmental Biology. It's been a while\ngetting here, but with my dissertation completed and accepted by\ngraduate division, my defence completed, and finally being hooded by\nmy major professor, I'm done!\n\nGetting my PhD has resolved a few fundamental dilemas that I've always\nhad. First, I now know what to put in that pesky "Mr/Mrs/Ms/Miss/Dr"\nfield. Before, Ms. was technically correct, but no one apparently\nknows that means Master and confuses it with an abbreviation for Miss.\nNow I just put Dr., and no more confusion. Second, dealing with\npretentious people and physicians who insist on being called Doctor\nbecomes easier. I can now ignore their silly titles with impunity.\n[And yes, those of you who haven't spent an eternity in the ivory\ntower should just call me Don anyway.] Next, I now have the covetous\nunion card that enables me to <i>teach</i> at instutitions of higher\nlearning.\n\nUnfortunatly, that also means that I no longer qualify for student\ndiscounts anywhere. Of course, I must admit that lately the people at\nmovie theaters have been looking at me askance when I ask for a\nstudent discount. I'll have to wait 36 more years until I qualify for\nthe senior discount.\n
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+[gal://2008/don_graduation_06_16_2008/01_don_standing.jpg] I've been
+in school as a student for almost all of my life up till now. While
+that's a relatively normal thing for younger people, the older you
+get, the rarer and rarer it is.
+
+[gal://2008/don_graduation_06_16_2008/02_don_and_parents.jpg]
+Finally, on Monday I went through the ceremony which marked the end of
+my tenure as a student who is actually enrolled in school, and the
+beginning of my tenure as a student who happens to also contribute to
+and convey knowledge. That's right, I've finally managed to finish my
+PhD in Cell, Molecular, and Developmental Biology. It's been a while
+getting here, but with my dissertation completed and accepted by
+graduate division, my defence completed, and finally being hooded by
+my major professor, I'm done!
+
+Getting my PhD has resolved a few fundamental dilemas that I've always
+had. First, I now know what to put in that pesky "Mr/Mrs/Ms/Miss/Dr"
+field. Before, Ms. was technically correct, but no one apparently
+knows that means Master and confuses it with an abbreviation for Miss.
+Now I just put Dr., and no more confusion. Second, dealing with
+pretentious people and physicians who insist on being called Doctor
+becomes easier. I can now ignore their silly titles with impunity.
+[And yes, those of you who haven't spent an eternity in the ivory
+tower should just call me Don anyway.] Next, I now have the covetous
+union card that enables me to <i>teach</i> at instutitions of higher
+learning.
+
+Unfortunatly, that also means that I no longer qualify for student
+discounts anywhere. Of course, I must admit that lately the people at
+movie theaters have been looking at me askance when I ask for a
+student discount. I'll have to wait 36 more years until I qualify for
+the senior discount.
diff --git a/posts/diary/you_never_know_what_can_happen_when_you_snap_back.mdwn b/posts/diary/you_never_know_what_can_happen_when_you_snap_back.mdwn
index 0de3bb2..4e4c57f 100644
--- a/posts/diary/you_never_know_what_can_happen_when_you_snap_back.mdwn
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-You never know what can happen when you snap back into consiousness. All of a sudden, the entire world snaps into place as the dream state that you were in shifts out of focus. I wish I understood the process between conciousness and unconciousness better... of course, I don't think there's anyone who really understands it all that well anyway.\n\nOnto the daily grid. Monitor for our dual p4 arrived, but no box yet. Unfortunatly, it's going to need to be returned... oh well. Got some of the broken nmr data to work, but some of the fids are tweaked, and they won't transfer onto our machine... I'll have to talk to Dan about that.\n\nHeard about MCP-1 and it's interaction with IL-8 in a talk today. Quite interesting... I need to do some more background reading in this area before I'm ready to make a statement about it.. but the research that was presented definetly looks promising. More work on GM's system, and took care of a few minor things on my systems. I'll have to do some more work on GM later.\n\nI'll probably also update my reading list with the things that I've read in the past few days... kind of interesting...
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+You never know what can happen when you snap back into consiousness. All of a sudden, the entire world snaps into place as the dream state that you were in shifts out of focus. I wish I understood the process between conciousness and unconciousness better... of course, I don't think there's anyone who really understands it all that well anyway.
+
+Onto the daily grid. Monitor for our dual p4 arrived, but no box yet. Unfortunatly, it's going to need to be returned... oh well. Got some of the broken nmr data to work, but some of the fids are tweaked, and they won't transfer onto our machine... I'll have to talk to Dan about that.
+
+Heard about MCP-1 and it's interaction with IL-8 in a talk today. Quite interesting... I need to do some more background reading in this area before I'm ready to make a statement about it.. but the research that was presented definetly looks promising. More work on GM's system, and took care of a few minor things on my systems. I'll have to do some more work on GM later.
+
+I'll probably also update my reading list with the things that I've read in the past few days... kind of interesting...
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