Miscellany Thanks to the person who is still doing the "filipino biologist" search on Google and Yahoo. YOU CAN STOP NOW! [grin]
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I had a brief talk with the Boss Man the other day about where the project is going, and he's really pleased and excited about all the things we're going to do. Which was a nice pat on the back. Most days, I dither emotionally between polite boredom to unpolite anxiety.
I finally got some new software installed on my machine and started crunching some backlogged data. I then took an early lunch, went home, and promptly fell asleep on the couch. Bad bad, postdoc. It doesn't help that Claremont has gone from 70 deg and overcast to 95 deg and blazing sun in the past 24 hours.
It really is all a matter of FOCUS, but between stuff_family and stuff_personal, somehow stuff_work has gotten backburnered for many many months now. This is totally the opposite of most of my academic career. Then life slams you because you weren't paying attention and letting friends and family drift away.
I probably shouldn't be saying any of this....
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I'm TERRIFIED of finishing the new Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix because I'm having a blast reading it and don't want it to end. I got a slow start and barely got through the first 100 pages or so by Sunday night. Now I've sped through and gotten to within a 150 pages of the end.
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My Powerbook has stopped crashing since I stopped running the Radio Userland software 24/7. I think it is something about how the sleep mode is mishandled, which lets the machine continue to run hot for long periods then BAM, heat failure takes out the HD. Got so bad I had to emergency purchase DiskWarrior to fix the HD a couple of weeks back.
Man, I really want a PowerMac G5. The brand-spanking new PowerMac G5s [http://www.apple.com/g5/] are gorgeous and powerful...and complete overkill for my home needs. Would be neat to set up a G5 as a biocomputational server at work though.... Alas we've even lost the Linux/Windows battle for the desktop and are converting the student labs to Windows-booting machines. My own machine will remain RedHat Linux with Window2k under VMWare... but I probably will have to supplement it with more robust Win box (crikey, I'm still on an 866 Mhz P III).
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