Man, I could use a hot dog….
Yocco’s “The hot dog king”
Jun 24
this is where it all began
Jun 22
I miss this stuff … stupid adulthood! /me shakes fist
Chemistry on the ipad
Jun 17
Social media….
Jun 17
I know it has been everywhere, but I wanted to make sure I remembered where it was 
300 Words – Writers write. Even when it’s hard..
A very interesting idea….
What motivates you?
Jun 14
From here:
It’s the birthday of the man who said: “Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much can be done if we are always doing.” That’s Thomas Jefferson, (books by this author) born in Albemarle County, Virginia (1743). And he certainly lived by those words. He wrote the Declaration of Independence for the fledging United States and then served as its minister of France, secretary of state, vice president, and president. But he was also — among other things — an inventor, philosopher, farmer, naturalist, astronomer, food and wine connoisseur, and musician. An early biographer, James Parton, described the young Jefferson a year before he helped write the Declaration of Independence: “A gentleman of 32 who could calculate an eclipse, survey an estate, tie an artery, plan an edifice, try a cause, break a horse, dance a minuet, and play the violin.”
I also like the poem for today:
69
by Philip Schultz
This morning I’m tired of the same newspapers and arguments.
I’m tired of sticking the same legs into the same pants,
the same hands poking out of the same sleeves, going west
and then east, heating up the same tea, watching the same sun
rise over the same horizon, the same trees shedding the same leaves.
Tired of climbing the same stairs to look out the same window
at the same street, tired of shaking the same hands, opening and
closing the same doors, dreaming the same dreams, saying hello
good morning happy birthday I’m so sorry please forgive me.“69″ by Philip Schultz, from The God of Loneliness: Selected and New Poems. © Houghton Mifflin, 2010. Reprinted with permission.
In San Francisco, coming home tomorrow. Lots to do – how I would love to be as driven to be “always doing” as Jefferson.
Next Gen Data in Genome Web
Apr 12
Article is here.
Nailing Down Next-Gen Data
April 2010
By Matthew DublinWith all of the nail-biting that supposedly goes hand-in-hand with the next-generation sequencing “data deluge,” the non-informaticist may be surprised to learn that the real worry of the folks tasked with making sense of this data lies not in the quantity, but rather, in the ambiguity of the data these machines are spitting out. Issues such as error rates in data and how to improve base calls to account for those errors result in researchers developing a sort of informatics hoarding disorder in which they sometimes feel the need to store images, base calls, second-best base calls, third-best base calls, and process intensity information — all because of a lack of knowledge about the data.
My Thoughts on the Ipad
Apr 7
From Not Invented Here.
