How My Life is Cool

[ase]

I get to read the brand new, out-this-week sea urchin genome article for class. Life is awesome.

Not awesome: slow download speeds. A pox on dad's ISP.

Random science websites for the evening:
1.) The Codon Usage Database, which answers that burning question, "how often is GUG used in the Arabidopsis thaliana mitochondrial codon scheme?"
2.) PubMatrix: enhancing the PubMed search experience. If you spend a lot of time thrashing through the PubMed stacks, it might be a useful tool.
3.) Compound solutions: doing the math so you don't have to.

I need to stop spending Friday evenings on academics, but honestly, I sort of like it. It's a lousy time to do homework, but it's a great time to catch up (or even get ahead) on textbook reading.

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[herewiss13.livejournal.com]

3.) Compound solutions: doing the math so you don't have to.

I was very disappointed when I opened that link and discovered that it would only do my math for some very specific (and abstruse) value of "math." I was looking for something along the lines of a universal calculator. You need to be more careful with your tag lines...

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*grin*

Hope 'Cryptonomicon' is going ok. It's an odd format, to have two different story lines that _both_ meander; like parallel braided rivers. You've got to be in a particular mind-set to enjoy them. I keep meaning to re-read Stephenson, but I never seem to have the _time_ these days to get my brain in the proper frame of reference. ;-)

Anyhow: have fun with your catch-up!

[countrycousin.livejournal.com]

Not awesome: slow download speeds. A pox on dad's ISP.

No! No! It's already got a pox. BLESSINGS on dad's ISP! Blessings.

[ase.livejournal.com]

I was very disappointed when I opened that link and discovered that it would only do my math for some very specific (and abstruse) value of "math." I was looking for something along the lines of a universal calculator.

Calculating solution quantities is something you get very, very good at if you do enough lab work. Unless you have shortcuts, of course. It didn't occur to me that alternative definitions of "solution" might pop into people's heads.

Besides, everyone knows the one true solution (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Answer_to_Life,_the_Universe,_and_Everything).

[ase.livejournal.com]

If blessings come in the form of better tech support, I am all for them.