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tarigwaemirHaste Street on the Feast of St. Cyril of Jerusalem
The theme of this weekend: being ridiculously happy and procrastinating on my presentation. ^_^ Actually, I did try to go into lab on Sunday to finish taking images, but I got kicked out because the floors were being waxed. Fantastic timing on my part as usual. I spent most of today finishing up the Powerpoint, rehearsed it quickly once with the grad student supervising me, and gave a much better presentation than my last one, which I had not only finished ahead of time but rehearsed several times with my first rotation advisor. I think the key difference was that this time, I didn't feel stressed out at all.
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blind_go round five: sign up for the panic here.
Links of interest:
1. Via Reading Copy, Man Travels Country to Fixe Typo's on NPR, and the associated blog, Typo Hunt Across America. Excessively neurotic? Perhaps, but I find it just a little satisfying as well. ^_^
2. Hilarious op-ed in the New York Times, satirizing the latest fake-memoir scandal: A Bug's Life. Really.
3. Via Paper Cuts, The Charms of Wikipedia in the New York Review of Books, which the writer concludes by proposing a "Deletopedia" for all the rejected edits on Wikipedia articles.
4. Via Seven Stones, Craig Venter and NSABB on Synthetic Biology. You have to hand it to him: Venter may be egotistical and tactless, but he does have neat ideas. He came to speak at Berkeley a few weeks ago, and we couldn't even get into the room.
5. Courtesy of Steve, an article in the New York Times that will surely disappoint a significant fraction of my classmates: For Scientists, a Beer Test Shows Results as a Litmus Test. Apparently the correlation is quite linear. (Ironically, I can't think of a single successful researcher whom I haven't seen drinking beer.)
Yours &c.
The theme of this weekend: being ridiculously happy and procrastinating on my presentation. ^_^ Actually, I did try to go into lab on Sunday to finish taking images, but I got kicked out because the floors were being waxed. Fantastic timing on my part as usual. I spent most of today finishing up the Powerpoint, rehearsed it quickly once with the grad student supervising me, and gave a much better presentation than my last one, which I had not only finished ahead of time but rehearsed several times with my first rotation advisor. I think the key difference was that this time, I didn't feel stressed out at all.
blind_go round five: sign up for the panic here.Links of interest:
1. Via Reading Copy, Man Travels Country to Fixe Typo's on NPR, and the associated blog, Typo Hunt Across America. Excessively neurotic? Perhaps, but I find it just a little satisfying as well. ^_^
2. Hilarious op-ed in the New York Times, satirizing the latest fake-memoir scandal: A Bug's Life. Really.
3. Via Paper Cuts, The Charms of Wikipedia in the New York Review of Books, which the writer concludes by proposing a "Deletopedia" for all the rejected edits on Wikipedia articles.
4. Via Seven Stones, Craig Venter and NSABB on Synthetic Biology. You have to hand it to him: Venter may be egotistical and tactless, but he does have neat ideas. He came to speak at Berkeley a few weeks ago, and we couldn't even get into the room.
5. Courtesy of Steve, an article in the New York Times that will surely disappoint a significant fraction of my classmates: For Scientists, a Beer Test Shows Results as a Litmus Test. Apparently the correlation is quite linear. (Ironically, I can't think of a single successful researcher whom I haven't seen drinking beer.)
Yours &c.
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Date: 2008-03-18 08:17 am (UTC)<3 <3 <3 <3 <3
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Date: 2008-03-18 09:07 am (UTC)You're what, dear? ^_^
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Date: 2008-03-18 04:07 pm (UTC)(A good sign for my future scientific career?!)
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Date: 2008-03-18 01:46 pm (UTC)Have you really drunk beer? I know you don't drink generally but XD
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Date: 2008-03-18 04:12 pm (UTC)Of course I've had beer, though I admit I touch the stuff perhaps two or three times a year. The latest incident was at a party with the Berkeley kendo people back in September; I got dared to down a can in one-shot and failed. Felt quite miserable afterwards because my face grew extremely flushed. -_-
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Date: 2008-03-18 08:15 pm (UTC)Ew, beer in one shot. Ugh. Gotta do shots of tequila chased with beer. European beer is really the best. We can try to have tasty beer one day XD Prolly not when you have to go home tho, kay?
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Date: 2008-03-18 02:17 pm (UTC)Would name names if under flock. But I'm sure you've got your own. XD
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