Monthly Archives: November 2006

Hot

My weather icon said 70 F today for Boston. It’s November 30th. It hasn’t been below freezing for more than a few hours at night. Wow. Yesterday was the usual Chorallaries rehearsal, 9-12. Tonight it’s 7:30-12 because I’m doing a … Continue reading

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It’s 3 AM. I just finished my report. There will be no fact of today.

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DOWN

I am trying to do my homework for my math class, but the server is acting up. Eventually it did something truly bizarre, suddenly claiming that the compiler didn’t exist when I’d used it a few second prior. So I … Continue reading

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Fact of the Day #7: Solid-Phase Protein Synthesis

Proteins are made in nature out of just 20 amino acids. Those 20, strung together like beads on an unusually sticky necklace, do essentially all the work that keeps us (and everything else on the planet) alive. It’s easy enough … Continue reading

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So hard

to update this weblog every day. Nothing happened today. It was misty and cold and miserable and nothing at all of interest occurred.

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Fact of the Day #6

The protein pathway by which cells synthesize fat is fairly well-understood. A drug is under investigation that would disable this pathway, as a treatment for obesity. When tested on small worms (C. Elegans), the worms cease to store fat in … Continue reading

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Return

Last night I spent time with some friends at home. We attempted to play balanced pool with 3 people by changing the number of balls and assigning each person to all non-8 balls congruent to 0, 1, or 2 mod … Continue reading

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Failure

I bought a new ethernet cable to see if I could improve upon previous results. Unfortunately, on Friday morning the iMac unexpectedly decided to refuse contact with any bluetooth device, particularly any bluetooth mouse. There were no wired mice available, … Continue reading

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Yum

Thanksgiving was pretty much as it has been for the last few decades, which is to say excellent. Part of our annual thanksgiving ritual is to try to figure out the password for my grandparents’ wireless network. This year, that … Continue reading

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Fact #5: Introns

As some of you may have heard, genes in DNA are split into a bunch of different pieces on the chromosome (as many as 10). These segments are called “exons” and the stretches of non-gene DNA between them are called … Continue reading

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