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Scandalous

March 5th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in beethoven, classical music, technology, youtube

I think — (hope) — the scanner we have in lab is one of these bad boys:

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The instructions, for the lucky scanjet owners:

1. Turn off scanner
2. Set SCSI ID to 0 (using dial on back of scanner)
3. Hold down green button
4. Turn scanner on

via eeggs

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Keeping The Receipts

March 5th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in music, youtube

I’m back baby. Back from this. From 10am last Saturday, until 10:30pm today I have been inundated with, dunked in, and squeezed full of Science. It’s been five days of: posters, symposia, brainstorming sessions, platform talks, overpriced (but life-support-ing) coffee, face-sheering-off Bostonian winds, room-sharing, note-taking, schmoozing, on foot GPS navigating and supervisor pleasing, and more.

And now I am home, re-enjoying the luxury of personal space and time. And filling in some gaps: the songs which whirred over the week without an escape hatch. Pieces prompted by relations on the rented minivan’s radio, or pieces of en passant conversations. At the moment it has been mostly:

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And:

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No classical. I almost never feel like listening to classical music after getting back from a trip. I need to come up with a very well thought out 5 second theory to explain that. Too tired to try that tonight though.

Night night!

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Phoning It In

March 2nd, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Uncategorized

I’m typing this from my phone in Boston right now, so not sure if it is even going to show up without all kinds of weird ASCII symbols and punctuation marks and stuff all over the place. Our lab is at the biophysical society meeting which means Science talks from 8:15 until 18 o’ clock. It also means not much time to write exciting blog posts, but I’ll make it up to you when I get back, honest!