Le Crab and Za Vhale: May 2010

Monday, May 31, 2010

Peta flops? screw that onward to exascales!

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/01/science/01compute.html?hp

Thats right America still PWNS N3WBS at an alarming rate but China is pretty l337 H4X.

Learn Leet fools...

Sunday, May 30, 2010

T C B

Yesterday we drove up to Estes Park/Rocky Mountain National Park and planned out our first backcountry backpacking trip. Then we drove to Boulder, and I saw my first elk on the way. They are huge! And their antlers (right now) are so fuzzy!

We hung out with Dane and with Kay. I was glad to see her before she heads out to China for the summer, and we made plans for a Star Trek watching time in the fall.

Today we are doing laundry (this is not the royal we since I have to say what is dirty or not and then Eric loads the machine) and I went to the garden store. Now all my plants are in pots and I even have a few more! One is the curly-whirly grass that I have wanted for a year. It is also called corkscrew rush. The others are orange and blue (one of each), some kind of perennial, but the blue one is really really blue. That's a perk of the high altitude.

Also today it was sunny at last so I could flash my ring around in the sunlight and see it really sparkle. I figured out how to blind Eric with it too. Bonus!

Its been a while...

But shits been crazy... A) I woke up at 7:30 because the cat is a jerk, its ok because she gets to sleep on me now while I play video games. B) Im writing this while my toon (Character) in Aion Crafts...Its been a long haul but I can almost craft gloves o_0. C) Dont worry if you dont know what im talking about just nod your head... And last of all ....drumroll.... I engaged my first person, a difficult thing to do I might add, and now I feel ready the next time I have to do it... PSYCHE

Friday, May 28, 2010

back in the saddle again

Just finished talking to Diego, my tattoo artist, about my plans for a half sleeve. Before that, finished having beers with band member Pat and friends, in celebration of his paper being accepted for publication after 563 days in review. Before that, went to Best Buy and scoped out the netbook scene. Also got passport photos and sent off the passport for renewal, since I have big plans to go to Brazil in August for a Panamerican Bioenergy Conference.

Not to mention starting a cloning experiment (involving running a gel overnight), and an onion transformation experiment (involving culturing bacteria). So I will be in the lab tomorrow, and Sunday, and stinkin' Memorial Day. We don't need no stinkin' memorial day.

I got back from DC on Tuesday. The plane lost control of its cabin pressure systems, so we had an emergency landing in Chicago. We were delayed three hours, so I landed at 10:30 (12:30 east coast time) and got home some two hours later.

I slept for twenty of Wednesday's twenty-four hours.

My undergrad comes on Thursday next week! So I have to be ready for business. It's business time. No distractions remain to the pure lab research work. Right?