Hi folks, this is a straight up call for a small programming job. In my laboratory we have two pieces of equipment that communicate through an improbably complex relay which includes a few obsolete pieces of expensive equipment from companies that no longer exist and a Mac desktop that only exists to receive a trigger …
It turned into a ballroom blitz
This morning Martin Longman made what I think is the first correct interpretation of what happened with Ted Cruz last night. Yes, the Trump campaign had Ted Cruz’s speech in advance. I am sure that they read it. They almost certainly discussed it with Cruz. So how could such a disaster happen with their eyes …
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Hey Doug, enjoy this picture of my dog.
Stay away from Cleveland
Folks, I know how tempting it is to go to the snakes’ den and tell them what you think to their face. I have done it. It’s cathartic. It feels great. Please don’t. From a tactical perspective the convention does not need our help to be be a complete dumpster fire. Half the people in …
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Congratulations to Boris Johnson for being named Britain’s new Foreign Secretary. Apparently Nigel Farange was busy and the raving monster loony guy demanded crocodiles in the Thames before he’d consider the job. I suggest Boris work on protocols for his first meeting with the ambassadors from Scotland and newly reunited Ireland.
My favorite underreported medical ethics quandary, updated
Some of you likely remember that series of scientific studies showing the most dramatic anti-aging therapy ever discovered. All you need is lots of blood from the very (very) young and, in rats and mice anyway, the worst effects of age disappear. Ergh. The good news was that researchers might have identified a protein called …
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GoT season six, episode three review
Benioff and Weiss, you sons of bitches. Half the show’s viewers know what will happen in that tower. B+W know that we know. Now they are just messing with us for the fun of it. The rest was pretty cool. Arya got a training montage and now the [ETA: second-] youngest Stark has run off …