Natural Blogarithms

I have to say that I am thoroughly impressed with the ingenuity behind this machine.  I think I would pay good money to have one to demonstrate in my courses.

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Both Microsoft Access and Microsoft Excel became heavily used tools in my bioinformatics research.  Scripting came in handy on occasion to automate tasks but my lask of “skills” in that arena left me relying heavily these applications.  Within the last two months, I couldn’t count how many tables and queries I’ve created (point-and-click [...]

Move over Google Docs, there’s a new option for LaTEXies like myself. I still need to play with it a bit, but MonkeyTex gives the option of editing, storing, sharing and collaborating LaTEX documents. It has bibtex support as well as style sheets.
I’d like to use it as a way to train my [...]

I accidentally divided by zero and my paper burst into flames.
I could only get arbitrarily close to my textbook. I couldn’t
actually reach it.
I was watching the World Series and got tied up trying to prove
that it converged.
I have a solar powered calculator and it was cloudy.
I locked the paper in my trunk but a four-dimensional [...]

I’m going to start carrying one of these around.  Very cool!

See it here:
 Thumb Calendar
and here:
Thumb Calendar

Now that I have a “smart phone” I am hoping to be able to post quick
Twitter updates and maybe blog entries from the phone. Since I don’t
want to pay outrageous SMS fees or data line charges, I am going to
use my existing wireless infrastructure and post by email. This is a
test of that system. [...]

What?  You think I know how?  Uh, I don’t think so.  But check out this guy:  The world’s fastest human calculator broke his own record by using nothing but brain power.
How long did it take him?  70 seconds
Alexis Lemaire, a 27-year-old Frenchman, correctly calculated the 13th root of a random 200-digit number from a [...]

I have decided to return to full-time teaching.  Fortunately, Wayland had not filled my position so I will be returning to teach there in the Spring.  I am being hired to teach partly in traditional face-to-face classes and partly online.  Each semester, I will teach a couple of courses online and a couple of classes [...]

We are utilizing a new technology in our lab.  The GeXP, among other things, provides a resource for the confirmation of MicroArray data. 
Basically, microarrays measure the level of expression for tens of thousands of genes on a single slide for a given sample.  In many cases, a small sample of this data that [...]

I posted the following to a post-doc group page and thought it might be useful to be duplicated here:
RSS feeds provide a significant resource in keeping track of regularly updated information on the web. Most commonly, RSS feeds are used as a way of “subscribing” to news sources and blogs. Any time you [...]