rants, books, and things to do.
Nov. 12th, 2006 10:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jebbypalOkay, I love Trader Joes, but dude, they need to fix the design of their bags of sugar. I was rather po'ed when they discontinued selling the organic cane sugar that came in the hard plastic container, but I loathe the new "ziplock" bag containers. Mostly because even when you cut it open for the first time, sugar crystals are already lodged in the zipper pieces ensuring that you'll never be able to reseal it again. I thought I had resealed the brown sugar that I bought last week, but I just looked at it and realized it was open. Thankfully, it was because I could see the sugar and not because I saw anything exiting the container. I'm thankful no roaches followed the scent to it, but geez. Is it that hard to design containers that work?
Worked today, but not as much as I should thanks to my continued reading binge (I bought two books last week). I finished up Last Call by Tim Powers and was very impressed. Much better than the spy novel I read, that's for sure. He's also really grown alot since I read The Anubis Gate a few years ago. It's very Gaiman-stylish, but populated w/ more normal characters that are tyring to make sense of a very screwed up alignment of the stars. Definitely check it out if you've ever enjoyed any of Gaiman's work or Neal Stephenson's.
Horrid radio station is still overplaying The Fray -- this is like 3 weeks running. I've concluded it has to be clear channel. It reminds me of why I stopped listening to radio completely a few years ago. Thankfully the major rock/metal station appears to have either exited clear channel or gained some independence because it's always a fairly good mix w/out any ability to set one's watch by what song is on. Then again, I'm still partial to Pandora.com since I finally managed to program some good radio stations (I just can't bare to fill up my harddrive with enough music to get lastfm to work for me).
1) call and see about rental car for retreat for this weekend -- fri-sun.
2) poster setup tomorrow at 1ish. Poster pres 3-5.
3) experiments. One I have going. Sonication and start another before you leave. Order cells for tuesday only.
4) really need to organize data and figure out what's going on with paper.
Worked today, but not as much as I should thanks to my continued reading binge (I bought two books last week). I finished up Last Call by Tim Powers and was very impressed. Much better than the spy novel I read, that's for sure. He's also really grown alot since I read The Anubis Gate a few years ago. It's very Gaiman-stylish, but populated w/ more normal characters that are tyring to make sense of a very screwed up alignment of the stars. Definitely check it out if you've ever enjoyed any of Gaiman's work or Neal Stephenson's.
Horrid radio station is still overplaying The Fray -- this is like 3 weeks running. I've concluded it has to be clear channel. It reminds me of why I stopped listening to radio completely a few years ago. Thankfully the major rock/metal station appears to have either exited clear channel or gained some independence because it's always a fairly good mix w/out any ability to set one's watch by what song is on. Then again, I'm still partial to Pandora.com since I finally managed to program some good radio stations (I just can't bare to fill up my harddrive with enough music to get lastfm to work for me).
1) call and see about rental car for retreat for this weekend -- fri-sun.
2) poster setup tomorrow at 1ish. Poster pres 3-5.
3) experiments. One I have going. Sonication and start another before you leave. Order cells for tuesday only.
4) really need to organize data and figure out what's going on with paper.