Saturday was a big sports day. We had work and visitor distractions, but I did manage to watch most of the Aggie game and the end of the Stanford-Oregon State game after the wild ending of the World Series game 3. Vanderbilt at A&M started at 11:20AM. The big question going into yesterday was whether […]
Monthly Archives: October 2013
Cowboy Monkey Rodeo
This was on just before the Aggie Women’s Soccer game today http://youtu.be/WwmKepyUeOQ
peptidoglycan transpeptidase diversity and nomenclature
A couple of weeks ago the Biochemistry Graduate Association Gyanu Lamichhane to give a seminar on his work on peptidoglycan transpeptidases. In his very nice talk Lamichane told the story of how a search for transposon mutants with virulence phenotypes led him to work on an unexpected peptidoglycan transpeptidase. Lamichhane’s talk prompted me to look at […]
Imagine a boot stamping on your ideas forever
Via Daring Fireball, author Charlie Stross writes about his hatred of Microsoft word. I don’t know enough to evaluate the technical arguments about design and file formats, including the comments left by a commenter “globetrotter” who self-identifies as a MS program manager for early versions of Word. But the empirical experience of Word is sufficient to […]
Cardinal and Badgers win, Ags can’t pull another one out of the fire
Stanford fell out of the top 10 after losing at Utah last week, while UCLA stayed unbeaten by throttling Cal. Thus, the Bruins came into Stanford stadium as the higher ranked team. But they left with a loss and the Cardinal are likely to pass the UCLAns when tomorrows rankings come out. The game was […]
Ags survive Ole Miss
While the last couple of weeks have had some games where the top teams survived upsets, week 7 of the 2013 season saw ranked teams fall. As Lou Holtz pointed out on College Gameday Final, fans forget that this is also the time for midterms. Between road trips and exams and being college-age kids, looking […]
Down goes Stanford
Last week I was at the GO consortium meeting in Bar Harbor, so I didn’t watch much football. Since it was a bye week for the Badgers and the Aggies, only Stanford was in action of the teams I follow closely. The Cardinal had a narrow escape in Seattle against the Washington Huskies which I […]