As of version 0.7, I wonder whether having two posts with viewers causes applet name clashes. The prediction is that this would work while viewing one post, but not on the home page. This prediction turned out to be true. This first item loaded the first one from the next post, while the first item […]
Author Archives: jimhu
Testing JSmol2wp
[jsmol pdb=’1LMB’ caption=’lambda repressor headpiece’ debug = ‘false’ wrap = ‘5’ commands = ‘arm = select 1-6:3, 1-6:4; color yellow;||| helix-turn-helix = select 33-52:3, 33-52:4; color yellow; hide hoh;||| helix 5 = select *:3,*:4; spacefill off; cartoon; select 84,87; color yellow; spacefill on; select *; hide hoh; hide *:1,*:2; #moveto 2 0 1 0 0 0 […]
Sous vide chicken breast
We had some bone-in chicken breasts in the freezer that one of Debby’s sisters bought on a recent visit. These were pretty big chicken breasts and the three of us are not huge eaters, so we split one for dinner tonight. It was already in a zip-loc bag, so I thawed it in the fridge […]
Sous vide spareribs
When I got the pork loin roast, I also picked up some spareribs. Wed night: dry-brined (which is a fancy way of saying I unwrapped the meat, sprinkled some salt and pepper on it, and put it back in the fridge. Cooking times and temps [table id=4 /] There is also a NYT piece about […]
Sous vide pork loin
Got a 2 lb pork loin from the Rosenthal Meat Center last week and thawed it over the weekend in the fridge. Decided to brine it before cooking sous vide, loosely based on this maple-brined pork roast recipe. Brine: 1qt water .25 c salt .25 c maple syrup garlic, ginger, rosemary, thyme The roast barely […]
What do Americans and Finns know about Ammonia?
Via Jon Eisen on twitter, Hal Levin at MicroBEnet has gotten himself into trouble with this post (now deleted as not reflecting the views of MicroBEnet). The part that annoyed readers (including me, after seeing the tweet calling it out). On May 8th, CNN reported on “Top 20 most polluted cities in the world.” An esteemed colleague […]
Instacast
I’ve been frustrated by Apple’s Podcasts app on my iPhone, so I decided to try InstaCast on the recommendation of a friend on twitter. Initial impressions: The first thing I noticed was that when you launch it for the first time, it doesn’t ask if you want to import Podcast subscriptions from iTunes or the Podcasts […]
RoomScan Pro
Today we went to a seminar about remodeling with Stearns design-build to get some ideas about some remodeling plans. In talking about things, I decided that we really need a better diagram of our house layout. It doesn’t have to be super precise, but I want a starting point to sketch from. I thought there might […]
Who gets NIH grants and is it a problem?
Drugmonkey posts a graph from Grantome.org showing distribution of grants by institution. A series of follow-up posts at Grantome includes one that looks beyond the top 50 institutions and concludes: The NIH website reports that more than 80% of its budget goes to over 2,500 universities and research institutions. Yet for the R01 – which is arguably […]
Do architects get what we do in the lab?
This post is what I wrote in February of 2009 on the old blog. I was prompted to dig this post up by Virginia Postrel tweeting about this article in Slate. I pulled the text from a database dump of the old blog. The images are old too, but were not in the original post (found them in my […]