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Dog Days of Summer 3 Sep 2012 | 05:08 am
It’s hard to believe, but summer is almost over. I no longer debate whether the house stays cooler with the windows open or closed. There is almost a chill in the air when I wake up in the morning. Ye...
Tycho: The First Eight Weeks 21 Jun 2012 | 09:00 pm
Photo by Jonathan Lambert Well, we finally did it. We got a dog!! (Ok, we got engaged and married, too, but back to the exciting stuff…) I’ve been pining for a dog for at least a couple years now, w...
Love-hate relationship with PowerPoint 23 Mar 2011 | 03:00 am
PowerPoint is a ubiquitous, tedious, and oft-maligned piece of software that everybody loves to hate. Some say PowerPoint is bad because it’s a crutch that has given us a generation of people who don’...
Get it while it’s hot! 23andMe for $99 25 Nov 2010 | 07:05 am
You may have already heard the rumors floating around and they’re all true: 23andMe is having another sale — the whole thing for $99! Edit: No discount codes are needed. There’s an instant discount o...
New season, new theme 20 Nov 2010 | 08:48 pm
Inspired by Stephanie Huang of projectsteph, I’ve decided to try on a new blog theme. It hasn’t been that long since the last change, but I feel like I’ve learned a lot since then about what I like in...
Reflections on ASHG 2010 12 Nov 2010 | 03:00 am
As conferences go, the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) annual meeting is a pretty big deal. Anyone who’s anyone in human genetics is there, and if you want to be someone you better be there,...
Marshmallow + microwave = ? 10 May 2010 | 04:32 pm
Chris loves marshmallows and it’s partly because he discovered a magical property of theirs back when he was a youngster. Apparently, when you microwave marshmallows, they not only balloon in size, bu...
Braised short ribs two ways 10 May 2010 | 04:17 pm
French-style Asian-style I have a special place in my heart for beef stew (from fond childhood memories of Chinese beef noodle soup) but braised short ribs are threatening to knock beef stew from it...
Blog as recipe archive 10 May 2010 | 12:04 pm
I use my blog pretty randomly, posting essays on the culture of science, photo galleries from hiking trips, and the occasional here’s-what-I-did-in-the-last-three-months-since-I-last-blogged. To those...
A quintessential California weekend 27 Apr 2010 | 06:00 pm
After some weeks of cooler weather and intermittent rain, Chris and I wholeheartedly embraced a weekend of warm sunshine to spend outdoors with friends. Ben and Lisa had flown down from Seattle for He...
