I never know what I do feel. -- I don't think that matters, provided one doesn't try to persuade one's self into appropriate feelings. - D.L. Sayers
2005, May 26
Summer Weather Pattern
For the San Francisco Bay area.
You know when it’s summer in the Bay Area, it’s chilly, foggy and windy. This morning that is exactly what we have. And it is summer, according to the old calendar Shakespeare used. Midsummer Night was June 21. The beginning of the season was halfway between the equinox and the solstice, so summer started about May 5.
I doubt the people in Massachusetts would agree.
2005, May 22
Folding at Home
Thanks to Kate at Cider Press Hill, I am now folding proteins.
The original deadline for completion of my first work unit was in July. But in 11 hours I am at 11%.
Current Work Unit
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Name: p1416_polyQ_beta-helix
Download time: May 22 14:40:04
Due time: July 26 14:40:04
Progress: 11% [|_________]
Now I don't feel guilty for having this beautiful expensive machine that I love so much, with more power and memory than I will ever use in my whole life, sitting around sleeping about 100 hours a week. Now I can feel justified.
Noah Johnson is folding and hosting a team website.2005, May 12
Web color tools
Having trouble deciding which color you should use on that web page?
Here are three web sites that, combined, will give you all the information you need for web color.
Color sliders for text, background
Work to do
Assignments for this month
| Scales: | G Major |
| A Major | |
| C Major | |
| f# minor | |
| e minor | |
| a minor |
Exercises to do for bow hand, arm:
- Bow grip push-up:
- press with first finger at tip, grip with two middle fingers at frog with little on top for balance
- Balance:
- First finger on and off at balance point
- Play long slow note, as slow as possible
Practice:
Begin a slow piece, perhaps the Largo from Vivaldi's Spring concerto, or perhaps the Adagio from Corelli's Op. 1, No. 3, a Church Sonata in A Major.
2005, May 11
Apothecary Rose
Rosa gallica officinalis
The Apothecary rose is blooming.
2005, May 10
Longmobile - Shel Silverstein
Buddhist transportation - destination Enlightenment
It's the world's longest car I swear.
It reaches from Beale Street to Washington Square.
And once you get in it
To go where you're going,
You simply get out, 'cause you're there.
Longmobile, a poem from A Light in the Attic, Shel Silverstein
2005, May 07
Gerhard Richter, painter
From Elizabeth Perry's WoolGathering, I found my way to Finkbuilt.
A comment on the entry led me to search for information about Gerhard Richter.
Two paintings:
Color squares
Candles
A book:
Gerhard Richter: Forty Years of Painting, Robert Storr
2005, May 03
New Mac for college
A friend needed a recommendation for a Mac for a college student who has always lived in the PC world. I thought an iBook would fill the bill, giving enough size, power and still be portable for those trips to the lab, home, to friends’ rooms, etc.
This was my recommendation.
M9623LL/A
1.2 GHz G4 processor
FireWire 400
USB 2.0 2 ports
Ethernet 10/100, 56K modem
Airport Extreme
Combo drive (reads and writes CDs, reads DVDs)
Audio
Built-in speakers, stereo headphone jack, built-in microphone
Video
VGA video output for external display or projector, adapter included
S-video and composite video output to TV or projector (needs Video Adapter)
Battery
50-watt-hour lithium-ion battery provides up to 6 hours (not really, that’s if it’s not doing anything)
Size and weight
Height: 1.35 inches
Width: 11.2 inches
Depth: 9.06 inches
Weight: 4.9 pounds
Options:
bluetooth yes
256 SDRAM
80GB ATA HD
AppleCare
Total $1425 plus tax ($120.00)
RAMM from Apple 1GB is $500.00
RAMM from DMS 1 GB is $162.00 including shipping.
$1700.00 Total for the iBook, tax, RAMM, AppleCare
Well, this morning I found out they went to the Apple Store and got a G5 iMac, not portable, but oh so beautiful.
We’ll see if she is happy with her choice.
What do you think?
