August, 2004

So i fixed my piano… At around 3 am…

From midnight till 3, however, i was trying to see if i remembner anything about making Flash Movies, regarding that logo project im currently involved in… any comments and tips on using FLASH are welcome 🙂 This is only a draft rather than the finished logo… I think i've set up the project's resolution to be slightly too demanding for the average modern personal computers that almost all of us have at their disposition…
The things to be added will include sound of the shutter (like in the old projectors), and greater simplification of the graphics to make a truely signature'ish animation :-).

Another weekend is almost gone 🙂
… It was somewhat productive too… I brainstormed a logo, and helped a friend record vocals to her new song… Of course, today, when trying to record my own ingenious musical creation an E-key broke… GRRRRR
I guess there is nothing else for me to do today but to open the piano, and wait for the glue to harden while watching Malcolm in the Middle 🙂
Tomorrow: work… I will continue inventorying genomic repeats…

… so I woke up with a stomach ache today…
and, I received 3 (!) e-mails with virus attachments, which my Norton, kindly, deleted… what is very curious now is the fact that I've been getting a lot of virus activity from .ne.jp and .co.jp servers… I guess Japan just wants to get into my computer for whatever reasons…

sh

so, just so you know, this is how FASTA result looks like :
(you need a wide window to appreciate the ASCII art of plotting Gaussian distributions)
O_o


opt E()
120 0 7:* : *
4338672727 residues in 327531 sequences
statistics sampled from 60000 to 362274 sequences
Expectation_n fit: rho(ln(x))= 5.1486+/-0.000115; mu= 2.0549+/- 0.008
mean_var=54.7960+/- 8.775, 0's: 8559 Z-trim: 8572 B-trim: 6013 in 1/78
Lambda= 0.173261
Kolmogorov-Smirnov statistic: 0.1643 (N=29) at 50


Yeah… so I'm at work, had I a window in my office (a.k.a. the cave) id probably see the rainy and thunder-stormy harbingers of the two upcoming hurricanes… (un-) fortunately there are no windows here… only door with a little section of safety glass that somebody looks through from the outside corridor now and then…

in the cave there is this mind-numbing, brainwashing, ear-desensitizing humming and whooshing of the industrial strength A/C apparatus … which is off a.t.m. , and yet still mind-numbingly noisy (I do not dare to turn it on)… A funny story with this AC happened recently:

the AC hangs off the ceiling, above a Macintosh workstation… about a week ago a square sheet of Metal broke off or, rather, detached itself (it was taped to the main unit with silver duck tape by whom and when? some questions are better left unanswered , left in the bliss of ignorance similar to the bliss protruding from the people who are supposed to “take care” of the infrastructure of my workplace…) and, had someone (for example me) been sitting at the workstation, directly below the AC unit… well I had an image of a guillotine's rusty blade falling down on some poor soul's neck, while I was watching from across the room, in unspoken terror, the piece of metal quickly descending to finally hit the floor with a bling-blang… oh well,

Together with the humming of several computers, and clicking of mouse by my temporary-office-mate, the sound-scape of my cave is just frustrating, aggravating, and, without an iPod, unlivable/unworkable… I only have my iPod for 2 weeks, and I've been in the cave for 3 years now, however…

The clock ticks slowly, getting me closer to another weekend at the constant rate of just one second at a time…

… I'm on the edge of my seat, anxiously awaiting an email with *gasp* MIME attachments (!!!) from the institute of Pasteur… I'm getting the results of FASTA search for some two 11-mers…

~sh