The perfect bioweapon

[Future Tech]
I read an interesting article in the New Scientist today about scientists who are creating oncolytic viruses to selectively kill cancerous cells.
The first generation of this research has involved co-opting a virus, such as hepatitis, stripping it of its glycoproteins and coating it with new ones which selectively bind known cancer glycoproteins. The process [...]

friens are the bombdiggityss

YAY SKI TRIP! Covered in work as I am, I am already entertaining escapist fantasies about how awesome our ski trip to Tahoe on MLK weekend is going to be.
The remainder of this post is dedicated to my California mommy in honor of her manifest awesomeness. Jo’s dad was complaining about how the English language [...]

Chuck Norris does not read books.

He stares at them until he gets the information he wants.

Until shade is gone

“Is this what Aemon’s blood has come to?” The Aes Sedai’s voice was not loud, but it overwhelmed every other sound. “Little people squabbling for the right to hide like rabbits? You have forgotten who you were, forgotten what you were, but I had hoped some small part was left, some memory in blood and [...]

Chuck Norris does not sleep. He waits.

Top Thirty Chuck Norris Facts

Trains!

I’m in LA with Joanna for Thanksgiving break. Beyond eating really well and sleeping a lot to make up for the past couple of weeks, not much has been going on. However, we did make it to the largest train store west of Chicago today. It was awesome. I was really excited to find an [...]

Some days are longer

Virtual Awesomeness

TOTAL TESTING SCORE: 100.0%ALL TESTED PASSED — PERFECT SCORE

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SUMMARY BY TEST SET

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LOL! THE INTERNETS!

A recent exchange on su.class.cs140:
“Shedletsky”:
“make check” fails with error 127 on myth27 for both our assigments 2 and 3, but if we log on to myth2, it works. What’s the deal? Has myth27 evolved sentience and is too busy plotting how to exterminate the human race to run pintos for us? Maybe someone should look [...]

CS140 Takes a Turn for the Awesome

We started out dejected since this is the week from hell and we have all this crap to do. Doug was momentarily overcome by despair and decided to throw himself down a flight of stairs.
Then Henry *totally* flipped out an wrote a virtual memory manager. Now we’re Xtr3me k0ding! Doug takes wingman.
Happy Dance! Multi-recurse [...]