It's funny, and somewhat unfortunate that I keep choosing two different topics to cover in a single day's post. Perhaps this type of indecision is the reason behind the stagnant state of my wordpress blog, which tend to demand a bit more quality and coherent thought compared to my livejournal?

I've been watching some Hunter S. Thompson biography ( Read more... )

Those of you in the know are probably aware of my fixation with computer games. I haven't been able to play like before though, with real world jobs and school works getting more intense by the day. Yet I still like it enough to manage to play some whenever I can afford to do so, and I'm certainly guilty of some recent sleepless nights spent on ( Read more... )

As I write this the clock is ticking away into the later parts of the three in the morning, and the cold medicine I had to take the day before is still visibly making me drowsy. My eyes are about to shut down and I can feel some sort of weird medicine induced chill entering my system, which is all the more fantastic coupled with the not-so-pleasant ( Read more... )

 Cellphone novels are quite a hit with Japanese female demographic, as outlined in this article. This might sound strange to westerners who until recently considered a bare-minimum camera phone as a luxury item and live in places where bluetooth still isn't the standard on many laptops and cellphone models being offered. As the common stereotype ( Read more... )

The update at this blog had been intermittent for a while due to my personal circumstances, with moving to a new apartment, and the need to write up bunch of papers happening all at once. Now that I am a bit more settled I should be able to write here regularly. At least I hope that is the case… I do not think I can handle as much workload ( Read more... )

The day of number crunching is over. I need to fall asleep quickly if I want to make it in time for tomorrow's lab duty... I don't want to fall asleep on the way and miss my stop like some other days.

I've been listening to a tune from a violin all night... The Devil's Trill, actually. This particular version is played by Tsuneyoshi Saito.

In this ( Read more... )

Just made a little post on the Lebanese situation on my wordpress blog, the place I usually reserve for semi-serious rants that shouldn't be placed in Livejournal-like casual environment.

Seriously, the military in Lebanon wasn't as pronounced as they are now, and I'm beginning to suspect that certain chain of circumstances stemming from the widely ( Read more... )

Recently I haven't been posting much on the blogs.

The reason is that I've been insanely busy lately, with all the course work/labwork and my other activities regarding synthetic biology, something I've been quite taken with past few years. It is amazing how easy it is to learn this new discipline. And the relatively cheap price of the experiments ( Read more... )

I read this one a long time ago. I can still remember it vividly, filled with fantastic beings and locales. This book is a sort of crossover between creative fantasy and fairytale, though when I think about it practically every single creative writing can be said as a variation of the two categories. The style of the book is very reminiscent of the ( Read more... )

There is a strange difference between writing things by hand and typing things by hand. When I'm writing, I feel as if I'm drawing using limited set of symbols in order to convey or record meaning, while when I'm typing I feel as if I'm playing an instrument on a set of scale.

The difference is pronounced when i don't know what to write about. When ( Read more... )