Press buzz on the Nature paper we just had published...
ZDNet even lifted my figures directly from the paper. That can't be legal.

If you get Nature online:
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v442/n7098/index.html
It's in the "Letters" section.

Today Gunars came home from the hospital. It's been a long haul. A couple of months ago his doctor thought he probably wouldn't make it. Things have changed though. He no longer is eating, there's a feeding tube inserted into his tummy. He's also diabetic now, given that his pancreas self destructed. But to be honest he's doing much better ( Read more... )

When it rains it pours ( Read more... )

I ordered a cd that i have been wanting to get since i was in Japan. When Benny and I went to the coast to spend the day he brought this disk. It's a collection of Mississippi delta blues and field labor songs and church singing recorded live in the deep south in the 20s and 30s. It's the third volume of Southern Journey: 61 Highway Mississippi ( Read more... )

Well, things are getting settled to start being paid in British Pounds. I got the offer letter from University College London last week. I have to get a bunch of paperwork sorted out. The plan is to stay at Argonne for a year or two then head to London to finish out the grants third year. It's an exciting project that we are already getting ( Read more... )

Wendy's in town. Sunday last weekend she was washing her face and felt something happen in her eye. She came out of the bathroom and said part of her vision was blurry on the left side. We figured she might have just gotten something in her eye so we didn't do anything. By monday morning she was about 40% blind in that eye. Since we were on ( Read more... )

well, i decided to get cable. The unsecured wireless points in the area are just to weak to be useful. I'm also ready for the Formula One season to begin in March ( Read more... )

It seems like a lifetime since my last post. In some sense it actually has been. My girlfriend's daughter, Mei Phing , died the week between christmas and new years ( Read more... )

well, i found a place in naperville. man am i spoiled by baytowne in champaign. for $730 in champaign i think i got quite a lot. the only complaint i have ever had about baytowne is that the windows and doors are very leaky. spent the last two days looking at some real dives for $750 or $800. you have to spend like $900 to get something really ( Read more... )

I was listening to the radio the other day and heard an interview with the owner of American Apparel . The guy is a Canadian that started the company with $10k borrowed from his dad. The first time it went completely wrong and bankrupt. It's now emerged from bankruptcy and is doing something like $200M in sales this year. The link above is to ( Read more... )