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Eastern Standard Cocktails

Notes from my exploration of eastern standard's cocktail menu: Old Cuban: reminds me of a mojito + champagne - it's very tasty. Periodista: "rum for the intrepid reporter" - a little more than simply a mojito in a cocktail glass (with delicious ice crystals), the periodista is a citrusy drink with a ...

Hello world! (again)

New blog is up and running - woot.  Too bad it's not on MIT CSAIL's uberfat pipe (who is at 216.32.32.12 these days?).  TODO install my own theme create my About Mac page import content from cis-action.blogspot.com digitize and post my ideas See you soon!

Can You Explain Gravity to Me

[NOTE: this is an old post (circa 23 Feb 07) that I never published because I never got around to connecting all the topics with a narrative of the event.  Now I've forgotten, but I think it's still worth sharing] Discussion after a talk to a Berkeley class by Drew Endy ...

second to the right, and straight on ’till morning

Seeqpod is cool. I would love to find (or build, if I could) a web app that let me and a group of friends chat while listening to and collaborating on a collective music playlist. (Could ajax be used to stream the current song from the person who ...

philosophy

There is an exception to everything.

Quest for laziness 1: Davidson network auto-login

Users attempting to access the Davidson College network from a computer running Microsoft XP (and perhaps other windows variants) are compelled to install a program called Perfigo CleanConnect, which subsequently installs more programs among them one called the ePolicy Orchestrator Agent, before being granted access. These programs essentially give the ...

A list of future topics

Working with common ground in New Orleans over Spring Break Printing the Davidson College logo with Fluorescent DNA Bioinformatics project 2: a program to enhance the Standard Registry of Biological Parts A little perl/applescript to automatically log into DavidsonWLAN Finding a laser scanner for the Salamander Waterloss project Other interesting events in my life...

October 17th 2008
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Cuchi Cuchi 1

Thai cocktail It's like an effervescent thai foot massage... For your tongue. It even taste a little gingery, but it lacks Ginger. A syrupy lime kick transitions into basilness, somehow ending with licorice. Yum! Caip They say it's been made impure with all the extra ingredients.. But it's like ...
August 1st 2008
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Eastern Standard Cocktails

Notes from my exploration of eastern standard's cocktail menu: Old Cuban: reminds me of a mojito + champagne - it's very tasty. Periodista: "rum for the intrepid reporter" - a little more than simply a mojito in a cocktail glass (with delicious ice crystals), the periodista is a citrusy drink with a ...
July 14th 2008
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DIYbio 3 - Gel Electrophoresis

Thanks to everyone for a great meeting: Michael, Jason, Sophia, Benny, Topher, Ricardo, Alex, Alec, nublabs, and everyone else. Overview: DIYbio 2 & 3 were focused on gel electrophoresis - we started by researching all the amateur gel protocols we could find online (notably the MacGuyver Project and the MAKE protocol, ...
July 9th 2008
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RubyU class 1 setup notes

My notes for getting all the prerequisites for Matt Knox's 1st RubyU class (hosted by Sermo) set up on my MacBook Pro (10.5).  Also see the friendfeed RubyU room. == getting prereqs installed == ruby > anvil:rubyclass macowell$ ruby -verison > ruby 1.8.6 (2008-03-03 patchlevel 114) [i686-darwin9.2.2] gems See http://www.rubygems.org/read/chapter/1 > anvil:rubyclass macowell$ gem environment > - ...
June 11th 2008
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DIYbio in 5 minutes - O’Reilly Ignite Boston 3

DIYbio in 5 minutes - O'Reilly ignite Boston from mac cowell on Vimeo. Here is an overview of DIYbio in 5 minutes - recorded at O'Reilly's Ignite Boston 2008.

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