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Smear Campaigns in Politics. . .Enough already.

October 1st, 2008

I’m not one to express my political opinions.  This time though, I have to say that I am most likely voting for Obama.  Besides actually agreeing with some of his policies, those Right wingers are nut cases.  I would prefer not to be associated with them.

The real purpose of anymore political articles I write up will be to curb the smear crap that is getting sent around.  That include either candidate.  Even though I really haven’t seen any McCain smearing.  Anyway, when I have some more free time, I’ll post the remainder of this post with my first debunking of an Obama smear.

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The Rain. . .It makes thing wet. Really Wet. . .

July 25th, 2008

Wednesday night we had a torrential downpour.  Rain everywhere, coming down hard.  Well, Thursday morning I head out to my truck to leave for work and the windshield is covered with condensation on the inside. I was confused, but thought nothing of it until I opened the door.  Wetness everywhere.  It turns out my sunroof was open, now let me explain why it was open.

There is some issue where the sunroof will begin to close, then bounce back open.  I know of the problem, but it’s hard to reproduce so the dealer can’t do much about it.  I had been doing good checking it to make sure it was closed, but Wednesday night I was distracted by Katie almost getting run over by another car.  So apparently, it opened back up and I didn’t see it.  :(

Anyway, I am now off to vacuum it out really well, clean the leather seats and the dashboard.  Hopefully there will be no mildew that forms or anything.  Don’t want a smelly truck. . .

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Editing files

April 17th, 2008

So for school I’m working on this project in which I’m building a virtual receptor to use programs to dock my potential drugs to. In making the model I have to find a template, align my receptor sequence then build the model. But I don’t just build one, because my receptor is not the same as the template I had to build some variation into my model; I have to make what is known as loop models. In my case, I made 3 initial models and 10 loop models of each. So I have 30 unique models to work with. Within each model I have 5 interfaces that my potential drugs can interact with; which means I have 150 unique interfaces in which I have to work with. In order to dock my potential drugs I then have to set up a separate file for each one for each interface. So for the last week I’ve been setting up all of those hundreds of files. To top it off, once I have all of those set up, I have to write a script for each interface so it will automate some of the next steps, like docking each potential drug individually. Well, with this script I’ve had to tweak it probably 4 times already in the last two days. Then when I uploaded it all to let it run I got an error message. That error made me go back and have to tweak an earlier file that the script has to pull from. So needless to say, I’m tired of editing and re-editing the same damn 150 files (or their variations).

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Posted in Rant, School

Georgians have nothing better to do

March 22nd, 2008

In the approximate 100 miles that I-95 runs through Georgia, about 80% of it is plagued with construction. So between that and the drivers who don’t know about the phenomenon known as cruise control we were a little annoyed by the time we reached Florida.

But it was all good once we go here. We ate at a local restaurant “Dixie Crossroads” which has a variety of fresh seafood items. We’ve eaten there several times before but it’s always a great time. Then went back to chill in the pool for the afternoon. We spent the evening after dinner become big kids again while helping Jay dye Easter eggs and decorate his Easter basket for the Easter bunny.

Back with more later.

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Posted in Rant, Trips

It’s Called Cruise Control

March 21st, 2008

So, while many people have this simple, easy-to-use, feature installed in their vehicles they don’t USE it. (and if you don’t, it’s an easy, quick, and fairly cheap install.) It was driving me crazy last night driving from Richmond to Savannah. In particular this one stupid BMW SUV from NY; it was probably covering a 20 mph difference in speed depending on if they were in front of you and if you were trying to pass them. But we still made good time. We made it to Savannah in about 6 to 6.5 hours. Just a few hours left this morning and we’ll be at Chase’s parent’s house. The one thing I like best about NC is the 70 mph, but it’s better in SC because they have max 70 mph, min 45 mph.

Some of the interesting things we noticed along the way:

  • South of the Border signs start as you enter NC
  • One of the funniest South of the Border signs read “You never sausage a place (You’re always a weiner at Pedro’s)”
  • As do signs to get discount tickets and hotels for Orlando, once you got to the exit it didn’t look like much though
  • A house on fire, I feel bad for the family
  • And you can’t take pictures in the car at night while you’re moving, the flash interferes and takes way too long

Ok, that’s enough for now.

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Posted in Rant, Trips