| update 6 - fuck up 1 |
[11 Nov 2009|02:57am] |
I just shucked a pipette tip into my last liter of media for this condition - which means i'm now reliant on the blank i'm using and better pray it doesn't get contaminated. I'm going to leave it in the spec so no random particulates find their way in.
Fuck fuck fuck. Sleep deprivation - I haz it. (the waste container was right behind the media - it wasn't complete stupidity, just poorly thought out placement and disposal.)
FUCK
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[10 Nov 2009|11:50pm] |
ryan's tweets of the day:
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| update 5 |
[11 Nov 2009|01:59am] |
40 minutes until the predicted beginning of log-growth.
I'm not sure what I should be feeling right now. So far I feel fine. I'm told 3 am is a hard time to be in a TC but 2:40 is when I'm expecting excitement, so, what can you do?? I'm fine for caffeine, food, and water, so all's good on that front.
One thing that is pissing me off, however, is that there's so much white noise distributed throughout the lab that I can't hear my computer's speakers as I walk away from it. I've long since given up on my antiquated ipod, so that's a tad frustrating.
Anyway, that's be 2 am update.
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| update 4 |
[10 Nov 2009|09:28pm] |
almost at 10 hours. things are sailing along and my strains are still in lag phase, but probably won't be for too much longer. 1/3 of the way through this characterization, so that's nice, at least.
I'm not really tired - just uncomfortable. I'm warm but there's good circulation in here - it's weird.
Been thinking a lot about my career - may even post about all the things in my head after this TC is complete and I get some rest.
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| update 3 |
[10 Nov 2009|06:06pm] |
at the 6.5 hour mark so have to be quick. sampling every 30. No movement yet on the samples. Plenty of labmates are still here though, so this is fine / breaks up the monotony. Lots of friendly banter - so different than the dry lab, which is just the sound of typing and computer fans whirring away.
My jeans have the early formations of crotch holes - this makes me sad because I like how these jeans fit. Ah well, maybe i'll buy new ones this weekend?
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| Help (yes again) |
[10 Nov 2009|04:20pm] |
Okay, I'm trying to find links to all those happy fun discussions that happened after the release of Harry Potter book 7 (or six? I can't actually remember now) that were full of shock and surprise that Blaise Zabini is black. Links, anyone, anyone? Bueller?
This entry was originally posted at http://verstehen.dreamwidth.org/8320.html. Read  comments there or reply using OpenID.
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[10 Nov 2009|01:30pm] |
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Spent two bucks on this Laurel and Hardy Laughtoons movie still print at an antique store over the weekend.
Oh, pre-code films...
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| update 2: a 1:40 shift |
[10 Nov 2009|12:56pm] |
TC should be over at 5:40 pm tomorrow, instead of 4:00. Shift was due to troubles getting started. Everything is sailing along.
Right now I'm in extended lag phase, so until about 4:40 pm, I am sampling on the hour instead of the half hour. Sampling takes me about 15 minutes.
2:40 am tomorrow morning I'm expecting to enter log-growth phase, so I can dial back sampling to what I'm doing now.
I'm being relieved tomorrow at about 10 am.
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| update 1 |
[10 Nov 2009|10:00am] |
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the labtech said she would help me start all my cultures. She is still in a meeting. Whole TC just got shifted 30 minutes.
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| 30 hours |
[10 Nov 2009|06:04am] |
I'm starting an experiment today at 10 am. It's a 30 hour time course that will require that I take OD measurements on 20 samples every 30 minutes. This will take me in to 4 pm, Wednesday.
I will post on LJ to chronicle my descent into hallucination. Should be interesting?
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[09 Nov 2009|11:50pm] |
ryan's tweets of the day:
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| Capitalism: A Love Story |
[09 Nov 2009|11:21pm] |
Capitalism: A Love Story: * 3/4 (out of 4) I like Michael Moore movies. I suppose that many would consider this a shameful admission; and if I tried, I'm sure I could justify it by talking about how it's a joy to look at pure propaganda. But truth be told, I like Michael Moore. TV Nation was a great show, back in the day; The Awful Truth was pretty funny too. His early movies were amusing, and his stunts were fairly clever and confrontational in a way that I generally respected. And as time went on, his skills as a propagandist have grown - which as done a fairly effective job of counteracting the problems that his increased notoriety has caused.
As such, I did have some expectations going into Capitalism: A Love Story. And I was disappointed.
Part of the problem with Capitalism was clearly that the topic was very broad. The format of Moore's movies is best-suited for a narrow topic, the smaller the better; but this movie is about an entire economic system, rather than the collapse of a factory town or a more narrow political area like gun control or health care. There's never a chance to examine the various sides of the issue in any kind of serious way; there is never a chance to fill in the caricatures, or even the basic theories. The movie simply lacked focus, and
Worse were the stunts - or, perhaps, a lack of them. Moore's cameras sat in on some home foreclosures, which failed to shine any sympathy on anybody involved while also bringing into question why nobody was willing to intervene. Moore attempted to perform some citizen's arrests at Goldman Sachs and other banks; this simply seemed half-hearted. And everything else hardly seemed connected. There were some smiles at the silliness here and there, but even that was hurt by the oddly out-of-place cursing. All in all, it just seemed... badly put together.
Somewhere in between was the quality of the arguments. Moore didn't really attack capitalism in this movie; he attacked the bailout, and he attacked corruption, but he didn't attack the whole system. If he'd left it at that, that'd be okay - it worked okay in Bowling for Columbine, for instance - but but in this case, he took what little he had and called for even more change than he ever had before. Frankly, he overplayed his hand, and even what value the movie had as propaganda was damaged as a result.
It's a shame; there were some interesting details in there, such as the discussion of Dead Peasant insurance policies and (most prominently) a look back at Flint, MI, where it all began. But while the beginning of this story was the best we're likely to get from Moore, this is likely the worst.
* 3/4
URL: http://wiki.killfile.org/reviews/movies/capitalism-a-love-story/
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| hating the individual vs. the organization |
[09 Nov 2009|03:01pm] |
So. .I wanted a wider audience. . first I want to past in what I just wrote in facebook notes. . sorry for the repeat for people who will see this again.
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Generally believes that one should dislike the organization (possibly church or government) and not the individual, unless the individual is obviously behind the badness, but what do you do if the individual as part of the organization must at least contribute to the organization through some set monetary amount? Say the organization stands for more than one thing and you really only hate one or two parts of the organization. Is the individual responsible (and possibly deserving to be punished) for every evil the organization does? And what do you do if you are not in the organization and you don't want to support it by giving the individual money but you may need to pay them for some service or object? Think of all of the people that in the world that hate the U.S.. . should they hate *you* because you pay taxes?
where do you/we draw the lines?
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Then I had this conversation with my friend Alisha about it. .
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[14:51] bryanwk77: so then what if you find out that the author you love not just is mormon (cause I can see mormons who have no problem with gay people still wanting to be mormon)
[14:51] bryanwk77: but what do you do if you find out the author is a horrible person
[14:51] bryanwk77: and supports evil of some kind that you find abhorrent or opressive.
[14:51] bryanwk77: can you still enjoy their work?
[14:52] bryanwk77: or doy ou enjoy it by pirating it?
[14:54] alishacoleman80: back
[14:55] bryanwk77: I'm actually really curious about this question. I'll probably crosspost to lj at some point also
[14:55] alishacoleman80: well if you look at it that way then I probably shouldn't pay my taxes because it indirectly supports the murder and rape of Iraqi women
[14:55] alishacoleman80: if you are counting pennies everything you do goes somewhere bad
[14:56] alishacoleman80: authors get pennies on the dollar for their books, the publishers get most of it, and the bookstore chain gets a decent chunk too, and one of those might support gay rights totally cancelling out whatever money goes to the author
[14:57] alishacoleman80: secondly, not all the money that goes to the author goes to the church, so even less of your money makes it to the mormoms
[14:58] alishacoleman80: thirdly, mormoms do other things besides oppressing gays
[14:58] bryanwk77: I know
[14:58] alishacoleman80: they feed the homeless and a lot of other good things for society
[14:58] bryanwk77: hey can you post that to my note on fb?
[14:58] bryanwk77: course the money they fuel our opression could be doing so much more
[14:58] alishacoleman80: so if my 1/10th of a cent does make it to the mormoms I'm going to decide my 1/10th of a cent went towards feeding the homeless
[14:58] bryanwk77: but oh well.
[14:59] bryanwk77:
[14:59] bryanwk77: if you don't want to post there can I copy and paste? maybe if I move it to LJ?
[14:59] alishacoleman80: heck if you shop at walmart you are supporting sweat shops and child labor
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Ultimately I think that I am on the side of practicality. . If you worry about every penny you spend supporting evil. . it becomes more than a full time job.. and might not even be possible to figure out. Living totally green is probably easier.
I'm all for avoiding the obvious cases and boycotting people/organizations in a focused pointed manor, but I think most boycotts even don't work because they are too diffuse and spread out and impossible to control well.
. . so I'm really curious what other people think.
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