Being Haomself

67 Million-Year-Old Snake Fossil Found Eating Baby Dinosaurs |...

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 04:54:36 -0600

67 Million-Year-Old Snake Fossil Found Eating Baby Dinosaurs | Wired Science | Wired.com

camouflage art by desiree palmen

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 05:20:45 -0600

camouflage art by desiree palmen

szymon: Dear Van Gogh mug by Mike Mak

Sun, 24 Jan 2010 20:48:50 -0600

szymon:

Dear Van Gogh mug by Mike Mak

"Imagine a mental illness is described as being 80% heritable. This is often taken to mean that four..."

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 06:05:43 -0500

“Imagine a mental illness is described as being 80% heritable. This is often taken to mean that four fifths of an individual’s risk is down to his or her genes, but this is not the case. What it means is that 80% of the variance in the measured illness was explained by genetic factors in the specific group that was studied.”

- Mind Hacks: 80% genetic, 20% polyester

Life After Fraud

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 05:43:17 -0500

Life After Fraud:

You put your name into Google, and the first entry is about a transgression from 20 years ago, the penalty for which only lasted three years. Now you can’t get a job.

"It ain’t supposed to make sense; it’s faith. Faith is something that you believe that nobody in his..."

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 05:42:35 -0500

“It ain’t supposed to make sense; it’s faith. Faith is something that you believe that nobody in his right mind would believe.”

- Archie Bunker (via rlrr)

My wife got lost in Beijing after getting off a bus.

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:28:11 -0500

I happened to call her. Found the place she wanted to go on google map but she could not tell me where exactly she was. Is there an online map service in Chinese?

install kubuntu on Eee PC 1005HA-PU1X

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:08:08 -0500

Got my unit today. This is my 2nd netbook. The first one is a MSI WIND. I tried to put kubuntu 9.04 on USB drive. The drive booted my desktop and the Wind. The USB drive was detected in the Bios, but no matter what I do, it won’t boot the Eee PC. Finally I gave up and tried Wubi from WinXP. That did not work either because the new Wubi won’t run. Not sure why. In the end, I had to burn a CD and install it the old fashion way via a IDE CD-ROM connected through a USB interface (from a USB external hard drive).

The 160G hard drive has four partitions on it. The first one is WinXP, I put kubuntu on the 2nd partition, which may have some backup files for WinXP but I don’t really care about that.

The first surprise is that there was no network, wired or wireless. After finding out the hardware, AR9285 for wireless and AR8132 for ethernet, I found this post and installed the AR813X driver. The other driver did not work.http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1141529

For wireless, I used aptitude and installed the driver. (apt-get complained about dependencies)

sudo aptitude install linux-backports-modules-jaunty

So far, so good. The fan does come on after a while. The noise is audible but not very annoying.

Sound worked out of the box. Have not tested the web-cam or blue tooth yet.

Jabref vs Mendeley for the management of scientific pdf files

Sat, 27 Jun 2009 09:44:18 -0500

Short: I still like JabRef better.

Slightly longer: JabRef allows using PMID, which is unique and short to rename files. I use PMID as the plug for refs when I write. So I can work without any ref manager using text editing apps like vim. Mendeley is faster. It has an integrated web account, which is convenient. Not sure how useful the social network aspect of it will be.

"Memphis Methodist Hospital Says It Did Jobs’s Liver Surgery http://bit.ly/qGdqS"

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:56:25 -0500

“Memphis Methodist Hospital Says It Did Jobs’s Liver Surgery http://bit.ly/qGdqS”

- nytimes

Upgraded to Jaunty, still have dual screen on ATI RV300

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:52:00 -0500

Thanks to http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1171926

Some sweet-flavored cigarettes banned.

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:29:00 -0500

The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act singed into law by President Obama banned the sales of candy-flavored and fruit-flavored cigarettes.

Flavored cigarettes are widely considered appealing to first-time smokers. I am very glad they are banned because I fully appreciate the dangerous role flavors play in nicotine addiction. In fact, the role of flavor in nicotine addiction is the center question of my grant application awarded early this month. Now flavors are banned, I’ll need to come up with some new ideas. Wait, they did not ban other flavors, right? Like Menthol?

Data of oneself + social network = motivation

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 05:29:24 -0500

Data of oneself + social network = motivation:

The story of Nike+ and personal metrics from wired magazine

slantback: iamboz: Outlet Wall destroys cable clutter by...

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:35:15 -0500

slantback:

iamboz: Outlet Wall destroys cable clutter by embracing it | DVICE. The cred goes to Tommy.

via swick.co.uk Yoga ad.

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:38:34 -0500

via swick.co.uk Yoga ad.

dihard: This is an interesting graphic that tells the story of...

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 12:44:25 -0500

dihard:

This is an interesting graphic that tells the story of the culprits behind our budget deficit.

The NYT article from a couple days ago breaks it down in further detail, as shown below.

Just thought I’d share.

real life 404 Error szymon:

Wed, 20 May 2009 16:34:52 -0500

real life 404 Error

szymon:

PHD Comics: Science News Cycle

Wed, 20 May 2009 03:42:29 -0500

PHD Comics: Science News Cycle

"resting-state connectivity scans the spontaneous activity that takes place in their brains while..."

Fri, 15 May 2009 13:44:23 -0500

“resting-state connectivity scans the spontaneous activity that takes place in their brains while they do nothing. When this brain activity rises and falls at the same time in different brain regions, researchers conclude that those areas likely work together.”

- Brain’s Organization Switches As Children Become Adults

I drove a 4 yr old boy to daycare this morning. The conversation in the car is totally different...

Tue, 12 May 2009 13:01:09 -0500

I drove a 4 yr old boy to daycare this morning. The conversation in the car is totally different than driving my 5 yr old to kindergarten. The boy speaks both English and Chinese but somehow it feels he is much more mature in English. More big kid sounding talk in English and more little kid sounding talk in Chinese.