Chemical Shift

I wish everyone a happy Saturnalia, Solstice, Yule, Christmas, Kwanzaa, Hannukah, Wintereenmas, and New Year!

I checked my email this morning when I get back to work, after spending the last three days traveling to, at, and from an interview far away, to find that I’ve been rejected. Although rejection is always disheartening, I am not too hurt, because I currently have a good job, albeit a “temporary postdoc”, [...]

I’m not usually into dumpster diving, but when I was taking the trash out a few hours ago, I noticed somebody had threw away a computer, but left most of the parts in it. The case was beaten up pretty bad, but I was able to salvage the following:

an MSI 865PE Neo2-P Platinum Edition [...]

Last night, I baked some gluten free brownie bottom cheesecake, which wasn’t too bad, but could be better next time. I started with The Gluten Free Pantry’s Chocolate Truffle Brownie Mix. After baking a little more than halfway (about 15 min), I added the cheesecake batter that I made from a recipe [...]

We recently rented March of the Penguins, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, and War of the Worlds. Of the three, the best was Mr. & Mrs. Smith, which was better than I had expected. Not a lot, of course, given that my expectations have continually been lowered by the quality of product coming out [...]