8/27/07

It has been a while since I last wrote. Have I been too busy? No. It has been a number of things. In reverse chronological order, I have been away from the lab following reconstructive surgery on my badly torn right rotator cuff (pictures to follow). During the recuperation, I became 46 (This, in response to George Carlin's Question of why it is that in English we "turn" an age. He posits that when bad things happen, like when milk spoils, you say that it 'turned' and hence aging is described as 'turning' while when good things happen they "become). Not surprisingly, so did my twin brother. He did not, however, have surgery on his shoulder.

While I was sitting around not moving my arm, I did manage to read a few books. Among them were the first two of Terry Pratchett's diskworld books, the Dark Material trilogy by Phillip Pullman, and the last two Artemis Fowl books by Eoin Colfer.
 

The week of August 12-17 was a banner week at the FGSC. We produced five plates of arrayed mutants. Aric Wiest and Matt Kinney deserve real kudos for this. We did this all without either the Apricot (Left) or Hydra (right). We are in the market for one of these fine machines and are trying to decide between them. If you have any input, please let us know. We would actually be looking at a reconditioned analog Apricot or a reconditioned hydra.

8/8/07

I have just installed Dreamweaver and am learning how to use it. In the past, I have managed the FGSC Web-site by FTP, editing the html code directly in a text editor, then I used Homesite which is a What You See is What You Get editor and when we moved to UMKC, I used Microsoft FrontPage, because it was free.

This blog is the first document I am editing in Dreamweaver. If the entire FGSC web-site goes away, it is because I obviously did something wrong!