Monday, April 22th, 2024 | |
i spent most of saturday in my room not doing too much of anything. | |
i appreciated the break but felt a bit gross throughout it. i think | |
i did something in the morning - oh that's right, ana had spent the | |
night leading into the day and we slept in and got bagels and | |
stuff. but yeah beyond that i didn't really do much. i believe i | |
ordered pizza mid-day and then made myself sick by not drinking | |
water. then i was listening to church music late into the night | |
after i accidentally fell asleep from about 10pm to midnight. i | |
intended to stay sleeping after i woke up again but my online | |
music friends wanted to put together a cover of 'our house' by | |
CSNY, which was one of my middle/high school favorite songs, so i | |
shot up to listen to that and try to record something. it didn't go | |
great and i ended up listening to a bunch of music until i fell | |
asleep with my headphones on and i think that's why i've got an | |
earache today. i woke up today and showered and came to campus with | |
ana where i pretty much worked all day on making sense of this | |
enzyme activity data. we took a break to go eat potato leek soup at | |
their mom's house and for me to throw some laundry in. i love the | |
day after i've done a bunch of laundry, so i'm looking forward to | |
tomorrow, even though i have to wake up early i think. i mostly | |
plan on doing a bunch more work. i also need to figure out some | |
stuff to order online so i can have proof of residence. i've been | |
meaning to change my residence for a long long time now. mostly so | |
i can get a permit for pittsburgh instead of having to worry about | |
getting everything back home. i hope i can save up for a car | |
reasonably over the next few years. i think it's pretty stupid i | |
never worried about learning to drive or getting a car, but that's | |
the way it went. any more time is even more stupid so i ought to | |
just get it out of the way as soon as i can. anyway, the ideas for | |
things to order online (since i don't often shop for stuff) include | |
some new shoes since most of mine are falling apart (i've only got | |
two pairs of boots without holes in them and one of those just got | |
a hole in the heel), or, well, i don't remember. something for the | |
future apartment i think, probably kitchen related. i also remember | |
i got new guitar strings yesterday and restrung my guitar that i'd | |
let go with a broken string for far too long. | |
Continued... | |
Saturday, April 20th, 2024 | |
i made a lot of progress on work stuff in the past couple days. i | |
don't remember how much i described of this before, so forgive me | |
for any redundancy. we have a bunch of expression data for a | |
mixture of molecules and enzymes (an insane amount of molecules) | |
and i'm supposed to make a method that predicts whether a given | |
molecule (not from the data) will interact with a given enzyme | |
(from the data). my main problem so far was how the heck to make | |
sense of the data i was given. but i figured it out today and the | |
numbers are actually making sense, which i'm happy about. now it's | |
a matter of extracting the right substructure information from the | |
molecules to have some meaningful features. | |
Continued... | |
Thursday, April 18th, 2024 | |
first of all, i've realized the reason my text width seems wrong | |
is because it is. here i was assuming 80 was generous. i believe i | |
read 67 is safe so that's what i just set it to. | |
Continued... | |
Monday, April 15th, 2024 | |
my partner found a chord organ at goodwill today for 14 dollars. there wasn' | |
plug nearby to test it so it was a bit of a gamble, but it ended up working | |
perfectly. i was a bit nervous at how loud it was (coupled with the fact tha | |
there's no volume control), but i figured out some nice ways to have more vo | |
control. the first is to loosen the air intake/exhaust enclosure so that a b | |
of air could escape from the sides. the second is to cover the hole with my | |
or hand. i'm learning how to control it as i play with my knee to get some f | |
in and out and some tremolo. recording it's going to be a separate issue, bu | |
luckily the motor isn't super loud. i haven't checked to see how well-tuned | |
is. hopefully it's fine because it seems the only way to fix that would be t | |
take a knife to the plastic pipes inside it. | |
Continued... | |
Saturday, April 13th, 2024 | |
i'm new to participating in the gopher ecosystem, but i've been reading othe | |
phlogs for a few months now. i only committed to digging my own gopher hole | |
night after listening to aNONradio and getting mad that no one was talking i | |
the IRC chat, even though i'm still not super comfortable with IRC. i tried | |
using COM but needed to validate my account and at that point, i was about 2 | |
commands away from my own site. now it's just a matter of actually using it. | |
i've made a variety of WWW websites over the years and always hated updating | |
them. any time i needed to make changes, i ended up just rewriting the whole | |
site from scratch. at least the process of this feels different enough that | |
might not fall into despair at the idea of adding/removing things from here. | |
i've also not been great at journaling lately. there were 2 years where i di | |
pretty regularly, but not so much any more. i think this will be a cool way | |
re-enter that. | |
Continued... | |