Archive for the ‘Grad Life’ Category

More CiteULike API stuff

Wednesday, August 25th, 2010

So after a nearly 4 month hiatus from even bothering to look at my coding, I sat down and cleaned up the parsing code I wrote way back when and got some subroutines going for it. Nothing too fancy, but it should discriminate satisfactorily between RIS and BiBTex formatted library ...

High on Life (or something?)

Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010

So in following up last night's post, I've been riding on a mildly high on life kick lately. With the move finally being finished from the past month, it has finally given me a chance to settle down and observe things with a little more clarity around me. Lab work ...

Fighting the Urge’o'Lazy

Monday, August 2nd, 2010

I always keep talking about posting more, and I always keep failing at that. Less of a promise now, and more just a hope that I will. My weeks pan out to busier than they expect to be, and on the ones that I'm free, I'm too lazy to do ...

Coming soon…

Friday, May 21st, 2010

I am still alive and kicking. Well swimming. Keeping my head above the water, so to speak. I'm looking for a new apartment. Something to cut down the cost. I investigated an option for a roommate this evening. Seemed nice enough, the apartment is nice, the landlord seemed very welcoming, and ...

Coding Flurry and CiteULike

Monday, May 10th, 2010

I wrote a script in Perl to take a RIS-formatted citation library and parse it into a JSON file compatible for use with CiteULike's API. It's a bit sloppy, but considering I've had their API since October, it's about fucking time I did it. It'd be relatively trivial to tweak this ...

Staving Off Burnout

Monday, April 26th, 2010

My weekend didn't exactly take a fabulous start. Considering I didn't get home from the lab until 0:04 Saturday morning, my sleep schedule has been atrocious all weekend. I only garnered about five hours of sleep that night, so between errands early on Saturday combined with working on my presentation ...

Recent recap

Sunday, April 4th, 2010

Last couple of weeks have been kind of crazy. Makes me feel like I need a vacation, but I've been getting the feeling a lot lately. My de-stressing methods have been non-existent as of late. Need to work on that. What I've been up to lately has included the following: Adrienne came ...

IGPBS: Recruitment round X^Nth

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

This weekend is the yearly Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in the Biomedical Sciences (IGPBS) primary recruitment weekend. I have been solicited for help every year since I joined the program as the students have been stated as one of the largest factors for coming to the program here at the University ...

Weekend Update

Monday, February 22nd, 2010

Concerts, photographers, and OpenSolaris, oh my! Please do come inside. If not for the interesting tidbits about the BPO (which I will finish at a later hour), at least stop in for my latest techie project with some gushing on the side about some local photographers!

Recovery and contemplation

Sunday, December 13th, 2009

My committee meeting on Wednesday went about as expected. Unfortunately, I didn't really get to assembling any of my presentation until Tuesday night. I guess this just fulfills my old dogma that I always perform better under a deadline. Maybe this is why I have so many white hairs already... But ...