About a year ago, it seems the Tasteman™ was abandoned to the darker recesses of the internet, to places where even Ole Lange would not venture... and, I was OK with it.
Frankly, in this job it is hard to find the time, energy and desire to do anything else on a computer other than the normal work we have to do. I don't "surf the web" (is that phrase EVEN still used?), or play games on the computer or do much of anything except write & read for work. Well, and this occasionally. So, it languished... and it sat... and it collected metaphorical dust. I thought it was done for...
But, today as I ate my lunch at my desk (Yoplait Light Pineapple Upside Down Cake yogurt; surprisingly delicious), I went into the Gilbertson Lab website, which coincidentally is similarly collecting dust these days, and on my way to PubMed to look up some papers, clicked the wrong button and got side-tracked into the Tasteman™ where I happened to re-read some of it. I got a little bit nostalgic. Now, I don't envision this as a period of renaissance for the ol' blog, but thought I'd ought to post something to keep it alive to try and stave off the infection that comes from lack of use (yeah, yeah, use-it-or-lose-it, blah2.)
While there I stumbled across a blog from one of our undergrads and soon-to-be-medical student, Heather, which is interesting, hilarious, insightful and, something the Tasteman™ is not, deep. And, no, I won't link to it here - I am sure she doesn't want the riff-raff that reads the Tasteman™ perusing it [you know who you are]. Or, maybe she does, who knows. Anyway, it made me want to write here again (for at least a moment or two).
Like most, rather than posting to a blog, I have been on Facebook for a while - and, while useful to connect with some old friends via FB and getting to post videos/pix of Shayde to show family/friends, it becomes a bit much at times and I don't venture in all that regularly... and it certainly is not a place to ramble on (i.e. like this)...
Anyway, the Tasteman™ is supposed to be about the lab, the labbies and the like... And like my last post about a year ago, this year two more of our graduate students will move onward and upward. Both Tian and Cherry (the new Mom) will be getting their Ph.D.s sometime during the summer.
This will make 4 Ph.D.'s leaving the lab in about a year. Something to be proud about to be sure, but a time of profound change. On a related note, I am really pleased Arian and Bhavik are coming back to walk during graduation next week!
I think we will be taking on 3-4 new graduate students starting in the Fall 2010 semester, which will be an interesting task but necessary to keep us in business... I think Han was afraid she'd be the only remaining grad student next year and therefore I'd be less likely to forget about the biweekly reports (oh, don't get me started on those!!!).
Anyway, back to the real work - see you in about another 12 months.
-T
Frankly, in this job it is hard to find the time, energy and desire to do anything else on a computer other than the normal work we have to do. I don't "surf the web" (is that phrase EVEN still used?), or play games on the computer or do much of anything except write & read for work. Well, and this occasionally. So, it languished... and it sat... and it collected metaphorical dust. I thought it was done for...
But, today as I ate my lunch at my desk (Yoplait Light Pineapple Upside Down Cake yogurt; surprisingly delicious), I went into the Gilbertson Lab website, which coincidentally is similarly collecting dust these days, and on my way to PubMed to look up some papers, clicked the wrong button and got side-tracked into the Tasteman™ where I happened to re-read some of it. I got a little bit nostalgic. Now, I don't envision this as a period of renaissance for the ol' blog, but thought I'd ought to post something to keep it alive to try and stave off the infection that comes from lack of use (yeah, yeah, use-it-or-lose-it, blah2.)
While there I stumbled across a blog from one of our undergrads and soon-to-be-medical student, Heather, which is interesting, hilarious, insightful and, something the Tasteman™ is not, deep. And, no, I won't link to it here - I am sure she doesn't want the riff-raff that reads the Tasteman™ perusing it [you know who you are]. Or, maybe she does, who knows. Anyway, it made me want to write here again (for at least a moment or two).
Like most, rather than posting to a blog, I have been on Facebook for a while - and, while useful to connect with some old friends via FB and getting to post videos/pix of Shayde to show family/friends, it becomes a bit much at times and I don't venture in all that regularly... and it certainly is not a place to ramble on (i.e. like this)...
Anyway, the Tasteman™ is supposed to be about the lab, the labbies and the like... And like my last post about a year ago, this year two more of our graduate students will move onward and upward. Both Tian and Cherry (the new Mom) will be getting their Ph.D.s sometime during the summer.
This will make 4 Ph.D.'s leaving the lab in about a year. Something to be proud about to be sure, but a time of profound change. On a related note, I am really pleased Arian and Bhavik are coming back to walk during graduation next week!I think we will be taking on 3-4 new graduate students starting in the Fall 2010 semester, which will be an interesting task but necessary to keep us in business... I think Han was afraid she'd be the only remaining grad student next year and therefore I'd be less likely to forget about the biweekly reports (oh, don't get me started on those!!!).
Anyway, back to the real work - see you in about another 12 months.
-T
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I'm sneaking away...
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