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San Diego, CA

Greetings from sunny San Diego, CA, where I attended the NRI Animal Genomics Annual Investigator Meeting Friday and will be attending weekend workshops at the Plant and Animal Genome XVI meeting. Hopefully I can get away after lunch to do … Continue reading

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LSU 38, OSU 24

The score says it all, right? Les Miles coached the Tigers to victory over the Buckeyes in what may have been the best-coached game of his career at LSU. Oh, okay, here’s anoter one. If I can copy without permission, … Continue reading

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The ASUS Eee PC 4G looks like a lot of fun

So ASUS is now selling the Eee PC 4G, which is an ultra-portable Linux laptop with a 7″ display, 512 MB RAM, 4 GB solid state memory, and which weighs in at about 2 pounds for about $400. Intrigued yet? … Continue reading

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Portable Applications and Secret-Keeping

Over the holidays I picked up one of these Ativa Memory Card USB Drives for $5.99 at my local Office Depot. I threw in a 2 GB SD RAM card and have a 2 GB thumb drive for less than … Continue reading

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Thoughts on LSU-Arkansas

Meh. I’m sure there are one or two people who are waiting for me to explode in a white-hot ball of fury about the game. But they watched it, just like I did, and they probably know what I’ll say. … Continue reading

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OOoLatex and cropped equations

I’m still using OpenOffice.org to prepare manuscripts at work but I’m using OOoLatex to keep my equations from being ugly (I’ve written about it before). After upgrading from Kubuntu 7.04 to 7.10 I started noticing some equations were “losing” the … Continue reading

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Ellery’s Dietary Savvy

While Misty, Ellery and Henry were in line at JoAnn’s today Ellery proudly announced that his favorite fruit is donuts. I take all of the credit because I’m the one who taught him that purple’s a fruit. Powered by ScribeFire.

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supertabular, \tablefirsthead{}, and my sanity

Do you use LaTeX? Do you use the supertabular package to typeset large tables? Have you ever had a maddening situation where LaTeX keeps telling you something like this? [27] ! Extra alignment tab has been changed to \cr. <recently … Continue reading

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Fresno, CA

I’m not loving on Fresno. So far I’ve endured the worst Caesar salad ever, a 12″ TV, and a conversation among patrons in the restaurant last night so stupid that it’s permanently affected my ability to do my job. At … Continue reading

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Visalia, CA

Greetings from sunny, but dry, central California! I was invited out here to Visalia to speak about best prediction at an event sponsored by AgriTech Analytics and Holstein Association USA. My talk was yesterday afternoon and went well, I think. … Continue reading

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