So I have spent the past week in Portland, OR at the O’Reilly Media’s OSCON 2010 and learned some useful things for my job, but it has also generated a fair bit of dissatisfaction. The fun talks were more on the geeky side, like how to build a device to monitor the environment. It would [...]

At long last I am on another publication for the years of slave grad work I completed. TAG published A Universal Core Genetic Map for Rice last month in their online edition. Hopefully it will make it into a print copy at some point. I identified the 18k+ SSR loci and built a system for [...]

I am sure that my church youth group will get a kick out of this. An AI competition using StarCraft. I am still amazed that the game’s appeal has lasted so long. Especially considering that I was saving the galaxy while they were still in diapers. Despite what people say, Protoss FTW!

I wrote a program to generate random limericks. Here are two example results: There once was a man in crowded  Who thought they were quite shambled.  They had their observation’s,  And some abbreviations,  But could not really unheeded. There once was a lady from miserably,  Who thought they were quite fashionably.  They had their coupon, [...]