Mostly several varieties of argh

[amethyst73]

• One of the hymns we sang yesterday is "What a Friend We Have in Jesus." I am less than fond of the words; suffice it to say that they are very Baptist, and I am quite definitely not a Baptist. I was therefore slightly put off to have it running through my head for chunks of yesterday afternoon and large parts of today. (It's a very chirpy, catchy tune. I suppose I could try using "Oh My Darling Clementine" words instead; I realized that these fit the tune equally well.)

• HHMI informed me today that they're really not s'posed to pay for lunches on day trips, and that after this most recent trip to Berkeley, they will cease to do so. Hmph.

• Much of the sequencing data I stared at today was useless: crap data (lots of overlapping squiggly lines for my traces), or inserts going in the wrong bloody way, or annoying errors all over the place.

• Life is made somewhat better by digitalemur 's post of the following animation to Jonathan Coulter's song "Mandelbrot Set," of which I'd never heard before. Enjoy! (NSFW; uses the F-word to describe the coolness of a fractal)

Comments

[emilymorgan.livejournal.com]

Oh, my sympathies! We had to sing "Just As I Am" yesterday. It's both catchy and insufferable!

[amethyst73.livejournal.com]

Sigh - you have my sympathy too!

It seems like most weeks we do something along those lines. The other half of the story is, there's only about a dozen or so of these sorts of songs that whoever is choosing them goes through. So every few months, they all cycle through.