Blind.Scientist

Image by Getty Images via DaylifeDetroit’s Red Wings tradition says someone needs to turn/throw an octopus on the ice before the game in order to get the crowd fired-up. I’ve never seen any organized group, such as PETA, to fight against this horrendous tradition. What!, nobody care for the poor cephalopods? Imagine what would happen if the Pittsburgh Penguins decided to throw a dead penguin on the ice to get the crowd fired-up? Why a cephalopod doesn’t have the same status of a bird?

New poll finds Montreal Canadiens as Canada’s team, more than Toronto Maple Leafs. Ok, next Saturday when the bandwagon suddenly stops, please try not to fall and hurt yourself.

Flyers in five.

• @roguepuppet here in Toronto, there is a good place to find some different fruits. Supermarket bananas have a bland taste. #
• @mndoci I discuss anything, anything at all. I have an incommensurable amount of useless knowledge #
• @mndoci I discuss anything, anything at all. I have an incommensurable amount of useless knowledge #
• going to eat some traditional japanese sushi and buy some gohan to stock #
• @roguepuppet I am not fan of bananas sold in NA. Stay away from the supermarket bananas and get some apple-banana. Better taste #
• @roguepuppet Magnolias are one of my favourite plants. #
• @roguepuppet Magnolias are from a very old family of plants, Magnoliaceae, one the basal families of angiosperms. #
• I’m never buying anything from Netgear again. #
• @mndoci @neilfwa @rvidal I installed this one in a VMWare and wasn’t good at all. #

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• @ChristianBurns what program are you using? #
• why are Planet Nature and Postgenomic feeds "seasonal"? All of a sudden hundreds of entries appear … #
• @rvidal Nada como conhecer os patricios. #
• @rvidal indeed, and the anniversary of the Cravos. #
• @michaelbarton OK, thanks a lot. #
• @rvidal thanks, will see what I can do … #
• @mndoci email me too, I’d take a look if you want … #
• @michaelbarton sorry to ask, but what is ONS? #
• @SciPhu man, that’s sad … #
• Sometimes I lose faith in the humanbeing: http://www.thestar.com/article/418415 #
• isn’t Neil awake today/tonight? #
• @pierreyves nice tune #
• @mndoci get the server already, more tools, more stuff to play around #
• @neilfws I think in Ubuntu adding is easier than removing. For something like Gentoo I’d say yes #
• @hooande the Raptors won? No wonder it is snowing in TO #
• @neilfws cheers mate, keep on going … #

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• @attilacsordas Thanks a lot … #
• @attilacsordas can you add some tag to the email subject? Something like [BioCamp] or similar … #
• gas will be 2.25 $CDN in 2012. Predicted by the same bank that lost 5 blln with the house bubble. #
• konqueror does not like FriendFeed … #
• "molecular data from extinct organisms may have the potential for resolving relationships at critical areas of the vert. evolutionary tree" #
• @pierreyves thx, added to Google Reader … #
• @rvidal @freesci I would say API too. #
• @neilfws 2:30 am madness, for sure #
• @yokofakun @covert basically you can merge all your "social web life" in one place. I find it useful to see what are being shared in GooRead #
• @yokofakun @covert like and see what everyone else is sharing … You can link a feed from your blog, twitter account, Flickr, etc #
• @yokofakun @covert It is a service that merges all the feeds that you generate and allows interaction between friends, so you can comment #
• @covert FriendFeed enables you to keep up-to-date on the web pages, photos, videos and music that your friends and family are sharing. #
• @mndoci twhirl, but not liking it. #
• @mndoci I unistalled on windows, my iMac is my social-hub. #
• The Greenland ice cap’s apparently melting quickly that it’s triggering earthquakes, as pieces of ice several cubic kilometers break off. #
• @mndoci I had issues with Twhirl on Mac. It does not update sometimes, it hangs and sometimes does not display the entries #
• @amberf com esses links do demo … #
• @amberf pára com isso … #
• Morpheus’ calling #
• @neilfws I also have that feeling that every time I use R I have to relearn it. Maybe the syntax is not clear enough … #
• shameless plug http://tinyurl.com/6557oy #
• @neilfws "Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It’s already
  tomorrow in Australia." (Charles Schultz) #

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• @rvidal Thnx, because she refused to add my blog sometime ago. #
• @rvidal what is the requisite to have a blog added to the network? #
• @rvidal question: you are one of the organizers of the DNA network, right? #
• @attilacsordas I am fully engaged on the BioBarCamp. The only problem is getting there … #
• @attilacsordas I don’t even have an AppEngine account … #
• @mza Damn, it beats my cassette player … #
• early leave … #
• @mza I think the repository is a major issue. The release policy is also non-existent, and regarding the busy I will blog about it … #
• @mndoci Yes, I should have put inside quotes. My bad. #
• @mza @mndoci I agree with the time (lazyness) constraints, and timing. @yokofakun I was thinking more of the finished product … #
• why published (in sci journals) applications are not properly checked by the reviewers? Opinions … #
• @neilfws indeed, I hate it #
• job description = bioinformatician #
• @roguepuppet better than mine, I guess #
• time to meet Morpheus #
• @attilacsordas did you read all six? #
• @Scobleizer to celebrate she will nuke Iran. #
• @neilfws I asked two: one does not like to talk about himself, the other said he would do it but only after July. #
• @rvidal good call too, I will add to my list (very short at the moment) #
• @neilfws @mndoci I had thought of her a long time ago, but decided to interview Rosie Redfield first due to the open science thingy … #
• how about Janet Thornton interviewed in SciView? What do you guys think? #
• @mndoci that’s why I don’t have a calendar. #
• Thanks Flyers, I will watch more than 7 meaningful playoff hockey games this year. #
• @attilacsordas a more psychological, catastrophic, biological sci-fi #
• @attilacsordas I think we are living the sci-fi of gadgets, and I think it is time to the sci-fi of Dick, Ballard, etc to revamp … #
• looking for suggestions for a new SciView interview, last couple were declined … http://blindscientist.genedrift.org/category/sciview/ #
• @attilacsordas Sunshine is a nice movie. #
• 2 x 2, c’mon Flyers #

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• time to go home … #
• @mza I wish I could go in August, but whoever is coming to ISMB drop me a note and we can organize something … #
• @attilacsordas further proof that I am out of the loop, need to catch up … #
• looking for suggestions for a new SciView interview, last couple were declined … http://blindscientist.genedrift.org/category/sciview/ #
• @yokofakun I remember reading your blog at the time. It was when I started to get into the "community" #
• @attilacsordas @mndoci why not something around ISMB too? Are you guys coming to TO? #
• @attilacsordas thanks, I am a little bit out of the loop regarding these things … #
• @attilacsordas how to get a SciFoo invite? #
• @roguepuppet http://www.clcbio.com/index.php?id=616 #
• @roguepuppet that is CLC implementation? #
• @mndoci works fine in Konqueror, regarding the longest comment on that post, it also got the shortest one. I’m blogging about the ‘No’ #
• @mndoci It might be it then. Flash 9 for Linux is quite buggy … let me try konqueror … #
• @mndoci any page, I tried multiple times. Linux here, do you have any Flash content? It might be it, sometimes … #
• @mndoci officially my Firefox does not like your website. Crashes every time I access it. #
• @davidbro is it the unnofficial planet python? #
• @attilacsordas Paulo Coelho, noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo, anything, anyone but … #
• @davidbro that’s where I found your twitter account. #
• 70 k/s download speed is _great_ #
• my Firefox does not like Deepak’s webpage … #
• late start, lots of fasta editing ahead … #

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• @hyphaltip 700 ISMB registration fee for ISCB members is also pretty high #
• @attilacsordas the Dude is the dude. #
• @mndoci @neilfws I am averaging 80-85 Gb a month. I saw people in a discussion group that averages 300 a month. #
• @neilfws 20Gb combined is "nothing". People around here complain that we have a so far non-enforced 100 Gb cap. #
• @neilfws why is your internet being shaped? how much cap do you have? #
• @neilfws coming from Australia, 1000 US is quite reasonable to ask. #
• @neilfws Registration this year is quite expensive. 700 dollars for members #
• @neilfws I got an ECCB travel fellowship in 2005. They gave me 600 euros. #

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• @davidbro Amen for the drobo, that’s #2 on my purchase list. #
• @rvidal I saw Matsuzaka’s first game in North America. Not in Fenway, but in TO. #

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• @mndoci yep, but I am seeing you twitter updates on friendfeed but not on twitter #
• @mndoci I getting more of you twitter entries on friend feed than on twitter, strange #
• Which serious country would allow a known ex-terrorist to become a state minister? #
• my "second birthday" is today. Still not old enough to drink. Cheers. #
• @covert still waiting for mine #

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