Folding@home

Scientists need your help in fighting the virus. Time to be a hero. Proteins are long chains of amino acids that perform a vast array of functions within organisms. They differ from one another primarily in the sequence of their amino acids. These sequences typically...

Visiting

I’ve been visiting Ma and Pa for the last couple nights, slowly updating their B&W G3, Tacaño, to Mac OS X 10.2.3 and dropping in various updates to this program or that. In particular, I think they’re going to dig Safari since it will let them browse...

Dave and I

Dave came over last night which buoyed my spirits considerably. As some of you may know, a couple weeks ago he hit some black ice on a trip to Sisters, Oregon and rolled his big red Jeep Cherokee several times. Other than a stiff neck, he was fine, but the Jeep was...

In Los Altos

Los Altos, California I got Erin successfully off on her Southwest flight on Thursday morning. Kinda been doodling around since then. Played tennis with Bernard, researched Wills and Living Trusts, visited Fry’s Electronics, did some genealogy work, watched the...

Beta tester

As some of you know, I was a beta tester for Quicken 2003 for Mac this last year. I couldn’t admit that at the time thanks to the nondisclosure agreement I was under, but now that the product is out, no problem. You can even check the About Quicken box and see...