'The process is the outcome through which the outcome is the process.' -Unknown (Love life NOW!)
Sunday, March 28, 2010
Duke Gardens
Spring in NC. Pictures taken March 20, 2010
'The process is the outcome through which the outcome is the process.' -Unknown (Love life NOW!)
'The process is the outcome through which the outcome is the process.' -Unknown (Love life NOW!)
Sunday, March 14, 2010
Phenix and a New Car
So I’ve has been very busy this past week; it was spring break. For me, all that meant is that I had no classes; I still had to go into lab. We had a very special week in lab as we hosted the Phenix conference. Phenix is software used in crystallographic structure refinement. The Richardson lab, of which I’m a member, is one of the developers of Phenix. The exciting aspect of the conference for me was that my code, that I wrote as an undergraduate (and am still developing), might be incorporated into the Phenix package!
The conference was great! I met a lot of awesome people from all over the USA and a few from Europe. We had developers and industry people there. The industry people were from a variety of drug companies. There were two industry people that worked in Copenhagen. Both were from Norway but understood me when I sang Happy Birthday in Danish. The conference was a time to cash in on free meals. We went to a different restaurant each night and had a variety of lunches each day. It was very busy as the earliest I got home was 9:30 between Sunday and Wednesday.
For the last couple of weeks I have been shopping around the Internet for a car. Last Saturday I decided to go look at two cars at a used car lot in Raleigh. The first car had a strange sound emanating from the engine while the second car smelled HORRIBLE. My roommate, Jeremy, then led me to the near by Honda dealer. We mainly looked at 2007 Accord lease buybacks. The top choice was an Accord with 3,900 miles on it, which was put on the lot the night before. The car was owned by a 92 year-old woman who had her license revoked with a year left on the lease. I wanted it but was beat to the punch by a couple that was trying to qualify for financing. So there was a possibility that I could still get the car. I had to wait until Monday to hear whether the car was mine. After a long weekend I received a phone call indicating that the couple didn’t qualify. A few hours later I was driving home my new car (see below).
That’s all for this week. Enjoy the pictures.
The conference was great! I met a lot of awesome people from all over the USA and a few from Europe. We had developers and industry people there. The industry people were from a variety of drug companies. There were two industry people that worked in Copenhagen. Both were from Norway but understood me when I sang Happy Birthday in Danish. The conference was a time to cash in on free meals. We went to a different restaurant each night and had a variety of lunches each day. It was very busy as the earliest I got home was 9:30 between Sunday and Wednesday.
For the last couple of weeks I have been shopping around the Internet for a car. Last Saturday I decided to go look at two cars at a used car lot in Raleigh. The first car had a strange sound emanating from the engine while the second car smelled HORRIBLE. My roommate, Jeremy, then led me to the near by Honda dealer. We mainly looked at 2007 Accord lease buybacks. The top choice was an Accord with 3,900 miles on it, which was put on the lot the night before. The car was owned by a 92 year-old woman who had her license revoked with a year left on the lease. I wanted it but was beat to the punch by a couple that was trying to qualify for financing. So there was a possibility that I could still get the car. I had to wait until Monday to hear whether the car was mine. After a long weekend I received a phone call indicating that the couple didn’t qualify. A few hours later I was driving home my new car (see below).
That’s all for this week. Enjoy the pictures.
As you can see, Grandma did some contact parking.
My room mates. Oh ya, me and my new car are in there too.
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