Is it me, or am I getting dorkier? While toiling away at the bench today (purifying some DNA, if you're interested), I found myself wistfully watching the clock, and wanting to be at home. Not outside running through fields of golden wheat, or frolicing in the park, but home working on a bioinformatics program. So not only have I passed over into programmer dorkdom, but I've entered the highly esoteric realm of molecular biologist programmer dorkdom. This can't be healthy.
For those of you who are interested, <jargon>the program I'm working on will (hopefully) pattern match large subsets of sequences upstream of genes that are co-expressed in an attempt to find new regulatory elements</jargon> And I'm doing it all in Perl, because Java can kiss my lazy non-object-oriented ass.
Hmmmm....maybe I should have ended that Jargon tag a little bit later in the paragraph....
i don't think it gets dorkier than superfreaks. at least your main dorky interest is useful. so don't worry, we're all in this together.
Posted by: didofoot on October 9, 2002 03:45 PMdidofoot, respectfully, you are wrong. he is far dorkier than superfreaks. not that he is not being useful and is probably going to make LOTS more money than us freaks. but dorkier he still is.
Posted by: michele on October 9, 2002 03:55 PMi simply cannot agree with you there, fukface, and i say it affectionately. let us think back to three of you piling into a parked car and bouncing around WHILE STATIONARY in front of your incredulous neighbors.
better yet, let us picture my consernation when gene tipped our hand and I was forced to mutter out a truncated explanation of the fjords show to berkeley mike and lily.
Posted by: didofoot on October 9, 2002 04:17 PMshut your mouth. motionless car was brilliant.
if you want to be ASHAMED of such fine works of art, you go right ahead. but i prefer to hold aloft my head, and my bear trap filled uterus, with pride. yes. pride.
Posted by: michele on October 9, 2002 04:20 PMnow, animal cruel-tay, you know i have no shame for the superfreaks. their powers eclipse mine anyday of the week. i'm just saying they are dorky. but there's no shame in dorky and if there is, well, i will eat shame like it is vienetta.
Posted by: didofoot on October 9, 2002 04:24 PMI think that the level of dorkiness all depends on how the supposedly dorky activity is presented. For example, to make his new love of bioinformatics programming seem hip and "edgy", Jacob should refer to himself as a "biohacker". Instead of writing programs to "pattern match large subsets of sequences upstream of genes that are co-expressed in an attempt to find new regulatory elements", Jacob should simply refer to his activities as "writing l33t programz and scriptz to 0wn genez!!!!!!!". Imagine the respect and admiration that he would get in the molecular biology community if he started talking that way, and also began to point out how he was much more "l33t" than other bioinformatics programmers, and that they were, in fact, "st00pidz". Jacob, if you pursue this crusade of making bioinformatics hip, I can clearly see a Nobel Prize in your future.
Posted by: Doug on October 10, 2002 09:39 AMdood. hell yeah. please make this dream a reality, biohacker.
Posted by: michele on October 10, 2002 10:00 AMSt4y t00n3d t0 AC 4 l33t skr1ptZ th4T w1Ll r00t uR g3n0M3!!!!!!!!!!!11 Ur DN4 wuZ pwn3d!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
Posted by: j4c0b!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 on October 10, 2002 03:44 PMholy shit. i have no idea what most of that meant. except: g3noM3!!!!!! yeah!!!!
Posted by: michele on October 10, 2002 03:52 PMTranslation for those who are not "l33t":
"Stay tuned to AC for elite scripts that will root your genome. Your DNA was owned."
Indeed.
Posted by: Jacob on October 10, 2002 05:21 PMoh. sigh. i thought that was gnomes. like midgits only with pointy hats. genomes doesn't make me nearly as wiggly.
Posted by: michele on October 10, 2002 10:31 PMhee hee hee!!! i listened to my new a$$ merchants cd in the car this morning on the way to work and it is so much funnier than i remember! fabioarnold is great! and ed mcmahon is fucking hilarious. i was so pleased.
Posted by: michele on October 11, 2002 08:16 AM