When you reach the personal webpages for the open-source programs written by eclectic scientists, sometimes you encounter all sorts of things.
So: Obama won! (Part of my brain is still stuck on the "It happened! It really happened!" stage.) Prop 3 passed, 6 and 7 and 10 didn't, which made me happy. 8 and 9 passed, which I'm not very happy about. However, recalling what fragments I can of history and societal progression, I can make the analogy to evolution -- aside from moments of frenetic, catastrophic activity, progress, most of the time, is composed mostly of a lot of little changes for better or for worse that don't add up to much in terms of overall directionality. It's like a march through a lake of molasses or something. Progress and evolution are hard work. If we're lucky, natural selection is our friend and not the force that wipes our species off of the planet.
On that note: current program most frustrating, file conversion failures abound, not to mention lack of clear directions as to why the the connectivity between atoms are not recognized. At least I got a few pretty CGI from yesterday. I'm not sure what I'll get from today aside from, apparently, a seminar on the theoretical structural effects on proteins arising from genetic polymorphisms.
Someone has turned on the heater in my lab building. It is strange, since SD's in the 70s right now. My "office" is slightly cooler but out on the sunny lobby area it's vaguely like summer.
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