Random Musings

It seems far too early in my blogging life to resort to the title "random musings", but "an ill-conceived collection of completely unconnected drivel" seemed a bit wordy...

- Last week I rolled all the pennies I've collected in the past 2 and 1/2 plus years and got them exchanged for cash... 550 pennies works out to a rate of 200 pennies a year, convincing me that Australia had the right idea when they scrapped the 1 and 2 cent coins so many moons ago...

- How on Earth did England win the one-day series so convincingly!?!? The best I can come up with is that the recent extreme heat across Australia has scrambled the brains of the English players enough for them to believe that they actually know how to play the game... (For any Americans who have stumbled across this blog and are confused by this entry, I am referring to the sport of cricket... and as I'm sure many of you have never heard of the sport, think of playing baseball with an ice hockey stick while wearing a gridiron helmet)...

- Science is a fickle game... For the past 2 years, I have worked with the fragment of a protein that behaves like a badly behaved child... it won't play nice, particularly with others, and on the rare occasion that it does seem to be behaving, you know they've done something that you just haven't found yet!... Now, I have just finished growing up the full-length version of the protein, and it's like the protein went straight to adulthood (complete with a steady job and a loving family), without hitting puberty...

- Random acts of kindness are the best kinds... Some time ago a student in the lab and I were discussing the Beatles when she suggested that her husband could give me a copy of there entire catalogue. I felt that this was a rather large undertaking, and when I hadn't heard anything further I decided that her husband felt the same... However, here I sit, thumbing through the entire catalogue of the Beatles, nicely labeled and packaged... A very pleasant surprise!