Fail

Dear Mac,

GTFO. Maybe you're a good personal computer for some people but for computational work you suck. So hard. So long.

Apple, stop putting out "analysis software" until you get your shit together. When my shitty $500 Dell outperforms you something is wrong. I don't care if your layout is pretty and you have good video editing programs. I'm a soulless number cruncher, why would I care? Please learn how to deal with 8 GB of genomics data because that's a freakin drop in the bucket. You're an overpriced pocket calculator for all the help you are. I don't suck Gate's schlong but I'd rather deal with that if it gets the job done. Blech bad image.

Finally, saying that Apple gives you options is like saying you love pre-fab houses. That's awesome if they have what you want and you don't mind paying for the package and add-ons but this shit doesn't make you an architect.

- I'd rather be using Linux

P.S. I'm typing this on an Apple mobile, which I also sort of loathe. I'll usually bend my consumer morals for free stuff. However, expression analysis will not bend.

Me?

Every time a member from any of our collaborating labs assumes I'm a post-doc I wonder how I got to this point. Do they assume I'm a PhD because I have a respectable, impressive facade (unlikely given my daily jeans and sneakers)? Is it because I'm laden down with the work of a post-doc and essentially running the lab now that everyone else has left me in the deep end hyperventilating (true but they don't know that)? Do I look like I've hit my 30s ten years early?

Or do I really just look that dead and resigned to my career choices? I vote for that one.

Eck. I still love you, research, even though you embody everything wrong with co-dependent relationships.

Sometimes you enjoy intelligent discourse

And sometimes you just want to laugh at stupid crap

http://tumblr4men.tumblr.com

ergh

Jesus, all I want to do is find some Thumbelina erotic fanfiction. I just want to watch my favorite couple from an animated movie as a kid get it the hell on... It brings a wonderful sense of closure.

God damn since when is the Internet full of non-pornographic-writing prudes?

SO MUCH SEXUAL TENSION

Another meme

http://fuckyeahdementia.com/post/4755112295/fact



I can't stop laughing. I want to print this off and use it as a Christmas card for my batshit Fox-loving family.

Rage meme

Look I can make pictures based on a popular meme template like everyone else! This was me in the old lab last year and pretty much me now when I pass through the main campus:

Why I hate seeing computational specialists

I finally saw a bioinformatics specialist yesterday to seek advice on our project. He kept asking about stuff that was not applicable to our data set even after I explained it repeatedly over the course of nearly an hour- okay, fine, whatever.

He ended up looking up our sample type on wikipedia (argh, wikipedia) and he read it to me aloud, which has ALL OF THE INFORMATION I JUST TOLD HIM. He lingers on the part about the commonly associated genetic aberration, which is pretty much verbatim what I had told him several times before. He says that the genetic marker must be the point of our project - no way, wooooah! Better send that to Nature, dude! Great deduction.

Then he asks me if I understand what copy number means. I say yes, of course I do. He ignores me and then tells me very slowly that "we have two chromosomes, one from mom and one from dad but sometimes we have extra or missing copies..."

Wow, I'm so glad someone finally cleared that up for me after three years of genetics research. NOTE MY EFFING SARCASM.