You may learn information about yourself that you do not anticipate. Once you obtain your genetic information, the knowledge is irrevocable.I wonder what kind of drama has happened that they felt the need to include something like this in their TOS.
Sunday, December 30, 2012
The Bell Cannot Be Unrung
My Christmas present this year was a genetic phenotyping kit from 23andme. Before you do anything, they recommend that you register your kit (submit your name and a barcode number on the test tube you receive). Part of their terms of service:
Tuesday, December 25, 2012
Friday, December 21, 2012
Book Giveaway Update
Thanks to everyone who's stepped up for some free books and helped me clean out my library. I've mailed out a few books this week and I'll continue to mail them out through the holidays and into the new year. Going through my collection I realize there are still more I've overlooked in my zeal to get the list online; I'll be adding those shortly.
Books that have been claimed with an address have been deleted; struck through books have been claimed but without an address, so you might still have a chance to get them.
And most importantly, safe and warm wishes to you and yours this new year!
Art/Photography
Photoshop 7 For Dummies
Computer Science
C++ For the Absolute Beginner Taken!
History
Readings in World Politics.
Foreign Languages
Teach Yourself: Japanese Taken!
Literature
The Three Theban Plays: Antigone, Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus. Sophocles.
Just For Fun
Country and Blues Harmonica For the Musically Hopeless. KLUTZ publishers.
Dr. Laura. (Note: a trashy, unauthorized exposé biography.)
Assorted "lateral thinking" puzzle collections, four in all. Example of such a puzzle: One day, a man and his son are out for a drive. They're in a terrible accident that kills the father instantly and sends the son to the hospital for emergency surgery. Upon arrival, the surgeon says, "I can't operate on this boy, he's my son." How is this possible?
Humor
Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them. Al Franken
Worst Case Scenario: College.
Dilbert Gives You the Business. Scott Adams.
Bloom County: Loose Tails. Berke Breathed.
Photoshop 7 For Dummies
Computer Science
History
Readings in World Politics.
Foreign Languages
Literature
The Three Theban Plays: Antigone, Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus. Sophocles.
Just For Fun
Country and Blues Harmonica For the Musically Hopeless. KLUTZ publishers.
Dr. Laura. (Note: a trashy, unauthorized exposé biography.)
Assorted "lateral thinking" puzzle collections, four in all. Example of such a puzzle: One day, a man and his son are out for a drive. They're in a terrible accident that kills the father instantly and sends the son to the hospital for emergency surgery. Upon arrival, the surgeon says, "I can't operate on this boy, he's my son." How is this possible?
Humor
Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them. Al Franken
Worst Case Scenario: College.
Dilbert Gives You the Business. Scott Adams.
Bloom County: Loose Tails. Berke Breathed.
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Belated Music Monday: Pedro Reyes
This is all I have to say about the tragedy this past Friday up in Connecticut.
Thursday, December 13, 2012
Books Giveaway Update!
Some have been claimed and mailed already; others have appeared from the dark recesses of...well, all over the house, really.Ones I've already mailed have been deleted already. Ones struck through have been claimed but I don't have an address. If you want any of those, they're still around for the taking. Maybe. Never hurts to ask!
New Hotness
Teach Yourself: JapaneseTaken!Teach Yourself: YogaTaken!- The Three Theban Plays: Antigone, Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus. Sophocles.
- Dilbert Gives You the Business. Scott Adams.
- Bloom County: Loose Tails. Berke Breathed.
Art/Photography
Photography. London, Uston, Stone, Kobré, Brill. (Note: this was my textbook from the photography class I took [and dropped out of] in college.) Taken! (Kyana)
Photography: A Practical Guide. McWhinnie & Andrews. Taken! (Nadine)
Learning to See Creatively. Peterson. Taken! (Amy)
Photoshop 7 For Dummies
Utopia & Reality: Modernity in Sweden, 1900 - 1960. (Note: this was a textbook for a Swedish Modernism class I took at Stockholms Universitet. It's in English.) Taken!
Berlin: Gestern und Heute. (Note: this is a coffee table book I picked up at a thrift store. It's in German.)
French
En bonne forme. (Note: textbook from AP French) Taken! (Nadine)
Sur le vif. (Note: textbook from college French) Taken! (Nadine)
These are both intermediate level French textbooks.
Literature/Writing
Six Figure Freelancing Taken! (Emma)
Perrine's Literature, Sixth Edition (Note: textbook from AP Literature & Composition) Taken! (Amy)
The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Volume D: Between the Wars Taken! (fourthmonth)
Computer Science
SAMS Teach Yourself Visual Basic in 24 Hours Taken! (Katy)
C++ For the Absolute Beginner Taken!
History
Readings in World Politics.
The Great Depression and World War 2: Organizing America, 1933 - 1945. Gerald D. Nash Taken! (Amy)
Karl Marx. Sprigge. Taken! (ohhhitslove)
Soft Sciences
Basic Psychology. Gleitman. Taken! (Emma)
Sociological Footprints. Corgon & Ballantine. Taken! (Amy)
Just For Fun
The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten. (Note: a collection of assorted moral and ethical hypothetical situations, along with philosophical commentary.) Taken! (Katy)
Wittgenstein's Poker. (Edmonds & Eidinow) (Note: About the famed confrontation between Karl Popper and Ludwig Wittgenstein at Cambridge in 1946.) Taken!
Made in America. (Bill Bryson) (Note: About the differences between British English and American English.) Taken!
Fat Land. (Greg Critser) (Note: About high fructose corn syrup in American food.) Taken! (fourthmonth)
Country and Blues Harmonica For the Musically Hopeless. KLUTZ publishers.
Greasy Rider. (Melville) (Note: About two guys who drive across the country in a frying grease-powered Mercedes, and also about what people are doing about renewable energy all over the country.) Taken! (fourthmonth)
Dr. Laura. (Note: a trashy, unauthorized exposé biography.)
Assorted "lateral thinking" puzzle collections, four in all. Example of such a puzzle: One day, a man and his son are out for a drive. They're in a terrible accident that kills the father instantly and sends the son to the hospital for emergency surgery. Upon arrival, the surgeon says, "I can't operate on this boy, he's my son." How is this possible?
Humor
Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them. Al Franken
Worst Case Scenario: College.
Worst Case Scenario: Travel. Taken! (Kyana)
Photoshop 7 For Dummies
Berlin: Gestern und Heute. (Note: this is a coffee table book I picked up at a thrift store. It's in German.)
French
These are both intermediate level French textbooks.
Literature/Writing
Computer Science
History
Readings in World Politics.
Soft Sciences
Just For Fun
Country and Blues Harmonica For the Musically Hopeless. KLUTZ publishers.
Dr. Laura. (Note: a trashy, unauthorized exposé biography.)
Assorted "lateral thinking" puzzle collections, four in all. Example of such a puzzle: One day, a man and his son are out for a drive. They're in a terrible accident that kills the father instantly and sends the son to the hospital for emergency surgery. Upon arrival, the surgeon says, "I can't operate on this boy, he's my son." How is this possible?
Humor
Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them. Al Franken
Worst Case Scenario: College.
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Full Adder Circuit Bracelet: In Detail
I had a request from a customer for a more detailed portrayal of the Full Adder Circuit Bracelet (an idea for which Rae really has the lion's share of the credit). Hopefully this image should about do it. I would like to note that, nerd as I am, I'm not so much of a hardware or electronics freak, so this is an area a bit outside the realm of my expertise. That is to say, I can only half understand circuit diagrams; the bracelet below is based on a schematic Rae sent me that she had adapted herself into a bead-friendly form. I'll need to pick Lawyer Mom's brain on it later so I can better articulate what it is that I'm doing.
The bracelet, as pictured here, has had the clasp taken off so I could present a more organized, easy-to-see reference image. On the clasp end, you have the inputs: A, B, and Cin. On the opposite end, you have Cout and S. They connect to the different gates and, unlike a circuit diagram, I've shown the values between gates. When B (value of zero/off, represented by the cream-colored mookaite tube) and Cin (value of one/on, represented by the faux turquoise) input to the first XOR gate, it outputs one. And when the second XOR gate has two "on" inputs, it outputs zero/off. (These are all obviously very amateur terms; like I said, I'm not a hardware freak or an electrical engineer.)
Of course, it's hard to represent something that's flat, brittle, and broad in a medium that's curved, fluid(ish) and narrow. This is a piece whose nerdiness must needs be subtle. I dig it, though! I think the overall effect is quite stylish.
*At the time of this photographing, there was a small error; a chain had broken off at work and I reconnected it at the wrong place. It's fixed now, and all loops in all chains have been secured. :)
The Full Adder Circuit Bracelet, deconstructed*
The bracelet, as pictured here, has had the clasp taken off so I could present a more organized, easy-to-see reference image. On the clasp end, you have the inputs: A, B, and Cin. On the opposite end, you have Cout and S. They connect to the different gates and, unlike a circuit diagram, I've shown the values between gates. When B (value of zero/off, represented by the cream-colored mookaite tube) and Cin (value of one/on, represented by the faux turquoise) input to the first XOR gate, it outputs one. And when the second XOR gate has two "on" inputs, it outputs zero/off. (These are all obviously very amateur terms; like I said, I'm not a hardware freak or an electrical engineer.)
Of course, it's hard to represent something that's flat, brittle, and broad in a medium that's curved, fluid(ish) and narrow. This is a piece whose nerdiness must needs be subtle. I dig it, though! I think the overall effect is quite stylish.
*At the time of this photographing, there was a small error; a chain had broken off at work and I reconnected it at the wrong place. It's fixed now, and all loops in all chains have been secured. :)
Monday, December 10, 2012
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