Tuesday, September 2, 2008

New Bike

My... new... bike.


Yay.


School, TA-ing, labbing, representing.... all busy. :)

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Not sure what to do with the blog.....

Year two begins Thursday. I didn't do such a swell job keeping up on Year One. Stay tuned.

In the meanwhile, check out The Slippy Express.

Monday, August 4, 2008

Sad

I remember you as a mischief-maker who liked to give me a hard time (always with a smile, you punk). From what everyone said tonight, sounds like you grew into a larger version of the guy I knew (bigger than life, always)......you are so missed. In my thoughts...<3





Brief.

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Missing Sam

Almost three posts in a day.

Was waiting for this to be reported...


The world is definitely worse off :(


Updates:
Local paper
The latest



(Still hoping, though).

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

The "tau"-ists have this one...

Sitting at the Budweiser brewhouse in the indianapolis airport, debating the pros and cons of continuing to drink beer until my 9pm flight.....


the good news is that the tau plaque busting drug seems to be stopping/slowing the progression of Alzheimer's in an early study of 351 patients. the other good news is that it's called "Rember," which I think is hilarious on many levels (especially when you google it with "tau" and it asks if you mean "remember") and comes from a private, small biotech corp.

the not great news for the "baptists" is that bapineuzumab, the humanized monoclonal against beta-amyloid protein (BAP), is showing less than promising results, suffers a little from study design, and is giving some crazy cerebrovascular edema to a healthy proportion of patients. a bummer because there's something awesome about antibody drugs and it got so much early hype (granted it's from Wyeth and Elan) that i get a little nervous about the same thing happening with Rember--getting everyone's hope up and.... sigh..




In other news, my friends are pretty amazing and talented :)

Eastward for a week

Going to be back in the 413, 617, and some other area codes I don't know for a week or so. Planning to be in Boston sometime this weekend, think that there should be some definite Sunset beer drinking and trouble making....email. Same in W Mass. If you're dying for a quick trip up to NH/ME sometime in the mix, let me know..

Saturday, July 19, 2008

Making it harder for the rest of us...

...obviously this is something that bothers me a great deal. Obviously this guy is a sketchball, but the encouragement probably doesn't help quiet the devil on his shoulder.