{"id":343,"date":"2009-02-05T21:20:19","date_gmt":"2009-02-06T04:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/?p=343"},"modified":"2009-02-07T20:51:39","modified_gmt":"2009-02-08T03:51:39","slug":"this-week-no-fun-but-heres-an-update-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/?p=343","title":{"rendered":"This Week = No Fun, but here&#8217;s an update anyway&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/whatwhat\/1679099\/\" target=\"_New\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/2\/1679099_529d734ba3.jpg\" title=\"Hot dog about to eat itself? (Original by 'What What' on Flickr - link goes to Flickr page for this image)\" style=\"float:right;\" \/><\/a>Busy week with unpleasant surprises, but I ain&#8217;t dead yet.  You&#8217;re probably wondering what a hot dog that&#8217;s apparently eagerly anticipating eating itself has to do with that.  The answer is: nothing, but it does relate to something I have been intending to post about for a long time, but haven&#8217;t since I didn&#8217;t have access to the paper&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>So, in lieu of blasting out <a href=\"http:\/\/omniblab.dogphilosophy.net\/laconica\">Twitter&reg;-style updates on my Laconica feed<\/a> that nobody reads anyway (a few people no doubt see the echo of them on <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/epicanis\">Twitter&reg;<\/a> itself, but I don&#8217;t know if anyone cares&#8230;), here are a couple of what-I&#8217;m-doing-now updates before I go to bed:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I just shot off an email to the webmaster (the only contact I could find who might have the relevant information) of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibd.org.uk\/\">Ins<b>t<\/b>itute of Brewing and Distilling<\/a>, trying to get access to a classic paper published in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificsocieties.org\/jib\/default.htm\">Journal of the Institute of Brewing and Distilling<\/a> for the upcoming <a href=\"http:\/\/ontheshouldersofgiants.blogspot.com\">&#8220;On the Shoulders of Giants&#8221;<\/a> carnival.<\/li>\n<p>There&#8217;s no way I can afford the ~$300US that it would cost to join the group, nor even at the moment to pay the typical $30 or so that greedy paywall-imprisoned publishers charge for individual articles.  However, they appear to be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificsocieties.org\/jib\/archive\/default.htm\" target=\"_New\">opening up their archives to the public<\/a>, for which I think they deserve substantial praise.  Still, they haven&#8217;t worked their way back to the first few decades of the 20th century yet, so I had to email and ask if there was a way to get the article in question.  If not, I&#8217;ll see if there&#8217;s any way to get it through inter-library loan in time.<\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/schaechter.asmblog.org\/schaechter\/2009\/01\/what-microbiological-discovery-in-2008-did-you-find-especially-interesting.html\">&#8220;Small Things Considered&#8221;<\/a> asks &#8220;What Microbiological Discovery in 2008 Did You Find Especially Interesting?&#8221;  Which brings us to the &#8220;self-eating&#8221; thing.<\/li>\n<p>The paper on caffeine&#8217;s induction of macroautophagy (&#8220;self-eating&#8221;) in yeast (and what happens when benzoic acid is also present) finally escaped from the paywall prison in January, and I now have a copy.  I at least thought it was full of interesting implications (along with some useful knowledge), so I&#8217;ll hopefully be posting about it soon.<\/p>\n<li>I&#8217;m <em>also<\/em> a <em>computer<\/em> nerd<\/li>\n<p>Particularly when it comes to things like Linux.  I&#8217;ve been thinking of trying to do some recordings on a couple of practical subjects that interest me for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hackerpublicradio.org\/\">&#8220;Hacker Public Radio&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<li>And of course, I still need to do some <span style=\"text-decoration:line-through;\" \/>Xanthomonas snot<\/span> Xanthan Gum experiments.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I am <strike>an attention-whore<\/strike>willing to listen to my readers&#8217; interests, so if anyone has suggestions or comments feel free to post them&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Busy week with unpleasant surprises, but I ain&#8217;t dead yet. You&#8217;re probably wondering what a hot dog that&#8217;s apparently eagerly anticipating eating itself has to do with that. The answer is: nothing, but it does relate to something I have been intending to post about for a long time, but haven&#8217;t since I didn&#8217;t have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/?p=343\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">This Week = No Fun, but here&#8217;s an update anyway&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,328,4,9,22,18,12,6,29,16,3],"tags":[402,44,209,112,46,567,371,403,381,37,78],"class_list":["post-343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brew","category-eat-it","category-feedback-solicitation","category-food-science","category-freakish-eukaryotes","category-hillbilly-biotech","category-meta-blogging","category-microbiology","category-netcasts","category-science-history","category-trivial-blather","tag-autophagy","tag-brewing","tag-caffeine","tag-fermentation","tag-food","tag-food-science","tag-hacking","tag-journals","tag-laconica","tag-linux","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":350,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions\/350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}