Somewhere over the Southwest

May 30, 2008

Near landing at LAX, from an American Airlines Boeing 757

Evening sun sets over the horizon as we near Los Angeles International Airport.

QIAGEN=Quality!!!!!

May 18, 2008

BIDMC Research East, Boston

(This is sort of an inside joke post among fellow biomedical researchers, but the affect of the photo is still kinda cool)...

"If it says QIAGEN on the box, it can wait 'til tomorrow." That was an old adage of a former graduate student in my lab. QIAGEN produces a lot of kits that make DNA and RNA purification for many different applications extremely easy and foolproof...a monkey could use these kits if they were trained to do so.

Forgive me of my geekiness.

Farewell to Becca

May 23, 2008

Becca's Farewell Party at the Squealing Pig, Mission Hill, Boston

Becca is a good friend of mine who has worked over the past few years in a lab that I rotated through about 4 years ago. She is about to move away to attend a graduate program in Environmental Science at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, my alma mater. While she's sad to be leaving all of her friends up here in Boston, I am sure she will have a great time in CVille.

Poppy

May 25, 2008

Poppy cat enjoying the weather, St. Botolph District, Boston

While Matt and Mel were hosting a cookout on their rear courtyard yesterday afternoon, I captured Poppy basking in the breeze on a beautiful Sunday afternoon behind her home.

Fenway Park

May 20, 2008

Pavilion Box at Fenway Park, Boston

I went to the Sox game against Kansas City tonight... a last minute decision. The game was great...we won 2-1. My $5 seat (employee discount thanks to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center) was in the front row of a Pavilion Box just above third base, which afforded a really nice view of the game.

Mallard Ducklings

May 18, 2008

Mallard Ducklings along the Riverway, Boston

'Sorry for the poor quality of this picture. The focus lock on my camera decided to quit to the point that I stopped by Best Buy on the way home looking into a brand new Canon dSLR-like model. However, my camera (my companion) miraculously recovered last night, just in time for me to put the camera buying guides kindly provided by Best Buy (the only customer service you will expect to find at this store) away for the time being.

In keeping with the spirit of resurrecting this blog after a month-long hiatus, I decided to post the photo, anyway. So, here we see some mallard ducklings in the Muddy River along the Riverway, which serves as the border between the cities of Brookline and Boston at this location. Aren't they cute? These little birds can glide very quickly through the water...surprising since they can't be more than a week or two old.

Squirrel, Cat, and Fish

May 17, 2008

Lily the Siamese Cat

Here is Lily, Amanda's cat, in Matt and Mel's apartment in the St. Botolph District during Amanda's birthday celebration Saturday night. Lily seems quite at ease between a squirrel nutcracker and a fish...needless to say, had these things been moving, the story would have been different.