Who's Been Keeping me Busy

Our bundle of joy arrived April 26, 2011 at 4:26AM.
Please welcome Pablito Nikolai Mijares.

I'm quite ready to get back to my regular posting schedule.  I'll start with a small selection of my favorite contemporary photographers.

Windy Saturday

So I had some free time (in a long time) to visit my favorite blogs.  I was overjoyed to discover this very sexy letterpress video made by RepeatPress.com.


Letterpress Coasters from Paper Fortress on Vimeo.


Needless to say I was inspired:-).  Here's what came out.

Note to Self

Here is Amy Chua and her new book:

Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother

And here is the discussion her work provoked- i.e. note to self:

Is Extreme Parenting Effective?

Balancing Freedom With Discipline

When Parents Feel Out of Control

What Mencius’s Mother Sought

When the Goal Is Successful Kids

Defining Success for Myself

The Power of Conviction

The Opposite of Extreme

We Are What We Know

Amy Chua Is a Wimp

Science as Art Form

Your views and comments are welcome.

What six months of work look like.

I did it:-)!!! Here is what human T cells look like when they get transduced with chimeric antigen receptor, frozen, cut and stained.  For info on IHC protocols and other things science related please send an email.

Going off on a tangent:

Morning newspaper of choice – New York Times… what’s interesting – Top 10 Must-Have Apps for the iPhone, and Some Runners-Up, oh and Home Labs on the Rise for the Fun of Science.  Home lab, now that's much closer to my heart:-).  Moving on to homemade PCR machines... what will I ever do with a PCR machine at home??  I surely don't want to clone at home; I do that at work every day...  Cool blogs I run into while thinking of good home purpose: geekdad.com, geekmom.com and homebiology.blogspot.com I'm about to be a mom; can I have a cool mommy blog too? Are there any other cool mommy blogs?  Yes, and plenty TOP 50 MOM BLOGS, 2010.  I liked this lady... and this lady was pretty cool.  Oh... I know - CHEESE!!!  How would I go about making homemade cheese?  Well, there is always Probiotics - and they love their bugs.  Where do I get them?  ATCC - one at a time.... at $255 a strain I might go broke by the end of the night.  The simpler rout... buy mixed cultures at Cheesemaker.com.  Now it turns out, you will also need something called Rennet, which can be made by genetically engineering chymosin gene into Aspergillus niger... now that I can make with a home made PCR machine:-)).

Where I Look for Inspiration

Kendall Messick     
Jin Hongwei               
Yasuma Morimura
Myoung Ho Lee
Didier Massard
Soo Kim
Niko Luoma
Christopher Bucklow
Jerry N Uelsmann
Frank Paulin
Gregory Scott
Alan Bur Johnson
Scott Peterman
Jack D Teemer jr
Meghan Boody
Eliot Porter
Mons Kuhn
Louvier+Vanessa
Maggie Taylor
Lori Nix
Michael Wolf
Ola Kolehmainen
Jen Davis
Lisa Holden
Holly Andres
Abelardo Morell