This is one of the saddest emails I’ve ever received:
Dear CCP4 Community:
I write today with very sad news about Dr. Warren Lyford DeLano.
I was informed by his family today that Warren suddenly passed
away at home on Tuesday morning, November 3rd.
While at Yale, Warren made countless contributions to the computational tools
and methods developed in my laboratory (the X-PLOR and CNS programs),
including the direct rotation function, the first prediction of helical coiled coil
structures, the scripting and parsing tools that made CNS a universal computational
crystallography program.
He then joined Dr. Jim Wells laboratory at USCF and Genentech where he pursued
a Ph.D. in biophysics, discovering some of the principles that govern protein-protein interactions.
Warren then made a fundamental contribution to biological sciences by creating the
Open Source molecular graphics program PyMOL that is widely used throughout
the world. Nearly all publications that display macromolecular structures use PyMOL.
Warren was a strong advocate of freely available software and the Open Source
movement.
Warren’s family is planning to announce a memorial service, but arrangements have
not yet been made. I will send more information as I receive it.
Please join me in extending our condolences to Warren’s family.
Sincerely yours,
Axel Brunger
“Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling some five balls in the air. You name them work, family, health, friends, and spirit and you’re keeping all of these in the air. You will soon understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. But the other four balls—family, health, friends, and spirit—are made of glass. If you drop one of these, they will be irrevocably scuffed, marked, nicked, damaged or even shattered. They will never be the same. You must understand that and strive for balance in your life.”
~ Brian G. Dyson, former CEO of Coca-Cola
Arel and I have both signed up for the Las Vegas marathon. I’m stepping up my training to 30 miles a week. I’ve signed up and just had a beautiful 6.5 mile run today.
One simple thing that the US Patent agency could do that would save
corporations millions of dollars is use first to file, instead of first
to invent. The entire concept of the patent office is to give people an
incentive (a temporary monopoly) in exchange of sharing information
(their patented ides.) To me, it seems unjust to reward someone who
invests something and doesn’t share that knowledge with society.
By using first to file, bona fide research and development companies
wouldn’t need to squander man hours signing and countersigning
notebooks for fear of losing a patent. These R&D companies would
have more pressure to file quickly and disclose to society new and
improved information. There would be a lower chance of companies
sitting on documented ideas, hoping that they will become part of
industry standards and focusing on increased licensing revenue.
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Amor é um fogo que arde sem se ver,
é ferida que dói, e não se sente;
é um contentamento descontente,
é dor que desatina sem doer.
É um não querer mais que bem querer;
é um andar solitário entre a gente;
é nunca contentar se de contente;
é um cuidar que ganha em se perder.
É querer estar preso por vontade;
é servir a quem vence, o vencedor;
é ter com quem nos mata, lealdade.
Mas como causar pode seu favor
nos corações humanos amizade,
se tão contrário a si é o mesmo Amor?
Luis de Camões
This is a spoof of Lipinski’s rule of five, however this is focused on weightloss. These are just observations that I’ve made while losing over 50 lbs. They are:
1. Run at least 5K a day or at least 5 days a week (Running is the only exercise that helps me to lose weight);
2. Eat at least 5 times a day (try to eat ~300 calories per meal/protein bar);
3. Eat at least 5 cooked, egg whites a day (focus on protein and building muscle); and
4. Eat yogurt 5 times a week (focus on culturing good bacteria).
Oh yeah, the usual disclaimer please talk to your doctor before reading this post and/or trying any of my advice.
I recently decided to use skype instead of my vonage system. It’s a little more portable when I’m on the road in my cell phone-less existence. My major gripes about skype are these:
1) Making calls from to a phone number, which is one of the few ways skype makes money; therefore, this interface should be intuitive. Yet, there’s no apparent way to save a real phone number as a contact. The best way I’ve found to deal with this is to enter the event history and click on the number.
2) I couldn’t tell an easy way to define a default country. I’m currently in the USA so I’m usually calling numbers here, as opposed to when I was in Brazil. The worst case for using a default country is to have to change the country, which is the best case of not having a default country.
I’m not sure how the Milwaukee Brewers plan on winning:
I have many sins, however, being a Yankees fan (who is not from NY) is not one of them. I definitely respect them and their desire to win. That said, the 00’s have been great to baseball fans.