We've hit 1000...

Wow. At some point over the weekend, this blog had its 1000th visitor. That kind of snuck up on me. I was planning on offering some sort of prize to visitor #1000, but I guess that ship has sailed. Maybe I’ll do so for some arbitrary number in the 1000s instead.

I did an insane amount of work yesterday, doing the final cleanup on my substrate to work with on my trip to KC. The technique I’m doing in there requires huge amounts of DNA relative to the other experiments I do (in the neighborhood of 100 times as much), so it’s always been something of a scramble to produce enough to work with. This time though, I’m not down to the wire (my big push to finish stuff was yesterday, the rest of the week is just adding on where I can), so I’m able to be calm and look forward to the trip. I’m in very capable hands with the people I work with down there, so I’m pretty excited about the research aspect. Also, the BBQ (although I've found the beer there a little lacking). And one of these days I’m going to venture out to Cawker City, Kansas, and see the World’s Largest Ball of Twine. Because… well, that needs no justfication, really.

Rather than trying to be entertaining today, I’ll link to someone who is. Check out this Jon Swift’s brilliant satire on the protests over proposed immigration legislation. Almost as funny as the posts on the site are the comments from people who clearly don’t get that it’s satire. I realize it’s well written satire, but honestly people. Jon Swift. Name ring a bell? If not, please consider re-taking high school English. You um… missed something.

One more bonus to my trip – the time in airports and on planes will give me a rare chance to read really trashy fiction. Any suggestions?