Well, I’ve made it safely to my “hotel” room at Dalhousie University. Unfortunately, Prof. Steve Steve convinced American Airlines that he would like to take a detour with my luggage. I have my new laptop and digital camera, but that is about it.
Hopefully, my luggage will arrive sometime tonight; otherwise, I may have to give my presentation Tuesday morning wearing the clothes that I flew in with. I’ve heard that Halifax has these things called “stores”; I may have to use some of them if Prof. Steve Steve has skipped the country with my luggage.
While waiting at the airport for the shuttle to downtown Halifax, I made the mistake of meeting a biologist, R. Krell, who works for the UN World Food Programme in Rome. He was in Halifax for a leadership conference and when he heard that I was a geneticist he began to explain to me his hobby research into HNA or “Holistic Nucleic Acids”—okay that is my term. He believes that the twistings of DNA might store “information”. His example was how flowers need to send “information” to honey bees so bees can find the flowers and bees need to send “information” to flowers so the flowers know what shapes to take.
At first I just nodded because I figured that there was a language and terminology barrier; however, then he eventually started talking about how water has memory . … I felt like Dawkins and his 20-second pause. … Not caring to want to continue talking with this Kook, I tied my best to listen and smile and change the conversation to something else. Luckily the shuttle arrived and ended our conversation.
Also it appears that Bioinformatics has published my application note this week. I am already getting requests for reprints—yei—from foreign students who don’t have online access to the journal. The following link will take you directly to the paper, bypassing any login requests.
Now all I have to do is finish my presentation, which requires some last minute algorithm creation and simulation running. …
