New textbook

Today I spent some part of the afterwork night in the nearby jazz bar. It's slightly expensive (but considering how it is in the rest of the city it's not all that outrageous), but a cozy enough place that's directly below a bookstore (how cool is that?). While we were talking about life universe and everything to the tune of piano my friend handed me a book. It's 'Biotechnology for Beginners' by Reinhard Renneberg. Apparently she got her hands on it as part of the leftover things from her roommate's stuff, and since she doesn't have any use for it (she's a grad student in proteomics, certainly nbot someone who needs a beginner's primer) she's giving it away to me. The little ol' me the synthetic biology enthusiast and biohacker/madscientist hopeful. This is one of the coolest gifts I've received in a while. I'm looking forward to dig into the book and geek out to my heart's content. Maybe I will put up a mini review of the textbook on my blog, either this one or the one on the wordpress.
 
The scheme of having a two blog is working out nicely. At first I was rather hesitant about having two blogs that more or less share the contents, but as I meet and work with more and more people it's turning out to be a very prudent decision. I would have to draw the line between work and privacy and some point and the division of the blogs provide a nice semipermeable membrane of privacy. These days I keep on thinking about writing a short fantasy series of sorts, possibly something steam-punkish or perhaps something related to the library of Babel, or maybe even both. Maybe I can try one of those keitei novel stuff, since I'm doing most of the personal writing published to the web on my blackberry anyway. I'll see how it turns out.
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