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Sunday, July 6th, 2008

Groundiving?

Yesterday we had a frustrated attempt to our first ever skydive.

Moni, Dana, her friends and I spent most part of the day in Cuautla, waiting for a bunch of jumpers ahead of us to perform their act until strong winds and a heavy rain appeared around 6 p.m. to crush every hope we had to jump off the plane.

Now we will have to go back next Saturday to do the jump very early in the morning, so neither crowds or weather get in our way. At least our place is very well reserved now. Another week of wait…

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

It’s personal: Tweitmeyer set to run solo Western States 200 to boost special trail status bid

Tim Tweitmeyer is poised to run 200 miles to deliver a message to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in support of special status for the Western States Trail.

The five-time Western States Endurance Run winner and Auburn resident plans to run a route starting Friday that crosses the Sierra Nevada range using four major trails – the Tahoe Rim Trail to near Squaw Valley, the Tevis Cup horse ride trail through the high-country valley, the Western States Trail down to Auburn and the Pioneer Express trail from Auburn to near the California Capitol…

Auburn Journal – It’s personal: Tweitmeyer set to run solo Western States 200 to boost special trail status bid

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

Bioinformatics Career Survey 2008

Mike from Bioinformatics Zen created a bioinformatics career survey.

The expected results should provide an interesting picture of how people is performing in the field, so if you’re into it, please take a some minutes to fill it out.