Esther posing with a gigantic Lego Batman at Kinokuniya.
Pauline knowing that I like to drink coffee gave me a whole lot of coffee beans for my birthday :-)
Esther made a bottle of potato chips for me since she knows that I like chips. She even decorated the bottle.
Esther made me a small air dry clay avocado as a early present for my birthday. She had the brilliant idea to create two halves, one for my birthday and one for the coming Mother's day.
Ran a bonnie++ on the internal ZFS disk and boy was it fast.
Due to the way that Illumina encodes their genotypes ( https://www.illumina.com/documents/products/technotes/technote_topbot.pdf ), the following are the possible allele pairs for a top strand file: A/G A/C A/T C/G So one can check for a top strand file by checking the genotype frequencies. If onl ...
A watercolor painting of a tree I did while waiting for Esther.
We went to the Live Tortoise and Turtle Museum in Chinese Garden. The kids had a great time looking at the variety of turtles and tortoises.
We saw a huge monitor lizard basking in the morning sun at Chinese Garden.