http://www.realhumanmoments.com Various bits of information organized for someone's view pleasure. Mon, 07 Jul 2008 01:43:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I recently attended the Summer Institute of Statistical Genetics which was held at the University of Washington in Seattle. The school attracts students and professionals from around the world and instructs them in the latest techniques in a large variety of areas. I traveled from Connecticut with my lab mate ... http://www.realhumanmoments.com/2008/07/06/sis08-around-the-world The title of this blog is in reference to a line from Richard Linklater's movie about dreams. A lady is speaking to the dreamer about her frustration with human interaction. She feels that in what ever society she is from people are afraid of people. We follow predetermined scripts in ... http://www.realhumanmoments.com/2008/07/06/back-to-the-inspiration Well, I am going to finish up the road trip tale once and for all. After driving the better part of the day across Americas upper heartland we arrived in the city of Chicago. We knew of nothing to expect other than we were staying at a high class hostel. ... http://www.realhumanmoments.com/2008/03/18/chicago-il Wow, what a delay between postings? I apologize for the lack of narrative not only in finishing the tale of the great cross country epic, but also in the following months. I will do my best to summarize the events after our time in Utah. We drove most the morning, ... http://www.realhumanmoments.com/2008/02/28/copper-mountain-co-keystone-south-dakota We arrived at Arches National Park around noonish the next day. We lucked out and the outside temperature was only a cool 100 degrees, we stocked up on water at the visitor center and checked out the park. Arches is a beautiful national park of sand stone formations that sometimes ... http://www.realhumanmoments.com/2007/07/22/arches-national-park-moab-utah It seems that they raised the prices of visiting a national park such as the Grand Canyon is ridiculous. It cost me 250 dollars to see the Grand Canyon. 25$ per car and 225$ for a damn speeding ticket. We finally made it to the Grand Canyon about an hour ... http://www.realhumanmoments.com/2007/07/22/grand-canyon Well of course we had to make a stop on our pilgrimage at the city of sin. We drove into town early with out a destination, so we had to pull over, get on the internet and find some hotels. Surprisingly the hotels in the city are pretty cheap, we ... http://www.realhumanmoments.com/2007/07/13/vegas Following High Sierra we gained another traveler in San Fransico. My friend Pete O'Connell flew in to complete the road trip with us. We stayed the night in downtown San Fransico at the Adeligh Hostel. We took a stroll and had dinner in Chinatown, followed by an evening of drankin ... http://www.realhumanmoments.com/2007/07/13/san-fransico We arrived at High Sierra at 4:30 am and were first in line for will call the next day. High Sierra is a smaller yet prestidgious music festival in northern California. Quincy California, the host town of the festival, is a small logging town up in the Sierra mountains. There ... http://www.realhumanmoments.com/2007/07/13/high-sierra After a long drive through the blistering heat (118 degrees) of southern Arizona, New Mexico and California we arrived at the oasis of San Diego (75 degrees). We drove right to our hostel the USA Hostel in downtown San Diego where we grabbed a much needed shower and dinner. The ... http://www.realhumanmoments.com/2007/07/13/san-diego-and-101big-sur