OPEN BAR: I see you've come to PD. I too like to live dangerously

[LMNO]

Wait, so when you say "e-cigs in offices", that means you were told not to bring them to work, which would result in more people smoking actual cigarettes at work?

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Wait, so when you say "e-cigs in offices", that means you were told not to bring them to work, which would result in more people smoking actual cigarettes at work?

Yes.  Or at least cannot smoke them indoors.  And because of the way e-cigs work, one is essentially the same as the other.

We have an anonymous "to the president" memo system.  I am fairly sure that it IS in fact anonymous, but I do not really care.

I am drafting a letter right now.

[LMNO]

This should be amusing.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

This should be amusing.

Yeah.  Our execs know me, so any hope of anonymity is pretty thin.  But I don't care.

Will post here when it is complete.

[Suu]

We're having a coffee war between SCA kingdoms, which is totally pointless and unnecessarily time consuming, but it's hysterical.

The Middle has this thing named after their King called "The Cameron."

It's some fucked up Starbucks creation that involves caramel, extra sugar, whipped cream and fucking sprinkles because the Midwest couldn't drink a real cup of coffee if their lives depended on it. It's reputed to slow time and fold space or something, I dunno.

http://middlewiki.midrealm.org/index.php/The_Cameron

Meanwhile in the East, we retaliated with "The Brennan."

Coffee. Cup. Done. If you want to get fancy, add ice.

http://www.eastkingdom.org/mediawiki/index.php/Brennan%27s_Coffee

...Sprinkles on coffee. WTF? That's a goddamn abomination unto the LORD right there.

[EK WAFFLR]

I'm competing in powerlifting next friday. VERY locally. Just the club. So, like a regular workout, only with judges.

[LMNO]

So, you'll still be coating your body with rendered bear fat beforehand, as usual?

[EK WAFFLR]

So, you'll still be coating your body with rendered bear fat beforehand, as usual?

yeah.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Got an A in Microbiology, and a B- in general bio. I'm expecting probably a C of some sort in biotech and an F in algebra due to inability to catch up on the course work. So I'm just going to take the placement test next week and make the course unnecessary.

[P3nT4gR4m]

Got an A in Microbiology, and a B- in general bio. I'm expecting probably a C of some sort in biotech and an F in algebra due to inability to catch up on the course work. So I'm just going to take the placement test next week and make the course unnecessary.

Has anyone figured out dna's loop syntax yet or anything equivalent? Can't find any info on how the shit actually works. I'm wondering how developed this biotech thing has gotten and I'm not hooked into any good feeds, other than end results-based bullshit.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Got an A in Microbiology, and a B- in general bio. I'm expecting probably a C of some sort in biotech and an F in algebra due to inability to catch up on the course work. So I'm just going to take the placement test next week and make the course unnecessary.

Has anyone figured out dna's loop syntax yet or anything equivalent? Can't find any info on how the shit actually works. I'm wondering how developed this biotech thing has gotten and I'm not hooked into any good feeds, other than end results-based bullshit.

It's the order that amino acids are coded for if I understand your question. Each amino acid is coded for by just three nucleotides, and there's only twenty of them (other triplets function as periods in the sentence, and each sequence always starts with methionine.) Each protein has four structural levels, each building on the previous, and the first is determined by amino acids sequences.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

You can also destroy (denature is the technical term) the structures of a protein while it keeps its amino acid sequence intact, but this deactivates the protein. This is why egg white turns solid and white when you cook it or why high fevers destroy pathogens (and your own biochemistry)

[minuspace]

So, you'll still be coating your body with rendered bear fat beforehand, as usual?

yeah.

For grip, he chalks-up pulverized dragon-skulls

[P3nT4gR4m]

Got an A in Microbiology, and a B- in general bio. I'm expecting probably a C of some sort in biotech and an F in algebra due to inability to catch up on the course work. So I'm just going to take the placement test next week and make the course unnecessary.

Has anyone figured out dna's loop syntax yet or anything equivalent? Can't find any info on how the shit actually works. I'm wondering how developed this biotech thing has gotten and I'm not hooked into any good feeds, other than end results-based bullshit.

It's the order that amino acids are coded for if I understand your question. Each amino acid is coded for by just three nucleotides, and there's only twenty of them (other triplets function as periods in the sentence, and each sequence always starts with methionine.) Each protein has four structural levels, each building on the previous, and the first is determined by amino acids sequences.

I love your terminology - "periods in a sentence" Perfect! How many words do we know? Do we know all of them? These protein layers are a kind of branching logic that builds complexity from a less complex instruction?

Where's the best place for an idiots guide to this shit, where I can see it going from how the dna code creates the instructions to form cells, what type, how many to make, structural formulae and shit and how this information unfolds from the program. I have a vague idea of a couple of the mechanisms but is there any kind of broad-brush, a-b-c thing you know of?

Self replication is the biggest mindfuck since object oriented from where I'm sitting (I had a hard time with OOP, back at the start) but this shit is a whole new level. There's instructions in the dna code that make the machinery that carries out the instructions in the code, right? How the fuck do you code for that? It's like some kinda weird organic unzipping algorithm. 

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Got an A in Microbiology, and a B- in general bio. I'm expecting probably a C of some sort in biotech and an F in algebra due to inability to catch up on the course work. So I'm just going to take the placement test next week and make the course unnecessary.

Has anyone figured out dna's loop syntax yet or anything equivalent? Can't find any info on how the shit actually works. I'm wondering how developed this biotech thing has gotten and I'm not hooked into any good feeds, other than end results-based bullshit.

It's the order that amino acids are coded for if I understand your question. Each amino acid is coded for by just three nucleotides, and there's only twenty of them (other triplets function as periods in the sentence, and each sequence always starts with methionine.) Each protein has four structural levels, each building on the previous, and the first is determined by amino acids sequences.

I love your terminology - "periods in a sentence" Perfect! How many words do we know? Do we know all of them? These protein layers are a kind of branching logic that builds complexity from a less complex instruction?

Where's the best place for an idiots guide to this shit, where I can see it going from how the dna code creates the instructions to form cells, what type, how many to make, structural formulae and shit and how this information unfolds from the program. I have a vague idea of a couple of the mechanisms but is there any kind of broad-brush, a-b-c thing you know of?

Self replication is the biggest mindfuck since object oriented from where I'm sitting (I had a hard time with OOP, back at the start) but this shit is a whole new level. There's instructions in the dna code that make the machinery that carries out the instructions in the code, right? How the fuck do you code for that? It's like some kinda weird organic unzipping algorithm. 

I'll see if I can poke around for some stuff when I get home.