http://www.nathansheffield.com/wordpress Home Page for Nathan Sheffield Sun, 30 May 2010 20:33:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A common problem relating to sharing photos is that the files to are TOO BIG! When I load up my 7-megapixel camera, photos are close to 5mb each! I want to put them on the net or email them to people, but the size limits me. Here I'll show you ... http://www.nathansheffield.com/wordpress/2010/resizing-images-in-ubuntu-in-bulk/ As part of my search for the best milkshake near Durham North Carolina, we took a trip out to Sutton's Drug Store on Franklin St. in Chapel Hill. Word on the web has singled Sutton's out as the home of a great milkshake, besides being a great place for food ... http://www.nathansheffield.com/wordpress/2010/suttons-drug-store-review-chapel-hill-nc/ The American Tobacco Campus started up another summer of free concerts in downtown Durham. These concerts go on intermittently, about every 3 to 4 weeks, through early October. This year, all concerts are on Friday evenings. I think this is a great event and one that I'll ... http://www.nathansheffield.com/wordpress/2010/summer-at-the-american-tobacco-campus/ Summer is setting in (it's 90 degrees right now), and so I've started thinking about milkshakes again. It's time for milkshake season to begin, but who makes the best milkshakes in Durham? I've decided that my goal for this summer is to find the best milkshake joints near Durham (that includes ... http://www.nathansheffield.com/wordpress/2010/best-milkshakes-durham-north-carolina/ I recently heard about a upcoming computer game called Cellcraft. The website isn't updated much, but you can check it out at http://www.cellcraftgame.com/. It's being made somewhere in North Carolina, but details on the web site are scarce. Anyway, the point of the project is to use a computer game ... http://www.nathansheffield.com/wordpress/2010/cellcraft/ It's strawberry season in North Carolina! One of my favorite things to do around late spring is go to a local U-pick farm and load up on fresh strawberries! These are a couple of the farms that are close to us: Waller Family Farm Jean's Berry Patch Last year we went to Waller ... http://www.nathansheffield.com/wordpress/2010/its-strawberry-time/ One great thing about living in the Raleigh-Durham area is the proximity to great state parks. From my location in east Durham, there are at least 4 great camping/hiking recreation areas within a short 20 minute drive: Umstead State Park, Eno River State Park, Jordan Lake State Recreation Area, and ... http://www.nathansheffield.com/wordpress/2010/falls-lake-camping-review/ I recently read a book called Excellence, By John Gardner. In the book, Gardner discusses the contrasting American ideals of Equality and Excellence. There are lots of great ideas in the book, and I'd recommend it to everyone. In particular, here's one passage that provokes this post: [J]obs themselves are a ... http://www.nathansheffield.com/wordpress/2010/working-for-money/ In my opinion, scientific writing is often poor. All too often, when I try to read a paper, I find myself having to re-read sentences or paragraphs before I finally understand the meaning. Much of the time, I can figure out ways to say the important points in fewer words ... http://www.nathansheffield.com/wordpress/2009/scientific-writing/ I was looking around to try to find a good short explanation of what allelic imbalance is, but was unable to find one. I eventually figured it out, and wanted to make a post to clarify this for future searchers: What is allelic imbalance? A difference in the expression between two alleles. Humans ... http://www.nathansheffield.com/wordpress/2009/what-is-allelic-imbalance/