Daily Archives: February 3, 2004

Disappointment…

OK, so this poster comes in with a really cool title:

SUMO Modification of the SC Motif in C/EBP Alpha

And I have no idea what it means. But I’ve got this mental image of some scientist taking two cells, fattening them up and slamming them together at high speed. In South Carolina.

Unfortunately, according to the abstract, it has something to do with Synergy Control and a Small Ubiquitin-like Modifier. Alas.

So, how ’bout that… team?

I don’t go out of my way to watch sports. If there’s a sporting event on a TV in the background, I’ll occasionally glance over at it out of a general interest in what’s going on, so I’ve got a passing acquaintence with sports in a generic sense. Still, Sunday afternoon at the In-Laws, we watched the Superbowl commercials, with the TV muted during the actual game. We missed the halftime show though, so I’ve felt a bit left out of some of the office gossip about Janet and Justin and the “Wardrobe Malfunction.”

On the other hand, I have a theory about it all…
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