Nightshadow - The world of Aaron

finally getting things sorted, starting to get on top of stuff and yeah – that is about it. Website re-arrangement coming soon (new reliable host). twitter (aignome). photography upload, science updates and yeah other bits and piece (just made an offer to buy an apartment).

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Well, what can one say. Poor Villa. Aston villa played so well only to be slaughtered by man utd right at the end. Macheda has skills.

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So - I’ve heard a few people rave about slumdog millionaire recently. Having just watched it, I can say yeah it is damn good. Nothing overly amazing about it, just nicely done and the first movie in a while to keep me truly intrigued throughout.
Most movies are crap lately.
I may well be slumming it [...]

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So, today was a max of 43 degrees. Now that is damn hot, like really hot. Still no real humidity which makes it almost bearable, but not quite. All week it’s going to be that damn hot. I walked to the car in the middle of the day and back, as a result I have [...]

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Liverpool vs Everton: Damn - These two are permanently at each other. Liverpool should be the better team and definitely have some better stars. As long as Everton have guts (and timmy cahill) then they will hold out though.
The Black Cow, Launceston, Tas: Best restaurant in Australia. It’s a tough call and I have eaten [...]

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So, for those of you who don’t know: I participate in researchgate. It’s a form of social networking/collaborating/data sharing etc site for scientists. Any form of researchers really (including arts/history etc). Recently it hit 20,000 members. In like what, 7 months. Anyway, it’s rad - check out the entry about it’s 20k membership - http://blog.researchgate.net/index.php?/archives/49-ResearchGATE-celebrates-20,000-members.html

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Joy to the world, for new years has come.
Chrstmas was a blast, kind of. I cooked an awesome macadmia/basil pesto roast pork, italian herb/garlic turkey, roast ham and steph took care of a multitude of salads. Her family enjoyed it, and I would say it is the best roast pork I have done. I like [...]

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So, as everyone knows - I prefer canon. But if someone throws Nikon equipment in your face, it’s hard to say no.
So… after doing parts of the Monash Micro Imaging Live cell imaging course and playing around with millions of dollars of microscopes from Leica, Olympus and Nikon … I’d have to say that yeah [...]

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So I was watching this doco on ABC by david attenborough covering the Lakes district. Apparently steph and I chose to drive up the steepest road in the UK when we visited a few years ago, hollister pass. We also drove by the sing side stone circle, quakers hill etc. David attenborough has such a [...]

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so - currently I am studying phagocytosis and autophagy. A lot of hardcore visual microscopy and computer modelling-
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The above is from software called Imaris. $10k +$5k maintenance /year/computer. I have a 1 month off-site licence on my laptop for October (free, yay).
As far as tunes go - KMH’s new cd is out saturday. [...]

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