Star Wars Rollinz
06:24 PM on Wednesday 17 May 2017

Cheers is running a promotion for Star Wars Rollinz where every 3 dollar spend entitles you to a sticker. Collect 6 stickers and you get a Star Wars Rollinz for free. Since there is a Cheers store at the petrol station which I frequent, I started collecting them. They are really quite cute. Finally ...

Esther made breakfast
08:06 AM on Sunday 14 May 2017

Little Esther made breakfast for Pauline and I to celebrate both Mother's Day and my birthday. She is so sweet. There was a long black, a sausage, a cheese and basil omelette and London Roll (as she could not find bread).

Esther with Batman
01:49 PM on Saturday 13 May 2017

Esther posing with a gigantic Lego Batman at Kinokuniya.

Pauline gave me a whole lot of coffee
08:40 PM on Friday 12 May 2017

Pauline knowing that I like to drink coffee gave me a whole lot of coffee beans for my birthday :-)

Esther made potato chips
08:38 PM on Friday 12 May 2017

Esther made a bottle of potato chips for me since she knows that I like chips. She even decorated the bottle.

Esther's artwork
09:43 AM on Saturday 06 May 2017

Esther did a pen drawing with shading in pencil.

My birthday gift from Esther
09:06 PM on Friday 05 May 2017

Esther made me a small air dry clay avocado as a early present for my birthday. She had the brilliant idea to create two halves, one for my birthday and one for the coming Mother's day.

Internal ZFS performance
06:24 AM on Friday 05 May 2017

Ran a bonnie++ on the internal ZFS disk and boy was it fast.

Illumina top strand genotyping data
07:27 AM on Wednesday 26 April 2017

Due to the way that Illumina encodes their genotypes ( https://www.illumina.com/documents/products/technotes/technote_topbot.pdf ), the following are the possible allele pairs for a top strand file: A/G A/C A/T C/G So one can check for a top strand file by checking the genotype frequencies. If onl ...

My tree
04:41 PM on Saturday 01 April 2017

A watercolor painting of a tree I did while waiting for Esther.

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