Jasp's Blog

Jabberwacky: How’s your day been?
User: Fine. Yours?
Jabberwacky: It’s been simply grand. Except that episode with the giraffe.
User: What giraffe?
Jabberwacky: Under the house.
User: Realy?
Jabberwacky: Stick another ‘l’ in really.
User: My spelling was never very good.
Jabberwacky: Really? Since when did ‘Wel’ have one L.
User: Never, but I never used the word well.
Jabberwacky: Too bad.
User: Why, should I [...]

Well the update is a little later than I promised, mainly because I was in the Lab until nine yesterday and was in no mood to update when I had got back to my room. However, today I have a nice 2h break whilst I wait for a gel to run.
I spent the weekend at [...]

I currently have quite a long break in my work, so thought I’d take the time to make a recomendation, should any of you be feeling a bit bored.
Snopes is the Urban Legends reference site, and also contains the message boards, of which I am a member.
Have you ever heard the story about the exploding [...]

The boardgames industry recently denied acusations that not only was their advertising starting earlier, but that they were also running out of ideas.
Just to let people know there should be a journal update soon, probably Monday. I’m currently on a trip home and will let people know about it soon. I had intended three [...]

I am currently in the lab waiting for an agarose gel to finish. This will allow me to find out the size of the DNA that I have been working with, and thus to find out if I actually have the DNA that I’m expecting. You see, prior to this I have attempted to cut [...]

Oh I do hope it’s true. The press have been fooled by things like this before, see the Monkeyman of Tunbridge Wells for example. Yet the idea of a random stranger running round doing acts of kindness/bravery appeals to us all. For one it is nice news for once, holds a degree of mystery, and [...]

I was at the university centre earlier today and was in a discussion about the number of people who used to find my website through unsavoury searches. I realise that this must have changed recently, after having adapted the title page. So after getting back I decided to check what people were currently finding my [...]

I have already partially introduced myself, but feel I should provide more detail as to who I am and where I am at the moment.
For the past few weeks I have had a summer job working in the Medical Research Council’s ‘Laboratory of Molecular Biology’ or LMB in Cambridge. This has meant that I’ve spent [...]

Welcome to my blog, future home of my ramblings and incoherent thoughts. I’m James, a 20 year old genetics student, currently in the third and final year of my degree and frantically trying to ignore the future. Unfortunately it seems the future has different ideas and is trying to barge in my way before I [...]