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It’s my last day in the US and in NYC, so what am I doing? Yep, shopping. There are some cracking electronics bargains to be had, and it’s good to see that J & R are even bigger than they were before the destruction of the twin towers. J & R is a huge, multi-shop…

Yeah, yeah, dinosaurs. But where are the jawless fish? Where are the tetrapods? In fact, the American Museum of Natural History has a fantastic looping display on the top floor, taking you through 250 million years of vertebrate evolutionary history. As an anatomist there was plenty of detail available to keep me happy, and likewise…

Crikey – look at the number of wireless networks visible from a typical Manhattan location! A few more than you see in Swansea!

I’m on a 5 hour flight across the diagonal of the USA, on the first part of my journey home. I love how flying home is shorter than flying away. The winds blow to carry me home. I left Gareth, the PhD student that works with me & who I went to the conference with…

Of course the ICRS is going on in San Diego, but also today Steve Jobs kicked off the Macworld Conference in San Francisco with a whole bunch of new toys for us to go out and buy. I won’t ramble on about it – you’ll be able to find a ton of info at www.apple.com…

Cartilage. What interesting problems it poses… A long day today, with the occasional interesting presentation or poster. It’s very clinically oriented, but becomes more sciencey by Wednesday. It’s already been fairly stimulating though.

We just registered for the ICRS meeting, and picked up the pack of bumf. There’s a letter in here from the Governor of the State of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger, greeting us to the Golden State, and applauding us for getting together to promote the development of blah blah blah. That’s excellent – I love that.…

I’m on the plane to New York, after a long coach ride to Heathrow (one of the down-sides to living further away in Swansea). Now we’re in the air I can catch up with some email, podcasts (Pete Tong & the Dawn and Drew Show) and of course blogging. I’m flying BA today, and it’s…

Back to work today. Oh joy. The shit’s hitting the fan already. Making the usual, “Happy New Year. How was your Christmas?” wishes/questions has revealed that most people felt similarly about their Christmas breaks. They’re not just grumpy because they’re back to work, but it seems also because of the type of holiday you get…

The New Year is about to kick off. I feel strangely ambivalent about it. There’s nothing I plan to do in particular next year, there are no great goals I intend to accomplish or work towards, and there’s nowt in particular that I look forward to. I’ve been a grumpy bugger this Christmas, and it…