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| Just a note saying that I wont be updating Xanga anymore (or at least not for a while).
However, you can find me on myspace.
For Japanese people, I am also active on Mixi as "ディエゴ".
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| I went to a seminar by this Japanese professor from Tohoku University
yesterday regarding his research on total synthesis of merrilactone-A
and ciguatoxin. I was overwhelmed by the way that these so-called
"synthesis chemists" can manipulate reactions to synthesize even highly
complex natural product molecule. It was also fascinating at the same
time because some of the reactions, such as diastereo/enantioselective
processes using intrinsic properties of a compound (ie. pseudo-meso),
were simply "art" of a creative mind. One thing he mentioned in the
seminar, which I really didnt think about till now was the fact that
when you have long reaction steps, you have to worry about even the
slight decrease/increase in the yields of each reaction steps. His work
was ~50 reaction steps and if he had average 90% of product in each
step (which sounds pretty good), he will actually only isolate (0.9^50)
% of the product. Thats roughly 0.5% of what you started off with (if
he started with 1 L of material, he can only get 5 mL of product). So
anyways, that was my left brain talking.
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| Hottest News in town. There is now another way to miss spell my name.
Dalgo. What kind of name is that??? I dunno, but I better ask the HMO
guys who f-ed it up.
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| Today at the bus stop, I saw a girl being chased by a bee. If I havent
told you guys yet, I have this weird thing about being attractive to
bees (so they usually chase ME out of this big group of people waiting
for the bus). And it wasnt ME running away from the bees today! I
thought to myself "HA SUCKER! THATS WHAT YOU GET FOR LAUGHING AT ME,
WATCHING ME RUNNING AROUND LIKE AN IDIOT!" I felt happy and comforted
to know that there are other peeps in the world who are susceptible to
bee attacks. I have realized that in New Jersey, these subtle things
make my day. And make my day, they do!
Oh and I forgot to mention I have quote of the day. My floormate here
said something real funny (at least to me) when he was trying to kill a
bug that flew into his room. While swinging his towel at the bug
fizillion of times;
"Im going to kill your father and mother!"
It was cruel, yet funny with his Hebrew accent. Funny man, indeed.
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| Something I realized while walking around on Rutgers campus. Lately, I
have been hearing my name on campus alot. But when I look around, its
always just bunch of black guys that I dont even know. So I thought to
myself, some asshole must be following me around, calling my name and
hiding. I could almost imagine some idiot giggling from the corner of
the bushes or something, watching me look around. Well, it turns out
that these people are actually saying "Diet Coke" in ebonics. If you
can imitate ebonics, try saying Diet Coke really fast. It almost does
sound like my name. You bastards...
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