Last night I #dreamed that we had a set of little, experimental servers, with names all starting with "i". IProd became unexpectedly popular, and we found ourselves trying update a toy into a more serious machine.

Dave enjoys daffodils. #Groningen

“Homelessness is a social phenomenon and the number of homeless people depends on social conditions – not on the characteristics of individuals.… We know exactly how to make homelessness decrease again. It is a matter of choice: do we want to do it?” The right thing AND saves money. #HousingFirst

Last night I #dreamed that we became friends with Appalachian coal miners while on an extended stay in the area.

Today in Dave Becomes #dutch: we both rode our bikes to the Albert Heijn grocery!

Last night I #dreamed that we were providing housing for an aging magician and his apprentice. We were concerned about the magician's persistent cough, and his apprentice kept running afoul of the authorities.

This morning, Bart the #kitten was delighted to discover a bee had come in through the window. #caturday

Last night I #dreamed that I attended a high school reunion weekend with old friends from high school and new friends from the research team. I was informed at the last minute that I would be lecturing on positron emission tomography.

Last night I #dreamed that I was working through the X-files with Agent Scully.

Last night I #dreamed that I was a moped dealer who mostly sold to private security guards.

Last night I had vivid dreams, but awakening to the sound of a cat litter box in use caused the dream to evaporate before I could record it.

Last night I #dreamed that a bear lived in the woods near me. He was sampled for a high profile bear proteomics paper that was so controversial that the next team recaptured him for a new paper. After that he lived with me, but a third team kidnapped him from my house for a new paper. We hired […]

Last night I #dreamed that I opened a new general store in a mining outpost. It was hard to tell at first which items would sell.

Last night I #dreamed that I was caught up in a labor protest by university astronomers. I was trying to organize volunteers for a community star gazing event, but the astronomers declared that they were on strike.

Last night I #dreamed that I arrived at my grandparents's former home in rural Missouri. My folks had told me that they had allowed the county to extend a ditch to prevent flooding, but workers swarmed the yard, burying industrial size concrete channels everywhere. Afterwards I went with the […]

Last night I #dreamed that someone towed our car (with us inside) to the symphony hall for a Green Day concert. After an epic swap meet and awards ceremony, I practiced my archery.

#Groningen is thoroughly beautiful in springtime! #oosterpark

Last night I #dreamed that we moved around a lot to avoid the fighting. When anything was amis in our current town, we were always ready to continue our journey.

#kittens definitely helping

Last night I #dreamed that we were putting the finishing touches into a new convention center when our company began construction on a second one nearby.

Last night I #dreamed that I carried a 4 meter wooden pole that I used for sporting events wherever I found myself.

A tidy up of another one of my old packages, expando.el, a tool to expand and view macros: https://blog.davep.org/2026/04/06/expando-el-v1-5.html #emacs #lisp #elisp #programming

Why has GC-MS (gas chromatography- electron impact ioniation- mass spectrometry) had such enduring value for the field of metabolomics? How do we identify metabolites based on mass spectrometry data? I hope you'll enjoy this video explaining the basics of GC-MS and the spectral library methods […]

Why would we choose to measure just a few metabolites instead of doing a broad untargeted survey? In two words: "quantitative precision" This is the first lecture recording I have produced with my new home video setup! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYY31STDYHA #metabolomics

I might suggest that we have video recordings of so many stagings of _Pride and Prejudice_ because of my wife, but I'm the one who cries at the end... every time. #JaneAusten

Last night I #dreamed that our lab went on retreat, and many of the exercises we performed as a group seemed designed to learn how we created passwords and PINs.

today in Dutch crime: the news is abuzz with how an ancient Dacian helmet of solid gold, which was stolen from a Dutch museum last year, has been surrendered by the thieves. Stealing fine art and artifacts is just about the stupidest thing wannabe […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

anyone here using Chem4Word? https://www.chem4word.co.uk/ #Cheminformatics #chemistry #microsoft #word

I tested my new apparatus for filming lectures at home. The electronics worked fine, but the kittens took filming as the perfect opportunity to swing from the curtains by their claws! *Canon HF G40 camcorder *LumeWorks Luna Pro Mini Beamer #academicchatter

Last night I #dreamed that a large high school group adopted me, and together we saw many regional sites I hadn't yet visited. One of the tour hosts was using a font for presentations that was nearly illegible.

Last night I #dreamed of a world after a calamity, where you would depend on a traveling wizard with a calculator rather than a high-end server. Everything in science slowed down quite a lot.

Last night I #dreamed that we scrimped and saved to afford a house larger than we strictly needed, but once we had moved in, we realized the the Roman general we had captured had escaped his captivity. Surely he would not make a big deal of being held hostage by us...

Last night I #dreamed that our campus would soon come under attack, so the students started learning how to operate wooden sailing ships.

I don't think Bart the #kitten is ready for me to change to the next episode.

Last night I #dreamed of fields that never bore crops and schools without graduates... in a video game of the dream.

I really appreciated this detailed post from Nicola Zamboni on #bioinformatics for #metabolomics ! https://metabolomics.blog/2026/03/how-we-analyze-untargeted-metabolomics-data/

Last night I #dreamed that our research institute set up a cafeteria to make its education more democratic. Folks could select either frshly-prepared or frozen meals.

It's called the "Wunderline" because one can only wonder about the source of the latest delay. #Groningen

Last night I #dreamed that I returned from a trip only to discover my luggage contained a box full of a crystallized pink mineral, glowing with an uncanny light.

You should read this. It’s excellent communication & story-telling. “I’m driving less. I don’t want to see the world through a driver’s eyes any more. Before I began driving less, I had long had a melancholic sense that the city lifestyle I lived was cut off...” #UrbanTruth From @irishtimes.com

Last night I #dreamed that the werewolves and puppy-girls were forming community in Catholic churches.

Last night I #dreamed that our choir was hosting an international youth choir, and the youngsters were having the times of their lives on their trip. Meanwhile, some new pathogen was on the loose, and its victims disintegrated after passing it on to others.

Last night I #dreamed that our taxi driver was a ridiculous fraud, always trying some new ploy to bilk money from strangers he encountered.

Last night I #dreamed that the store employees shut the mall security gates, trapping me inside despite my shouts. Once I escaped, I realized that I had exited the mall on the wrong side of the complex and would have to circumnavigate.

Last night I #dreamed that a super-famous singer put on a concert in my town. I was helping to get the venue ready when I had a bad fall.

_If any PhD students are following your account, boosting would be appreciated._ **Fellow PhD student:** hello! ​:blobcat_waverev:​ I hope you had a good Monday. 0) In which country are you pursuing your PhD? 1) What is the official duration of your PhD programme? Does it assume you already […]

Last night I #dreamed that Michelle Yeoh conducted an orchestra , and I bedded down on the university library floor for the night.

Last night I #dreamed that I attended a party of former friends who had assembled a group of dangerous people with unconventional views of social limits. I had brought a similar caliber of people to the party with me. When one of their people pointed a gun at one of my people, I was barely able […]

Last night I #dreamed that several of us with superpowers lived in a collective, some more happily than others. Makeups and breakups happened on a larger scale, given who we were. I had hoped that our Superfriends image would last longer than it did, but rivals for the pink lady's hand kept […]

Last night I #dreamed that I switched my career to selling scientific software. It was a bit disorienting, but I soon found that I enjoyed the work.