{"id":322,"date":"2011-10-11T04:20:15","date_gmt":"2011-10-11T04:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/irregulars\/?p=322"},"modified":"2011-10-11T04:33:40","modified_gmt":"2011-10-11T04:33:40","slug":"international-congress-of-human-genetics-day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/irregulars\/2011\/10\/11\/international-congress-of-human-genetics-day-1\/","title":{"rendered":"International Congress of Human Genetics – day 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Palais<\/a>
\nThis is where it will all happen… tomorrow.<\/em><\/p>\n

Well, day “minus one” really, since the thing<\/a> doesn’t start until tomorrow.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, I have braved the Canadian Nationalized Train Service<\/a>, and am now, after a long and interesting discussion with a mathematician from Dalhousie University<\/a>, who (a) happened to be sitting next to me, and (b) knew what C. elegans<\/a><\/em> is, in La Belle Province<\/em><\/a>, specifically the city of Montr\u00e9al<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Yes, I took the train, for a variety of reasons including convenience, lack of irritating security checks, and delivery to within walking distance of my supposedly very swishy, but really very ordinary, hotel<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, arriving nearly a full day early afforded me the opportunity to exercise my usual hobby of painting pictures with pixels. So here you are:<\/p>\n

\"Rural<\/a>
\nThis is what rural western Quebec looks like, at speed.<\/em><\/p>\n

And here is a tractor, panned at a stupidly slow shutter speed with a lens that doesn’t compensate for poor technique:<\/p>\n

\"Tractor<\/a><\/p>\n

Tomorrow, I am in a project meeting all morning, followed by an afternoon of the ICHG and a dinner meeting for said project. The rest of the week is a free-for-all of talks, posters, vendor-sponsored events, and all the rest of it. Wish me luck. I’ll be posting updates and photos and whatnot as I can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yes indeed, some largely-irrelevant blogging from the International Congress of Human Genetics in Montreal. Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,20],"tags":[83,74,48,72,81,82,73,78,75,77,76,80,79],"class_list":["post-322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conferences","category-guestposts","tag-and-so-forth","tag-ashg","tag-canada","tag-conference","tag-farming","tag-farms","tag-ichg","tag-is-anyone-else-blogging-here","tag-montreal","tag-not-really-releasing-calcium-from-intracellular-stores","tag-photography","tag-rural-quebec","tag-trains"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/irregulars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/irregulars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/irregulars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/irregulars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/irregulars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/irregulars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/irregulars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/irregulars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/irregulars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}