Philip's Blog

 I still, on occasion, build sand castles. Here's one from June 29. 2025. I was down at the beach with my cousin Lynn and her friend, Le...

So, I'd seen two total eclipses in my life and I thought they were pretty cool. One came down main street in Tabor City, NC when I was i...

How we got where we are.

Last night, I had a scratchy throat and a bit of a general malaise. After I went to bed at midnight, I got the chills which lifted about 3:3...

I guess since I'm announcing when my old macs are going off to the glue factory, I should keep it up. Last Sunday afternoon I made a tri...

About 8 years ago I wrote about all the Apple Macs that I'd had over the years. My fifth mac was a 2007 iMac, the first of the aluminum...

Eleven days ago, I was going over to the French Building to run an  NMR . The French building is a mostly Chemistry building at Duke that wa...

In my last blog post I wrote about how my old 2013 27" iMac bit the dust. I couldn't wait for the new 27" iMac replacement (w...

It was so traumatic I can't even remember what day it was. I think it was last Sunday, October 16, 2021. I went upstairs to use my iMac ...

A little over nine years ago I reported on the purchase of a new lawn mower. Well, I'm back again. Nine years ago, as Sears was heading...

I'm going to tell you a little story in two graphs. The graphs are of the GameStop (GME) stock price. One is for the last 6 months and t...

My wife hangs on to things for a long time. Recently however, she decided that she could toss out some old canceled checks. Doing so turned ...

A few years ago, as my car, a 2000 Honda Odyssey, was getting older, my wife wanted me to get some nice used car that looked kind of classy....

There are a lot of signs around the neighborhood telling people to make sure they're registered to vote and how to get a mail-in ballot....

So far in 2020 I've built a sand castle a couple of times. Kinda lame for a guy who likes to build sand castles and who has a house at t...

On Sunday mornings, after the service ends, and the benediction is declared and the choir sings a final Amen, the organist plays a little im...

A few years ago, I wrote about the foolish stunt that someone in Washington pulled merely for a photo. They wanted a photo of Air Force One ...

It was unseasonably warm early in October this year, so I was able to get to the beach and work in a couple more days of castle building. I...

Recently, I managed to get down to the beach one afternoon and build a sand castle. It was a little windy but all was going well until the b...

I have a camera at the beach to watch all those people come in and party while we're away. I have it set up to send me an email with a p...

A couple of years ago we published a paper on the discovery of a TAK1 inhibitor in which we included an x-ray crystal structure. Somebody wa...

Over the last few years at work, I've been working with fluorescent dyes. Specifically I've been connecting them to an Hsp90 protein...

Five mornings a week, I drive to work. Five afternoons a week I drive home again. Here's what it's like. Morning: Afternoon: ...

We bought a beach house a few years ago. For some reason, it seems that now it's actually harder to get out to the beach. But when I do,...

I have a camera at my beach house, or should I say marsh house, that takes a picture every 8 minutes. Every once in a while I download a cou...