This is the story of my poor big toe…

Four days ago….I was trying to tidy up the union room... and Amalia…. another PhD student was helping me……we wanted to get access to the freezer, ...to clean it...but there were some stuff around it and the heaviest one was the union marquee….

I was pulling it and Amalia was pushing it….. it did not move at first... then …… suddenly moved and hit my right big toe and the nail went off….oooff ...very painful..…. Then I pushed back the nail to save it (I know it was stupid but simply I did not want to lose it!!)….and then I covered it using first aid-dressing to stop bleeding while she was informing the security guys….

At the end some friends took me to a local hospital and the doctor took my nail off.

Now after four days dreadful sleeping …I have got cold!!

The nail itself was painful but the injection (three times) into my toe was more awful!!

I can walk like a duck ….but I do cycle much better…

Well….it was an experience…a bad one….and I was lucky…it could be worse,,, even I could have fraction in my toe…so I am happy…

Looking through my window…

What are you thinking about? You will go home...very soon...

Long time no posssssssssttt

....am writing up my PhD thesis 24/7....long time no post...just analysing data and typing...chapter by chapter....my brain cells are in high action...i need holiday...i need sleep...
holidayeee
celebraeee

it happened....

بابک بيات، آهنگساز ايرانی، روز يکشنبه پنجم آذر ماه در سن 60 سالگی به دليل نارسايی کبدی در تهران درگذشت.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/persian/arts/story/2006/11/061126_mv-bayat-dead.shtml

Hast thou complied with all the rules, O thou of lofty hopes?

Thou hast to be prepared to answer Dharma, the stern law, whose voice will ask thee at thy first, at thy initial step:

"Hast thou complied with all the rules, O thou of lofty hopes?

"Hast thou attuned thy heart and mind to the great mind and heart of all mankind? For as the sacred River's roaring voice whereby all Nature-sounds are echoed back, so must the heart of him 'who in the stream would enter,' thrill in response to every sigh and thought of all that lives and breathes."

The Voice of the Silence

Khavid garden

I found this corner at the back of a neglected orchard garden in my college. It's fantastic ...and old style ...and it’s phenomenon ...drove me back to my grandfather's garden...
Just very close the very modern lifestyle, I found this old door and old wall. ohhh my grandfather’s garden, Khavid, in Neyestanak.

To the guys who know that garden: yes. You are absolutely right. The door was a heavy flat rock and the wall made entirely of claybricks, clay and straw. But, it's me...I like this corner since reminding me that garden....

Peace cannot be kept by force

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding. (Albert Einstein)

You see...now we are good friends...

this petite wasp was almost starting a real struggle...but I found the best way out: I offered her a piece of my yummy apple and now we are in peace... I understood her...she was just starving...

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Complementary two hours later;
Even big scientists can do mistake as well. (I mean ALbert not myself!)

When the wasp is too greedy I don't have any choice but piss her off. I didn’t want to kill her... well, it was her day because after starting to havemy apple, I just took some shots of her and let her go.... I mean let her go out of my office.

Can I survive just with my Mac?

After ages living with PC, a couple of years ago I was forced to work with a Mac as well. It was not easy to underestand each other...she was from a new planet.. and after a while we began to know our statements...
And then...during last three years, I had two keyboards and two monitors on my desk... Well..It was not too bad to share our time with a Mac (to be honest with you some times it was quite enjoyable!), but now...I am quite sad...my PC was taken to hospital because of a serious damage...I feel lonely. It's monitor is still breathing...I swich it off... I am not gonna work with my Mac now...I need fresh air..I wanna go out...

Are you one of the 2% of the most clever guys in the world?

Are you one of the 2% of the most clever guys in the world? If so, go to Mensa International web site...
For a quick test visit: http://www.mensa.org/index0.php?page=12
Mensa "provides a forum for intellectual exchange among members. Its activities include the exchange of ideas by lectures, discussions, journals, special-interest groups, and local, regional, national, and international gatherings; the investigations of members' opinions and attitudes; and assistance to researchers, inside and outside Mensa, in projects dealing with intelligence or Mensa."
Visit http://www.mensa.org/

A panorama shot of London Bridge

A panorama shot of London Bridge made by myself....merging four photos and killing one hour to do that...if any one interested I can send them the original big file (14173 x 3557 JPEG 10.4 MB or 8504 x 2134 JPEG 4.63 MB)

Have you ever been in London? If so....you should have visited London Bridge. It is a bridge over the River Thames, between the City of London and Southwark. It is between Cannon Street Railway Bridge and Tower Bridge; it also forms the western end of the Pool of London.
Last weekend I was boarding on Thames along with a few French friends of mine. It was a hot sunny day....

Fast facts: science

Did you know that?

1. Music was sent down a telephone line for the first time in 1876, the year the phone was invented.
   
2. Sound travels through water 3 times faster than through air.
   
3. A square piece of dry paper cannot be folded in half more than 7 times.
   
4. Air becomes liquid at about minus 190 degrees Celsius.
   
5. Liquid air looks like water with a bluish tint.
   
6. A scientific satellite needs only 250 watts of power, the equivalent used by two hour light bulbs, to operate.
   
7. The thin line of cloud that forms behind an aircraft at high altitudes is called a contrail.
   
8. Radio waves travel so much faster than sound waves that a broadcast voice can be heard sooner 18,000 km away than in the back of the room in which it originated.
   
9. A US ton is equivalent to 900 kg (2000 pounds). A British ton is 1008 kg (2240 pounds), called a gross ton.
   
10. Industrial hemp contains less than 1% of THC, the psychoactive component of marijuana.
    
11. Since space is essentially empty it cannot carry sound. Therefore there is no sound in space, at least not the sort of sound that we are used to.
    
12. The Space Shuttle always rolls over after launch to alleviate structural loading, allowing the shuttle to carry more mass into orbit.
    
13. The word "biology" was coined in 1805 by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck.
    
14. Most of the air is about 78% nitrogen gas. Only 21% consists of oxygen. The remaining 1% consists of carbon dioxide, argon, neon, helium, krypton, hydrogen, xenon and ozone.
    
15. Argon is used to fill the space in most light bulbs. Neon is used in fluorescent signs. Fluorescent lights are filled with mercury gas.
    
16. Hydrogen gas is the least dense substance in the world.
    
17. Water expands by about 9% as it freezes.
    
18. Hot water freezes quicker than cold water.
    
19. The smallest transistor is 50-nanometres wide - roughly 1/2000 the width of a human hair.
    
20. A compass does not point to the geographical North or South Pole, but to the magnetic poles.
    
21. The double-helix structure of DNA was discovered in 1953 by James Watson and Francis Crick. The length of a single human DNA molecule, when extended, is 1.7 metres (5 ft 5 in).
    
22. In a desert, a mirage is caused when air near the ground is hotter than air higher up. As light from the sun passes from cooler to warmer air, it speeds up and is refracted upward, creating the image of water.
    
23. The typical bolt of lightning heats the atmosphere to 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit.
    
24. An electric oven uses one kilowatt-hour of electricity in about 20 minutes, but one kilowatt-hour will power a TV for 3 hours, run a 100-watt bulb for 12 hours, and keeps an electric clock ticking for 3 months.
    
25. In the 6th century BC Greek mathematician Pythagoras said that earth is round - but few agreed with him. Greek astronomer Aristarchos said in the 3rd century BC that earth revolves around the sun - but the idea was not accepted. In the 2nd century BC Greek astronomer Erastosthenes accurately measured the distance around the earth at about 40,000 km (24,860 miles) - but nobody believed him. In the 2nd century AD Greek astronomer Ptolemy stated that earth was the centre of the universe - most people believed him for the next 1,400 years.

Source: http://www.didyouknow.org

World Statistics

Human is f*cking mother nature....
World Statistics updated in real time. Uses your computer's clock, so if you are curious to learn the number of HIV-infected in 2050 then just change your system time to 2050. It will calculate values based on current interesting statistics and demographics data. Do not use for exact calculations.
http://www.worldometers.info/

If you wanna know someone....

Ages ago, as the people said, if you want to recognize someone, look at his books, but now-a-days, I judge: IF YOU WANNA KNOW SOMEONE LOOK AT HIS WRITINGS….
And I should add that if no writing is presented by the person of your interest, close the eyes to him….you won’t drop any thing….
it's my idea....
need your feed back...

Bournemouth beach....a superb seaside...

And finally ....every buddy is running away from their homes, offices and labs....to...the seaside...Yap, I did too. The day before yesterday we went to Bournemouth.... (I mean Donya and Shayan) ...thanks to Shayan's nursery guys who organised the trip....

Bournemouth is a very stunning town lying at the Poole Bay, south of UK. Less than two hours far from my place....very nice place...loads of guys and gals were enjoying sunny day and cool water...it was 36 and actually announced as a record for July in the UK....in 2002 it was 37 but in August....so this year we should be expecting more next month.... But let me close the story...after diving too much, in the midnight my ears began aching...it was horrible....in the morning I hurried to doctor and she gave me ear drops....still aching…

Summer rain....

Well....I like rain, to be honest with you I love it....
but, it's horrible....it's summer now in London and during last ten days, just I could see sunshine two days....just claudy greyish sky........
I missed you sunny day!

photo by: Shayan Mofidi-Neyestanak

nesooneh

A friend of mine, who is actually a British lad, asked on the title of my blog....very difficult to explain to him, but I did. Nesooneh is in fact some sort of abbreviated form of NEYESTANAK in my father's native dialect in his hometown, Naiin. To find out more, visit this site: http://www.neyestanak.com/
And that's why my full name is Mohsen Mofidi-Neyestanak....

Some shots from my College

Japanese pond
Silwood Park from air
manor house

on the other half of my mind....Iran and old fellas

Gone does not necessarily mean forgotten, especially in good friends...Bioinformatically speaking, even birds ,which do not have teeth now, can have teeth, if their tooth-forming gene is provoked in particular cases. You see after 80 million years....they remember themselves....and human, just after a couple of years, forget even their friends' names....

Below I have put some old and recent shots (wanna put more later): at first you see the name of the place (and its short description) and date, then people who are introduced left to right:

Hafeziyeh-e Shiraz, Iran, 2001, Osten, Ebrahimi, Varmazyar, me


Gilanchakan, Eshkevar, Guilan, Iran, 2000, me, Barari, Moslem, Pedram


Neoor lake, Ardebil, Iran, 1999, Barai, me and Moslem



Hormoz island, Persian Gulf, Iran, 2000, Ebrahimi, Eskandari, me and Varmazyar....A big mustache I had...those dyas....


Ascot, UK, 2004, Javad and me


Hey Siroos....where r u man?

Hey dude....Do u always wear you lab coat or just because of camera?

studying pinned insects at the Natural History Museum London

football fever....

Yes. Finished....now I feel I can restart working....football finished and everybody is back to their job....but I really am thinking Iran could play much better....C'mon Moh...go and do you job.... (photo: BBC)

Crammer (kharkhoon)

No stop it....it's time to go out....go kiting....


photo by: Shayan Mofidi-Neyestanak

Well.....by sure, I am not working in the DNA lab now....

enjoying my kite playing....yes you are right....

A tyro-blogger in the UK

Ok....me too...at last I started to write as a blogger....I am a toddler....
it's Wed 12 July 2006 and I just came back from the DNA lab....
later
Moh