Virtue and biology

There's something of Robin Williams face that characterizes hope and despair. Both all too much a part of these times. However, it sure beats tranquility. Many writers (myself included) hope for a waterfall of words - a Tarantino script scribbled over a weekend that will become the next great American novel. Whenever thoughts like this buoy my spirits - I keep close to heart that my stated goal for the day is making a list of things to do tomorrow.

I am fortunate to walk an hour to work, from Brookline to Cambridge. The thoughts that accompany my walks to and from work, loosely grouped, relate to 'virtualization' and 'systems biology.' The word 'Virtualization' has become a diffuse marketing sound-byte. What I am interested in can be fairly labeled 'data virtualization.' Current machine virtualization, and strategies to provide online identity are relevant examples. Systems biology, to quote the Harvard graduate program, "...aims to explain how higher level properties of complex biological systems arise from the interactions among their parts"

One of my goals for this blog is create a dialog, or at least a narrative from which I can pluck the better ideas about how these two areas are related. My guess is that there is common ground between the two that extends past using virtual tools to model physical processes - but admittedly my thinking right now is at the low-water, silty stage.

Time to look at that list for tomorrow, and consider what else to do today!