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* Python code for [http://sebastianraschka.com/Articles/2015_pca_in_3_steps.html performing PCA yourself]. This example gives a great intro to several important numerical/statistical/data mining packages in Python, including pandas and numpy.
* Python code for [http://sebastianraschka.com/Articles/2015_pca_in_3_steps.html performing PCA yourself]. This example gives a great intro to several important numerical/statistical/data mining packages in Python, including pandas and numpy.
'''Apr 9, 2019 - Classifiers
'''Apr 9, 2019 - Classifiers'''
* [http://www.marcottelab.org/users/BCH394P_364C_2019/BCH394P-364C_Classifiers_Spring2019.pdf Today's slides]
* [http://www.marcottelab.org/users/BCH394P_364C_2019/BCH394P-364C_Classifiers_Spring2019.pdf Today's slides]
* [http://www.marcottelab.org/users/BCH394P_364C_2019/MachineLearningReview.pdf A nice recent review explaining Support Vector Machines and k-NN classifiers]
* [http://www.marcottelab.org/users/BCH394P_364C_2019/MachineLearningReview.pdf A nice recent review explaining Support Vector Machines and k-NN classifiers]
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* There's a particularly nice Python library of simple, easy-to-use, classification, regression, machine learning and data mining tools called [https://scikit-learn.org/stable/ scikit-learn]
* There's a particularly nice Python library of simple, easy-to-use, classification, regression, machine learning and data mining tools called [https://scikit-learn.org/stable/ scikit-learn]
'''Apr 4, 2019 - Clustering II'''
'''Apr 4, 2019 - Clustering II'''
* Fun article: [http://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.2002050 All biology is computational biology]
* Fun article: [http://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.2002050 All biology is computational biology]
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'''Mar 28, 2019 - 3D Protein Structure Modeling'''
'''Mar 28, 2019 - 3D Protein Structure Modeling'''
* Guest speaker: [https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=zJ8L0GcAAAAJ&view_op=list_works Dr. Kevin Drew], formerly of New York University and now at the UT Center for Systems and Synthetic Biology
* Guest speaker: [https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=zJ8L0GcAAAAJ&view_op=list_works Dr. Kevin Drew], formerly of New York University and now at the UT Center for Systems and Synthetic Biology
* The [https://www.rosettacommons.org/software Rosetta] software suite for 3D protein modeling, and [http://www.marcottelab.org/users/BCH394P_364C_2019/RosettaOverview.pdf what it can do for you]
* The [https://www.rosettacommons.org/software Rosetta] software suite for 3D protein modeling, and [http://www.marcottelab.org/users/BCH394P_364C_2019/RosettaOverview.pdf what it can do for you]
* The [http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/ Protein Data Bank], [http://toolkit.tuebingen.mpg.de/hhpred HHPRED], [https://salilab.org/modeller/ MODELLER], and [http://www.pymol.org/ Pymol]
* The [http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/ Protein Data Bank], [http://toolkit.tuebingen.mpg.de/hhpred HHPRED], [https://salilab.org/modeller/ MODELLER], and [http://www.pymol.org/ Pymol]
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BCH394P/BCH364C Systems Biology & Bioinformatics
Course unique #: 54044/53945
Lectures: Tues/Thurs 11 – 12:30 PM in JGB 2.202
Instructor: Edward Marcotte, marcotte @ icmb.utexas.edu
- Office hours: Wed 11 AM – 12 noon in MBB 3.148BA
TA: Caitie McCaffery, clmccafferty @ utexas.edu
- TA Office hours: Mon 11-12/Fri 2-3 in NHB 3.400B atrium (or MBB 3.128B) Phone: 512-232-3919
Lectures & Handouts
Apr 9, 2019 - Classifiers
- Today's slides
- A nice recent review explaining Support Vector Machines and k-NN classifiers
- Classifying leukemias
- For those of you interesting in trying out classifiers on your own, here's the best stand alone open software for do-it-yourself classifiers and data mining: Weka. There is a great introduction to using Weka in this book chapter Introducing Machine Learning Concepts with WEKA, as well as the very accessible Weka-produced book Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques.
- There's a particularly nice Python library of simple, easy-to-use, classification, regression, machine learning and data mining tools called scikit-learn
Apr 4, 2019 - Clustering II
- Fun article: All biology is computational biology
- We're finishing up the slides from April 2.
- Fuzzy k-means
- SOM gene expression
- Links to various applications of SOMs: 1, 2, 3. You can run SOMs on the following web site. You can also run SOM clustering with the Open Source Clustering package with the '-s' option, or GUI option (here's the manual). (FYI, it also supports PCA). If you are not happy with Cluster's SOM function, the statistical package R also provides a package for calculating SOMs (http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/som/index.html).
- t-SNE
- Links to various applications of t-SNE: 1, 2, 3, 4. You can run t-SNE on the following web site.
Apr 2, 2019 - Functional Genomics & Data Mining - Clustering I
- Today's slides
- Clustering
- Primer on clustering
- K-means example (.ppt)
- B cell lymphomas
- Review of phylogenetic profiles
- RNA-Seq
Problem Set 3, due before midnight Apr. 11, 2019. You will need the following software and datasets:
- The clustering software is available here. There is an alternative package here that you can download and install on your local computer if you prefer.
- Yeast protein sequences
- Yeast protein phylogenetic profiles
- Yeast protein fractionation/mass spectrometry profiles. These additionally have common gene names (LocusID_commonname_location) which may help with the interpretation. These data come from this paper.
Mar 28, 2019 - 3D Protein Structure Modeling
- Guest speaker: Dr. Kevin Drew, formerly of New York University and now at the UT Center for Systems and Synthetic Biology
- Today's slides
- The Rosetta software suite for 3D protein modeling, and what it can do for you
- The Protein Data Bank, HHPRED, MODELLER, and Pymol
Mar 26, 2019 - Proteomics
- Guest speaker: Dr. Daniel Boutz, formerly of UCLA and now at the UT Center for Systems and Synthetic Biology
- Reminder: the Center for Biomedical Research Support offers one-day courses in bioinformatics and biocomputing in April/May. Topics include Unix, bash, and single cell data analysis. There is also an Annual (4 day long!) Summer School for Big Data in Biology offered May 28-31, 2019. Topics there include genome/RNA seq, python, proteomics, machine learning, R, etc.
Mar 19-21, 2019 - SPRING BREAK
- Don't forget to finish HW3 and turn in the proposal for your course project by March 25th.
Mar 14, 2019 - Motifs
- Today's slides
- Due March 25 by email - One to two (full) paragraphs describing your plans for a final project, along with the names of your collaborators. This assignment (planning out your project) will account for 5 points out of your 25 total points for your course project. Here are a few examples of final projects from previous years: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
- NBT Primer - What are motifs?
- NBT Primer - How does motif discovery work?
- The biochemical basis of a particular motif
- Gibbs Sampling
- FYI, we stopped last class's nanopore sequencing run pretty soon after class ended. Even in that relatively short time (<30 min), our longest read (sequencing randomly shorter DNA fragments from a 40kb phage genome) was >20 kb.
Mar 12, 2019 - Live Demo: Next-next-...-generation Sequencing (NGS) by nanopore
- Homework #3 (worth 10% of your final course grade) has been assigned on Rosalind and is due by 11:59PM March 25.
- We're going to be live-demoing a nanopore single molecule DNA sequencer in class, assuming all goes well. Specifically, we'll be using an Oxford Nanopore MinION sequencer, which differs substantially from these major alternatives:
- Youtube video of Illumina/Solexa Sequencing by Synthesis
- Youtube video of Pacific Biosciences single molecule sequencing by synthesis in zero mode waveguides
- Here's Oxford nanopore's own videos explaining the tech. DNA sequences are collected first as electrical traces. A big breakthrough was learning to convert these traces to DNA nucleotide sequences using hidden Markov model based algorithms very similar in spirit to those we've already talked about in class (e.g., as in this open source HMM-based nanopore base-caller). The latest base-callers are moving towards neural network algorithms.
Mar 7, 2019 - Genomes II
- We're finishing up the slides from Feb. 28. Note that we give short shrift to read mapping/alignment algorithms, of which there are now a very long list. Here's an interesting discussion by Lior Pachter of the major developments in that field.
- Here is an excellent explanation of how the BWT relates to a suffix tree and enables fast read mapping to a genome
- If you want a more detailed explanation, the BWA paper more formally describes how the Burrows–Wheeler transform can be used to construct an index.
- & here are two more examples of using the BWT for indexing: 1 2
- Plus: "I have some troubling news...the human reference genome is incomplete", breaking prepublication results on the telomere-to-telomere assembly of a complete human X chromosome from Karen Miga and Adam Phillippy, presented at the AGBT 2019 conference last week.
Mar 5, 2019 - Guest Lecture: Anna Battenhouse, NGS Analysis Best Practices
- Practical advice and best practices for NGS mapping and analysis
- Today's slides
Feb 28, 2019 - Genome Assembly
- Today's slides
- A gentle reminder that Problem Set 2 is due by 11:59PM March 6
- Also, next Tuesday will be the first of our guest lecturers, Anna Battenhouse, on practical aspects of genome sequencing/assembly
- DeBruijn Primer and Supplement
- If you would like a few examples of proteins annotated with their transmembrane and soluble regions (according to UniProt) to help troubleshoot your homework, here are some example yeast protein sequences.
- From last time, some definitions of sensitivity/specificity & precision/recall. Note that the gene finding community settled early on to a different definition of specificity that corresponds to the precision or PPV in other fields. Other fields define specificity as the true negative rate.
Feb 26, 2019 - Gene finding II
- We're finishing up the slides from Feb. 21
- Peer-led open coding hour has been resurrected! Wed 12:30-1:30 in the MBB 2nd floor student lounge (the newly revamped eating space)
Feb 21, 2019 - Gene finding
- We'll finish HMM slides from Feb 19, then start today's slides on gene finding
- Some science news of the day: "In the past 12 months Americans have searched for Python on Google more often than for Kim Kardashian"
- For a few more examples of HMMs in action, here's the recent paper on sequencing the human genome by nanopore, which used HMMs in 3-4 different ways for polishing, contig inspection, repeat analysis and 5-methylcytosine detection.
- The UCSC genome browser
Problem Set 2, due before midnight Mar. 6, 2019:
- Problem Set 2.
- You'll need these 3 files: State sequences, Soluble sequences, Transmembrane sequences
Reading (a couple of old classics + a review):
Feb 19, 2019 - HMMs II
- We're finishing up the slides from Feb. 14.
- I was just pointed to this great interactive visualization of Markov Chains, by Victor Powell & Lewis Lehe. It's worth checking out to build some intuition.
- A non-biological example of using log odds ratios & Bayesian stats to learn the authors of the Federalist Papers
Feb 14, 2019 - Hidden Markov Models
- Happy Valentine's Day!
- Don't forget: Rosalind Homework #2 (worth 10% of your final course grade) is due by 11:59PM February 20.
- Modern Statistic for Modern Biology, by Susan Holmes and Wolfgang Huber, discussed last time. It's currently available online and due to be released on dead tree in the US in April. (FYI, all code is in R.)
- Today's slides
- HMM primer and Bayesian statistics primer #1, Bayesian statistics primer #2, Wiki Bayes
- Care to practice your regular expressions? (In python?)
Feb 12, 2019 - Biological databases
- Homework #2 (worth 10% of your final course grade) has been assigned on Rosalind and is due by 11:59PM February 20.
- Science news of the day: Does gum disease cause Alzheimer's?
- Just a note that we'll be seeing ever more statistics as go on. Here's a good primer from Prof. Lauren Myers to refresh/explain basic concepts.
- Today's slides
Feb 7, 2019 - BLAST
- Science news of the day: Yet more CRISPR baby news!
- Our slides today are modified from a paper on Teaching BLAST by Cheryl Kerfeld & Kathleen Scott.
- The original BLAST paper
- The protein homology graph paper. Just for fun, here's a link to a stylized version we exhibited in the engaging Design and the Elastic Mind show at New York's Museum of Modern Art.
Feb 5, 2019 - Sequence Alignment II
- We're finishing up the slides from Jan. 31.
- Science-ish news of the day: The Dance Your Ph.D. contest is on!
- Fact and Fiction in Sequence Alignments
- Dynamic programming primer
- An example of dynamic programming using Excel, created by Michael Hoffman (a former U Texas undergraduate, now U Toronto professor, who took a prior incarnation of this class)
- A few examples of proteins with internally repetitive sequences: 1, 2, 3
Jan 31, 2019 - Sequence Alignment I
- For those of you who might be interested, Rosalind is having a Bioinformatics Contest. Sign up runs until Feb. 2, the qualification round is Feb. 2-10, and Feb. 23 is the final round, with 24 hours to solve as many problems as you can. First prize in 2019 is to get your genome (exome) sequenced or get your own nanopore sequencer!
- Today's slides
Problem Set I, due before midnight Feb. 11, 2019:
- Problem Set 1
- H. influenzae genome. Haemophilus influenza was the first free living organism to have its genome sequenced. NOTE: there are some additional characters in this file from ambiguous sequence calls. For simplicity's sake, when calculating your nucleotide and dinucleotide frequencies, you can just ignore anything other than A, C, T, and G.
- T. aquaticus genome. Thermus aquaticus helped spawn the genomic revolution as the source of heat-stable Taq polymerase for PCR.
- 3 mystery genes (for Problem 5): MysteryGene1, MysteryGene2, MysteryGene3
- *** HEADS UP FOR THE PROBLEM SET *** If you try to use the Python string.count function to count dinucleotides, Python counts non-overlapping instances, not overlapping instances. So, AAAA is counted as 2, not 3, dinucleotides. You want overlapping dinucleotides instead, so will have to try something else, such as the python string[counter:counter+2] command, as explained in the Rosalind homework assignment on strings.
- BLOSUM primer
- The original BLOSUM paper (hot off the presses from 1992!)
- BLOSUM miscalculations improve performance
- There is a good discussion of the alignment algorithms and different scoring schemes here
Jan 29, 2019 - Intro to Python #2
- We'll be finishing Python slides from last time, plus Rosalind help & programming Q/A, maybe a glimpse of next lecture.
- Science news of the day: A 500 year experiment, with a nice commentary in The Atlantic
- Statistics in Python
Jan 24, 2019 - Intro to Python
- REMINDER: My email inbox is always fairly backlogged (e.g., my median time between non-spam emails was 11 minutes when I measured last year), so please copy the TA on any emails to me to make sure they get taken care of.
- Today's slides
- Python primer
- E. coli genome
- Python 2 vs 3?. For compatibility with Rosalind and other materials, we'll use version 2.7. The current plan is for Python 2.7 support to be halted in 2020, but there is some hope (wishful thinking?) that Python 4 will be backwards compatible, unlike Python 3. Regardless, you're welcome to use whichever version you prefer, but we'll use 2.7 for all class explanations in the interests of simplicity and consistency. For beginners, the differences are quite minimal.
Jan 22, 2019 - Introduction
- Science news of the day (& a reminder of the importance of ethics in science!): Chinese authorities say world's first gene-edited babies were illegal
- Today's slides
- Some warm-up videos to get you started on Python (2 not 3, unless you pay for an upgrade): Code Academy's Python coding for beginners
- Khan Academy has archived their videos on Python here
- We'll be conducting homework using the online environment Rosalind. Go ahead and register on the site, and enroll specifically for BCH394P-BCH364C-Spring2019 using this link. Homework #1 (worth 10% of your final course grade) has already been assigned on Rosalind and is due by 11:59PM January 31.
- A useful online resource if you get bogged down: Python for Biologists. (& just a heads-up that some of their instructions for running code relate to a command line environment that's a bit different from the default one you install following the Rosalind instructions. It won't affect the programs, just the way they are run or how you specific where files are located.) However, if you've never programmed Python before, definitely check this out!!!
Syllabus & course outline
An introduction to systems biology and bioinformatics, emphasizing quantitative analysis of high-throughput biological data, and covering typical data, data analysis, and computer algorithms. Topics will include introductory probability and statistics, basics of Python programming, protein and nucleic acid sequence analysis, genome sequencing and assembly, proteomics, synthetic biology, analysis of large-scale gene expression data, data clustering, biological pattern recognition, and gene and protein networks.
Open to graduate students and upper division undergrads (with permission) in natural sciences and engineering.
Prerequisites: Basic familiarity with molecular biology, statistics & computing, but realistically, it is expected that students will have extremely varied backgrounds. Undergraduates have additional prerequisites, as listed in the catalog.
Note that this is not a course on practical sequence analysis or using web-based tools. Although we will use a number of these to help illustrate points, the focus of the course will be on learning the underlying algorithms and exploratory data analyses and their applications, esp. in high-throughput biology.
Most of the lectures will be from research articles and slides posted online, with some material from the...
Optional text (for sequence analysis): Biological sequence analysis, by R. Durbin, S. Eddy, A. Krogh, G. Mitchison (Cambridge University Press),
For biologists rusty on their stats, The Cartoon Guide to Statistics (Gonick/Smith) is very good. A reasonable online resource for beginners is Statistics Done Wrong.
Some online references:
An online bioinformatics course
Assorted bioinformatics resources on the web: Assorted links
Online probability texts: #1, #2, #3
No exams will be given. Grades will be based on online homework (counting 30% of the grade), 3 problem sets (given every 2-3 weeks and counting 15% each towards the final grade) and an independent course project (25% of final grade). The course project will consist of a research project on a bioinformatics topic chosen by the student (with approval by the instructor) containing an element of independent computational biology research (e.g. calculation, programming, database analysis, etc.). This will be turned in as a link to a web page. The final project is due by midnight, April 29, 2019. The last 2.5 classes will be spent presenting your projects to each other. (The presentation will account for 5/25 points for the project.)
Online homework will be assigned and evaluated using the free bioinformatics web resource Rosalind.
All projects and homework will be turned in electronically and time-stamped. No makeup work will be given. Instead, all students have 5 days of free "late time" (for the entire semester, NOT per project, and counting weekends/holidays). For projects turned in late, days will be deducted from the 5 day total (or what remains of it) by the number of days late (in 1 day increments, rounding up, i.e. 10 minutes late = 1 day deducted). Once the full 5 days have been used up, assignments will be penalized 10 percent per day late (rounding up), i.e., a 50 point assignment turned in 1.5 days late would be penalized 20%, or 10 points.
Homework, problem sets, and the project total to a possible 100 points. There will be no curving of grades, nor will grades be rounded up. We'll use the plus/minus grading system, so: A= 92 and above, A-=90 to 91.99, etc. Just for clarity's sake, here are the cutoffs for the grades: 92% = A, 90% = A- < 92%, 88% = B+ < 90%, 82% = B < 88%, 80% = B- < 82%, 78% = C+ < 80%, 72% = C < 78%, 70% = C- < 72%, 68% = D+ < 70%, 62% = D < 68%, 60% = D- < 62%, F < 60%.
Students are welcome to discuss ideas and problems with each other, but all programs, Rosalind homework, problem sets, and written solutions should be performed independently . Students are expected to follow the UT honor code. Cheating, plagiarism, copying, & reuse of prior homework, projects, or programs from CourseHero, Github, or any other sources are all strictly forbidden and constitute breaches of academic integrity (UT academic integrity policy) and cause for dismissal with a failing grade.
The final project web site is due by midnight April 29, 2019.
- How to make a web site for the final project
- Google Site: https://support.google.com/sites/answer/153197?hl=en


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41 comments:
- Marcia Macomber said...
Hurray! The Return of the HoseMaster...and in such fine form! The Parkenstein (part 1?) prose harkens back to those long ago Hosed-days of yore from say...2010.
You had me at "My Dearest Sister...." Of course, that was just the beginning...literally...
leading to one of my favorite lines: "...he had the figure and charm of a beanbag chair." What a dashing physique to behold -- to another beanbag chair.
And then the body parts sequence culminating in 'picking the nose' was sublime. (And I am ever so thankful you stuck with the Bassett Hound over a dachshund. :-) )
Can't wait for the next installment!
- December 28, 2011 at 4:18 PM
- SUAMW said...
It's aliiiiiveeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- December 28, 2011 at 4:36 PM
- Thomas said...
This Hosemaster guy proves without doubt that it is possible to revive the dead--or make a new body from old parts. Either that or he simply wants to get sued.
I'd welcome him back, but I've done that a few times already and I hate to repeat myself.
The fun in reading this entry, however, is over the top and truly like potato chips to me--can't stop eating it up.
- December 28, 2011 at 4:55 PM
- Joe said...
I like the "post once a year" approach. Very smug. Go with it. And make next year's post one about "sorry I haven't been posting in a while/been super busy/etc."
- December 28, 2011 at 8:25 PM
- Samantha Dugan said...
Ron My Love,
You know those moments when you happen to glance at your spouse, see them laughing, singing along to music, pensive or just seconds before they drift off to sleep and it inspires the exact same feeling that made you fall in love in the first place? As my eyes darted across the screen the sides of my mouth turned up and my heart once again was set racing...so nice to see you again.
The wine blog world is nowhere near as interesting without your voice and I for one will be waiting breathlessly for more.
I love you!
- December 28, 2011 at 8:57 PM
- John M. Kelly said...
Oh Mary! Mary I missed you so! Though surely you don't take your Miller in a stein - that would be taking it far too seriously! Alas I can only give this post 94-96 points at this time. Let's see how it festers, er... matures. Before I revisit this see if you can get us in to the Laundry.
- December 28, 2011 at 10:40 PM
- Ron Washam, HMW said...
Marcia Love,
Against my better judgment, I decided I would once again have the occasional fun here on HoseMaster at someone's expense. Thank you for the enthusiastic welcome back. I'm sure the wine blogosphere is all aTwitter over my resurrection. Or not. And, yes, there is more Parkenstein! to come.
I should be so lucky to be sued. Which of my eight readers is going to take me to court? I'd say it might be a class action suit, but somehow the word "class" doesn't fit.
Great idea for a post! I was leaning more towards one of those classic wine blogger self-pitying posts where they wonder aloud why they bother with their idiotic blogs, finally giving voice to what their audience was actually thinking.
Smug, my friend, is what I do.
My Gorgeous Samantha,
I promised myself that this time around I would be far less involved in the wine blog world, not get sucked into that vortex of drivel. I simply enjoy writing, and wine, and publishing it on HoseMaster allows me to spend some time with my friends, and enemies. You won't see me on any other blogs, really, except yours, My Love, and an occasional cameo elsewhere, because I'm not really interested in how many comments I get or how many hits or anything else. I just enjoy the work.
I love you too!
I can get you into the Laundry, but they'll never get out that nasty Parkenstain!
- December 29, 2011 at 9:14 AM
- Samantha Dugan said...
Oh trust me, I don't expect to see you popping up over at Stupid Sweaters & Wine or My Daily Bore or anything. I meant your voice here and those of us that have been aching for something interesting to read about wine and the wine business, the poking of over-inflated egos and foolishness of what we do, well we welcome you back with very open arms.
- December 29, 2011 at 9:24 AM
- SUAMW said...
Ah, yes....
After ecstasy, laundry....
- December 29, 2011 at 9:25 AM
- Ron Washam said...
My Gorgeous Samantha,
You give me too much credit. What I mostly do is just dump the unrelenting Voice in my head onto the blank screen and hope for the best. If folks find it interesting, well, that's nice. I find it therapeutic.
And the reason I have great affection for HoseMaster of Wine is because it brought you, and the rest of my little circus, into my life. For you alone, I owe my little crappy blog more than I can ever explain--though you understand.
- December 29, 2011 at 9:58 AM
- Thomas said...
Are we getting mushy here, or have I wandered into a STEVE!-like blog?
John, how did you manage to get Ron to do your laundry? Have you uncovered his true calling?
- December 29, 2011 at 12:12 PM
- SUAMW said...
No, Thomas, It will be officially mushy when Charlie pops in. Then, we'll have to bring out the bucket and mop....
- December 29, 2011 at 12:48 PM
- Ron Washam said...
Oh, if only I could be a STEVE!-like blog! That would be a dream come true. No, I'm stuck being the HoseMaster.
One needs to be mushy after such a long time away. I get all teary-eyed just thinking about all my old gang. It'll pass, like the kidney stone it is.
Yeah, where is Puff Daddy? And Anonymous 1, and the rest of the crew? And, of course, I could always use some new commenting blood too.
- December 29, 2011 at 2:07 PM
- Thomas said...
If just thinking about us can make you cry, I can't imagine how you react when you pass a major car accident on the highway...
- December 29, 2011 at 2:16 PM
- Ron Washam said...
If I'm not texting, I applaud, though I think of the gang here as more of a train wreck; and because I'm the one standing in my self-made puddle, I'm the conductor.
- December 29, 2011 at 2:20 PM
- winebookgirl said...
The Ghost of Christmas past?
- December 29, 2011 at 6:46 PM
You, Jose, not interested in how many comments you get? Now THAT'S funny. New commenting blood, I suspect that's what you're really after.
- December 29, 2011 at 9:35 PM
- SUAMW said...
Careful, Anon, Statcounter (see at the bottom of this page) lets Ron see your IP address, blood type and mother's favorite ice cream flavor....
- December 29, 2011 at 9:54 PM
Jose: For the record, yes, much to your delight, there are numerous tweets (barks) about your resurrection, but then again you just love all those poodle's (basset hound's) noses in your ass. And Parkerism? Way to beat a dead horse.
SAWMW: I'm hardly really worried about Ron knowing my IP address.
- December 29, 2011 at 10:02 PM
- SUAMW said...
Anon, I left out from my previous comment the emoticon for "rolling eyes while jamming tongue firmly into cheek".
My point was (sigh...) that you have a point - as evidenced by the presence of a traffic/statistics monitoring script.
- December 29, 2011 at 10:21 PM
- Ron Washam said...
Hey Anonymous,
Love the hostility!
I don't care who you are, and, apparently, neither do you. I won't spend much time on this because no one gives a crap, but, actually, returning to the blog was motivated by my love of the work, not by attention or comments or Tweets. You'll just have to take my word for it. I don't need new commenting blood, honestly, and I only jokingly said that, though it sure does turn up as soon as I start getting noticed.
I don't think I've had many Poodle noses in my ass, most of them share your eloquent sentiments. And as for beating a dead horse, I think I've been saying Parker is dead for three years now. I thought it was time someone expressed a more interesting take on the Parker/Miller situation, and the story of Frankenstein just popped into my head. Sorry to be so dull and unoriginal.
Thank you for commenting. Sincerely. It can get a little thick with flattery around here.
- December 30, 2011 at 8:37 AM
- SUAMW said...
Oh, to be loved and adulated the way the North Koreans loved and adulated Kim Jong Il......
- December 30, 2011 at 8:41 AM
- Samantha Dugan said...
This is cracking me up. "I'm hardly worried about Ron having my IP address" way to take a stand, anonymous....
- December 30, 2011 at 8:51 AM
- Alfonso Cevola said...
Nice to hear you posting , albeit from your bunker in Italy
Yes, I know now, Hosemaster has moved to Italy and is posting from this new site
- December 30, 2011 at 9:55 AM
- Ron Washam said...
I'm actually funnier in Italian.
Yeah, I know, how hard is that?
How do you say "HoseMaster" in Italian?
- December 30, 2011 at 6:06 PM
- Wines for the People said...
I have learned so much from this blog. Pre-HMW-retiremnet, I had never before heard of Stupid Sweaters & Wine, and I thought you were making it up. I was so sad to be mistaken. Now you tell me about Steve! Thanks for not including a hyperlink, which would make it far too easy to click before thinking. Having thought, I won't click (or Google).
At the risk of thickening the flattery, I enjoyed the post and am glad to see anything here whenever it appears.
- December 30, 2011 at 6:20 PM
- Ron Washam said...
Wine Peeps,
Thanks. It's not that I mind the flattery, I'm not that neurotic (OK, maybe), I just think it gets old and sickening for my eight readers. That, and I don't deserve it.
I intend to have a little fun here in 2012. I hope to make people laugh a bit, and I also hope to annoy some people, and, simply, I intend to enjoy myself. And then I'll retire again. Tough habit to break, sort of like checking stats.
- December 31, 2011 at 4:50 PM
- Puff Daddy said...
How the hell did you sneak back into my world and I did not know it.
I guess it's because I don't have such modern things as Twitter, Stat Counters, UpURS feeds and the like.
Arthur is, I see, his usually joyful self. Hey, Arthur, I have some advice for you--SHUT UP, and make wine if you have to.
Tarter Sauce and fish sticks had my out of control, but only after the first, "oh, my, the Hoser is back".
You have proven Yogi Berra right again.
- January 1, 2012 at 7:57 PM
- SUAMW said...
If you look at the "About" page of my blog, you'll see that the title is aimed at schmucks who think that by tasting in the presence of winemakers they actually know wine.
How are your 2011 wines coming along, by the by, you old fart, errrrr... I mean puff?.....
- January 1, 2012 at 11:27 PM
- Thomas said...
I'm not Alfonso, but I play an Italian-American in real life. Try this:
padrone del tubo flessibile
best i could do.
- January 2, 2012 at 7:51 AM
- Ron Washam, HMW said...
Hey Charlie,
I snuck out, now I've snucken back in. Who knows for how long this time? And Yogi Berra is always right. "That blog gets so many comments nobody comments there any more."
Great to see everyone again, and in such fine fettle.
Thanks! I love it. When I first started the blog back in 1945 I saw a comment about me in a German blog. I used the Google Translator to see what they were saying about me and the name of my blog came out as "TrousersMaster of Wine." Always loved that. Though there ain't no flies on me.
- January 2, 2012 at 8:50 AM
- viNomadic said...
Word verification: yiness.
They're BAAAAACK!
- January 4, 2012 at 9:38 PM
- Gerry Dawes said...
High-larious. Can't wait for the next chapter. You might want to check out this utterance from ParkenCampoStein: According to Recently "Retired" Spanish wine critic Jay Miller of Robert M. Parker, Jr.'s The Wine Advocate, Great Wine Can Be Equated to Pornography (see link below).
- January 5, 2012 at 7:23 AM
- Ron Washam, HMW said...
Mr. Dawes,
Thank you for showing up at my humble little commode. With wine celebs like you showing up, I'm liable to get a swelled head. Which brings us to the Jay Miller quote...
OK, I may criticize Parkenstein's monster about his wine ratings, but I would never question his authority when it comes to porn. That fish stick gets a solid workout.
- January 5, 2012 at 7:33 AM
- Gerry Dawes said...
I should be so lucky to be sued. Which of my eight readers is going to take me to court? I'd say it might be a class action suit, but somehow the word "class" doesn't fit."
How the Hell did you end up getting eight readers? I only have five and that's shrinking.
- January 5, 2012 at 9:00 AM
Clever, but but did you really need add an ad hominem attack on a conservative candidate clumsily veiled as a simile? I really think "blowing harder than Keith Olbermann would have been MUCH MORE effective.
- January 9, 2012 at 7:45 AM
- Ron Washam, HMW said...
I write the alleged jokes around here. Who the hell watches Keith Olbermann any more? And that's hardly a "veiled" simile. It's out and out contempt.
- January 9, 2012 at 8:34 AM
"I think of the gang here as more of a train wreck; and because I'm the one standing in my self-made puddle, I'm the conductor."
Thus giving your blog the distinction of being the only one that train wrecks slow down to read.
@ Anon - you obviously lack any understanding regarding the therapeutic value of sadonecrophilia.
Welcome back Honorable Master of the Hose.
Dave (not the Olbermanophobe)
- January 11, 2012 at 6:22 AM
make that sadoequinonecrophilia
- January 11, 2012 at 7:46 AM
- Dean Tudor said...
Welcome back, your humour is much appreciated...
- January 31, 2012 at 12:53 PM
- Ron Washam, HMW said...
Thanks! Nice to know I'm a hit in Canadian too, eh.
- January 31, 2012 at 1:03 PM


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Today's book is Britannia in Brief: The Scoop on All Things British by Leslie Banker and William Mullins (Ballantine, 2009), an American wife and British husband team. In other words, here's the book that Better Half and I could have written if we'd thought of it first and weren't so gloriously behind schedule with everything else in our lives--like the laundry. Especially the laundry.
The book does what it says on its label: it is a sort of (AmE) Cliff Notes/(BrE) York Notes for Americans wanting to (orig. AmE) bone up on Britain. The chapters cover the geography and history, social structures, arts and culture, politics and government, food and drink, language and daily practicalities of UK life. Having been here 10 years, I didn't learn a lot reading this book--but, boy, if I'd had it 10 years ago, it would have saved a lot of people a lot of explaining. When I first sat down with the book, I tested it by looking up the things that I thought should be in it. Blue Peter? (AmE) check/(BrE) tick. Newspaper slants and allegiances? √ The 1966 World Cup? √ Jeffrey Archer? √ It passed all of my tests but one...but we'll get back to that.
The parts I found most helpful (as a long-standing resident) were in the first chapter--though I'm sure that newer arrivals will find the quotidian and cultural aspects the most immediately gratifying. The section entitled 'Snapshots of British History' starts with Julius Caesar and end with the 7/7 bombings of 2005, filling in enough details on the Glorious Revolution, the Battle of Britain and the Falklands War to give an American a sense of what these things were about. The longer section on Northern Ireland similarly outlines the Troubles and gives the sage advice that "it's better not to express any opinions on the matter of Northern Ireland unless explicitly asked. [...] All in all, it's just better to say that you hope things work out."
What about the bits on language? While there is a chapter on language, there's plenty of vocabulary information throughout the book, including a very useful two-page list of acronyms toward(s) the end. (There's also a two-page glossary, which hits some important words, but whether it includes the one you'll need to look up--well, that's another matter.) The language chapter provides some names whose pronunciation needs explanation (e.g. Leicester = "lester", Berkeley = "barclay") and an introduction to Cockney Rhyming Slang. These are followed by a couple of zesty sections on words with 'dirty' meanings in BrE (but not in AmE) and ratings of how offensive "swear words" are--with handy thermometer graphics. A section on the Welsh language serves the authors' obsession with the alleged lack of vowels in Welsh. (I lost count of how many times 'unpronounceable' and 'Welsh' co-occured in the other chapters.) For the record, Welsh has plenty of vowels, it just spells them with different letters than the English use. I didn't always agree with their list of 'prevalent British names rarely heard in the US'--sometimes because I thought the names weren't particularly prevalent in the UK, but mostly because they left Nicola off the girls' list. But these are minor points.
The book ends with a quiz that should probably replace the UK Citizenship test, since it tests things that UK citizens generally know, like the name of the pub on Coronation Street and who Brenda and Phil the Greek are (unlike the real test, whose questions native-born citizens typically fail).
The book is terrifically up-to-date, which does mean it'll become outdated all the faster. And this may be its failing in the one section that I found really wanting: the 'British comic gems you may be less familiar with'. Appropriately, this starts with the Carry On films. But it then hops on to Monty Python--which (a) is not something anyone is less familiar with (as they acknowledge), and (b) overshoots The Goon Show (and particularly Spike Milligan), which was one of the first things I tried to look up in the book (and one of the greatest influences on Python). The other comedians listed are all currently practicing, and some of them have crossed the pond rather often. Rather than Steve Coogan and Catherine Tate (whom I'd run into soon enough if I were a [orig. AmE] newbie to Britain), I would have liked to have read about the Goons, Tony Hancock, the Two Ronnies and Morecambe & Wise--the types of comedians who influenced later ones and whose presence is still felt--albeit a little more obliquely than the Coogans and Tates--in the culture. In other words, with such a rich comedic history, it's a shame to have so much focus on the present.
But that's one section of one chapter in an otherwise surprisingly comprehensive book. The authors have shown a real knack for getting to the heart of Britishness and presenting it in bite-size helpings. I'd heartily recommend this book for any (North) American who:
- is about to embark on a year abroad/work placement/move to the UK
- is going to visit people in Britain
- is in love with someone in Britain
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In my personal opinion, V1 Gallery is the best thing that has happened to the scene for young contemporary art in Copenhagen over the past 10 years. V1 has brought exactly the kind of contemporary art that I'm passionated about to Copenhagen from a very impressive international pool of artists. I look very much forward to the various exhibitions with equal parts of excitement and great expectations - and I have never been disappointed. Over the past few years I have also had the great pleasure to photograph selected exhibitions for a variety of international art magazines and websites - which, like myself, are very interested in following the V1 Gallery and cover the many great shows. Congratulations on your 10 year anniversary, it has been a true triumph! -Henrik Haven
Artists: Andre, Anika Lori, Ari Marcopoulos, Asger Carlsen, Ashley Macomber, Barbara Kruger, Carl Krull, Matthew Stone, Clayton Brothers, Dash Snow, DearRainDrop, Eine, Erik Parker, Evan Hecox, Faile, Futura, Geoff McFetridge, Hesselholdt og Mejlvang, Henrik Vibskov, HuskMitNavn, Thomas Campbell, Jakob Boeskov, Jacob Holdt, Jamison Brosseau, Andrew Schoultz, Jenny Holzer, Jes Brinch, Jesper Dalgaard, John Copeland, Julie Nord, Kasper Sonne, Katherine Bernhardt, Kenny Scharf, Kim Gordon, L. Fong, Mads Lynnerup, Misaki Kawai, Misha Hollenbach, NeckFace, Peter Beste, Peter Funch, Pica Pica, Richard Colman, Rory McBeth, Ryan Schneider, Shane Bradford, Shepard Fairey, Steve Powers, Søren Behncke, Søren Solkær Starbird, Thomas Øvlisen, Todd James, Troels Carlsen, Ulrik Crone, Vincent Szarek & Wes Lang.