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This drawing was inspired by Mai Kuraki's song "Revive".

Recently, I am watching the anime "Detective Conan". I have a huge gap of about 150 or more episodes. So, after a few weeks of searching and downloading, I have been watching the anime for weeks.

Now, the episodes I'm watching are using Mai Kuraki's song "Revive" as the main theme song. I loved the song immediately. The Latin influence was so nice and made the song very catchy.

Why not drawing something?

Thus, I drew it, and got very excited to listen to the song time after time.

(I didn't realise that this picture is so huge [that is, 15MB] until when I uploaded it.... o_O)

I noticed today's Google main page gave me a new logo. I saw it in my iGoogle homepage, so that logo was kind of smaller. At the first glimpse, it gave me the feeling of a piece of draft paper with some circles on. By curiosity, I clicked the image and it linked me to a search theme of "Pi Day."

↑ Google's Pi-Day logo.

Interesting. Anyways, the first thing on the wikipedia page that attracted me was the huge pie with a huge "π" written on it. Pi almost equals 3.14, thus the Pi-Day date is decided to be March 14. Nice idea.

Okay, since I was having my belated breakfast, I sliced the last bun into halves, spread a thin layer of raspberry jam onto one side, and wrote the Greek letter "π" with mayonnaise. I didn't have a real pie as my breakfast, but the bun made pie didn't look bad, did it?

↑ my bun-made Pi

As an out-class practice, I was working on a restriction map problem since the last night. The problem itself was basically simple, yet I spent rather a long time to do it.

When you digest the genome with enzyme A, and you get 2 fragments; you digest the genome with enzyme B, and you get 3 fragments. Then, you digest the genome with both A and B, and you get 4 fragments. Now you need to analyse the lengths of the fragments. If you see the total length of two fragments from A+B is exactly the same to one fragment from A, you may confirm one of enzyme B cutting sites by measuring the length from the end of the genome/enzyme A cutting site to this enzyme B cutting site.

There were three enzymes used in the problem. I made a draft of two of them, but when I tried to confirm the cutting sites of the last enzyme, I couldn't get all fragment lengths exactly match in other conditions (the combinations of using enzymes, I mean).

But my idea was absolutely correct. I was pretty sure about it. About the instructor of the class, I know he is often in the situation of "I-lost-my-thought." Thus I came to doubt the position of fragment bands in the illustration, which was drawn by the instructor, I guess. Some bands, although they look like at different horizontal levels, is it possible that they actually have the same size? Thinking about it, I tried some changes on the numbers of the sizes of each band. Amazingly, after several times of changing, I got all lengths matched.

I spent much of time due to the stupid badly drawn illustration sure enough. orz…