This week started off slowly at work, but wow, it picked up nicely. I've been working on the most interesting project I've had in many months: a c++ program to process data from a large IR emitter and sensor array, which reports 3-d positions (within 1/10 a millimeter) for a set of markers within a 3m x 3m x 4m cube space ( Read more... )

What did I do today?

(Cover your eyes, it's kinda gross):

Reconstructing the surface of a brain sample [1] and installing a Slice-o-matic to segment leg-bones.

Ewww!

Yes, I'm a day late to the zombie party, but nothing of what I wrote above is fiction.

Ewwwwww![1] The brain's the optical lobe of a fruit-fly brain, sampled by a laser scanning ( Read more... )

I thought this was cool, if pricey: a service to make your sketchup, 2nd life, or wii avatar in coloured plaster.

But this is probably cooler: Build a Candyfab 4000 to fabricate your objects from sugar. DIY, $500 parts. (Link via secretsoflife)

Indeed, it's based around a controller board kit which might even be useful for work. I'm tempted to inquire with ( Read more... )

The world's first CT scanner was designed and built from 1967-1972 by Godfrey Hounsfield, who worked for a lab at Electric and Musical Industries, otherwise known as EMI ( Read more... )

New project. A prof in Kinesiology has just gotten a peripheral CT scanner. (Peripheral, as in, fits extremity body parts. CT as in "computed tomography", formerly known as computed axial tomography. I share because I didn't know it before this afternoon either ( Read more... )

I just got an ergonomic assessment of my office. It was useful, for helping me track what's causing my shoulder to hurt recently. I knew it was mouse-related, since it hurts precisely when I use the mouse. It turns out I'm holding up my arm too much. Way too much. I should be resting it on the arm-rests. All right then ( Read more... )

I just met with the grad students who had a project for me in December. I've felt like I should've been making faster progress these last two months, especially since it's my first project and I imagined everyone wondering what the hell I was doing. But I didn't have a deadline- it's thesis work and they're not done with data-collection. And ( Read more... )

Can I get a woot?

Woot for mac and cheese, made by melted_snowball in... remarkably quick time, given it needs to bake. And he had to go to the store after we got home, before he even started with the onions.

Woot for a visit from mtffm & the_infamous_j who came to help us eat it, play a few rounds of games, and scheme for Saturday. Saturday of Toronto-dom ( Read more... )

Today was a whole pile of work, and I loved it ( Read more... )

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