Quarterly LJ update picture post
So, for those of you who aren't on Facebook, let me just say, it takes little to no effort to project the appearance of being social or interested there. I do it all the time. So, back to LJ for a status update that is longer than a couple of sentences. So, as I mentioned to defenestr8r, time for an update. Something more than Facebook offers.
My apartment. For well over a year, I had no furniture because it really didn't bother me much the way things were. I just sat on the floor, all zen/living in squalor-like.
This is my old setup.
This, after around $3000, is my new one. Even the fucking desk lamp was $100.
Here are my new 24" iMac's Hard Drives. All 3TB's worth.
I was supposed to go on a cruise to the Mexican Riviera in June with the family. The cruise line canceled it, to be safe. I was really looking forward to it. There would have been like 15 of us, including Maddie, whom I adore.
Oh, and here's me sitting at my desk, grinning stupidly.
Maddie and I are both grateful our family is big on orthodonture.
Even though Mexico is a no-go (we may do Canada instead), I did go to Baltimore for V and N's wedding. (after a 10 hour drive with Dru and deviant_muse). myarsenalx and P were there too.
You can see a whole bunch of pictures at staysonpaper's journal. Her bra does not fit me, btw. A bunch of us found that out the other night. Damn.
Invisible microphone. Actually, I was coughing.
I guess I should mention that I will be in SF again from MAY 16-24. I will definitely be at the May 18th Death Guild, probably with Zanna in tow.
I also want to make it out to Seattle sometime to see carpe_jugulum, willowperson, maybe psymbiotic and various other Seattle and maybe Portland peoples? Maybe at the same time V and N go. I was thinking about Willow recently because she's into the H+ thing.
You see, I've been doing some stuff on implant design with the biomedical engineering department and this cool grad student named Danny. Much like people, these implants must have both internal and external qualities in order for them to be viable and functional. The outside must exhibit bioactivity, either my being composed of a material with calcium and phosphorus, or by having a surface nanostructure conducive to mineral epitaxy. The main qualification for the inner structure is tensile, shear and compression strength. One of the things being done is introducing carbon nanoparticles into the mineral/resin scaffold. Here is an EDS map of the distribution of these particles in a bone implant. The more evenly the carbon nanoparticles (blue) are distributed, the better the strength.
Also in implant anecdotes: Corrie, a nice grad student from Purdue got me into running because she's on Purdue's cross-country team. I miss running. My ex had bad knees and we could never run together. I used to run in college to keep in shape for skateboarding. Anyway, Corrie broke her collarbone a while ago and has a wicked looking metal bar implanted where her bone was broken.
One of the other things I enjoy doing at work is solving mysteries. I once had to identify something carved out of a person's lung. This was for a malpractice case. We extrapolated that during an emergency intubation procedure, they chipped the patient's molar and they inhaled it, but in the chaos of being in a life threatening emergency, no one noticed.
In another recent case, a pathologist in Australia contacted me because he wanted to know what the strange rock-like crystals his patient was spitting out were made of. The EDS and XRD results showed peaks for magnesium carbonate. Here's an X-Ray powder diffraction pattern, because it looks fancy.
Here is a box where I keep burned out filaments from the SEM.
The scribbling on the box. That's a lot of people I know.
Well, that's it.
Oh, one more.
OMG, sounds like a close call. I hope he's OK!
See you in another few months, LJ.
My apartment. For well over a year, I had no furniture because it really didn't bother me much the way things were. I just sat on the floor, all zen/living in squalor-like.
This is my old setup.
This, after around $3000, is my new one. Even the fucking desk lamp was $100.
Here are my new 24" iMac's Hard Drives. All 3TB's worth.
I was supposed to go on a cruise to the Mexican Riviera in June with the family. The cruise line canceled it, to be safe. I was really looking forward to it. There would have been like 15 of us, including Maddie, whom I adore.
Oh, and here's me sitting at my desk, grinning stupidly.
Maddie and I are both grateful our family is big on orthodonture.
Even though Mexico is a no-go (we may do Canada instead), I did go to Baltimore for V and N's wedding. (after a 10 hour drive with Dru and deviant_muse). myarsenalx and P were there too.
You can see a whole bunch of pictures at staysonpaper's journal. Her bra does not fit me, btw. A bunch of us found that out the other night. Damn.
Invisible microphone. Actually, I was coughing.
I guess I should mention that I will be in SF again from MAY 16-24. I will definitely be at the May 18th Death Guild, probably with Zanna in tow.
I also want to make it out to Seattle sometime to see carpe_jugulum, willowperson, maybe psymbiotic and various other Seattle and maybe Portland peoples? Maybe at the same time V and N go. I was thinking about Willow recently because she's into the H+ thing.
You see, I've been doing some stuff on implant design with the biomedical engineering department and this cool grad student named Danny. Much like people, these implants must have both internal and external qualities in order for them to be viable and functional. The outside must exhibit bioactivity, either my being composed of a material with calcium and phosphorus, or by having a surface nanostructure conducive to mineral epitaxy. The main qualification for the inner structure is tensile, shear and compression strength. One of the things being done is introducing carbon nanoparticles into the mineral/resin scaffold. Here is an EDS map of the distribution of these particles in a bone implant. The more evenly the carbon nanoparticles (blue) are distributed, the better the strength.
Also in implant anecdotes: Corrie, a nice grad student from Purdue got me into running because she's on Purdue's cross-country team. I miss running. My ex had bad knees and we could never run together. I used to run in college to keep in shape for skateboarding. Anyway, Corrie broke her collarbone a while ago and has a wicked looking metal bar implanted where her bone was broken.
One of the other things I enjoy doing at work is solving mysteries. I once had to identify something carved out of a person's lung. This was for a malpractice case. We extrapolated that during an emergency intubation procedure, they chipped the patient's molar and they inhaled it, but in the chaos of being in a life threatening emergency, no one noticed.
In another recent case, a pathologist in Australia contacted me because he wanted to know what the strange rock-like crystals his patient was spitting out were made of. The EDS and XRD results showed peaks for magnesium carbonate. Here's an X-Ray powder diffraction pattern, because it looks fancy.
Here is a box where I keep burned out filaments from the SEM.
The scribbling on the box. That's a lot of people I know.
Well, that's it.
Oh, one more.
OMG, sounds like a close call. I hope he's OK!
See you in another few months, LJ.