hot blood

[ferventdervish]

I've nearly hit 20,000 words. Go the me. Three techniques have improved my word output

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[ejwu]

I love any post that contains the words "before long my hands were covered in blood"

[csn]

Oh god! Horrific!

[ferventdervish]

Then one of the department heads, after reviewing my data, wondered whether we should go the next step and try the experiment with human blood. But I told her it probably wouldn't make a huge difference! Handling human blood is much more regulated, too. Blood-borne pathogens and all. In the end, though, this is all connected to ensuring the safety of our product.

[csn]

Goddamn you replying in real time. Get a microphone! My mind is atrophying, I am in a zone of intellectual starvation!

[csn]

Sorry, man. I'm nearly 10,000 words behind in the novel, but since this is a short week at work I'm aiming to pick up that mic soon. Due to reasons stated in Tamara's latest entry, we are pretty much not having Thanksgiving, so I'll have some time later in the week. Hold on for a bit longer. I know what you mean by intellectual starvation.

In the meantime, if you are dying of boredom, try reading this free e-book (it's a quick read): http://www.andrewsmcmeel.com/godsdebris/

It's a philosophical thought experiment by Scott Adams (yes, the Dilbert guy). My life has been bereft of the spiritual and philosophical richness of yours lately so I was just wondering what you think of the book. Whether it was total crap and so on. Okay, talk to you soon.

[zixi]

wow. Have to say that's one lab experience I haven't had...

though, honestly, sounds mildly exciting :)

[ferventdervish]

The core technology we are developing (which I can't really talk about) is pretty awesome, but after seeing it in action and fine-tuning it for ten months straight, I guess it's just routine now. The thing about biomedical engineering is you start off normally--with functional requirements analysis, design matrices, design iterations--but then when you hit the testing phase that's when you order up organs, heads, cartilage, blood, etc...there's a giant buffalo heart still in the freezer. Maybe someone should throw that thing away, or barbecue it, or something.

[csn]

send them to China, they'll eat them.

[angelicvoice]

hahaha

[ferventdervish]

My, my.