Berkeley is such a silly place for the most part. And so much of the silliness is either offensive or witless or simply puzzling. But sometimes it can also be charming
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Sounds like your lab work can be a great deal of fun. I don't get to have that experience at ATL, where I partake in the cube-farm variety of engineering (they rarely let us mention that dangerous word, "hardware"). I suppose every environment needs an agricultural twist to it; you have goats, I have cube farms.
Do: I'm a research engineer who specialized in micro-fabrication, micro-sensors, and micro-robots. We used to be called "inventors", but "research engineer" sounds more....ahh.. what? Like it's a career vs a hobby. I work for NASA, but my office is at Berkeley Lab currently (for reasons involving a series of projects I'm working on).
Experiment: Right now I'm trying to develop a process that would enable me to make arbitrarily complex micro-machine parts on the centimeter to millimeter scale. If successful, it would move our ability to create micro-machines to a higher level of complexity, which is a good thing.
Your sentence,
"If you count the rats sniffing their earbones while they sleep, none."
is beautiful as a stand-alone poem. Like this:
If you count the rats sniffing their earbones while they sleep,
I actually have heard talks on implantable micro-devices that would go in the brain. :-) But at this point, all they would do is to monitor levels of certain chemicals and possibly secrete chemicals to 'normalize' the levels in the brain. So far, this is still sci-fi, tho. No one is remotely close to having such a thing.
You do realize, I hope, that the claims on this page are horseshit? (but, then, what else would I tell you, given my status as a member of the mind control conspiracy?).
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I do like the variety in my job. Although some aspects of it, like the endless paperwork, is a drag.
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I wish I had goats, I don't ever want to mow my lawn... I'm not sure it's even possible at this point.
If you count the rats sniffing their earbones while they sleep, none. Ok, maybe one? But that guy doesn't have a birth certificate.
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Experiment: Right now I'm trying to develop a process that would enable me to make arbitrarily complex micro-machine parts on the centimeter to millimeter scale. If successful, it would move our ability to create micro-machines to a higher level of complexity, which is a good thing.
Your sentence,
"If you count the rats sniffing their earbones while they sleep, none."
is beautiful as a stand-alone poem. Like this:
If
you count the rats
sniffing
their earbones while they sleep,
none.
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Yes, I guess so.
I actually have heard talks on implantable micro-devices that would go in the brain. :-) But at this point, all they would do is to monitor levels of certain chemicals and possibly secrete chemicals to 'normalize' the levels in the brain. So far, this is still sci-fi, tho. No one is remotely close to having such a thing.
You do realize, I hope, that the claims on this page are horseshit? (but, then, what else would I tell you, given my status as a member of the mind control conspiracy?).
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