So ...

My first orchestra rehearsal is Monday night. I'm freaking out. I dropped $300 in the past two days on preparations for this - new strings, getting my pegs tightened, new rosin, a new tuner (I can still remember how to play Tarantella but I can't remember how to tune the instrument!), and some study books to try to quickly get me back up to ( Read more... )

Some Star Wars Screenshots from NWN ... if you want a sci-fi online CRPG that's moddable, I really think this is your best bet. I don't know if there's other settings besides Mos Eisley, but even so, there's clearly TIE fighters and robots and futuristic armour.

If you read this, if your eyes are passing over this right now, even if we don't speak often, please post a comment with a memory of you and me. It can be anything you want, either good or bad. I promise not to come after you with a splade, either way ( Read more... )

Hmm ( Read more... )

Today is a day of w00t ( Read more... )

Well, I'm getting a brand-new laptop thanks to the criminals who stole my shitty old one! It's the "base" version but ... I think it's actually got better specs than my desktop ( Read more... )

Day 2 of my Advanced Ridgeology course and I think I know already that it's a good thing I didn't get the fingerprints job. O. M. G. My brain can't handle the mindless tedium of staring at minutiae trying to determine whether or not they're the same. Neither can my back - we don't have the nice slanted tables that fingerprint examiners use, and now ( Read more... )

Here's my babies:

Renishaw inVia Reflex Raman Microspectroscope

... ours has 4 lasers, each of 'em powerful enough to blind you should you look into them. But some of them are in the infrared region so you don't know you're looking into them until it's too late! Mwahahahaha..*cough*...ahem.

Jeol JSM-6480A Scanning Electron Microscope with gatan' ( Read more... )

Yesterday I went in to the AFP to do some work on the new Raman microscope. (It's really, really cool. And sexy. I want to mate with it.) And the new electron microscope was there, it also is really hot, in a machinistic sort of way. But that's beside the point ( Read more... )

1. When people plagiarise ( Read more... )