So I'm trying to put together a consulting perspective on companies in the organic semiconductor business, and I'm digging through all kinds of technical documents about complex, high-molecular-weight organic conjugated molecules and their possible and actual uses in passive- and active-matrix products, IC interconnects, FET channels, and all kinds ( Read more... )

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I'm writing my contribution to the grant renewal, so I just looked over the last grant proposal more generally to see how what I'm writing should fit in. In a section entitled "V. Broader Impacts", I found this: "Broaden the participation of under-represented groups. The University of Illinois has strong programs in place to recruit ( Read more... )

It's time to renew the grant. John sent out a rough draft for us to review, and I found the following ( Read more... )

I used to laugh at those who believe in astrology, but I am starting to believe. That I can't get anything done unless the planets and stars are correctly aligned is starting to make sense. There's always something - like today, I can't do anything in the lab because the waste disposal people took the waste chemical cans, which means I can't clean ( Read more... )

* My laptop has been broken for a month and a half. Best guess: fried motherboard. Good news, though - the battery won't explode. I claimed a desktop as mine and managed to manouver myself to a window desk, so I'm working at my desk here like at a regular workplace now, since I'm doing less reading and homework and more real work. I like it so far ( Read more... )

I just finished making an EndNote database of the papers I have, both in PDF and hard-copy only. I thought I had a stack of papers that had all of them. Oh, boy, was I wrong. In only two years I've managed to forget so many papers I've found and gotten, I only had about half of them in the pile. I'm very glad I did this now, instead of in a year or ( Read more... )

I wish life were like my dream, where everything was close and there. Countries are so artificial in some ways... in the way really. Nationalities so strained. Sometimes I wonder if anyone knows what it means to be from a country. Lines on maps do not reflect anything but artifical human constructions, they never have and never will. Human ( Read more... )

This morning, I dreamt I was in Sweden at some sort of class reunion in a small Chinese-style hole in the wall where they only had teabags, no real tea. The whole thing made me immensly uncomfortable, as I couldn't express what I wanted to say in Swedish and I had to pretend to be polite to some of my classmates who had been particularly nasty ( Read more... )

I'm hearing rumors about a proper rave in Cincy or Dayton... oh please please PLEASE let it happen! I NEED to go raving! N-E-E-D! There's nothing like that feeling. When I'm 80, I'll still smile when I think about it. It's the best feeling in the world... it's so beautiful. So free. So alive.