After many years I started to re-write "A Pale Shade of Night," and recalled the fun times I had on LJ.  So I'm throwing this brief note out onto the winds. :)

Methyl is mostly WFH now, hence the mossy rock icon.

Methyl got an important piece of paper on Friday ( Read more... )

Methyl moved to a new cave. The mossy rock now has dark green carpet, lots of room for plants, and a water heater that makes really strange noises whenever I use hot water ( Read more... )

Yep, Methyl is finally Doctor Methyl ( Read more... )

Methyl: I need a kitchen faucet to garden hose adapter ( Read more... )

Methyl ended up having a "oh by the way, you need to get this HUGE PILE OF WORK DONE IN A COUPLE WEEKS" thrown at her. x_x ( Read more... )

Methyl is somewhat back to normal after a couple weeks of traveling. The second bit of traveling was more dramatic than planned. It was the day before I was to fly out and I'd organized everything and was even gonna print out a map of how to walk from my hotel in Boston to the place where the meeting was when I realized . . . the meeting wasn't ( Read more... )

This is awesome. The idea is to replace ITO (indium tin oxide), which (I'm pretty sure) is what's used commercially these days. People have also done this with Ag nanowires, but Cu is WAY cheaper.

Cu Nanowire Start Up!At about 5:30, there's an awesome demo of a flexible display. It'd be so cool to come up with something like this and ( Read more... )

Methyl got another roommate last week. It's sad to have to share my space again. Given how many roommate's I've gone through recently I've decided they need nicknames ( Read more... )

Some research journals require that each article be submitted affixed with a pretty picture as well as a snappy title. Sometimes this image draws in readers.

Sometimes for the wrong reasons.

TOCROFLYes, for example, use the figure from March 8th about a "kinetic isotope effect" to teach your minions how NOT to do it. Your data may cluster onto ( Read more... )