Nerdy picture post

[nebel]

So i'm a geek, but i'm a vain geek. Besides i've been waiting to take pictures of this shirt forever and finally got my hands on a camera. I threw in some other pics just for shits and grins.

Comments

[_bazilisk_]

XD that shirt is genuinely amusing...

[elkoralish]

HAHAHAHAHA!

[nebel]

I knew you'd like it.

[ktnflag]

Ha ha... fantastic. I have a similar shirt that says, "Audiologists do it with frequency and intensity until it Hz."

[nebel]

Awesome, though what exactly is an audiologist? I've never heard the term before.

[ktnflag]

This link should properly define it for you!

Although my job is a little less typical... I'm in research, which means I get to call my patients "subjects", and spend a lot of time writing MATLAB scripts. :-)

[nebel]

Cool! thanks for the link, that's a field i never even knew existed.

[wpl510]

Judging from the equipment I see in the last picture (oscilloscope, microwave synthesizer, and- is that a lock-in-amplifier in the middle?), I'd guess you do microwave spectroscopy, except that last time I checked, you can't do microwave spectroscopy on buckyballs, b/c they lack a dipole moment. So what do you do?

And, oh yeah: speaking as a p-chemist myself, that is one great shirt.

[nebel]

Ahah, the shirt coupled with the equipment is misleading. Although physical chemistry is my current love, my research over the summer was very analytical- i was (and currently am) studying electrochemical properties of different functionalized C60 and C70 compounds. I also did a little work with carbon nanotubes. The pile of equipment i'm standing in front of in that picture i didn't use too often, as my advisor just set it up because he thought it would be cool, so we played with it and took a couple of capacitance readings, then went back to the cyclic voltammetry :)

and that is indeed a lock in amplifier.

[counterword]

Hey do buckyballs superconduct above ludicrously low temperatures?

[nebel]

I don't really know. I asked my advisor and he says he doesn't think so, though he remembered hearing something about it. The work i do isn't really quite that cool :)

[allroy]

Nice.