Monthly Archives: February 2008

It snowed yesterday, and as it snowed I looked out my window at the streetlights and tried to imagine being one of the many people who lived right around here 7,000 years ago. For them, winter must have been principally … Continue reading →

I got a haircut. It’s a good one. Compared to my hair circa yesterday, I am totally debonnaire.

We hosted an Oscar party tonight. As an opportunity for creativity, my roommate Emily proposed that it be a potluck, and each guest bring a dish themed to one of the movies nominated for an award tonight. Emily made meat … Continue reading →

Tonight I went to see the House Jacks in concert, along with a bunch of Chorallaries. They are amazing. Until yesterday, I had only heard the House Jacks on CD. If you’d heard them recorded, or on the radio, you’d … Continue reading →

I graded my first problem set today. It was actually kind of fun. I got to use my red pen and everything. It was pretty easy, mostly because the answers were almost all right, or nearly so. I suspect the … Continue reading →

Another favorite pair of pants unexpectedly acquired a large tear. That’s the third this winter. If I’m counting correctly, this leaves me with two pairs of pants that are not Dry Clean Only. Something must be done, and soon. And … Continue reading →

This is a maximum-intensity projection of a 3D image of celery, taken with a 1.5T Siemens scanner (Martinos Center Bay 2). The motion-blur-like effects are due to the projection along the stalk axis, which is amazingly straight, but not perfect. … Continue reading →

It turns out biking to work is about twice as fast and easy if your front wheel is properly aligned, and not always dragging on the brake.

I’ve spent the past week or two making MRI scans of celery and trying to improve my code’s workingness. Today I got to try it out on the 7T scanner, one of the most powerful MRI machines in the world. … Continue reading →

I was in the office past 9 last night, working with my advisor to kill one last remaining bug in my code. Thanks to a heroic effort on his part, it is now fixed, though neither of us has any … Continue reading →