Monthly Archives: October 2008

A friend of mine, Pete Dougherty, is the keyboardist for a band called Hey Champ, and the just produced a new music video. It’s top notch, if you like a certain sort of repetitive disco-inspired “electro-dance”. In other news, making … Continue reading →

Over the past three days I have soldered 5 coax cables, with heatshrink tubing to separate the inner and outer, wrapped them in metal foil tape for shielding, wrapped the shielding in electrical tape for isolation, constructed a housing by … Continue reading →

My roommate Emily left behind a huge box of Crunch bars, but after their long exposure to the ridiculous heat of this apartment in summer, they had begun to go… tan. You know, when a chocolate bar’s outer surface starts … Continue reading →

I just spent two hours soldering a single link between two cables. Evidently, I am terrible at soldering. It didn’t help that they’re both coax, and one of them is about as thick as a heavy thread. In other news, … Continue reading →

We did not go to New Hampshire. We did not see any stars. Of the 13 people who told me they really wanted to go, two dropped out for unknown reasons, one became ill, another stayed home rather than leave … Continue reading →

My project’s first baby step succeeded today. I was able to hook up a motor to a phantom (a dummy object used to study MRI or ultrasound) and move it back and forth inside the bore of the magnet in … Continue reading →

Friday was a party for OLPC. Saturday night was a party with Harvard and MIT people, including one who works at the TeVatron. Tonight a friend from Biophysics threw a great dinner party (topic: education), and then there was Sunday … Continue reading →

For the past few months, at least, I’ve been suggesting a trip to the North for stargazing. The problem, as you can see on this map, is that Boston is a center for extreme light pollution, to the point that … Continue reading →

Several years ago, my grandfather gave me a very nice watch, and I wore it everywhere. After a few years, the battery ran out, and we had it replaced. After a few more years the watch began to fail again, … Continue reading →

I spent this weekend in Vermont with a bunch of Chorallaries alumni. It’s hard to explain exactly what we were doing there. On one level, it’s very simple. We are a bunch of friends from college who hadn’t seen each … Continue reading →