Monthly Archives: August 2010

I got a tour, this afternoon, of Langer Lab at MIT. (Labs with multiple Principal Investigators are often given descriptive names (like mine, the Focused Ultrasound Lab), but labs with a single lead professor like Bob Langer are often named … Continue reading →

So I upgraded WordPress to 3.0, and it broke the theme, resulting in a blank blog. I clicked around for a while in the admin interface and eventually activated the new default theme. It looked very nice, not least because … Continue reading →

I finished the Siemens pulse programming course today. Everyone who signed up received a very generic looking Certificate of Achievement for having “successfully completed training for IDEA Sequence Programming: Pulse Sequence Design Philosophy; Real Time Event Programming; Testing Software Utilization; … Continue reading →

I had to get in by 8:30 this morning for the Siemens course, so there was no time for the bus. That left bicycling … through a rainstorm the likes of which I haven’t seen since vacationing with my parents … Continue reading →

I’m spending this week at an on-site training course led by an engineer from Siemens on how to program their MRI machines. I actually wrote a pulse sequence for Siemens machines a few years ago, but without a clear understanding … Continue reading →

Ingredients: 1 pear Makes: 1 serving of apple butter Instructions: Forget to eat pear until it is unappetizingly overripe. Slice and scoop out the good stuff with a spoon. Simmer until thick and brown. Chill before serving.

I just had a lovely dinner out with my grandparents and my second cousin, a surgeon in the Boston area. Over dinner we learned that she, in fact, was the one who pulled out the pea, about which Google says … Continue reading →

PAL TVs in Europe run at 50 Hz. I learned this when I was 12, I think, on a family vacation to England. The jet lag left me watching some very interesting programming on UK Channel 4 late at night … Continue reading →

As I was riding to work this morning through a corner of Brookline, I passed a wild turkey who was walking down the sidewalk like any other citizen headed to work. He or she seemed intrigued by the well-groomed hedge … Continue reading →

A friend scheduled a roofdeck meteor viewing party last night. Our plan was clearly flawed from the beginning, being in the midst of the Boston glow, beneath thoroughly cloudy skies. Nonetheless, after tacoishes on delicious homemade tortillas, we made a … Continue reading →