So the Yankees are facing an uphill battle against the Angels. Hope they pull out of this one. The game today was pretty intense. Down 5-0 then went up 6-5 only to be beaten 11-7. Ugh! I don't know, they just lacked the stamina to pull things through today. Then again, I don't fault them. NY has a pretty tense weekend with the bomb alert, and I pray that all will be well. After all, in my heart NYC is still my home.
This weekend is Fall Break. Unfortunately for me, the weather is bad so I probably can't go hiking, and then my boss told me Thursday that we have work to do over the weekend. Right now I am busy testing the microwave/rf generators for our quantum dot gate pulsing. We need to make sure that we can maintain the pulse form sent down to the sample with minimal distortion, reflection, attenuation and loss. This is made particularly difficult due to the size of our metal gates (which I made), on the order of 100 nm or less in width and less than 20 nm in thickness. So impedance matching is crucial and one needs to make sure there are no extraneous resistive and capacitive components. But as the boss says, if we can start to get things going and working, man will we have some awesome experiments to do.
That means any plans I originally had promised with people and places I wanted to go just got thrown right out the window. I can't blame him though. The PhD is mine and only I can do the work to get it done. If I don't, no one will. So sacrifices like these are understandable. That's not to say I like it. This is perpetually a conflict for me, career over other things. I think more often than not I always put my career over anything, relationships, vacation, etc. It can be good because you are concentrated and dedicated to the work, but sometimes miss losing out on the other aspects of life. Live with no regrets. But I think I need to get a dog. At least I'll have someone who greets me at home when I get back like at 1 in the morning.
Anyways, since the Nobel Prizes are being awarded recently, I thought I'd mention another favourite, the Ig Nobels. This year's medicine Ig goes to a Gregg Miller who invented neuticles, the "artificial replacement testicles for dogs, which are available in three sizes, and three degrees of firmness." Another fun Ig 2005 was awarded in fluid dynamics for "Pressures Produced When Penguins Pooh -- Calculations on Avian Defaecation." Can you believe articles as these are actually accepted in some journals? Why have I not gotten my hands on these journals already?! Check out the full list of this year's winners.
This weekend is Fall Break. Unfortunately for me, the weather is bad so I probably can't go hiking, and then my boss told me Thursday that we have work to do over the weekend. Right now I am busy testing the microwave/rf generators for our quantum dot gate pulsing. We need to make sure that we can maintain the pulse form sent down to the sample with minimal distortion, reflection, attenuation and loss. This is made particularly difficult due to the size of our metal gates (which I made), on the order of 100 nm or less in width and less than 20 nm in thickness. So impedance matching is crucial and one needs to make sure there are no extraneous resistive and capacitive components. But as the boss says, if we can start to get things going and working, man will we have some awesome experiments to do.
That means any plans I originally had promised with people and places I wanted to go just got thrown right out the window. I can't blame him though. The PhD is mine and only I can do the work to get it done. If I don't, no one will. So sacrifices like these are understandable. That's not to say I like it. This is perpetually a conflict for me, career over other things. I think more often than not I always put my career over anything, relationships, vacation, etc. It can be good because you are concentrated and dedicated to the work, but sometimes miss losing out on the other aspects of life. Live with no regrets. But I think I need to get a dog. At least I'll have someone who greets me at home when I get back like at 1 in the morning.
Anyways, since the Nobel Prizes are being awarded recently, I thought I'd mention another favourite, the Ig Nobels. This year's medicine Ig goes to a Gregg Miller who invented neuticles, the "artificial replacement testicles for dogs, which are available in three sizes, and three degrees of firmness." Another fun Ig 2005 was awarded in fluid dynamics for "Pressures Produced When Penguins Pooh -- Calculations on Avian Defaecation." Can you believe articles as these are actually accepted in some journals? Why have I not gotten my hands on these journals already?! Check out the full list of this year's winners.
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