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Mate, you're only, what? 19? Go out and play for a while. Come back when your 25.... then think about setlling down. It hurts now, but you'll feel better once you get a rebound shag (what? you were expecting me to say it'll emotionally heal over time?!) Seriously mate, chin up!

She should be killed for that.....

A slight lack of sleep recently. By slight I mean, no sleep in three days.

I'm Tired - Fugazi

Sensible advice, right up there with setting your profile to private so people won't read your deranged ramblings of your blog..... oh, wait.... edited to add: Adam wee got there first, and was slightly more subtle

I just found out I have a 10,000 word document to submit for my PHd first year progress report. Unfortunately, this non existent report was meant to have been written and submitted on the 30th of May, My supervisor, somehow managed to avoid mentioning it in all of his conversations with me, the E-mail, that was meant to inform me to do the report, never got to me. So, I have a ton of stuff I can write at least, which is a small saving grace. I now have to go away and write up at a furious pace.

Don't see why not, I've had bad ones like that, you still have complete mobility, it just stings a wee bit.

It's like those c***s who used to play one character on Mortal Konbat and only knew one move, repeating it until you died.... the b*****ds

Kept getting beat then?

Classic buffered FET switch

der final solution ist ready herr ghost....

Oh, eventually I relented and after 14 days I (very gently) got my end away

was with my first serious gf at the time (was 18 at the time) trying not to get excited for 4 weeks was fucking agony

Yup, worth it in the end...

In a rare moment of EF/RR camaraderie - I know exactly how you felt

My PHd project title keeps changing names, the current zeitgeist is for EHDIP, having previously been LISC, ESPT and ESC. I actually struggle to keep up with each month's new acronym and now call my PHd 'bob'. At least then I know what I'm talking about....

Just so you know - I'm the tall one

We could - at a pinch - build a home made defibrillater for the poor guy using two electrodes, a lemon and a hamster wheel I guess

The day I look forward to is the day some guy has a heart attack on a plane and screams "Is there a doctor in the house" I'll go "I'm a doctor!!!" "can you help my husband" she'll cry And I'll valiantly mumble "well, no actually - not that kind of doctor but anyhoo..."

Started in September although I used my Msc project to do preliminary experiments, have since built quite a nifty test rig to overcome the shortcomings of earlier experiments (still some more work to do there though) and since January have been attempting to solve one Maths problem that is frustrating the hell out of me, I'm nearly done though and it will be publishable at least! I think we are gluttons for punishment

Actually Signal Processing was an interest of mine before I got into MEMS, more on the practical system side of things rather than the software coding side (I've always been fucking useless at it ) Very much a practical system - although I'm having to develop parts of the theory myself. It's based around fabricating microstructures by a new method - LISC, Lithographically Induced Self Construction. We've got a patent out on this work and it is interesting, if bloody frustrating, you know PHd work: hurry up and wait!

I guess then the Matlab work is essentially a project demonstrator then? it sounds like a good idea, will be interested in how you plan to get your code into a hearing aid at low cost, you will need to scale down a fairly complex DSP will you not? Oh come now, Electrostatics as in the E-field component of the electromagnetic field. Static electric fields, sounds simple until you try to conformally map it to periodic domains wihtout using a numerical computational solution! Microfluidics, well, the entire premise of my work is in the microscale domain (MEMS - Micro Electro-Mechanical Systems) - of which fluidics, i.e. the behaviour of fluids, both liquid and gas is central to my project. Physical forces don't behave quite the same at micro (or even nano) scales. Forces scale down, for example magnestism is only a millionth strong at micro levels whereas Electrostatics is the same at macro or micro scales.

Signal processing and noise elimination? sounds good, never really done more with Matlab than scratch the surface to be honest, my PHd is in Electrostatics and Microfluidics so I do use a lot of Comsol - based on Matlab script - though (it isn't very good).

just remember and snap out of your 'gray ghost' persona will you...otherwise you'll be fucked "the gray ghost would like to introduce his topic for today... the gray ghost will now take questions... the gray ghost considered that approach" Out of interest, what is the topic title?

Can't see past the original graphic novel I'm afraid - although the set piece with the houses of parliament was well done with the 1812 overture. Watched Ed Wood last night. Gave it 7/10, very entertaining movie based on the life of the world's worst film director, Martin Landau steals every scene he's in as Bela Lugosi