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Tomorrow I leave the Netherlands to move back to the USA. In case you can't tell by the lack of recent posts, I haven't been paying...

Happy Pi Approximation Day everyone!

So I performed an experiment on Monday which required a laser. This wouldn't normally be news for me, except that I needed a really str...

If you have time, check out the article on therapy dogs being used in Iowa schools. The article claims that having a dog increases the amo...

The relationship between people and food is complex enough to begin with, and it can be a little overwhelming if you're diabetic. In th...

So a web-page depicting the average SAT score by state has been making the rounds a little bit in Iowa. Apparently Iowans are so smart! B...

I figured I'd talk a little bit of the design of things used to treat insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM). The equipment feature...

I'm getting a lot of questions about type 1 diabetes; I figured a blog post would be in order. What is diabetes? What is the difference...

I found out I have Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus just after my 26th birthday. I am fine, please don't worry, it is just going to be a huge ...

In case you're wondering what is happening in my life, please see the title. No new events, no crazy nights, no fun vacations. Until D...

I get to use LISP at work! A standard CAD program, Cadence's icfb, uses a SKILL-based API . SKILL has a LISP-like syntax. I need to a...

Stay classy, Adobe.

Nothing makes me distrust a journal as much as ignorance of the state-of-art. From a 2008 article in Nature Photonics!: To date it has been...

I'm going to be creating an open source library with all of my models - woohoo! Now if only I could decide on which license to use - cu...

Due to some recent discussion on my previous LaTeX post, I thought I'd share the biggest advantage I think LaTeX has over WYSIWYG editor...

I have a conference submission due next week with one page of text and two pages of figures. I had to compact this submission like crazy, s...

The BBC has a spectacular Supercomputer Treemap . It is definitely the classiest visualization I've seen all day. I suggest checking i...

ACM has an interesting survey of graph types. I don't like most of them, *especially* graph types like the stacked graphs in 1B that i...

Nothing increases my faith in science like seeing a highly cited article that experimentally measures a probability larger than one. Hmmmm...

I've been pretty hosed at work lately, so I apologize for the lack of recent posts. It is hard to write a blog when you've spent th...