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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Martinus on November 17, 2008, 02:05:17 am
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How goes it guys? I've been popping my head in for a look around on and off for a while now, glad to see you're all working away and that FS2 is still as popular as ever.
I am now a fully armed and operational battlesta... biomedical engineer. I've been very, very busy but it's all good. :) Life has been too interesting but with a little luck I'll be safely 'installed' in the job I've been looking forward to for a few years now come January. I may even have time for more idle pursuits like catching up with friends and the like. :o
Biomedical eng. ruled; easily the most interesting 'subject' I've studied in all my time in education (referring to it as a subject doesn't convey how expansive it is). Final semester was a bit of a roller-coaster ride, lots of good things happened, a few unfortunate things (my marks reflected both unfortunately). Still, I came out of it with a good qualification, I got some fantastic experience and I'm finally in a position to enter a career that I feel I'd be doing something of value in. I even managed to get published (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18640838) as an undergrad. :)
My spare time has been filled by...
A rather fantastic girl who puts up with my hobby-adhd and repeated attempts to coerce her into watching modern sci-fi (she's never gone beyond Trek:TOS).
Repairing odd bits of technology and doing tech support to avoid the poverty line.
I went a bit nuts when I got out of uni and went and did some things I'd meant to do years ago and a few things that struck my fancy recently... http://martinux.deviantart.com/ (Star Wars geeks, I advise you to check out my scraps ;) ).
And scouring for PhD's and jobs should I not get the one I'm looking for.
I even managed to play an hour of Metroid Prime 3 and a few of the other Wii games I'd been given at christmas. It was sitting on my shelf staring at me for the past 10 months.
For fear of rambling too much I will stop now. :)
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I have NO IDEA WHO YOU ARE but HI THERE.
:nervous:
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Welcome back comrade!
So when you gonna generate a bio-genetic-weapon to eliminate the Zod menace?
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Good to see you again Maeg! :)
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Hah - I was literally looking atone of your old posts yesterday and I thought to myself "I wonder what happened to him?"
Now I know.
Good to hear about the graduating and the lady and the publishing and the like. Much congrats. My eyes may have glazed over before finishing the abstract, but I now know what a biomedical engineer is at least. Sounds hinterstink - are you the guys they call up to see how fossil skeletons would have walked and the like?
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Welcome back. So what exactly does a biomedical engineer do?
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This........
So when you gonna generate a bio-genetic-weapon to eliminate the Zod menace?
.............hopefully :nervous:
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Congrats on all counts! Nice to have you back. Although you're a lot less fluro than you were before.
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/me mimics Goober.
o hai
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get published (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18640838)
Usually I get most technobabble that has the luxury to find me, but I hardly understood one fifth of what was said in that article. Hmh, I wonder if reading that aloud to kids will help them to sleep. Now that's an idea.
Welcome back. Though there's not much to see around these days. :p
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Welcome back Maeg. :)
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I don't blame you guys for not really getting the paper's content, it's a bit of a niche within a niche. :)
Biomedical engineers are the people who invent, improve or maintain everything from tongue depressors to electrocardiographs. I took an interest in gait analysis or how human locomotion is assessed during my placement year, I guess I could do a wide range of things but I got to work in a hospital in Belfast were gait analysis is carried out on kids with various walking problems and I got hooked. :)
The paper considered how much error was involved in the way people normally assess gait patterns.
I can't promise I'll be around much, I guess it depends on how things pan out in the job (I'm trying to get the permanent equivalent of my placement job). I have learned a good bit of python and I got a bit of time during the construction of the Ebon Hawk and the Time Crapper to learn some of blender's functionality (look on my deviantart if you're confused right now :D ) so maybe I'll be of some use around here in the future. I must warn you all though that I'm more attached to my real-world models nowadays. ;)
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Whoop! Ebon Hawk in FS2?
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Whoop! Ebon Hawk in FS2?
Nein, Ebon Hawk in Real Life™. ;)
(http://fc65.deviantart.com/fs38/f/2008/320/a/b/Ebon_Hawk_WIP_15_11_08_by_Martinux.jpg)
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Hey, Maeglamor -- good to have you back. I remember your posts from the early HLP days.
We need Shrike to come back too.
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Hello! I was wondering where you went.
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welcome back maeg, where's the green? glad you're doing ok
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Whoop, Maeg's back!
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I have NO IDEA WHO YOU ARE but HI THERE.
:nervous:
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How's this possible? He's the one who created the Celebration of FreeSpace thread...you must have read his nick before... ;)
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Welcome back Maeg!
And if you want to make your profession more popular, invent more comfortable braces for teeth, instead of expecting kids to walk around with half the Berlin wall in their mouths ;)
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That's the price they pay for not brushing thrice daily.
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Braces are nothing to do with oral hygiene :P
They're more about tooth-alignment and jaw structure.
I had to wear one for four years and then have an Osteotomy on both upper and lower jaws. Had my teeth wired together for 6 weeks :(
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It'll teach em to be brace faced inbred monkey lovers. . . .
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LOL It'll certainly teach them not to get near power cables ;)
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good to see someones been working with kids in belfast , i even miss working on sandy row and the falls , i just going to have to go back and visit everyone in belfast , in laveries and in the student bar in queens , ........
damn i miss that city ....
hangover crawling out of a club and heading to maggie mays for a veggie breakfast
good luck with job hunting and life ...........
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I had a small one too for about three weeks. Just to cure what was thought to be an overbite. Turns out i just chewed too much, then puberty kicked in and my chisled jaw and rugged good looks bloomed. . . .
Disclaimer: anyone who uses the phrases rugged good looks and bloomed together probably isn't that rugged :lol:
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Biomedical eng. ruled; easily the most interesting 'subject' I've studied in all my time in education (referring to it as a subject doesn't convey how expansive it is). Final semester was a bit of a roller-coaster ride, lots of good things happened, a few unfortunate things (my marks reflected both unfortunately). Still, I came out of it with a good qualification, I got some fantastic experience and I'm finally in a position to enter a career that I feel I'd be doing something of value in. I even managed to get published as an undergrad.
Good to see you again. That sounds like an interesting field. A friend of mine has gone into the same area, but I don't know much about it except for some things in tomography and the math behind it.
By the way, did anyone else notice the lack of the green text?:D
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By the way, did anyone else notice the lack of the green text? :D
Yeah... :(
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I got sick of having to type color=#66ff00 all the time. (color; it's not even correctly spelled) *rolls eyes*
If someone can create tags that do the same job I'll renew the greenery. ;)
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Hey, the legend lives. Congrats on getting through what looks like a very interesting course of study. :)
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That's me told. No excuse now. :D
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Oooooooooh, look at meee! I'm greeeen!
But yeah, good to see you back. :)
EDIT: Oi! Hands off Dekker! ;)
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Actually, I'd rather this green because it's easier to read...than the white - but bright green, not dark.
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i see it has become meag's back day with commemorative green everywhere
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Hi!
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:lol: sorry beer made me do it. Once every two months isn't bad for a mod prank.
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:rolleyes:
It's almost as bad as posting everything in blue if you ask me (sorry Mobius).
A lot has happened over the past year.
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I got sick of having to type color=#66ff00 all the time. (color; it's not even correctly spelled) *rolls eyes*
If someone can create tags that do the same job I'll renew the greenery. ;)
Seniority's awesome, eh? :D
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We're SO off-topic... :rolleyes:
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Well, actually, not so much this time :D
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Well, actually, not so much this time :D
Really? :D
This things are interesting.
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Actually, I'd rather this green because it's easier to read...than the white - but bright green, not dark.
Yeah... It does go with the forum, too, sort of... ish...
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Except... not at all
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No way. The forum is red, dark red, white and black. There is no green unless you use the color or maeg tags.
Dark green suits the GTVA, though. ;)
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If someone can create tags that do the same job I'll renew the greenery. ;)
I have the "mobius" tag... :)
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I think BengalTiger has his own too.
If I had mine, I want it to be purple. ;)
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:doubt: Too many people have "their own colours" already. Colour tags should be used with thought, just like bold or italic, not in every word of every post. Constant use of coloured words just screams "Look at me! Look at me! I'm special!".
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Constant use of coloured words just screams "Look at me! Look at me! I'm special!".
Nope, it isn't true. At least for me...I don't do it because I want to feel "special", "superior" or whatever. I do it because I like it...
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I'd just like to enlighten the community on how this started.
Once upon a time, I was on MSN. I decided to write "A Snail can travel faster than any Ferrari if said Ferrari is stationary" as my MSN text message. Mobius was somehow offended, and decided to write several following posts in red to show his unshakable loyalty to Ferrari. Then, he changed to some other colors, before finally settling on light blue italics.
And he still continues on to this day... The end.
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I was tempted to write in lightblue and italics before that episode, though... :rolleyes:
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Well it's how the cookie crumbles, innit.
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I decided to write "A Snail can travel faster than any Ferrari if said Ferrari is stationary" as my MSN text message.
Ah, that reminds me. During that time I changed my personal text to something along the lines of "A Lada beats a Ferrari in winter conditions every time". And it's true. When the temperature is -30 degrees Celcius, a Ferrari dies a horrible, horrible death whereas a Lada just keeps on going.
Incidentally, I personally don't care about the colours anymore as long as they stand up from the dark background. But all italics... to me it's sort of like all upper-case.
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Well, italics do look Italian. ;)
/me rubs his nose.
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Snail, I find certain comments of yours a bit offensive... :(
By the way, my custom title is "Neo-Neo-Terran", not "Neo-Neo-Terran". There's something in my posts that isn't in lightblue and italics... :D :p
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:doubt: Too many people have "their own colours" already. Colour tags should be used with thought, just like bold or italic, not in every word of every post. Constant use of coloured words just screams "Look at me! Look at me! I'm special!".
I disagree. I don't technically have a rebuttal, but, well... nyah! :p
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Nein, Ebon Hawk in Real Life™. ;)
(http://fc65.deviantart.com/fs38/f/2008/320/a/b/Ebon_Hawk_WIP_15_11_08_by_Martinux.jpg)
Do want. She's the most beautiful ship in the KoTOR universe!
And, hi, I'm Stormkeeper, and I'd like to interview you.
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Blah blah blah...
And, hi, I'm Stormkeeper, and I'd like to interview you.
So direct... :lol: