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Offline Martinus

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So how've you all been?
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 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. :)

 

Offline blackhole

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Re: So how've you all been?
I have NO IDEA WHO YOU ARE but HI THERE.

 :nervous:

-flee-

 

Offline Colonol Dekker

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Re: So how've you all been?
Welcome back comrade!


So when you gonna generate a bio-genetic-weapon to eliminate the Zod menace?
Campaigns I've added my distinctiveness to-
- Blue Planet: Battle Captains
-Battle of Neptune
-Between the Ashes 2
-Blue planet: Age of Aquarius
-FOTG?
-Inferno R1
-Ribos: The aftermath / -Retreat from Deneb
-Sol: A History
-TBP EACW teaser
-Earth Brakiri war
-TBP Fortune Hunters (I think?)
-TBP Relic
-Trancsend (Possibly?)
-Uncharted Territory
-Vassagos Dirge
-War Machine
(Others lost to the mists of time and no discernible audit trail)

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Offline Nuclear1

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Re: So how've you all been?
Good to see you again Maeg! :)
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Axem - Sorry to post again when I said I was leaving for good, but something was nagging me. I don't want to say it in a way that shames the campaign but I think we can all agree it is actually.. incomplete. It is missing... Voice Acting.
Quanto - I for one would love to lend my beautiful singing voice into this wholesome project.
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Offline Black Wolf

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Re: So how've you all been?
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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Offline Kosh

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Re: So how've you all been?
Welcome back. So what exactly does a biomedical engineer do?
"The reason for this is that the original Fortran got so convoluted and extensive (10's of millions of lines of code) that no-one can actually figure out how it works, there's a massive project going on to decode the original Fortran and write a more modern system, but until then, the UK communication network is actually relying heavily on 35 year old Fortran that nobody understands." - Flipside

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Offline Colonol Dekker

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Re: So how've you all been?
This........

So when you gonna generate a bio-genetic-weapon to eliminate the Zod menace?

.............hopefully :nervous:
Campaigns I've added my distinctiveness to-
- Blue Planet: Battle Captains
-Battle of Neptune
-Between the Ashes 2
-Blue planet: Age of Aquarius
-FOTG?
-Inferno R1
-Ribos: The aftermath / -Retreat from Deneb
-Sol: A History
-TBP EACW teaser
-Earth Brakiri war
-TBP Fortune Hunters (I think?)
-TBP Relic
-Trancsend (Possibly?)
-Uncharted Territory
-Vassagos Dirge
-War Machine
(Others lost to the mists of time and no discernible audit trail)

Your friendly Orestes tactical controller.

Secret bomb God.
That one time I got permabanned and got to read who was being bitxhy about me :p....
GO GO DEKKER RANGERSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
President of the Scooby Doo Model Appreciation Society
The only good Zod is a dead Zod
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Offline Mefustae

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Re: So how've you all been?
Congrats on all counts! Nice to have you back. Although you're a lot less fluro than you were before.

 

Offline Androgeos Exeunt

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Re: So how've you all been?
* Androgeos Exeunt mimics Goober.

o hai
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Offline Fury

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Re: So how've you all been?
get published
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

 

Offline karajorma

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Re: So how've you all been?
Welcome back Maeg. :)
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Offline Martinus

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Re: So how've you all been?
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. ;)

 

Offline Colonol Dekker

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Re: So how've you all been?
Whoop! Ebon Hawk in FS2?
Campaigns I've added my distinctiveness to-
- Blue Planet: Battle Captains
-Battle of Neptune
-Between the Ashes 2
-Blue planet: Age of Aquarius
-FOTG?
-Inferno R1
-Ribos: The aftermath / -Retreat from Deneb
-Sol: A History
-TBP EACW teaser
-Earth Brakiri war
-TBP Fortune Hunters (I think?)
-TBP Relic
-Trancsend (Possibly?)
-Uncharted Territory
-Vassagos Dirge
-War Machine
(Others lost to the mists of time and no discernible audit trail)

Your friendly Orestes tactical controller.

Secret bomb God.
That one time I got permabanned and got to read who was being bitxhy about me :p....
GO GO DEKKER RANGERSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
President of the Scooby Doo Model Appreciation Society
The only good Zod is a dead Zod
NEWGROUNDS COMEDY GOLD, UPDATED DAILY
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Offline Martinus

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Re: So how've you all been?
Whoop! Ebon Hawk in FS2?

Nein, Ebon Hawk in Real Life™. ;)


 

Offline General Battuta

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Re: So how've you all been?
Hey, Maeglamor -- good to have you back. I remember your posts from the early HLP days.

We need Shrike to come back too.

 

Offline Ransom

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Re: So how've you all been?
Hello! I was wondering where you went.

 

Offline Hippo

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Re: So how've you all been?
welcome back maeg, where's the green? glad you're doing ok
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Offline Galemp

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Re: So how've you all been?
Whoop, Maeg's back!
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Offline Mobius

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Re: So how've you all been?
I have NO IDEA WHO YOU ARE but HI THERE.

 :nervous:

-flee-

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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Offline Flipside

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Re: So how've you all been?
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 ;)