The EPIC WIN Thread 3: SON OF EPIC

Cajungal

Cajungal

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Well apparently there's a steering wheel, a compartment especially for gloves, four (COUNT EM!) FOUR wheels, and even a little radio so that you can jam along to today's hottest hits whilst you drive! :awesome:

Also there are noisy things under the hood.
 
Gusto

Gusto

I always keep one in the trunk, next to the toolbox and spare tire.

Never know when you'll need a wendigo.
 
Sparhawk

Sparhawk

Six Flags Over Texas tomorrow, last fling of the summer since the daughter starts high school band practice on Monday. Also, went roller skating last night and didn't hurt myself. It had been over 20 years since I last put on a pair of roller skates, had to fight the urge to skate like I was on ice, that could have hurt me badly.
 
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I just sold a 15 year license for software I wrote as part of my Ph.D. to a Norwegian company. Not sure if I posted that here before (we've been discussing for a while).
 
Cajungal

Cajungal

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I spent all day yesterday going through memorabilia with mom and my sister and brother. We laughed for hours. My favorite thing that we found was an old notebook that my brother carried around as a kid. He had all these little notes in it commenting on his friends and his day. At the very end was the title of a movie-- Alien Resurrection; I guess he had gone to see it with friends, because mom wouldn't have allowed that.

Anyway, the page had a list of expectations and a box by each: Action, Humor, Violence, Blood and Gore, Suspense, Surprises, Guns, and Cussing. All of the boxes were checked. :laugh: Trey was so methodical and matter-of-fact about everything, even as a kid.
 
North_Ranger

North_Ranger

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Phew... it's been a little while since I've last been here, things have been piling up...

But here's a bit of a win: I landed a small, silent part in the new Vares film :) It doesn't sound much, but here in Finland Vares films - detective stories about a sombre, Turku-dwelling gumshoes - are quite popular. An acquaintance of mine from the Medieval Market is the film's second junior assistant director (ie. the guy who brings the junior assistant director his coffee :D), but he was asked to look for extras and small-parters. I got a small part as an orderly at a mental asylum. Three days of shooting and I get some colour in my resume, my name in the end titles and $590 :)

My girlfriend's more excited, though... she's an extra, but she also gets to meet one of her idols, a Finnish actor called Peter Franzen, a pretty-boy-cum-silent-and-serious-Thespian. I'm keepin' an eye on her ;)
 
Enresshou

Enresshou

My grandfather was first diagnosed when Alzheimer's disease when I was three years old, and died nine years later when I was twelve. It's why one of my biggest fears is slowly forgetting everything and everybody; and I just remember these images of my grandfather--six feet tall and nearly a hundred and ninety pounds--slowly shrivelling and getting weaker as the disease progressed.

I find it perfectly appropriate, then, that--in two weeks--I'm going to start working in a lab with a fairly prominent researcher on several different therapeutic approaches aimed to treat Alzheimer's. I've been burying myself in the literature, and I can't wait to start.
 
Dave

Dave

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I was wondering for a second how this was gonna fit in the Epic Win area. Congrats, man!

I hope you find a cure. That's how my grandmother died and how my mother probably will.
 
Azurephoenix

Azurephoenix

Enresshou said:
My grandfather was first diagnosed when Alzheimer's disease when I was three years old, and died nine years later when I was twelve. It's why one of my biggest fears is slowly forgetting everything and everybody; and I just remember these images of my grandfather--six feet tall and nearly a hundred and ninety pounds--slowly shrivelling and getting weaker as the disease progressed.

I find it perfectly appropriate, then, that--in two weeks--I'm going to start working in a lab with a fairly prominent researcher on several different therapeutic approaches aimed to treat Alzheimer's. I've been burying myself in the literature, and I can't wait to start.
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That's also how my grandfather died as well... good luck with your research.
 
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This is really awesome, though most of you probably won't care (understandably). Some of you may recall that since April, I've been proposing methods for mapping the oil spill. Particularly (a) difficult to detect/submerged oil, and (b) the oil thickness. Neither of which current mapping methods do. Anyway, the companies that lease the type of survey I want to do...they haven't been as enthused as I have. In fact, I've been debating for some time with at least one company's in-house geophysicist about whether this will work or not. Basically, they say no, and don't want to invest unless I prove otherwise (though the only investment is time--it will be financially supported by the feds). Anyway, long story short, I used some modeling software I wrote to virtually determine whether it would work. Here's a slice of the results. Suffice it to say that the fact the curves are quite different for different thicknesses is a really good thing (and what they said couldn't be done).

 
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