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Name: Freddy
Country: United States
State: Texas
Metro: Houston
Birthday: 4/17/1985
Gender: Male
Interests: The Office.
Expertise: I know some things about computers, mathematics, engineering design and the piano. I like to write about science related topics.
Industry: Engineering
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AIM:  ALmaverick
MSN: ALmaverick8
Member Since:
1/11/2005
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| It came to me in my sleep.Last night I was working a material science problem. The question was, prove the APF (atomic packing factor) of a hexagonal close packed structure is 0.74.
The atomic packing factor is simple. It's the volume which the atoms take up divided by the total volume of the hexagonal prism. Well to keep a long story short, In order to find the hexagonal prism I simply took the area of one equilateral triangle multiplied it by 6 (there are 6 of them in a hexagon) and then multiplied that by the height of the prism, or c. Well my answer kept coming to be about half of the 0.74 i was looking for. I couldn't figure out why! Well lucky for sleep and dreams I think I now know what it was. Simply put, I wasn't taking the right area of the triangles... The simplest thing seems to wreck the most havoc. Area of a triangle is 1/2*b*h and I was just taking b*h. WOW Anyway it was pretty exciting figuring that problem out. YES SIRSS.
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| Kolaches!Kolaches and coffee... OH HELL YEAH! I almost forgot all about them.... | | |
| One more thing I did notice. I was told to wear this head band with an ice pack on it and when I walked out of the office I passed a few people. I wanted to see their reactions so I paid attention to their faces and body language as they passed by. It seems like those persons were trying to do me a favor by not looking at me as I walked by. For all they know, I could have just had a blunt trauma head injury or some kind of other serious medical condition which requires a large white headband-- cancer, head injury, etc. I really would have felt a lot better if people actually did look at me.. LOOK AT ME DAMN IT! I'm not a sorrowful cancer victim or a washed up skateboarder who bumped his head on the way to the floor. Humanity is such a large beast to explore. Could I ever experience and explore it all?
What would it be like to be a cancer victim? Obviously I would be pretty bummed out, but there is another facet about having people dedicate their lives for you and show their utter care and sincerity towards you. Doctors, nurses, pharmacists, have all dedicated their lives to see that you stay on this planet for as long as possible(or at least most doctors). That your not a statistic or another body in their morgue. Likewise, imagine how awful it would be if say you had cancer but could not afford the medical insurance to have the MDs, nurses, assistants..etc. Life is so dynamic its hard to justify one with the other being so ever present. I dont know... philosophy anyone?
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| Wisdom Teeth!Xanga,
I'm back, ready to express my inner feelings to the public once more. I hope you guys didn't miss me too much  .
I'm fucking bleeding all over the place! .... This is crazy, like something out of Fight club. Its as if I just got sucker punched in the face, except not. Charity, Doctor! Help me!! No I'm kidding. My dentist told me it was normal for bleeding to happen for the first couple of hours, so keep studying..haha.. . This blood makes me a little queezy... bbuuahhhhgg (is that how throwing up sounds like??) ..
At first, they numbed my mouth, and I started panicking because my tongue felt like it was going to cover my windpipe. It seemed like I couldn't control it! Theres something very human that comes out of you when the sensation of dying passes through which I think everyone can instinctively relate to. The nurses were so friendly and reassuring. If it wasn't for them, I would have just sat there resentful noticing how early it was in the morning. :-/
I have to admit though, surgeons are fucking incredible people. This woman was hacking at two of my teeth with a small rotary Saw III type tool. Where do you even GET that?? Then she stitched me all up and I watched the whole thing. That must have been the longest hour in my life! I felt like it wouldn't end for the world. I could feel the pressure in my jaw as she twisted my tooth out but surprisingly there was no pain, like magic even. Undeniably incredible. When I was at the Baylor program, we used to watch videos of live surgeries. The motion image of doctors completing their objectives on patients with their chest cavities wide open and at the mercy of their life has to be an utter life changing experience. I can't even imagine what's going through their minds while there doing that...
Oh shit.. I can't feel my mouth and there's blood dripping again... Maybe I should take the Acetaminophen now and watch Tyra.
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| Dear XangaDear Xanga,
I have to leave you for a 700 years but don't go anywhere while I'm gone! I'll surely come back.
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