My advisor got me beer for taking this pic.

Getting pat on the back by advisor just makes one's day. hehe

Iron Man was pretty good. it was good to see a bunch of liquid nitrogen tanks in a movie. somehow makes me feel at home. Palladium...interesting stuff. only thing i know about it is that it can hold gigantic amount of hydrogen so it's been investigated by car companies as hydrogen storage. it was at the center of the 'cold fusion' episode years ago (people stuffed hydrogen in palladium and measured it getting hot and thought they've got cold fusion going ^^). also, it's high work function metal so some people use it for solar cell electrode as a good hole collector. and supposedly, it is more expensive than gold (i think)

what am i doing procrastinating here? ehhh...time to get back to work