Other Stuff
Tennis, Cross Country Skiing, TIRFM, De La Rive, and other assorted things
Python notes (Mostly for my own benefit)
Linux commands
For webpage editing: "python -m SimpleHTTPServer", then navigate to localhost:8000
Parameter calculator for synthetic genetic network circuits. (under construction)
SPICE stuff. Ngspice is the free open source circuit simulator.
Tennis I also like tennis and through this link you can find my rantings about how much better tennis was with wood rackets. Prince fat-head racquet sucks. And so do the players who scream each time they hit the ball. Learn something from Federer, play gracefully and quietly, and you might win 20 Grand Slam titles into your mid-30s.
Cross-country skiing in Greensboro, NC
Total Internal Reflection Fluorescence Microscopy
TIRFM (avi of VPython animation). This one shows
the evanescent illumination: TIRFM2. These movies demonstrate how TIR is achieved through the microscope
objective. See publication of early use
of this method to measure hormone (epidermal growth factor) binding
kinetics at cell surface. (Part of my Ph.D. thesis)
| Fun Electronics (No semiconductors here) 6L6, Thordarson, Eico De La Rive Electric Discharge Tube (fig at right) in action (below). |
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