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It's been way, way, way too busy.
Thursday I stayed at work until close to eight, patching stuff and upgrading things and troubleshooting the VPN and... Blah.
Right after that, though Steve's campaign had its grand semi-finale, and went on hiatus. I had fun, and think it's a good group. My character is still challenging, both in terms of playing him and in terms of figuring out how a quiet, weasely and submissive personality can still get a fair share of interaction time and be fun for the player. So, now I'm suddenly again devoid of any fantasy RPGs! Yikes. It also took until 2 am, which explains why I'm sleep deprived!
Friday I had my home inspection. Based on it, we're currently in the process of canceling the contract. The house had a bunch of issues, as can be expected, but not only needed a new roof and fascia, but already had water damage due to a number of leaks. Also a bunch of other things that require highly paid professionals and would have to be done immediately. So, no house for me.
After dealing some more with pesky worms and connections and installing more wireless I got to don a bunny suit and bounce around the new Nanotech center cleanroom. (I know, but I'm a guy and easily amused, so I'm bragging about it.) Besides, all the moving crews behind the big visitor windows into the room seemed to enjoy the show as well.
I skipped out a bit early and went to see the Bodies exhibit at MOSI. Now, I must rant--why the heck does the science museum close at 5 pm? That's just plain idiotic, and if they wonder why nobody visits I'd propose it's their own fault. Anyhow, since I was in by that time, we got to wander in peace without being thrown out. I wasn't allowed into the actual museum past that, though, which made me kind of annoyed. But anyhow, that's tangential.
The exhibit is awesome. The basic premise is that you take a cadaver, you perform a dissection on it, removing organs of interest or revealing physiological features of interest, you stick the thing in a vat of acetone which replaces water, you proceed to a vat of silicone fluid in a vacuum chamber, and voila, you have replaced all the water in tissue with inert silicone, meaning that the remainder won't rot or stink or anything.
Obviously a lot of the displays are a lot more complicated that than, but that is the basic idea. There are several rooms, dedicated to different functions of the body; muscles, skeleton, cardiopulmonary and so forth, each showing the relevant organs in context and alone, including interior functions.
Now, there was little there you can't get from a good anatomy text book. But being able to walk around a body, seeing it in real size, in all dimensions just makes it all click for me.
The fact that both the parts and the whole speciments were real--that is, part of a living, breathing human being at some point--was something I thought might give me pause, but I had surprisingly little trouble dealing with it. Well, until the exhibit where you could touch a few organs. A real brain is just not something you're supposed to hold in your hand. That weirded me out a fair bit.
Anyhow, if you have any interest in anatomy, I definitely recommend the exhibit!
Thursday I stayed at work until close to eight, patching stuff and upgrading things and troubleshooting the VPN and... Blah.
Right after that, though Steve's campaign had its grand semi-finale, and went on hiatus. I had fun, and think it's a good group. My character is still challenging, both in terms of playing him and in terms of figuring out how a quiet, weasely and submissive personality can still get a fair share of interaction time and be fun for the player. So, now I'm suddenly again devoid of any fantasy RPGs! Yikes. It also took until 2 am, which explains why I'm sleep deprived!
Friday I had my home inspection. Based on it, we're currently in the process of canceling the contract. The house had a bunch of issues, as can be expected, but not only needed a new roof and fascia, but already had water damage due to a number of leaks. Also a bunch of other things that require highly paid professionals and would have to be done immediately. So, no house for me.
After dealing some more with pesky worms and connections and installing more wireless I got to don a bunny suit and bounce around the new Nanotech center cleanroom. (I know, but I'm a guy and easily amused, so I'm bragging about it.) Besides, all the moving crews behind the big visitor windows into the room seemed to enjoy the show as well.
I skipped out a bit early and went to see the Bodies exhibit at MOSI. Now, I must rant--why the heck does the science museum close at 5 pm? That's just plain idiotic, and if they wonder why nobody visits I'd propose it's their own fault. Anyhow, since I was in by that time, we got to wander in peace without being thrown out. I wasn't allowed into the actual museum past that, though, which made me kind of annoyed. But anyhow, that's tangential.
The exhibit is awesome. The basic premise is that you take a cadaver, you perform a dissection on it, removing organs of interest or revealing physiological features of interest, you stick the thing in a vat of acetone which replaces water, you proceed to a vat of silicone fluid in a vacuum chamber, and voila, you have replaced all the water in tissue with inert silicone, meaning that the remainder won't rot or stink or anything.
Obviously a lot of the displays are a lot more complicated that than, but that is the basic idea. There are several rooms, dedicated to different functions of the body; muscles, skeleton, cardiopulmonary and so forth, each showing the relevant organs in context and alone, including interior functions.
Now, there was little there you can't get from a good anatomy text book. But being able to walk around a body, seeing it in real size, in all dimensions just makes it all click for me.
The fact that both the parts and the whole speciments were real--that is, part of a living, breathing human being at some point--was something I thought might give me pause, but I had surprisingly little trouble dealing with it. Well, until the exhibit where you could touch a few organs. A real brain is just not something you're supposed to hold in your hand. That weirded me out a fair bit.
Anyhow, if you have any interest in anatomy, I definitely recommend the exhibit!
