Dec 13, 2014 — Backing Up Google Site — I keep my research wiki on a Google Site, and have been saving PDFs of the pages over the years as a backup.  This seems like a pretty time intensive, and inefficient strategy.  There is a nice tool called “google-data-liberation”... Read more

Nov 25, 2014 — Auditory Learning — I had an interesting experience today.  I was concentrating heavily on removing the scaffolding from a 3d model.  It fit nicely in the palm of my hand, and I was carefully prying off the waffle-like gray plastic away from the... Read more

Nov 21, 2014 — Spoons — Spoons are very special to me.  I don’t know how it happened.  It’s possibly because of the fact that it’s the only utensil I regularly use, and I typically have one special spoon that lasts for years and then breaks... Read more

Nov 17, 2014 — The Graduate Student Avatar! — What does it take to be an imaging scientist? What is an imaging scientist? This is a question that crosses my mind every so often when someone asks me about my “goals.” Do people think about goals regularly? I don’t.... Read more