Miyamoto Musashi

<note: T.O. is my lab supervisor> T.O.: "(out of the blue) So, we're you thinking what you will be doing after graduation?" Me: "Yes, i would like to go for PhD." T.O.: "Where?" Me: "Here (that is in IET) if at all possible." T.O.: "How about Ireland?" Me: "<awkward silence>" It seems i need to aplly sometime in the next month and see if they award me a scholarship there. But, hell yeah, it's and excellent opportunity. Plus: 1500Euro for starters to spend on a new computer Minus: The situation is speeding up and i am falling behind.

- LCD,- Keyboard, - DVD, - winXP, and i should be able to buy that setup soon (i don't need those anyway). Sweet, everything gets cheaper by the day.

I wouldn't care (see my signature). This is a job for the leader, not a Warrior. Let's not go megalomaniac here This is a job for the Warrior. It's His own skill, not emotionless bullet or rocket or atom bomb that are set flying towards an enemy without face. There is nothing more i fear than looking in somebodys eyes, when claiming his life and thinking about who he was, what were his thoughts, dreams, plans, family etc. The machines that soldiers use insulate them from those thoughts making them efficient, yet emotionless. (see next chapter) Of course, the society is raised on 'action movies', where death is shown as a meaningless act. The death is never really explained, nor shown in all it's gruesome reality. This creates a false image of death - not as a cesation of Being, but as a squeeze of a trigger. If life is viewed as meaningless, then in that context the act of ritual suicide of shame as an ultimate sacrifice can never be explained.

If anything, snipers would be the most cowardly formation in infantry. Not having the guts to meet an enemy face-to-face, to look into the his eyes when taking his life. Always safe, always hiding. Big cowards with big guns - you know, typical soldiers, for they the least deserve the title of warriors. <spits>

...another one has seen the light, bullet-god be praised!

YAY for Monty Pyton jokes!!!

...bah.... silly textures... photoshop....

I'm afraid that could be quite illegal. It's not a HL mod.

Good, now add all triplet permutations, then quadruplet and so on....

Is there any 3rd option (like twins f.e. )?

Traffic jams have blissfull influence on scientific discoveries. Finding myself bored in a bus today, i started figuring out, why did my experiment brought the results it did. I was expecting peaks, when i got spectra, which had sections of monotonic linearities. It hit me, that in the experiment i wasn't scanning bound electron states as in quantum well, but rather density of states that of bulk GaAs. Monotonic function was from the decreasing number of excitated states, while shifts in the derivative came from passing through critical points in GaAs band structure. When i get my hands on band structure layout, i can confirm this thought, but so far it is the best guess. So, unless i can get my hands/lasers on the actual QW structure, the question of correctitude of experiment remains open.

Comercially, yes, it's not available yet. People have been constructing QCL's for past... 10 years and still we are far away with technology available. The main problem is: we know how, we don't know exactly why. Not only the theory needs to catch up, but also we have to achieve very high level of regularity (i'm talking 75-120 times 20-30 atomic-layer-thin surfaces, all atomic-smooth). Fortunately, i'm only there for final phase... yet.

Currently our team is in preparation to develop, create and characterize quantum cascade laser structures. That is theoretical pre-(and post-)analysis, sctructural growth, processing (which is done by neighbour division) and characterisation (I-V's, photoluminescence, photolumiescence excitation [that's my part], thermo- and electroreflectance). In the future there are plans of releasing this to industry (or starting our own industrial division or something like that [i don't know exactly, i'm not into that kind'a thing]).My part, the PLE, is vital, becouse it's a technique, which clearly shows intra-band optical transitions, which are key mechanism for QCL's. That is, should be showing that, becouse for now it does not (but i found some other experimantal regularity, which may be a promising substitute). Specifically, there should be clear peaks in the PLE spectra where the transitions occur. Instead of that i am getting differential linear changes, which probably indicates the same thing (that is it indicates shutting of the transition channels).

Cousin's husband... 'Shoe sweeper' sounds ok to me

Even IF i'd post it, You wouldn't be able to see it. Not without a microscope. The whole lasing structure is... microns wide. One would only see cladding, connectors and heat sink. You could hide this laser Bond-style... trouble is the power supply. It's not a fancy sight anyway.

Crap happens... Fortunately i haven't done any major damage yet... yet... I must say i was lucky with breaking things. The possibility of such damage after my meddling were high though. It's all the part of gaining experience. Like i used to put my eyes in fromt of active laser beam. Now i don't - and i didn't have to lose my sight to learn that.

The one with big ears is our simulations specialist. One could call him a nerd - i have never heard him talking about anything but work. The one in white SWEATER (it's not a shirt) is indeed wearing boots. But that is understandable - wearing shoes is: a) uncomfortable, makes lab dirty. Rest doesn't care Oh yeah, he's my on-duty advisor - a guy, who tells me what to do and fixes things i break

I HAVE shaved... once or twice... But, rest of the gang is pretty much normal, eh?

Thought i post this pic, so people could an idea, that not all scientists are some wierdoes. This is a pic of my research group from ITE taken today. My promoting proffesor is the 4th from right. Can anyone guess which one am i (a.k.a. where's Waldo)? http://www.if.pw.edu.pl/~kywalker/ResearchGroup.jpg

Fear of Girls?: Episode 1 <- geeks or nerds?

1. The physicists invented the internet 2. Aww, shucks, You just HAD to reaveal THAT secret? 3. Who ever said anything about Canada? You should do what Your wife says - You know: washing, ironing, babysitting, room service, etc.

Heh, i am surprised i got where i am with MY attitude and lazyness. TigerHawk -> the top of the hill is still ahead, but at least nothing blocks my view of it right now.

'Dedication'? It's a normal studying course here (and anywhere i believe). Anyway, for me - exploring the further reaches of applied physics in relation to nanostructures. That is - lab job.

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OMFG, this 'Chuch Norris' crap#)$(@$(*@&^($@*#$^@#(*$)#$(&! spread here also. It's everywhere, even on TV. I hope this dies soon, or i'm gonna roundhouse kick it in the face... :X