it's a small world...

[iridium]

work was slow today, and i was bored, so i was poking through Analytical Chemistry online. it was very odd to realize that the reason the name of the second author of the top article sounded kinda familiar was that, as it happens, she was my next-door neighbor during my third year at MIT/Haus. and the work's even roughly in my field, too, so i pretty much understood the whole article.
which reminds me: i noticed another MIT/Haus person's name in the presentation listings for this year's MicroTAS, too. haven't seen her in years, and last i knew she was doing aero/astro. ...and it turns out that an MIT person who i first met in New Mexico five or six years ago went on a field-test trip this summer to the Atacama desert with my boss, one of the grad students from my lab, and a whole pile of chips that i made.
freaky.
sometimes the small-world thing is neat, and sometimes it makes me want to move out to a little adobe house out in the high-desert middle of nowhere and let my world get bigger again.

[edit: Anal Chem updated this evening. the article's in the July 15 issue rather than the Aug. 1 issue.]

Comments

[iridium.livejournal.com]

naming yourself after a c64 game is only slightly geekier than naming yourself after an obscure element. :) so i can't give you too much trouble for it. ;)
i probably dyed several people's hair blue (or green or whatever) during rush of 2000 & 2001, but i think they were mostly undergrads. hm. what else? i lived in Senior Haus, did materials science, spent a lot of that time ('00-'02) buried in a lab in the basement of building 4, working on my thesis research.