Japanese monk steals the soul of a shrimp

No, I don't have a clue either. Strangely, I am not hungry after watching this clip.

Mmmm, these roads taste like garlic bread

The Goblin Shark: Scarier than a great white and tiger combined

My Robot DT2009

Here is a screen shot of my auto trading robot this year which I have named DT2009. I'm still doing extensive testing on my strategies which I hope to discuss in more detail in the coming weeks. For now I just wanted to throw this up there and hopefully get some discussion going. As you can see I am currently looking at a stock long/short strategy, naked option writing and SSO daytrading. What kinds of strategies are you guys testing right now?

Atoms!

One thing I love about my research in nano science is the state of the art instruments I get to use. The last two days I've been getting trained on a brand new ~$4M aberration corrected STEM (scanning transmission electron microscope). This amazing machine is one of only about 20 microscopes in the world that can achieve sub angstrom (less than 1/10 nanometer) resolution which is enough to very clearly see individual atoms (or at least columns of atoms from above). Here are is an image I took of a CdSe nano rod that I made recently. You can actually distinguish the individual cadmium and selenium atoms using the Z-contrast or atomic number contrast. Since the higher Z cadmium atoms scatter electrons more strongly they appear brighter in the image. Sooooooo cool.

172' Dive

An infinite number of mathematicians walk into a bar...

"An infinite number of mathematicians walk into a bar. The first one orders a beer. The second orders half a beer. The third, a quarter of a beer. The bartender says "You're all idiots", and pours two beers." -source