This Memorial Day weekend I was in New York for my sister Michelle’s wedding. Even though I was totally outgunned by the professional photographer team there, I still got some really nice shots! This was also Kristy’s first time on a plane and her first time in New York, so I have plenty of photos from our short time zipping around New York. I’ll put those up later, though.

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For the 2010 UK College of Medicine Lampoons, I helped create this parody of Ke$ha’s Tik Tok, adapted for the med student life here. For the uninitiated, Lampoons is an annual tradition where we medical students get to poke a bit of fun at our professors, and for the most part, they enjoy helping us poke fun at them too!

We did the entire thing in under a week, with all of the editing done within 36 hours of the lampoon last night. Apparently the fourth years had done theirs over the course of an entire year, though, and had made a fairly good sized movie out of it. It made our four minute sketch look kind of… well, puny. At least I’ll have a goal to top next year!

And without further ado… the video!

We’re covering memory and plasticity today in Neuro, and I was reminded of this article by Oliver Sacks about a man named Clive Wearing. This is a really fascinating article from the New Yorker. Clive Wearing’s case is particularly interesting because he had developed both retrograde and anterograde amnesia, and he frequently “re-awakens” to his own existence. Yet, through all of his amnesia, he still is able to conduct a choir and play the piano and remember his love for his wife.

A Neurologist’s Notebook: The Abyss: The New Yorker

Over my spring break last month, I did a shoot with Marissa and Kayla in Louisville! It was really fun to be able to take a break from the unending studying that comes with being a med student. Unfortunately, it was pretty cold outside, and it was kind of gray and dreary to boot. But we got some really fantastic photos out of it!

This is really my first shoot where I started out with a professional workflow in mind. I was shooting in RAW, did proofing in Adobe Bridge and post-processing in Photoshop. Out of about 200 photos, I managed to get about 20 good ones! This was also my first shoot with the Nikon 35mm f/1.8G DX prime lens, and I am really happy with it! Check out the photos for yourself after the jump! (continue reading…)

I picked up a Netgear WNR834B two months ago, and it’s been doing pretty well replacing my Linksys WRT54G v4. It runs DD-WRT and I have it set up to broadcast two wireless networks: my secure network with WPA2-AES, and a less secure, isolated network with WEP encryption that lets my mobile/embedded devices that may not be able to handle the AES encryption (Palm TX, Zune, HTC Excalibur, Nintendo DSi) onto the internet.

The signal wasn’t that fantastic at the other end of my apartment, though. Lots of people on the DD-WRT forums were getting a lot better results with modding the antennas on the router, so I did too. After finding compatible antennas on eBay, all I had to do was open up the router, enlarge the holes in the grate at the top to fit an RP-SMA connector through (easy task with the Dremel), plug in the pigtails to the board, and screw on the new antennas.

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I finally decided to replace my aging Samsung 205BW. Given my growing interest in photography and video editing since I purchased the 205BW almost five years ago, I decided to get a professional monitor, one with an IPS panel and 1920×1200 resolution. The two big contenders for me were the HP ZR24w and the Dell U2410.

Over on [H]ard|Forum a lot of the people who picked up the U2410 had tinting issues and/or did not like the aggressive anti-glare coating on the monitor. But looking at the wide gamut (The Dell has 100% Adobe RGB coverage and 100% sRGB as well, while the ZR24W only has 100% sRGB coverage) and the assorted inputs, I felt like I should take my chances once the price dropped to $450.

It arrived the Monday after I ordered it, and I was really impressed! The colors are impressive, with excellent color reproduction in both the sRGB and Adobe RGB colorspaces. I really enjoy the flexibility I now have, not only with color, but also with inputs. I can finally hook up my Wii again! This thing has 2 DVI inputs, 1 VGA input, 1 composite video input, 1 YPrPb component input, and HDMI and DisplayPort inputs. It also sports 4 USB ports and an SD card reader. It’s really a dream to work on. And Planet Earth and Life never looked so good at 1080p! As for the anti-glare coating, I am used to the aggressive anti-glare coating on my Thinkpad X200 Tablet, so it was not a very big deal.

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Hi, welcome to the fourth incarnation of devilsbsd.net. Since I’m in med school now and don’t really have time to muck around with Dreamweaver templates and all that anymore, I’m just going to resort to using WordPress as my CMS. I’ll be using this space as my main “professional” internet presence now, so I’ll put stuff up about photography or music or medicine up here.

I’ll be putting some non-filler content up real soon! Can’t wait to get this thing started again!