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Fay Ce Que Vouldras  

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  • Deviant since Mar 10, 2003, 11:34 PM
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Journal Entry: Mon Feb 4, 2008, 4:28 AM
I have just commenced my honours year at ANU, under Prof. Rob Stranger. I will be using quantum mechanical computational methods to simulate the behaviour of para-tert-butylcalix[4]arene niobium(IV), a funky bowl shaped molecule that has an extraordinary ability to grab either end of a nitrogen molecule and make its formidable triple bond1 significantly weaker2. This makes it more amenable to useful reactions3.

I will hopefully get access to the ANU supercomputing facility, a massively parallel system with almost 2000 CPUs and 5.6 terabytes of ram! Of course, you have to wait in queue, you get a limited time for your jobs to complete in, and you have to use a sensible number of processors. i.e. you have to be courteous.

I'm slightly frazzled from a month of working with the Stranger group (well the 4 members thereof who are in town) at a fairly breakneck pace, keeping 12 cores nice and toasty at once with lots of concurrent simulations. Germán copes graciously with my several-times-daily 'does this look reasonable to you?' interruptions/intermissions, which I'm reducing in frequency.

[1] One of the strongest chemical bonds known!

[2] Floriani, C. et al, Stepwise Reduction of Dinitrogen to Nitride Assisted by Niobium Bonded to Oxygen Donor Atoms: The Potential of Reduced Forms of Niobium Calix[4]arene, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1998, 120, 437-438

[3] Discussed here: [link]

  • Mood: Lonely
  • Listening to: Seabound - Travelling
  • Reading: Neal Stephenson - Snow Crash
  • Watching: The Bourne Ultimatum
  • Playing: err... Visual C#.net
  • Eating: Babies
  • Drinking: Coffee

Devious Information

  • Interests: Chemistry, Art, Undermining Worlds, Chindōgu
  • Favourite band or musician: NIN, Tool, KMFDM, A23, Hybrid, BT, FLA, Edge Of Dawn, Stromkern, Seabound, De/Vision, Iris
  • Favourite genre of music: Industrial / Post-Industrial / Prog. Breaks / EBM
  • Favourite artist: R. Magritte, M. Djurdjevik, M. Harrison, K. Scott, Bathsheba Grossman, Ciruelo, Hawkprey, Sammy
  • Favourite poet or writer: C. Sagan, R. Dawkins, P. Shelley, F. Nietzsche, N. Stephenson, A. Reynolds, M. Shermer, R. Reed
  • Favourite style or digital art: Digital Painting
  • Operating System: Vista home premium SP1 x86, XP Pro SP2 x86, Ubuntu 7.4b, IRIX 6.5 ;)
  • MP3 player of choice: Creative Zen Vision:M 30 gb
  • Shell of choice: explorer.exe/dwm.exe, Gnome 2.18
  • Skin of choice: Aero Frost
  • Favourite game: Half Life Series, Quake Series, Unreal Franchise, Elder Scrolls Series, Total Annihilation, Deus Ex
  • Favourite gaming platform: PC
  • Personal Quote: I'm drinking the water. So should you.
  • Tools of the Trade: PSCS2. Wacom Intuos 3 6x8, Azathoth 5.0

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Devious Comments

~digital-dust:icondigital-dust: Feb 11, 2008, 1:16:54 AM
If i had the money, i'd pay you to be my secret colorist. :B
~Wallasaurus:iconWallasaurus: Jan 2, 2008, 8:22:25 AM
thanking you for the fav! :D
~Rob-Cavanna:iconRob-Cavanna: Dec 29, 2007, 11:35:07 AM
Hey man, thanks for the :+devwatch:! :thumbsup: Your gallery demonstrates an exceptional level of imagination and originality. And, apparently, you've got time to be a scientist as well! Most impressive.
~Seirralovely:iconSeirralovely: Nov 22, 2007, 10:15:44 PM
THIS IS A HUG CERTIFICATE ! !

Send one to all your friends who you think deserve a hug (which, hopefully includes the person who sent it to you)!!

You might send it to your enemies as well!
It'll really make them stop and think!!!

If you don't receive this back, nobody likes you, and they wish you'd stop bugging them!

If you receive this back 1 time, open up! Find more friends, enemies, or enemies pretending to be friends

If you receive this back 2 times, you're off to a good start! (Unless you sent it to yourself! That's cheating!)

If you receive this back 3 times, you're a good friend.

If you receive this back 4 times, you're truly loved as a friend!!

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YOU'VE BEEN HUGGED!

Spread the DA love around! (you can copy and paste this message on their userpage!)

RULES:
1- You can hug the person who hugged you!
2- You -MUST- hug 6 other people, at least!
3- You should hug them in public! Paste it on their user page!
4- Random hugs are perfectly okay! (and sweet)
5- You should most definitely get started hugging right away

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Friends are the chocolate chips in the cookie of life.

what said that last part again
~Jester84:iconJester84: Oct 10, 2007, 11:59:09 PM
Your work is amazing. :thumbsup:

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*rosychan:iconrosychan: Oct 3, 2007, 2:08:41 AM
hey random deviant! keep up the good digital painting, and have a lovely day! <3

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~snarfevs:iconsnarfevs: Sep 30, 2007, 6:40:44 PM
Wai thankyou, on both counts :D
*Caresses Zen Vision M*
I give it an 8/10

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~Non-Entity9:iconNon-Entity9: Sep 28, 2007, 8:30:47 PM
nice gallery and good choice of mp3 player :)

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=Nakashima01:iconNakashima01: Sep 28, 2007, 12:06:25 PM
welcome to the club :salute: and thnx for your contest entry :)

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~PeterPunK:iconPeterPunK: Sep 17, 2007, 8:05:04 PM
hi there!! what are you doing?
greetings!!!
~nuckaidin:iconnuckaidin: Sep 11, 2007, 5:42:53 AM
thanks for the fav!
i dig your more disturbing deviations e.g. dybbuk, paperclip.
those are delishuss.
hope there's more of that coming soon..

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*sneedd:iconsneedd: Aug 20, 2007, 8:25:54 AM
Thank you for making The Upper Hand a fav
[link]
sneedd:)
~snarfevs:iconsnarfevs: Aug 12, 2007, 1:42:51 AM
Hehe thanks for the compliment. Sadly, Lovecraft passed away far too young, though hope springs eternal that he will rise as a dread zombie, when the stars are right :D

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we make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers - sagan
~Channel1Suite:iconChannel1Suite: Jul 26, 2007, 10:33:13 AM
Thanks for the favorite!

You have a really cool gallery here. Congrats on the daily deviation, too.

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~Van-Schneider:iconVan-Schneider: Jul 14, 2007, 6:11:34 PM
you've got some very well done artwork here. I find it a bit disturbing, especially XK DIOPTRE, but it is nevertheless nicely executed. Too bad HP Lovecraft isn't still writing (or even alive I don't think). I would definitely have recommended you for the cover art :D
=cs-chan:iconcs-chan: Jul 14, 2007, 5:54:54 PM
congratulations on your Daily Dev :aww::strip:;p
~Shafix:iconShafix: Jul 2, 2007, 2:57:49 PM
I came across your gallery by chance. I love it. Worth my time looking through your gallery. ;)

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I have to go eat myself."
~nynn:iconnynn: Jun 25, 2007, 1:35:05 AM
Yes you should! :D
~snarfevs:iconsnarfevs: Jun 22, 2007, 6:16:16 AM
Shard and Acheron looking all hardcore? Sitting on my HD and in my CA sketchbook. Should I colour?

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we make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers - sagan
~nynn:iconnynn: Jun 21, 2007, 6:00:00 AM
*stalk* Hello! What happened to those cool sketches you showed me the other day? Hmmmmm? Hmmmmm?
~ShadowedDragon:iconShadowedDragon: Apr 21, 2007, 7:08:44 PM
So I didn't respond to this...

Thank you for the reciprocated watch!

I really appreciate it! :D
~tom-b123:icontom-b123: Apr 20, 2007, 6:36:39 AM
cool stuff :)

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*Vaitylos:iconVaitylos: Apr 13, 2007, 12:28:01 AM
Greetings, Richard. Just wanted to say, thanx again for the feedback! Your critique is always welcome.:)

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~snarfevs:iconsnarfevs: Apr 9, 2007, 2:57:09 AM
Consider it reciprocated :D

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we make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers - sagan
~ShadowedDragon:iconShadowedDragon: Apr 1, 2007, 8:39:17 PM
Hey!
I found you while lurking around ConceptArt :)

Your gallery is really impressive! :+devwatch: