98: Pig #1

I’ve seen pigs rolling through the mud, digging through garbage, even sedated on an operating room table. I’ve sliced through them on the operating theatre, but I’ve never been so intimate with a pig as the dead one on my dining table. It is only half a pig, but one cleanly bandsawed down the middle [...]

91: Road Trip

I had been aching to leave home on an extended trip for a long time. I was sick of the city and sick of work. My dream was to ride down the coast and through the desert, along vast and tranquil lands, and return refreshed. However, life has a habit of getting in the [...]

81: Outreach

I spent the greater part of a semester developing a presentation target towards middle and high school kids on cardiac problems and how pacemakers came about to solve such problems. After spending so much time at the graduate level it was an exercise to break down complex physiology and design problems into simpler scenarios [...]

80: Master of Science

I am pretty sure that with the completion of this report, I am a master of science, according to the EECS department at UC Berkeley.

67: Our Guides

Undoubtedly the best way to see Ahmedabad is with a personal driver and tour guide, which will run you no more than $100 for a single day. I strongly recommend getting in touch with the following people.

Tour Guide: Mr. Jamshed Turner

Jamshed gives guided tours in English and French for visitors to Ahmedabad. There is no [...]

66: Gir

Our driver, a friendly man named Pintoo, arrived spot on to take us from Ahmedabad. Unlike most drivers Pintoo had no problems safely driving us out of the city traffic and onto the open highway. The national highway 8A was well maintained, on par with the average two-lane highways in America. For 300 km we [...]

65: Ahmedabad

For the first time in ten years I was able to revisit the mother city of my large, sprawling family. Fittingly, it is a large, sprawling city in the west of India. A prosperous city in a prosperous state, it is growing as rapidly as its emergent middle class. I found photographing this city (perhaps [...]

62: Don’t Mess With Texas

Not good at following directions.

Cheers, SF

57: Summer

Partial to do list
Disclosed research
Events

visit doctor re: lung problems
visit jameco and halted
bbq at lindsay’s ranch

call HSA for reimbursement
set up electronics equipment
roy lab party at mozzi’s

visit dentist for checkup
attend comsol workshop
july 3rd at jen’s cabin

take nunin to the vet
stanford characterization
july 4th at jens’s cabin

WATCH THE WORLD CUP
neurosurgery collaboration
engagement events with parents

fix up the bikes, buy gear
begin [...]

56: Something funny happened just now

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