"He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in phials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw inclement summers." - Jonathan Swift
I am a post-doc at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. I'm a recent transplant from South Carolina and still keep up with the insanity that goes on there. I am a regular contributor to the Panda's Thumb weblog.