I looove learning about technology that I don't usually come into contact with. My dad was a doctor, and subscribed to the New England Journal of Medicine. The

I looove learning about technology that I don't usually come into contact with. My dad was a doctor, and subscribed to the New England Journal of Medicine. The articles were opaque ("Defective Regulation of Inflammatory Mediators in Hodgkin's Disease — Supernormal Levels of Chemotactic-Factor Inactivator"??), but the ads were marvelous. Ultracentrifuges! Gel electrophoresis! Confocal microscopes! Electrosurgial units! Blood gas analyzers! Catnip for this budding engineer.