Hey, absolutely no reason to apologize for not showing up. You've got to have priorities, and it sounds like things are really picking up for you, that's great.

Anyway, it was a lot of fun, so you should try to stop by if you ever get the chance.

As for the waning social life - you've gotta do what you've gotta do, and you figure you'll have plenty of time to socialize when you're a multimillionaire director.

Sounds like a full plate - best of luck with all that.

A full schedule is nothing to apologize for. At least you're up to something that you love.

Thanks for the link, that's a really cool website. Tons of really neat pictures. Microscopy can be really fun sometimes.

Sorry to hear you're busy, but I hope the projects are going well.

Make that living! Hope things are still going well for you, I imagine the movie biz is keeping you busy. Still, it's good to see you pop up every now and then on the CE boards.

Thankees. Nice to know people are paying attention

Thanks, I'm glad you've liked the articles so far.

That one you sent me from New Scientist is awesome - that's a great magazine, a bit more accessible to the layman than Scientific American, and often gets interesting submissions.

As for that article - I wonder if there could be bose-einstein condensates inside the crystal with those sorts of pressure? That would be really wild - a quantum white dwarf, like a gigantic super-atom.