Welcome to my home page. The amount of stuff here is unlikely to change in the near future. I've written this page using the basic HTML coding stuff I learned at Eric Meyer's Guide to HTML.
This page is not intended to have much biographical or academic content; instead, I see it as more of a place to stick up things I find interesting. Anyone who's lived near me knows I have a habit of plastering the outside of my door with random pictures, news clippings, comic strips and so on. Every time I move, I throw this stuff away -- after all, newsprint can only be stuck and restuck to walls so many times before it falls apart.
So instead, I'm creating this web page as a kind of archive, a place to stash and display items in a semi-permanent manner. If you would like some sketchy personal information, I have recently put together a separate and fairly small page about myself.
I made the first two pictures with Moray and Povray and the last picture with TrueSpace. The fruit fly shown is actually sitting on a banana that can't be fully seen. I drew the fly after about a month of poking at them under a microscope in Professor Hay's lab. Which is not to say I remembered how they looked -- I still had to pull out a lab manual to make the fly parts the correct size. The fly's missing a bunch of bristles, and more significantly some kind of cylindrical mouthpiece which I couldn't properly make. Other than that, it should be pretty accurate. The scrambled looking eyes are a feature, not a bug. We actually bred flies with messed-up eyes like that.
I've taken creative liberties with the squid in the last picture -- I'm pretty sure the anatomy's all wrong. If anything, the tail of flame shooting out from it's rear should give it away. It's supposed to be a rocket propelled squid, but if it doesn't look like one, think of it as a squid that uses a long translucent tail to breed bioluminescent bacteria.
This is just a collection of some programs I've written while I've been here. Generally, the ones I've written for classes or research (the Ec 126 / MD categories) are long messy programs, while the ones I've written for fun (the other stuff category) are short messy programs. All of the BASIC code was compiled with Microsoft QuickBasic 4.5, and all of the C code was compiled with Borland Turbo C++ 3.0.
The first comic is from the cartoons section of a physics humor page, the second comic is taken from a Dave Barry column, and the third comic is taken from www.ctoons.com, which contains, among other things, an archive of 9 Chickweed Lane comics (this one is from 2/16/98).
In order of decreasing effectiveness, you can e-mail me
at jsu@cco.caltech.edu,
call me at (818)-395-1243, or snail-mail me at MSC 854, Caltech,
Pasadena, CA 91125.