Monster Max. It’s an isometric exploration platformer/puzzle game with a rock’n’roll theme that I absolutely adored as a kid. It was only released in Europe, so it might be interesting to all you US guys 😁

I see from elsewhere in the thread that you did chemical engineering as an undergrad so – hi, colleague! :) My PhD took a very long time to finish and I would never ever recommend combining industry with academia. I’m a masochist I guess.

Have you done any work with liquid ferroelectrics (e.g. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0304-8853(99)00066-9)? Those were all the rage in my field because they were expected to enhance convection cooling and the dielectric properties of liquid-cooled equipment significantly. Then they just… fizzled out.

I’m a PhD in chemical engineering and work in a testing laboratory for electrical engineering insulating materials. My dissertation was using predictive modelling (some data mining and machine learning, some more classical statistical methods) to estimate material properties from spectral data. I’m trying to combine a full-day engineering job with writing more journal articles in my spare time. Currently not going well but at least I’m not lacking for data!

There’s dozens of us that are (or were) protected, it seems! Seriously, it was a great forum and it’s still pretty good. It was legendary for the memes before they were called that, and the Photoshop Phridays were hilarious. I don’t post much but you can still find some good discussions there, some of the subforums are still pretty big and active.