Nine to Eleven, and Eleven to Nine

Rings of Akhetan was pretty good. You guys should watch it on ABC iView when you get the chance.

If all goes to plan, I should be able to start playing Dota 2 tonight, but not that I really want to.

Kram - I really want to play Dwarf Fortress again. Dwarf Buddies?

Today was a lecture on skin and on quality medical practice.

The lecture on quality medical practice was kind of boring, but I was downloading stuff from uniwide, so I'm fine with it. I got 10GB of game data onto my laptop :D I just need to transfer it. Does anyone know why some of my usb drives (including my 16GB one) does not register on the DETLaptops? Says the drivers are nonexistant...

I knew what the lecture was about already, and there wasn't really anything new, but it was more reinforcing than anything. Reinforcement isn't too bad.

Histology lecture on skin. I learned quite a bit about the epidermis and the dermis. They are interdigitated, so they're locking in to one another via dermal papillae, which are what forms fingerprints.

There are Meissner corpuscles in the dermis for fine vibration sensing and there are Pacinian corpuscles for "deep and meaningful touches". Ie; those sensors are big and deep within the dermis.

The epidermis consists of... 4 laters?

Stratum Basalum, Stratum Spi....something (Spinosum!), Stratum granulosum and Stratum lucidum.

Base layer, Spiky layer, Granualted layer and Clear layer. The clear layer's the stuff that flakes off, granulosum is there for waterproofing, spinosum is also for water proofing, but by cells (I think granulosum uses sebum) and basalum is for mitotic growth of skin cells.

A skin cell is a keratinocyte (fancy that)

Melanocytes produce melanin, Langerhans cells do the garbage collection and destruction work, and Merkel cells are also sensory receptors.

Also more about sweat glands and how there's Endocrine (sweat) and Apocrine (pheromones).

Then myoepithelial cells which are muscular cells that squeeze out the stuff made by the glands. Then hair and nails and they're just keratin and there was still quite a bit.

And wow, that's a lot in one hour, huh.

Anyway, you're free to come to one of them when you want - it's always a 9am start for me in Clancy.

Hoping you guys are having lots of fun too.