Aug 31 2006
It was inevitable. Agree or not with what our administration does in Iraq, it was a done deal that eventually the fight would be compared to World War II. On a day when the President is speaking to a large veterans’ association, I see in his speech a gross mischaracterization of the horrors of [...]
Aug 31 2006
Language has always fascinated me. It really began when I took Latin in high-school (a love for which was recently rekindled by a “edutainment” program packaged with the KDE desktop manager: KLatin). The way that so much meaning could be hidden in a few words, a few well-chosen endings on a noun-verb pair, made me [...]
Aug 30 2006
Well, I am back in California. After a very pleasant two week trek through the upper Midwest (driving a total of 2300 miles from Minneapolis, to Soudan, to Park Falls, Oshkosh, Milwaukee, Madison, Fermilab, Milwaukee, Park Falls, and then Minneapolis), I am picking up my life here at SLAC. But, the complete collection of my [...]
Aug 24 2006
Earlier in this vacation, I said that I was excited about getting rain, thunderstorms, and maybe even a tornado. I argued as follows: I didn’t travel 2000 miles for weather I can get for free in California. Last night, I got my wish.
Jodi fell asleep around 10, and I was wrapping up to go [...]
Aug 24 2006
I haven’t been back to Naperville since I last attended a Braidwood collaboration meeting, a few months before the project was canceled by the Department of Energy without peer review. Yeah, I’m still harping on that, but it’s a point worth making (over and over). I’m here now to present the latest, hottest BaBar results [...]
Aug 24 2006
Yesterday, Jodi and I spent the day in Madison, WI. This is where, about three years ago, we graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with our degrees in physics. We took this opportunity not only to seek out our old haunts, but also to catch up with the groups that raised us as scientists. Jodi [...]
Aug 23 2006
A few days ago, a critical piece of evidence was gathered [ARXIVDM]. This evidence was needed to discern between two possibilities: either 84% of the matter in our universe is “dark” – non-luminous, invisible to most means of detecting it – or is due to a modification of gravity at large distances (for instance, between [...]
Aug 21 2006
I’ll comment on this more later. For now, here is the reference: “http://www.arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0608407″:http://www.arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0608407.
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Aug 20 2006
Jodi and I have been in Wisconsin for a day, marking the second half of our trip to the Midwest. We’re leaving Park Falls tomorrow for Osh Kosh, then on to Madison on Tuesday and Wednesday. I sat outside today, working on the PC I built for my in-laws using the wireless that I setup [...]
Aug 19 2006
We’re in the final stages of packing and cleaning before we get into the car, head south (quick lunch in Virginia, then coffee in Duluth), and go to Jodi’s parents’ house. Goodbye, Soudan!
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