May 27 2009
This summer is going to be another one of those insane summers. Next week I’ll be at CERN for the ATLAS Physics Week. This will be my first (of many) trips to CERN in quite some time, and I am excited to see how the place has changed now that the LHC is nearly in [...]
May 23 2009
In all my years as a post-doc, I’ve had the pleasure of working closely with a number of students. There have been a few to whom I have been more of a mentor than to others, and in the last year both of them have successfully defended their theses. They also happen to have the [...]
May 22 2009
Over Christmas break, I started tinkering with virtual machines. At the time, I was using VMWare, which is free but not open-source. Since then, I’ve been falling in love with VirtualBox from Sun, which is both free and open-source and multi-platform [1]. Over break, I realized that I had a solution in hand to a [...]
May 18 2009
Between the heroin addict and the beat cop with the concussion, pale and leaning over a bucket, Professor Erwin Biggle was immensely uncomfortable. The Discovery Channel was droning in the corner, airing some reality TV show about a bunch of surly fisherman gutting tuna or some other horrible thing. The heroin addict was rubbing his [...]
May 13 2009
Jodi and I were catching up on TV shows tonight; she’s recovering from yet another cold, plus some inexplicable abdominal pain that put her in the ER earlier this week, and I’m catching up on all the rest I lost worrying about her. We were really pleased to see that Tom Hanks was on last [...]
May 04 2009
Well, I decided to go through with it. I kept an audio diary of my trip to Washington. I think it conveys better than writing some of the emotions of the trip. I didn’t get to do interviews, like I wanted – there was just no good time to actually do it. But, you’ll get [...]
May 03 2009
Each year, about 50 physicists from all across the United States and, in a few cases, the globe, converge on Washington D.C. to bring messages to our lawmakers. These messages include thanks, first and foremost, for the support we receive for science. High-energy physics is a difficult enterprise to sell unless you are selling knowledge [...]
Chirp, a microblog Going Up Alleys The Perils of the Ice Queen
