Jun 27 2009
After some false starts trying to write this post yesterday, here we go. SLAC was treated to a visit by Secretary Chu, the U.S. Energy Secretary. Unlike previous people in his position, who showered the crowd with dumbed-down bureacro-babble and errant platitudes cobbled together from a patchwork misunderstanding of SLAC’s history, Chu engaged the audience [...]
Jun 19 2009
I’ve spent the last three days of this week in an “undisclosed location”, and now that I’m returning home in preparation for my trip to Spain I’m happy to disclose my little vacation spot. I’ve been at Caltech with Jodi, who has been commuting here for a month now for CDMS “analysis fests”. These are [...]
Jun 17 2009
I took a break this afternoon, met up with Jodi and her colleagues, and went out for coffee. While sitting outside, sipping our drinks, one of the students pulled out his mobile phone and showed a picture to Jodi. He said that he was reminded to show the photo since we were sitting right by [...]
Jun 17 2009
It occurred to me several months ago that my plans for a quiet summer, leading up to the move to Dallas, were in terrible danger. A number of things have been delayed or added to the pile. As a result, my vision of a whole week off (or even a whole weekend off) started to [...]
Jun 13 2009
This summer was always going to be busy. Between executing my normal post-doctoral responsibilities, starting the ramp up on the ATLAS experiment, and getting ready to move to Dallas, I wasn’t expecting a whole lot of down time. This only reminds me that I should have taken a vacation when I (sort of) had the [...]
Chirp, a microblog Going Up Alleys The Perils of the Ice Queen
