Many years ago, a friend of mine sold me an early tablet PC that he’d picked up at a tag sale. the “ProGear”, as it was called, sported only about 40 MB of RAM and a modest TransMeta processor, not to mention a few gigs of native disk space. Over […]
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What a couple of weeks. I’ve been pretty lax about keeping the blog, but I’ll try to make up for some of that. My attention was first distracted by the winter Babar collaboration meeting, a four-day morning-to-night affair that was draining and exhilarating. I got to catch up on a […]
Physics can be busy, especially physics on a big collaboration at a very active national laboratory. This week has been a real highlight for me, mainly because for over half of it I have been in a meeting from first thing in the morning until the last hour of the […]
As I mentioned a few days ago, the smells and sights of spring are returning to the Bay Area. It cooled off a bit today, but that didn’t seem to stop some of the wildlife from making appearances. Our cats have noticed the sudden boom in birds in the last […]
This has been a long couple of weeks. I feel better today, because the smell of spring is lingering in the air. The temperature has been climbing upward in the past week, taking us to very pleasant springtime weather in the Bay Area. Today, the neighbors have mowed their lawn, […]
If you’ve never had a chance to listen to “The Hold Steady”, it’s a must-hear band for people who grew up before the internet in suburban America. Somehow, when you cross the 30 mark and listen to this stuff, it puts the lunacy of childhood in perspective. “Boys and Girls […]
When I was in high school, my father brought home a pair of Saucony sneakers for me. I had never heard of Saucony before – my peers were overly concerned with Nike and other popular brands. Dad told me that these were considered a top end running shoe, and I […]
Last month, Jodi’s name was the first two words of an article on dark matter and the CDMS experiment. Forgive me for being a proud husband. The article has been featured on the SLAC website, and last night I noted it was on the “Fermilab website”:http://www.fnal.gov. Symmetry is a joint […]
Jodi’s ability to connect to the internet from Calcutta has been intermittent, but I’ve managed to get a few things out of her in the last 24 hours. After the initial culture shock (don’t drink the water . . . in fact, don’t even let it touch your teeth), she […]
The new year has brought a new spate of travel for Jodi and me. Jodi’s up first – she departed Friday night for Calcutta, India, for the Weak Interactions and Neutrinos (WIN) conference. This conference moves from location to location, and this year physicists from all over the world are […]
Vacations are tough. They remind me that I love spending time with friends and family, writing fiction, and playing music. I got to do some or a lot of all of those things these past few weeks. I’ll share some of the fun here, in pictures and words. Each year, […]
Jodi and I have returned from vacation. It was a dramatic break. Naturally, the minute we left the state of California a big wind storm hit our area and knocked out power. Faithful readers will have noticed the lovely temporary webpage I had to setup for the site. Yahoo’s “small […]