His actions marked the transition from the Soviet Union to the more uncertain Russian Federation. His life was marked by triumph and scandal. His death has been solemn, at least as reported in the West. Today, President Boris Yeltsin was laid to rest, his body open for viewing at the […]
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There are lots of families here at APS. Breakfast for “companions”, kids along for talks. Pretty cool to see the physics community act like a community.
In my continuing quest to bike more, I wanted to go on a ride up our hill today. That sounds lame, but this is a serious hill. We started from our cottage, at about 450 feet. By the time my legs gave out, we’d gone about three miles and up […]
Jodi and I have a favorite Saturday breakfast place: Stacks, in Menlo Park. Yesterday, we got the corner table on the back terrace, which gave us lots of fresh air and sunshine to enjoy alongside breakfast. Behind us was a father and his little girl. She was probably about 5-7 […]
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 […]
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 […]