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 […]
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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 […]
It’s been outrageously warm here in Connecticut. Today it was 55 outside, four degrees warmer than at our home in California. It’s been raining, but it cleared enough this afternoon to go for a walk with Jodi. It was nice to stretch the legs, burn a few calories (which I […]
Ah, home in Killingworth. We’re several hours late, but surely better off than anybody who thought they’d be in Denver today…
I’d forgotten how much I hate the Vegas airport. A sea of humanity, tempted by glittering and beeping slot machines. No place to sit and eat – just sticky stools in front of machines that fool the statistically challenged. Now onto Hartford!
It’s just not the holiday season in this household without a trip to the SF ballet’s performance of “The Nutcracker”. Jodi and I put on our sunday best last night and headed up to the city for a wonderful and transportive night of dance, music, and sets. As you can […]
Washington state is getting hammered. This is one of the bigger winter storms in years, and it’s left the good folks to our north in a state of emergency. While we’ve been gray and chilly all day, it’s nothing even approaching bad weather. However, there is this lingering promise of […]
The sudden illness of a Senator from South Dakota, Tim Johnson, made me think about how small the world is. His illness is terrible: a silent growth of blood vessels in the brain that are unable to contain the pressure and rupture. The subsequent stroke affects the regions of the […]
This post is an experiment. I am attempting the test the so-called “Moblogging”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moblog feature of my blog. This is the ability to send blog entries via e-mail, so that I can use a mobile device rather than relying on having my desktop PC handy. If this appears, then it works!
I almost always get a cold after the December BaBar collaboration meeting. It’s a combination of stress and exposure to hacking and coughing international colleagues. It also serves as a reminder of the fallibility of the human form, the susceptibility to the most minute parasite wishing to use my cells […]