{"id":1112,"date":"2008-11-19T06:23:28","date_gmt":"2008-11-19T14:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/?p=1112"},"modified":"2008-11-19T06:26:57","modified_gmt":"2008-11-19T14:26:57","slug":"one-brick-higher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/2008\/11\/19\/one-brick-higher\/","title":{"rendered":"One brick higher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/purdue.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1113\" style=\"float: left;\" title=\"purdue\" src=\"http:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/purdue-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"The main quad at Purdue University\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Yesterday, I hit the road from Bloomington and headed north to West Lafayette, and Purdue University. Purdue is a place I knew little about before I arrived, but the many posters on the walls of the physics department told the tale. From detector fabrication (CDF hadron calorimeter, CLEO silicon detector, CMS pixels) to flavor physics, B_{s} mixing, new physics searches, active galactic nuclei, string theory &#8211; they have a very diverse research effort. I was a little later than I&#8217;d intended, so I was whisked off to meet with graduate students as soon as I arrived. We would up chatting until almost lunch, and then I had a chance to meet faculty and discuss their research afterward.<\/p>\n<p>My last seminar of the fall went great, and today I will leave for California and return home. It&#8217;s only been a few days, but with all the travel that Jodi and I have been doing lately home is very much where I want to be right now (especially in the lead up to Thanksgiving). One thing I&#8217;ll miss about the Midwest is the weather. I mentioned this last night as my host, his family, and I were leaving dinner. A gentleman at a nearby table quipped that he&#8217;d be happy to swap weather with me and send all the cold to California. I quipped back that he should think carefully about whether he likes fire more than cold right now, but he seemed pretty certain he&#8217;d take the risk.<\/p>\n<p>All joking aside, I&#8217;ll miss the reminder that I&#8217;m mortal, the reminder that comes everytime a blast of cold air punches through some crack in my scarf or my jacket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I hit the road from Bloomington and headed north to West Lafayette, and Purdue University. Purdue is a place I knew little about before I arrived, but the many posters on the walls of the physics department told the tale. From detector fabrication (CDF hadron calorimeter, CLEO silicon detector, CMS pixels) to flavor physics, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1112","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-travelogue-seminar-series-2008","7":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}