Daily Archive for September 30th, 2008

Disentanglement

nice cold beerTime for a cold beer. It’s only 5:30pm, I know, but there are extenuating circumstances. The first is that there’s a sudden heatwave. It is above ninety degrees outside. Will be doing this pattern for the whole week. Huh. The second is that I just cycled my bike really hard in that heat, coming back from an afternoon sitting in the Casbah writing a progress report on the year’s research. Happily there’s a lot to include, but it is still quite the task pulling it together, especially when it is so hot. For me, when it is very warm, concentration problems circle around trying to not falling asleep.

The third reason is that I’m clearly going a bit nuts, with several, uh, senior moments descending on me recently. I need to take a nice break and unwind before typing in all these scribbled note. Here are three of the senior moments, so you know what I mean:

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A Snowball’s Chance…

Apparently it snows on Mars. No, really! Another finding from the amazing Phoenix craft. More here. A snippet:

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Lyn Evans on the LHC repairs

Seth Zenz at LHC Blogs pointed to the video of a talk by Lyn Evans (the LHC project leader) about the LHC, with lots of details about the damage and repairs process, and where the schedule is now. Seth also wrote a transcript of lots of it, which you can find here. It looks to me to be very informative indeed.

-cvj