Life is too short. But especially in the last six months things have been kinduv crazy ... and this will continue for a couple of months yet. So I've been pretty crp about staying in touch with folks ( Read more... )

Gulp... I think we just bought a house...

Ooh look, it's a new year, time for a new LJ entry. One a year isn't bad ( Read more... )

Wandering around tescos (praise to tescos) wondering what to get when my eyes descended upon ... Jon Bon Jovi - Keep the Faith. I have sinned mightily and yet it feels so good! Mmmm guilty pleasures ( Read more... )

After whinging last week - I saw a chipmunk and a pair of beavers (stop giggling in the back) on Sunday while walking in the woods around the lab during the coffee break... v cute. Back in the office, seem to have defeated the jet lag (hurray).

Sigh. There's something very depressing about Naperville. Maybe it's the stock phrases that the waitresses (always women) reel out to every customer in a mockery of friendliness ( Read more... )

I just sent someone an email asking them to reverse the polarity of the solenoids. My job is to try to figure out why there is a matter-antimatter asymmetry in the universe. How cool is that!

I was surprised to see police officers armed with machine guns outside my polling station this morning. Article from the Beeb ( Read more... )

Nice - but if Greenpeace (1 Mb) are to be believed, it's only a matter of time before the wildlife around Chernobyl mutates into evil monsters intent on ruling the world.

In other news, I heard semi-officially that I got the job at Rutherford Lab - now waiting for the offer letter... and need to make the choice of Didcot vs London.

Just back from a conference in Warwick - nice to see some old faces, including Evil Will, Vladimir Gligorov and . Got rather merry last night at the conference dinner in Coventry Guildhall (Tescos sells booze at one in the morning nowadays, apparently ( Read more... )