At least, I think I'm somewhat smart, so I'm going to say my mind is like steel, but it's also full of holes, which is why it's like a sieve. Why is it that I can't remember peoples' names most of the time? Or their faces sometimes? Watching movies can be very confusing when you see the same actor in a different scene wearing different clothes and ( Read more... )

Well, I'm about to head back to the states for a spell. Almost time to kick up my feet and relax for a bit, see some friends+family and soak in the warm California/Florida weather. I fly out at approximately ass o'clock in the morning and arrive in Cali about a million hours later. I have to go in so early tomorrow, in fact, that the first Swiss ( Read more... )

Since I have an idle Saturday night, I thought the proper thing to do is to spend part of it complaining about bums. Specifically, American bums. You guys have no skillz.

( Damn bums )

It's been shooting around the science news a couple of days now. It is conceivable that my experiment may have discovered a new fundamental particle. For anyone who cares about abstract theories about how the universe works, this is a huge deal. If the people who discovered this are right this will be something beyond the pale, something which ( Read more... )

( I can see it from my doorstep. )

I watched it this morning despite the time lag. I thought both McCain and Obama did far better than Kerry or Bush did four years ago. On the other hand, there were still a number of mistakes:

From factcheck.org
From polifact.comI have been planning to vote for Obama, but I am getting a bit disappointed now that he has started spreading lies in his ( Read more... )

Orienteering. At least, I had never heard about it until my hostel mate explained it to me. Apparently it started in Sweden, and has spread to most of eastern Europe, as far west as France, with small showings in other parts of the world. I got to tag along to an event today, and it was cooler than Obama juggling chainsaws. You go out in the ( Read more... )

Why is it so hard to obey the law? I have a computer and I have to get rid of it. I did not anticipate that this would be a hassle, so now that there are only about 24 hours left for me to do this legally I am left scratching my head ( Read more... )

I've heard people talk about about killer asteroids with a ~10km diameter asteroid such as the one which wiped out the dinosaurs. But that's nothing. I just came across this simulation of a *truly* killer asteroid impact on the modern earth, with a similar size to those that apparently bombarded the earth on occasion in primordial times and created ( Read more... )

Been a while since I posted, so I figure I ought to update some fairly major news. The details still need to be worked out, but in late August or early September I will be moving out to Geneva, Switzerland*. I will live out there and work part time on a new experiment that I will likely do a postdoc on while I write my thesis and get my research ( Read more... )