I'm currently 2,341 feet beneath the Earth. In space. Innerspace. Underspace. Actually, even better: I'm also in the middle of a teleconference and downloading Ubuntu updates at 300 KB/s. Amazing how well-connected the land of the mole people can be. Shifts are from 7:30AM to 5:30 PM. My 3-day shift at Soudan ends Wednesday night. For such long ( Read more... )

Remember those things I posted about before? They're still happening. I've made some discoveries regarding better logical conditions on my glitch cut and submitted it to the CVS server at Stanford, so unless I have to argue further in favor of my decisions at the next analysis meeting, that's pretty much done ( Read more... )

I had at least one meeting every day last week, 7 total. The professor I'm working with returned from her trip to Kenya and seemed to like what I'd been working on, so I presented to the entire CDMS analysis collaboration for the first time at the Wednesday video conference. I talked about both my note on the electronics glitch cut and a note I ( Read more... )

I spent all of yesterday on a trip to the Soudan mine in the extreme north of Minnesota, in fact the farthest north I've ever been. ( Read more... )

I guess I'm not an undergrad now. I didn't go to the commencement, and it sure doesn't feel like a big deal. A bigger deal is that I now live in Minneapolis. Casey was here for a few days, but we haven't yet found a general solution to the two-body problem, and she'll still be in Madison this fall. I'm doing a research fellowship (much less fancy ( Read more... )

I just waded to work through West Dayton Street River. This was necessary because the fire alarms (all 300 of them) in my apartment building had been going off for about half an hour, and I think the scabs that had formed in the inside of my ears started bleeding again and developed their own scabs. Is it appropriate to be working in a physics lab ( Read more... )

Don't let the attractive packaging fool you - The Gingerdead Man is NOT a good movie. Not even the matchless Gary Busey could save this tommyrot of a film.

Karl can confirm this, as he was in Madison this weekend sharing our pain. We didn't get to find out Who Can Beat Nixon, but we did find out that there's really nothing like a thick slurry of ( Read more... )

Today I won the Cleanest Teeth of the Year Award.

A new semester means a new posting of my schedule, because it's the only marginally interesting thing available to me.

MATH 541 - Modern Algebra
PHYSICS 448 - Quantum Mechanics (semester 1)
PHYSICS 551 - Condensed Matter Physics (because that sounds better than Solid State)
ASTRONOMY 310 - Stellar Astrophysics
CHEMISTRY 109 - Advanced General ( Read more... )

My house was hit by lightning yesterday.

Most substantially, the chimney exploded. We spent all day today picking up the pieces and trying to get the network and phones working again.