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The LHC

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008

Maybe it’s my unusual (for a non-physicist) love of physics that fuels it … but something about the idea of colliding protons at 14 TeV and lead ions in the PeV range is just …. freaking awesome!
I’m usually pretty mellow, but the more I read about the LHC the more pumped up I get about [...]

Oh shit, I’m a real person now … (or: Temporal Inevitability and Me)

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

I’ve been contracting for basically the last year or so. Before that, I was in class working towards graduation, and then working towards getting a job that pays well enough to pay back the student loans and … err … eat.
It’s interesting though. Now that I’m a full-time employee with a permanent position, [...]

Bass!

Saturday, May 17th, 2008

About a year ago I tried to pick up playing electric guitar. I got a $100 “everything you need in a box” pack that had a so-so strat-knockoff guitar, a tiny ultra-shitty amp, and some accessories and crap with it. I was thinking I’d put in time regularly and have fun learning to [...]

Image of the day: reflective!

Friday, May 25th, 2007

Alumni center from the east. I love reflective buildings.

Jigoku Shoujo, and strategies for coping with unhappiness.

Friday, January 19th, 2007

So, I’ve been randomly entertaining episodes of Jigoku Shoujo for a while, and just watched a couple. I’ve also been entertaining the book The Paradox of Choice for a while, and recently read another couple dozen pages.
Round about page 111, Schwartz summmarizes a bit of Albert Hirschman’s Exit, Voice and Loyalty, explaining that in [...]