Sexy Datasets in Physics

14Feb07

The conversation in lab this morning somehow worked around to “Hot ___” calendars, and specifically to the lack thereof featuring physics. Now actual physicist calendars would be a little hackneyed, and hard to implement. But you know what else is hot? DATA. Such as oh man the CMB blackbody.
I could totally make a HOT XXX [...]

Filed under: life, projects   |  3 Comments

Scenes from a Wednesday

14Feb07

I have jlab this morning from 9-12. It’s precipitating in little stinging freezy bits outside, so I wait for the shuttle, which gets itself stuck in a long lineup of 18-wheelers. There’s a truck on Mass. Ave covered in swamp-monster black goo. The pavement beneath it has buckled and broken; against the newly-fallen snow, it [...]

Filed under: classes, hilarity, life   |  Leave a Comment