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CERN Open Days 2008

CERN

This weekend was probably the last chance for the public to see the LHC and all its experiments.
I took part in quite a few visits (ATLAS, LHC, ALICE, CMS, LHCb, LHC control room, see pictures and my gallery) on Saturday (which was open only for CERN members and their families) and did about 7 tours (of one hour each) of the ATLAS detector on Sunday.

It has been a tremendous success and CERN managed to allow underground visits for a stunning number of 11.000 people on Saturday and 20.000 people on Sunday. The total number of visitor was estimated to be 23.000 on Saturday and 53.000 on Sunday.

ATLAS itself managed bring down about 2.200 visitors on Saturday and 3.500 visitors on Sunday. With tours starting roughly every 15 minutes we still had people waiting for about 4 hours to get to see the experiment.

I think, besides minor details, it has been a great success and I had a lot of fun showing people around and explaining them the LHC, ATLAS and many other things, even though I was completely wasted after about 9 hours of guiding (about 7 tours) and cleaning up and so forth.

I love that shit ;-)

The Life Aquatic

Movies

Well, what should I say …
its an interesting movie!
It certainly had some good moments, but all in all I still have the fealing that I missed something … hmm!? Don’t know what else to write about it …

Family Guy – Blue Harvest

Movies

One word: awesome! Just the right mixture, Family Guy and Starwars! Perfect!
It has been a while since the last Family Guy release (actually also since the last Starwars release ;-)! After “Stewie Griffin – The Untold Story” this is another great “DVD only”-release of the Family Guy series.
Great! And guess whos the dark lord? Yeah, right!
Certainly worth every cent ;-)

Death Proof

Movies

Its been a long time for me since I have seen my last Quentin Tarantino, but here we go! Just saw this nice piece of art yesterday!
Of course in old Tarantino style the story is abit odd and certainly not what you would expect (at least for me since I don’t like reading plots beforehand)!
I don’t wanna write too much, let’s just say it has some unexpected turns and a surprising end …
Certainly worth the money, but I’ll put it in the category:
“you need a big screen, but not a cinema.”