Category Archives: Cities

Fitted kitchen

Food, Munich

There’s a first time for everything … today, for the first time, I had the pleasure to buy a fitted kitchen. Well pleasure is maybe exaggerated, excitement might fit better. The design phase had its ups and downs, the shopping part was easy, the paying was tough, currently I am simply waiting … and that’s boring in a empty apartment. If all works out (and let’s hope it does), I should have all parts in my apartment today and someone put them together on Wednesday morning (together with the guy hooking me up to the internet).

And by the way, if you are wondering what to do about our birthdays … we are restarting our furniture sponsorship programme ;)

[Update 06.04.14] In fact I got everything except the door handles :|

kitchen

Good bye Copenhagen

Copenhagen, Denmark

Finally the time has come.

It’s time to say good bye yet another time to a place that has yet even more become my second home. Having lived in Copenhagen for over five years within the past ten and it being the birthplace of my son, it’s been quite tough leaving the city today.

It has neither been easy the first time in 2005, nor the second time in 2007, but this time it really got to me.

Anyways … I wanted to thank everyone that had his/her share in making me enjoy the time in Copenhagen as much as I did.

Vi ses København
You never know …

Nobel bricks

CERN, Geneva, LEGO, Outreach, Physics

2014-02-21 11-54-36 LEGO signatureThough I unfortunately missed today’s event leading to the left part of the image,
this now complete set makes me a very happy physicist :)

I might get some more pictures later, but this one itself is already quite nice.
Both pieces will end up in the nice new glass casing we got for the ATLAS LEGO model in the ATLAS Visitors Center at Point 1 at CERN.

 

Pushing the bricks to the limit

CERN, Geneva, LEGO, Outreach

2014-02-17 17-36-19 LEGO ChallengeBesides the usual overload on work during stays at CERN, this week was kinda special. It was about 250.000 pieces of LEGO more special than any other week before.
With the help of more than 20 volunteers (thanks a lot to everyone), I was counting, weighing, sorting and packing pieces in the mornings and late evenings. I guess I only had breakfast and dinner twice this week. Anyways, people are in fact still sorting while I am writing this piece at the Geneva airport.

It’s been quite fun, frustrating, enjoyable, social and many more things at the same time. Unfortunately LEGO decided to send the pieces, for the 23 models I ordered, with a safety margin added after multiplying instead of before. Hmm?!

2014-02-17 17-39-47 LEGO ChallengeIn addition we also miss quite a few pieces, but these are all things to be sorted out next week. And even with the pieces missing for now, I guess we start making institutes happy by end of next week. Once done I will update the by now quite impressive ATLAS model statistics. There will be 59 models out in the open by then. *happy*

I will post a few pictures and prepare a time-lapse movie of the event during the coming days (which I guess will be busy as well *unhappy*).