Just got an email that I was selected to be part of the 2008 CERN-Fermilab HCPSS this summer.
From August 12th to 22nd I am going to be at Fermilab near Chicago!
Yeeeeehaa!
My new baby!
As every Sunday I went to the bowling lanes today.
But this time I brought my new baby!
Its got nice curves, roughly twelve labs, a serial number and goes by the name of T-Zone, Brunswick.
But enough jokes … my new bowling ball (incl. bag and extra equipment) is one piece of the fine selection of presents I got for my birthday, roughly a week ago. I went to the store yesterday and today I gave it a first shot in four games with an average of 166.75 points.
With only about a quarter of a point under this year’s average its been a good start.
Looking forward for more :-)
Thanks to all the ones taking part in this present!
And of course also big thanks to all the others for their presents!
50 Questions
For all German speaking readers (sorry about the others) here’s a collection of 50 questions everyone should be able to answer (according to some scientists).
http://www.heise.de/tr/wissenstest/go.shtml
I have to admint that I didn’t know all the answers …
Discworld – Hogfather
Its time for a book again ;-)
Surprisingly enough its another Terry Pratchett novel about Death, with a capital D.
Once again an amusing story about the old skeleton and his time when he acted in place of the Hogfather (some sort of Santa Claus on the Discworld).
Anyway its a nice novel which as it turns out also exists as a full length movie.
CERN Open Days 2008
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 ;-)