Another day with just too good weather to stay inside working all day long… and again my supervisor made a very spontaneous and again awesome decision… “Let’s go sailing, today!”… and so we went out for another fine sailing turn with some more members of the HEP group. This time we sailed out on his Bandholm-like sailboat called Artemis. After crusing around for a while we stopped at a beach in the north of Copenhagen and went for a swim…
just beautiful!
And the winner is…
a French!
And the competition: snail spitting!
Yes… right!
Just take a living snail from the beaches in the north of France, put it in your mouth and spit it out as far as you can… sounds easy (and disgusting)… reach 10.41m and get World Champion like 45 year old Alain Jourdren just did to defend his title… great isn’t it?!
I love this world…
Back again
Finally I am back in Copenhagen and online…
Horrible Internet connection/availability in Strasbourg… anyway!
The school was nice… even though it can’t reach the CERN one… also due to the lack of PPJB
btw I met some people from CERN during the school, like Susanne (GER), Laura (GER) and of course Katrin (DK)…
I managed to get all the stats for the World Cup Gamble done and now I am just waiting for the winners to get their prizes… ;-) Congrats to Shaun, Heike, Katrin and hansaspieler!
Now I am fighting myself through a big pile of emails in my accounts from the last two weeks…
damit… being offline really stinks… how can people manage?
Somehow I get the fealing I am an Internet addict?! nevermind… could be worse!
Now I need some sleep…
Bis den
The samba is back…
… and even lazy Ronaldo started moving his back, scoring two goals and now sharing the record of most goals in World Cup history… I’ll be optimistic and take this game as the return of the brazillian style… even though I have to admit that I wasn’t sure whether I should celebrate or damn this fourth goal… I bet 1:3… damit/go Brazil!
Things to come
Today the Scientific Policy Committee (SPC) of CERN released a first final plan for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC):
– beam pipe closure at the end of August ’07
– followed by LHC commissioning runs at 450+450 GeV (till end of ’07)
– shut-down for final machine commissioning
– followed by first physics runs at 14 TeV (full luminosity by end of ’08)
This might sound strange and boring for all non-physicists (even for some of them), but it’s at least a bit interesting for all those working for/at CERN…
I wonder if the B40-masterpiece will still be there at this time… PPJB rulez!