… 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!
World Cup Gamble and Patriotism
Tough weekend… four results that almost nobody could foresee!
The german female gambler being in the lonely lead at the beginning of the weekend (my lovely girlfriend) got caught up and my good friend from down under was actually right with his public announced bet on the Brazil game (even though he completely failed in the other ones)…
But I like the “patriotic” “Go Pacific!!!” attitude…
in Germany some people think patriotism is something that we still can’t take liberty of…
a discussion that just came up again, caused by the heaps of german flags out in the streets.
Welcome to the finals
some of you might have noticed that the FIFA World Cup is not the only Football in the moment… there is also the RoboCup, the World Cup of the Machines, in Bremen, Germany.
Today there are actually the final and you can watch them live at rtsp://real.mdcs.dtag.de/encoder/zdf/event1_h_robocup.rm
or rtsp://real.mdcs.dtag.de/encoder/zdf/event2_h_robocup.rm
The offical webpage is http://www.robocup2006.org/.
What it’s like to be a sailor…
… today I at least got a bit closer to the answer to that question!
Instead of watching the France-Switzerland game I accepted Troels’ sponteaneous offer to go sailing… which in many ways turned out to be the right decision. First the game must have been somewhat boring (0:0) and second, the trip was just great… beautiful weather, windy enough to sail but not to windy to get seasick (which I was a bit afraid of)…
so just a perfect afternoon…
… unfortunately the evening (Brazil game) wasn’t as exciting…<