This weekend we made a trip to Chamonix (FR) to visit the beautiful valley and the Big Old Mont Blanc. Unfortunately this big old guy is a little shy, so we’re not hundred per cent sure whether we saw him or not… cause he was hiding in a big fat cloud. Bast…! Anyway!
We probably had the highest funny french lunch break including a Skat session ever done!? Sitting at the Aiguille du Midi at 3842m… yeah, rock on! Spending half the day waiting for the big guy to show up an playing cards at this altitude we all suffered quite a bit…
On sunday I went to the olympic city of Lausanne, at the north shore of the lake, enjoying some more oxygen filled air down at the “beach”… which was actually no beach, but anyway!
Shaun and The Insane Objects
Today I finally made it to the KiwiLab to inspect the awesome work of one of my SummerStudent fellows… “The Insane Object”.
He (Shaun from New Zealand) made the inpossible possible: talking to his power supplies!
And not just that… he even made a “simulation” of The Final War.
I actually have to admit that this is not the only thing he’s doing in his lab (at least that’s what he says). He claims to do some proper work in addition.
btw
kudos Shaun
Am I really a physicist?
One duty of a good experimental physicist is to observe…
But some of my last observations brought up the following question:
“Am I really a physicist?”
To explain this, let me point out my observations…
Following the lectures and looking at some of the students and teachers from all around the world I realized an uncommonly high number of people being left-handed and/or colour-blind???
Since I’m non of it… hmm I don’t know!
The only thing that made me stop quitting the job was the fact that actually most of them are theoreticians… which is something I try to avoid!
So let’s be optimistic and do some work… cu
Tunnels, detectors and bad taste
Finally I got to see some of the cooler things at CERN. Going down the 100m shaft to the LHCb/Delphi detectors, walking through the myon beam tunnel of the COMPASS experiment and seeing this experiment itself, actually gave some touch of reality to the quite theoretical standard model lectures of the last days… (pictures can be found in the gallery). And again it was time for Charly’s on Tuesday (like every week) and another KP (a kitchen parade not held in a kitchen but in a restaurant) called “The Bad Taste Party”… look a the pix and explain it yourself. To add another attraction to the SummerSchool Programm I announced a SKAT (a german card game) competition including teaching lessons for all the newbies that wanna learn the game and join the tournament… I already got my Kiwi-padawan in the game (greetz to Shaun)…yeah!
Another week in heaven
After my sister left I started the week with a meeting together with my supervisor from Copenhagen University, who had the great idea to put me on the speakers list for a meeting next friday… yeeha. Anyway… so I had to get started with my stuff, which actually worked out after some difficulties. It’s still not enough for a presentation but I’ll figure out…
The weekend was kind of calm… I just spent most of the time sitting around in the sun, went to pubs, enjoyed a firealarm, got stopped by the police (with their hands on their guns…scary french), saw the “Fantastic Four” (which is actually not that fantastic) in cinema and… I dunno. I actually also worked a bit… on a weekend (is that place making me nerdy?)