My boss and his deputy are both away until Monday. After a few jokes about CCTV cameras with pre-programmed messages ("Stop checking the office football pool and get back to work!") and how to cope if a major physics news story breaks in his absence ("If the BBC ring up, just sound confident, it'll be fine"), my boss had one final tip ( Read more... )

If I see bloody Brian Cox on the telly one more bloody time I'm going to throw something at it. Then things really would only get better.  Ditto Brian Greene. He may resemble David Duchovny, but he's got sweet FA to do with the Large Hadron Collider; testing his theories would require a collider so large that its opposite ends would be causally ( Read more... )

The department recently switched to an email alert system for parcels delivered to people at work. So for example, when my parents sent me chocolates for Valentine's Day (thanks parents!), I got a one-line email stating that my parcel was ready for collection in the finance office ( Read more... )