My luck with the GBT is not good this week. Today I got up at 5 to observe and the subreflector is broken. Grrrrr...... At least it's a new problem.

[Update: I ended up getting an hour and a half of time since the maintenance people finished early. Yay!]

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Joss is doing a new series! Check out the details.

Must contain inner fangirl until next year.

Finally!

Membership level: Premier
Year to date Elite Qualifying Miles (EQM) 30,988

Informative note to readers: Never fly the beginning leg of an international flight on December 31.

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You know you're in trouble when even fsck can't read your disk.

The writer of this story obviously hasn't figured out that some particle physicists are women.

From the opening sentence of the article:
THERE’S nothing unusual about grown men gathering around wide-screen TVs to watch collisions, whether between players in cleats or on skates or between cars on a racetrack ( Read more... )

Some weekend frivolity:

Poll Are you a library nerd?

Evidently Case is re-designing their logo....again.

I like this one best.

Thanks to Bob for the link.

Star Wars and the USPS?

I don't know if I want Han Solo delivering my mail. He seems to take way too many side trips.

You know what really helps with chronic insomnia? Extensive sleep derivation! I'm observing at Green Bank this week. My time is scattered all over the place so I'm either a) observing, b) sleeping, or c) wishing I was sleeping. Despite the sleep deprivation, I've been somewhat productive. Here's last night's data:


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