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The Large Hadron Collider
Some of you may have noticed the news about CERN's Large Hadron Collider, a massive particle accelerator designed to allow physicists to probe the existence of various subatomic particles (you know, those teensy-weensy ones), largely by crashing high-energy streams of protons (merely teensy) into each other ( Read more... ) -
This may explain a few things to non-Engineers...
Perhaps more about Engineers than cats, but still, educational.
PS I'd like to claim the sequence about Engineers in the supermarket is false. But then I'd be lying... :-)
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A few Photos...
I realised that, while I've been taking the occasional snap, I haven't been uploading any of them, so...
Warning - a few largish images below the cut:
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I am now licenced...
...no, not to sell hair tonic to bald eagles in Nebraska (let's see how many of you get that one), but to drive in the US. I passed my Texas driving test yesterday with 0 "bad" items. I could wax lyrical about the comparative difficulties between the US and UK driving tests, but I'll be polite and, well, not ( Read more... ) -
Squirrel Mafia, Texas branch
I'm sure he was up to something...
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Well, I've made it...
New year, new job (coming up soon), I figure a change to the blog colourscheme and maybe a bit more effort to actually use the thing might be in order.
Photographic proof that I've made it to Texas (a couple more after the cut):
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4th January 2008
I suspect that's going to be a date that sticks in the memory foor a while, now. Technically the first day in my new job, the first day to live in a new country, and hopefully the first day I actually try to update this damn blog ( Read more... ) -
You turn around for five minutes...
...and when you turn back, it's September...
This year seems to have slipped by disturbingly quickly. A bit of a problem in and of itself, but more so when you're planning to pack up your life and bugger off a quarter of the way round the world at the end of it.
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Oh, by the way...
...some of you already knew this, but I've been offered, and accepted, a job in the US. Waiting on the paperwork, and assuming I get a Visa (shouldn't be a problem, touch wood), I'll be moving to Fort Worth, Texas, early in the new year.
Hmm.
Maybe this could end up as a travel blog after all...
Mike
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