I tried to get to work early, since it's our last day here at the LPC at Fermilab. But I couldn't tear myself from the book I'm reading: Breaking Dawn. 4th in the Twilight series.
Last night we had a fun time reading/making meatballs/watching James Bond: Casino Royale with our couch-crasher Rob. I actually stopped the movie before the very end so that Bond was happily together with Vesper. It's wonderful if you stop the movie there!
We also had our last night of Aikido at Mushin Dojo yesterday. Joe was at home recuperating his knee, so Beth, Me, Carley, Brian, and Jimmy each took turns demonstrating techniques. It was a lot of fun! Jimmy showed shikko-Sharks and Minnows!
Beth and I were paired up for gyaku-homni katatetori shihonage, and during ura, I realized that if uke is commited enough, you can just irimi tenkan right past without even touching them! Then bring your arms down as if you had a sword! I really have to make a study of the 8 count kata with the various entrances etc. I bet I will be able to draw that connection everyone talks about between weapons and open hand techniques!
Ok off to do work/eat!
Friday, December 12, 2008
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
New Mission Statement
This blog will now record my life as a physics graduate student. I hope to scare undergraduates away so that the job market will always look good for me.
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Live from the pajama party at the LHC ROC at FNAL
If you're curious if the earth has disappeared, check this site to find out:
http://hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com/
In other news, there is a very large sattelite dish outside. If i were a giant i would play frisbee with it. since i am not a giant, I will use to to microwave my dinner.
There are people directing traffic outside fermilab's wilson hall, but there is no traffic. It is 12:53 in the morning.
T minus an hour or so.
http://hasthelargehadroncoll
In other news, there is a very large sattelite dish outside. If i were a giant i would play frisbee with it. since i am not a giant, I will use to to microwave my dinner.
There are people directing traffic outside fermilab's wilson hall, but there is no traffic. It is 12:53 in the morning.
T minus an hour or so.
Monday, May 26, 2008
Rock Stars of Physics
I've decided that after my PhD I should become a rock star. So I'll need to learn how to sing (Experimental College). I think after I pass my orals I'll take piano lessons (Experimental College). And, well, yeah, I'm gonna be a rock star. I'll probably have to practice writing lyrics. Carley and I were trying to figure out what bands sing about. She came to the conclusion that some songs tell whole stories, but most songs just present a vignette of a story. For instance, the Beatles in "Hello, Goodbye" etc etc. Songs are cool. I bet being a physics grad student gives plenty of poetic material. Anyone want to join?
Monday, April 21, 2008
Night of the Living ROOT
This is the awesome error ROOT gave me today:
Error in: Cannot open file: recHits/hRHSumQ22_Summary, TGraph is Zombie
Appearently the "child" and "parent" processes lost connection, and the child is left running when the parent leaves. There is no one to clean up after the child. I thought this should probably be called an "Orphan process" instead of a "Zombie process" but an Orphan is a process that is adopted by another process and cleans up after it, maybe I should call this clean-up process the "Grandparent"?
Error in
Appearently the "child" and "parent" processes lost connection, and the child is left running when the parent leaves. There is no one to clean up after the child. I thought this should probably be called an "Orphan process" instead of a "Zombie process" but an Orphan is a process that is adopted by another process and cleans up after it, maybe I should call this clean-up process the "Grandparent"?
Sunday, April 13, 2008
Random Segfaults Quake Me
Why do I hate CMSSW today?
I'm on event number 46,616 out of 50,000. This generation and reconstruction code for halo muons has been running for 2 days. And it randomly crashes!
You would think during the first 46,615 events the computer would realize it was accessing bad memory, and seg fault earlier, but NOOOOOOOOO.
Matt and I were talking about this. We tell computers what to do. We know what we want. Why don't computers know what we want?
I'm on event number 46,616 out of 50,000. This generation and reconstruction code for halo muons has been running for 2 days. And it randomly crashes!
You would think during the first 46,615 events the computer would realize it was accessing bad memory, and seg fault earlier, but NOOOOOOOOO.
Matt and I were talking about this. We tell computers what to do. We know what we want. Why don't computers know what we want?
Friday, March 7, 2008
Couldn't recognize signal trampoline
Error of the day:
Couldn't recognize signal trampoline.
Segmentation fault
Computers are filled with tiny gnomes. They spend their days jumping on trampolines in order to generate the energy needed to send signals from one part of the computer to another.
Couldn't recognize signal trampoline.
Segmentation fault
Computers are filled with tiny gnomes. They spend their days jumping on trampolines in order to generate the energy needed to send signals from one part of the computer to another.
Thursday, March 6, 2008
What Do You Get When Two Sheep Collide?
We've started this blog to relieve our stress as physics graduate students. You will commonly hear physics comments, jokes, stories, and gripes. But no matter how much we complain, we love doing physics.
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