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This entry will contain three entirely disparate topics. Two hundred points for the person who can think of the funniest title that unites all three.
Topic the first!
Saturday is the Great Game Gathering at the Flat With No Name. In honour of the awesomelicious![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
tawneypup, who made the set of Betrayal at House on the Hill[1] that will be one of the games played, Saturday's party will henceforth be known as the Hayford Amy Merry Day![2]
It sounds like there will be a nice crowd coming -- excellent! For those who will be in attendance, please to be arriving at two o'clock[3]... or as soon afterward as you can manage. As soon as we have enough people -- about four or five needed -- the first game will begin! Other games can be assembled as other people arrive and as games end.
Anyone coming who has not yet been to the Flat With No Name, you can find ridiculously detailed instructions here[4]. In particular, you want to see the sections marked Getting to us and Contact numbers. The gate is no longer broken, so call up when you arrive and somebody can let you in.
Topic the second!
My journal serves two purposes: It is an actual journal for me to record and remember events by, and it provides a tool for keeping in touch with a large number of friends -- [almost] all of whom I have met in real life -- spread out over a wide geographic area.
The latter purpose has be concerned over the mass exodus from LiveJournal to DreamWidth. In particular, I notice a quick transition from my friends on the Eastern side of the pond -- many of whom had DW accounts before the open beta even began. On the Western side of the Atlantic, I can see some of my friends migrating... but it is a much slower pace and far fewer people. Indeed, when I recently askedtawneypup if her people were moving over as rapidly as my UK friends were, her response was a very telling: "What's 'DreamWidth'?"
Personally, I have never had a bone to pick with LiveJournal and am quite happy here. I have avoided many of the social sites out there except LJ thus far. I do not have an account on MySpace or Facebook or InsaneJournal or DeadJournal or GreatestJournal or Twitter or whatever else. I would not say that I have a tremendous loyalty to LJ, but I was here first and I have had no complaints in the five years and change that I have been here. Meanwhile, I barely have enough time to read my f-page on LJ and keep up with my personal and professional e-mail -- let alone mailing list e-mail, which usually leaves my InBox unread these days! I don't have time to dabble in a plethora of blogging and social networking sites. Furthermore, I can do more on LJ than anywhere else, as I have a permanent account here.
On the other hand, if there is a huge exodus from LJ, then it won't do me all that much good as a way to keep up with my friends when we are not in the same country, continent, hemisphere, whatever. So I do now have a DreamWidth account[5] -- courtesy of the lovelyxugglybug -- and am trying to figure out what to do with it. That's where y'all come in. And what better way to figure such things out than -- you guessed it! -- a poll!
[Poll #1396394]
In this case, dear friends, my plans will be influenced by yours. So choose carefully -- my future is in your hands!
Topic the third!
At our weekly meeting this afternoon, my boss called me shallow. Just came right out and said it to me across the table: "You're shallow."
How do you respond to that?? Without missing a beat, I snidely replied: "Thank you." Meanwhilst, I had not the foggiest idea of what he was talking about.
He then went on to explain that he was talking about Super-Kamiokande, the water Cherenkov detector in Japan that I did my doctoral work on. My boss used to be on a competing water Cherenkov experiment, called SNO and located in Canada, that was located at a much deeper underground site.[6]
I really do like working in this research group. Overall, we have a great synergy! A few days ago, my boss came into our office and made us all stop working to show us a humourous YouTube clip interviewing people about whether the Large Hadron Collider will end the world. Tomorrow, he will be in late because he has been officially invited to an early screening of Angels & Demons and will be giving a talk about particle physics to the audience afterward. Fun times!
[1] Henceforth known as The Shinnin' to avoid being sued!
[2] Otherwise known as the "HAM Day."
[3] In the afternoon. I may be occupied with things that are not board games at two o'clock Saturday morning!
[4] I believe that the charmingprolificdiarist can vouch for the level of detail in these directions... and the resulting ease in finding us.
[5] Same name as my LJ account. Find me there if you like.
[6] One of the strengths of our group at Imperial College is that four out of the five senior people have experience on other major neutrino experiments: Super-Kamiokande (me), SNO (my boss), KamLAND, and Mini-BooNE. If we had people from MINOS and K2K in our group, we would really have all the bases covered.
Topic the first!
Saturday is the Great Game Gathering at the Flat With No Name. In honour of the awesomelicious
tawneypup, who made the set of Betrayal at House on the Hill[1] that will be one of the games played, Saturday's party will henceforth be known as the Hayford Amy Merry Day![2]It sounds like there will be a nice crowd coming -- excellent! For those who will be in attendance, please to be arriving at two o'clock[3]... or as soon afterward as you can manage. As soon as we have enough people -- about four or five needed -- the first game will begin! Other games can be assembled as other people arrive and as games end.
Anyone coming who has not yet been to the Flat With No Name, you can find ridiculously detailed instructions here[4]. In particular, you want to see the sections marked Getting to us and Contact numbers. The gate is no longer broken, so call up when you arrive and somebody can let you in.
Topic the second!
My journal serves two purposes: It is an actual journal for me to record and remember events by, and it provides a tool for keeping in touch with a large number of friends -- [almost] all of whom I have met in real life -- spread out over a wide geographic area.
The latter purpose has be concerned over the mass exodus from LiveJournal to DreamWidth. In particular, I notice a quick transition from my friends on the Eastern side of the pond -- many of whom had DW accounts before the open beta even began. On the Western side of the Atlantic, I can see some of my friends migrating... but it is a much slower pace and far fewer people. Indeed, when I recently asked
tawneypup if her people were moving over as rapidly as my UK friends were, her response was a very telling: "What's 'DreamWidth'?"Personally, I have never had a bone to pick with LiveJournal and am quite happy here. I have avoided many of the social sites out there except LJ thus far. I do not have an account on MySpace or Facebook or InsaneJournal or DeadJournal or GreatestJournal or Twitter or whatever else. I would not say that I have a tremendous loyalty to LJ, but I was here first and I have had no complaints in the five years and change that I have been here. Meanwhile, I barely have enough time to read my f-page on LJ and keep up with my personal and professional e-mail -- let alone mailing list e-mail, which usually leaves my InBox unread these days! I don't have time to dabble in a plethora of blogging and social networking sites. Furthermore, I can do more on LJ than anywhere else, as I have a permanent account here.
On the other hand, if there is a huge exodus from LJ, then it won't do me all that much good as a way to keep up with my friends when we are not in the same country, continent, hemisphere, whatever. So I do now have a DreamWidth account[5] -- courtesy of the lovely
xugglybug -- and am trying to figure out what to do with it. That's where y'all come in. And what better way to figure such things out than -- you guessed it! -- a poll![Poll #1396394]
In this case, dear friends, my plans will be influenced by yours. So choose carefully -- my future is in your hands!
Topic the third!
At our weekly meeting this afternoon, my boss called me shallow. Just came right out and said it to me across the table: "You're shallow."
How do you respond to that?? Without missing a beat, I snidely replied: "Thank you." Meanwhilst, I had not the foggiest idea of what he was talking about.
He then went on to explain that he was talking about Super-Kamiokande, the water Cherenkov detector in Japan that I did my doctoral work on. My boss used to be on a competing water Cherenkov experiment, called SNO and located in Canada, that was located at a much deeper underground site.[6]
I really do like working in this research group. Overall, we have a great synergy! A few days ago, my boss came into our office and made us all stop working to show us a humourous YouTube clip interviewing people about whether the Large Hadron Collider will end the world. Tomorrow, he will be in late because he has been officially invited to an early screening of Angels & Demons and will be giving a talk about particle physics to the audience afterward. Fun times!
[1] Henceforth known as The Shinnin' to avoid being sued!
[2] Otherwise known as the "HAM Day."
[3] In the afternoon. I may be occupied with things that are not board games at two o'clock Saturday morning!
[4] I believe that the charming
prolificdiarist can vouch for the level of detail in these directions... and the resulting ease in finding us.[5] Same name as my LJ account. Find me there if you like.
[6] One of the strengths of our group at Imperial College is that four out of the five senior people have experience on other major neutrino experiments: Super-Kamiokande (me), SNO (my boss), KamLAND, and Mini-BooNE. If we had people from MINOS and K2K in our group, we would really have all the bases covered.
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I'm not feeling particularly clever and funny today so I won't embarrass myself trying to do the contest. But I love that you do things like this.
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I won't embarrass myself trying to do the contest. But I love that you do things like this.
*grin* Thanks! Am having trouble choosing a winner, though, so I may ask for help. Valuable points are at stake! Don't want to choose unwisely! ;-)