Day 72: Random Bits of Randomness

[anarchist_nomad]

In lieu of an actual entry, have an assorted grab bag of PSA, observational trivia, and crypticness! Enjoy!

• Random the First: I am currently without mobile phone. I expect that the situation will be resolved by the end of the week but, for now, if you need to reach me please use other media. Like LiveJournal, for instance! (Or e-mail... or smoke signals...)
  
  
• Random the Second: Went out dancing with the charming miss_amaranth last week. It occurred to me that several of the songs we danced to came out when I was in high school... and she had not yet been born! That was amusing -- nostalgia for me, retro for her!
  
  
• Random the Third: Attempting not one, but two difficult things today... neither with an enormous chance of success. Wish me luck, dear friends! Although I do not expect either to work out, one never knows unless one tries... and I have been known in the past to accomplish the impossible by simply giving it my best shot. We shall see! The results of one of these endeavors will be known by the end of the evening; the other will take some time.

On that note, gentle readers, we now return you to your regularly scheduled Monday!

Comments

[blaisepascal]

As a total non-sequitor, do you happen to know when KamiokaNDE was shut down for good? I was trying to demonstrate the other day how we can compute a lower-limit on the lifetime of the proton, and I couldn't find how long KamiokaNDE ran for. The Kamioka Observatory web-site doesn't have a lot of information on past experiments, and it doesn't have information on the total runtime of KamiokaNDE.

(FYI, I computed 10^34/6 years for KamiokaNDE, and 10^35/6 years for Super-K for a 95% confidence level. The Super-K should be higher because I simplified my math by assuming 30k tonnes of water, not 50k tonnes.)

[anarchist-nomad.livejournal.com]

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