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The 4-4-4-4 Meme

25 Sep 2008

Eons ago a friend of mine sent me this fun and quick little meme via email. I hope you all play along and respond with your 4-4-4 in the comments!
Come on! What else ya gonna do at work?
4-4-4-4
1. Four places I go to over and over: Work, teach yoga, home, dreamyland
2. Four people who e-mail [...]

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Go LHC Go!

In: Knowledge| TechSci

10 Sep 2008

The largest machine in the world…

The precise circumference of the LHC accelerator is 26 659 m, with a total of 9300 magnets inside. Not only is the LHC the world’s largest particle accelerator, just one-eighth of its cryogenic distribution system would qualify as the world’s largest fridge. All the magnets will be pre‑cooled to -193.2°C (80 K) using 10 080 tonnes of liquid nitrogen, before they are filled with nearly 60 tonnes of liquid helium to bring them down to -271.3°C (1.9 K).

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New Look

In: Blogopolis

7 Sep 2008

as if you didn’t already notice!
Please let me know if anything is broken or if you have suggestions as to the placement of stuff.
I’m still tweaking and twonking the sidebar, header and adding loads of new plugins to fancy the place up a bit.
Anyone have a favorite plugin or Wordpress hack they’d like [...]

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A Bit Bumpy

In: NC

6 Sep 2008

but otherwise fine although I’m still not capable of sleeping through a nasty storm without the watchful eye of a companion. Thus, I’m up up up and insomniac at 4 AM.
It looks like I’m on the other side of the storm now. Power went out four or five times but only for a couple [...]