Swans on Tea

Check out Allyson’s guest post at Cocktail Party Physics for one of the main reasons for my recent observation
I didn’t see any glitches except for one or two instances of technical difficulties, which speaks volumes for the organizers and support staff, because you just know there were issues, and since they didn’t become visible it [...]

I’ve been trying to catch up ever since going to a conference a few weeks ago. Somehow, the work didn’t know to stop piling up while I was away, and I’ve been getting new things to do faster than I can finish the old things. Printers dying, tape drives dying, things inside the [...]

An idea we were joking about at one of the breaks between talks. You go to science camp, but the time is indefinite. You think it might be a week, and you tell everyone you think you have a week left, but it could end up taking a month. And at any [...]

I’ve mentioned I’m at a conference — it’s the 7th Symposium of Frequency Standards and Metrology being held near Monterey. It’s a bunch of scientists getting together every ~7 years to discuss the state-of-the art in frequency standards, clocks, and precision measurements, and float ideas for future experiments. The last one was in [...]

The conference organizers built some free time into the program to let everyone catch their breath and decompress a little. I went hiking and geocaching along the ocean trail and took a bunch of pictures.
Enjoy the Pacific ocean for a minute
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You go to the conference banquet and empirically discover that an empty wine bottle will be replaced with a full one. This has both a good and bad implications.